Ship of Fools: 66: Bid here!

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Posted by Sixty-six (# 66) on :

Membership number: 66
Catalogue entry: click here

[ 18. August 2005, 10:15: Message edited by: Auctioneer ]

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

Lot 4... membership number 66. A highly desirable, low number, with that sexy 6-6 factor. We begin the bidding at $25. Would someone like to start us off? Do I hear $25?

Posted by Anselm (# 4499) on :

$25

Posted by Amazing Grace (# 4754) on :

$30

Charlotte

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Look's like Sine's prepared to do whatever it takes for 21.

Ah well.

$35

Posted by jedijudy (# 1059) on :

$36

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

$40

Posted by Papio. (# 4201) on :

$41 [Razz]

Posted by Pânts (# 4487) on :

$45 [Yipee]

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

$50. And why not.

Posted by Nutmeg (# 5297) on :

I gotta bid $66 for that. [Big Grin]

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Sorry to disrupt such a perfect bid, but....

$70

Posted by Pânts (# 4487) on :

I never did understand exchange rates... $72 is only about the price of a pint, right?

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

A pint of good scotch maybe....

$75

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

Aged for over four years, and worth more than a pint of good scotch--mostly because it will last a whole lot longer--this double-digit number is still bidding in the double digits.

Is there any shipmate willing to give $80. All proceeds will go toward supporting the Ship, not for the hosts' next drunken spree.

Posted by The Coot (# 220) on :

$80

[Foreplay should be long and drawn out]

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Dratted Auctioneer.

$81

[Biased]

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

Mad Geo: [Big Grin]

As you know, it's all for a good cause. Bandwidth does not grow on trees!

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Yes, Yes.

$82

Posted by The Coot (# 220) on :

$85

[$82 is too cheap for this number... Use some of the money you save by reading books in the shop, madge [Snigger]

]

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

May a pirahna eat your giblets. [Biased]

A fine vintage,

$86

(the year I graduated from Academy).

Posted by The Coot (# 220) on :

$87
[C'mon m_g, loosen those purse strings, or I will have to steal it off you... high rollers on the last day forbearing (though I hope they don't). Think of all that money saved by downloading music! [Snigger]

]

Posted by Pânts (# 4487) on :

Hmmm... lots of alcohol, or a virtual number... I must be insane. $88

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Ah another fine vintage:

$91

Graduated from the Geology School for the Insane.

Posted by The Bede's American Successor (# 5042) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mad Geo:
Ah another fine vintage:

$91

Graduated from the Geology School for the Insane.

Harumph to your Geology School for the Insane!

My first elementary school and junior high school were on Bypass US Rte. 66. My parent's former home was only a mile off of this highway.

(Considering that Bypass Rte. 66 was replaced by I-270 in metro St. Louis, and my other elementary school's back property line is on I-270, I can run a perfect score on this one from Kindergarten through Ninth Grade.)

The University of Missouri-Rolla, from where I earned by bachelor's degree and has a much better Geology department than any other in the USA, was on US Rte. 66.

There is another reason why a proud graduate of UMR has to protect the honor of Route 66.

$100

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Route 66? PAH!

An antiquated highway for an antiquated bid.

$101

Posted by Presleyterian (# 1915) on :

Mad Geo's scurrilous libel of Route 66 -- I drove the whole way from Lake Shore Drive in Chicago to the beach at Santa Monica in a red Camaro convertible back in '97 -- motivates me to enter the fray and bid $125.

Posted by The Bede's American Successor (# 5042) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Presleyterian:
Mad Geo's scurrilous libel of Route 66 -- I drove the whole way from Lake Shore Drive in Chicago to the beach at Santa Monica in a red Camaro convertible back in '97 -- motivates me to enter the fray and bid $125.

And I bicycled along parts of it as a university student.

$125

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

Bede, your bid needs to be higher than the preceding bid. Presleyterian's $125 stands.

Auctioneer
Auctions Host

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

No, it doesn't.

$126

[Razz]

Posted by The Bede's American Successor (# 5042) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Auctioneer:
Bede, your bid needs to be higher than the preceding bid. Presleyterian's $125 stands.

Auctioneer
Auctions Host

Let's make it $130

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

$130 plus 100 cents.

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

This double-digit number is still going for an amount well under the amounts for #21, #24, and #37. Perhaps someone dropping out of one of those threads would care to jump in here? Do I hear $135? $140?

Posted by Demas (# 7147) on :

$150

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 3631) on :

$175.00

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 3631) on :

Just to be on the safe side...

$200.00

(Hey, it's what I was going to give anyway.)

Posted by Auctioneer (# 12) on :

<hammer falls>

The winning bid on this thread was for $200 by Sine Nomine. You can make your payment on this page...

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