Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] repeal-o-prop

[SkArcher <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:45:00 -0600, Baron von Skippy <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> > > >It's a very long and sordid story. BvS, want to explain?
> > >
> > > Anyway, I was walking around his backyard when he tripped on something 
> > > and fe
> > > ll flat on his face. Turning around, he discovered a piece of metal 
> > > sticking
> > > out of the yard. Once dug up, it turned out to be the plates from the 
> > > printin
> > > g machinery that had produced the Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and Revised 
> > > edition
> > > s, whose disappearance had caused Wizards of the Coast to start making 
> > > new ca
> > > rds in great quantities instead of tweaking the appearance of the old 
> > > ones. R
> > > ealizing that the plates were worth a bloody fortune, I sold them on 
> > > eBay for
> > >  93 dollars and a piece of string. The person who purchased the plates 
> > > paid p
> > > romptly, so I gave them good feedback.
> > >
> > > This purchaser, who we shall call "you" to keep this story confusing, 
> > > took th
> > > e plates to your office, a printing press. There, you started 
> > > mass-producing
> > > "authentic" old cards. As a result, the value of cards from those sets 
> > > has dr
> > > opped 99%, especially since you hired a team of complete and utter 
> > > geeks with
> > >  nothing better to do (due to a lack of social life) to handle each 
> > > card for
> > > a few hours so they all look somewhat used, making it impossible to 
> > > tell the
> > > fakes from the reals, except in the case of Serra Angels - you stopped 
> > > lettin
> > > g them handle those after one declared one of the Angels to be his 
> > > girlfriend
> > > . Bit of an embarassment, that.
> >
> > That's hilarious. I guess that's what you get for "investing" in pieces 
> > of
> > colored paper manufactured by a company which specializes in selling
> > artificially scarce pieces of colored paper. (Not you, personally, but 
> > the
> > general you.)
> >
> > On the other hand, MtG isn't a bad game, and I'll bet now I could put
> > together a good deck and have fun for cheap. Ha!
> -...You do realize that I made every sentence of that up, except for the 
> part about my computer not having an eight of spades in the solitaire 
> deck, right?-

Scary-funny though. I suggest you apply for a job in SCOs PR department. 
I'm sure they could find a use for you

SkArcher
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