Best I ever did was finding a diamond ring in the 5-cent jewelry box at a yard sale. Ended up being worth $5,000. Did I share with the yard sale person?

No.

Hey, Family Guy pearls!

Why do things like this never happen to me? The best thing I ever got at a yard sale was an old hatchet that turned out to have a rotten handle.

I can produce plenty of priceless purple pearls after guzzling gallons of grape Gatorade.

But is it shaped like a penis?

I lost my virginity at a yard sale, only cost me $5!

This guy's a classic: Hey I just scored big-time, it's worth a lot of cash but heck I want even more money so I'll put it on tour so the value will go up even further. Then I'll sell it in Hong Kong because they will pay top dollar for pearls. Lucky, greedy Asshat.

/envy

I've never had purple pearls, but I've had blue...

I'm starting to hate these "blah blah blah: x dollars. Blarb blarb blarb: priceless" cliches. The author of the article must die now.

YOU DIE NOW!

Ok so it was a $5 used styrofoam mannequin head.

Apocalypso: what do you want him to do, sell it for $24?

I see they didn't broach the subject of the value of these pearls.

Does the owner have any pearls of wisdom? If so, I hope they aren't purple.

/got nuthin'

whatever happened in this story is pretty irrelevant. it's still a story about antiquing, and antiquing makes poor bender explode.

...she wants a pearl necklace...

"...but nuthin compares to these blue and yellow purple pearls"?

...still got nuthin.

I picked up an old book for $3 at a book store that was worth $40...thats about the best I've ever done. And even then I ended up selling it for $7 including shipping because I hate the idea of charging someone 10 times the cover price for a book.

and if anyone else out there like me exists...and happens to have a copy of cards as weapons for sale...do contact me *grins*

05-11-03 06:01:21 PM Elite-mrp

I lost my virginity at a yard sale, only cost me $5!

05-11-03 06:11:47 PM Elite-mrp

Ok so it was a $5 used styrofoam mannequin head.


I wish you hadn't used it right there on my front lawn, bub.
Kids are STILL traumatized....

Quahog? This is just asking for family guy pictures.

Elite - "Used" to model a wig, or "used" for....uh....that?

"NEWPORT, R.I. -- The brooch Alan Golash purchased at an antique shop: $14. The two pearls attached to the ornamental pin: priceless.

Gem experts told The Providence Journal that the naturally purple pearls - produced from a type of clam known as quahogs..."

ah, little do people know that the name of the town comes from the clam. picture of peter as the clam, anyone? you know, the festival, he got drunk. preferably with some happy purple in there, too

I hate that word!

Yaldani

CLAM HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Man, I only ever get this kind of luck with instruments. I'm just WAITING for that day when I go to a yard sale and the guy says that he has his dad's "old 4-string guitar" for sale. Open up the case, and an all original+complete 1961 Jazz Bass stares back. I give him the $50, I leave with a slightly worn sunburst treasure...

(yeah, I'm a dork)

/this ep what your going on about?

Of course that same guy is probably a farker, ScootchF, and now knows how much his father's old 4 string is worth, forever ruining your element of surprise.

I hope you're kidding

Why? I feel the same way, and just like him, I realize that it's purely because I'm really, really jealous.

Rob

My best: "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. Picked up first edition (1949) at university library book sale. 50 cents. About a month ago I priced it on amazon and half.com. it's going for $140+ on there. I'm not sure that it's actually selling, but that's what they're asking. Sure mine has some rough corners, some old professor's seal pressed into the first page, and "Property of UMR Library" stamped on the edge, but still it's worth way more than I paid.

For those of you not in the know, this is one of the main defining papers in information theory / communications. Big time stuff for electrical engineers.

Elite-mrp - I lost MY virginity a long time ago, but I still have the box it came in.

Rare or not, it's still just a high-pressure salt water loogy.

Another internet article missing an important picture...sigh*

PICTURE NEEDED

"If people don't know it exists and how rare it is, no one will show up to bid on it."

Yeah, wouldn't that be a shame ...

ha ha. nice one, Muchspl.
SockMonkeyHolocaust - interesting profile, man...
long live family guy (now on carton network)

I want those pearls!!...

I do not have very good luck. I tested this. My luck is average to not good, and all good things are always balanced out with bad.

What I do have, however, is the ability to kill a man with a toothpick, provided that tooth pick is shot out of a flamethrower.

Thus, I must steal this thing.

I found this broach that has a very rare set of plastic googlie eyes. Be sure to come see it when it passes through your town on its world tour.....

MrNeutron,


Good one.

This story would only be interesting if he tried to sell the larger pearl to a bunch of dealers who try to rip him off, ran off into the mountains with his wife and baby to try to get to a big city to sell the pearl, then ended up shooting his own baby.

Ten points if you get the reference, ten bonus points if you thought the book was a piece of shiat as much as I thought it did.

Here's one for ya....

Friends of my parents went to Paris on their honeymoon back in the 60's. They rummanged through some things at old markets, shops, etc. & bought an old beaded necklace. The years went by, they forgot about the necklace. They came across the necklace once again and just for fun they went to have it appraised. Jeweler offered an exorbitant amt of $. They went to a 2nd jeweler, he too offered big $$. As it turned out, the necklace was a one-of-a-kind from Napoleon to his beloved Josephine--on several of the beads it was inscribed, 'Josephine from Napoleon.'

MooglyGuy

Could it be.. The Pearl, by John Steinbeck? I remember having to read that in some HS English class a few years back.

this is old news. I submitted this article days ago. Phooey!!

Nothing like this will ever happen to me. I have the worst luck of anyone I know. I actually bet people money against my success in events where the outcome is determined by the random element, because then even if I get screwed at least I won the bet. Take that, Lady Luck, you old whore!

/self-indulgent whining

Antialias: So, would winning the bet be considered lucky? And if so, wouldn't you have good luck and not bad luck anyhow? Or is this one of those awful Back to the Future-like paradoxes Doc Brown warned us about?

uh ... i sure hope this asshat gives at least some money to the people he ripped off.

Parkerny:

Congratulations, you win ten points, now do you want to go for the bonus?