Thread closed      Thread closed My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Things we did   » Auctions   » 95: Bid here! Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: 95: Bid here! Ninety-five unregistered Posted              Membership number: 95 Catalogue entry: click here [ 18. August 2005, 10:17: Message edited by: Auctioneer ] IP: Logged Auctioneer Going... going... gone! # 12 Posted                    Ladies and gentlemen... what am I bid for Lot 5, a unique membership number, with its fabulous associations with Bill Gates and Martin Luther. Let's start the bidding at $20. Would someone like to start us off? Posts: 127 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Anselm Shipmate # 4499 Posted                     $20.00 -------------------- carpe diem domini ...seize the day to play dominoes? Posts: 2544 | From: The Scriptorium | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Amazing Grace* Shipmate # 4754 Posted                  $25 Charlotte -------------------- .sig on vacation Posts: 2594 | From: Sittin' by the dock of the [SF] bay | Registered: Jul 2003  |  IP: Logged Alicïa Shipmate # 7668 Posted                     $26 -------------------- "The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world." Georgia Elma Harkness Posts: 884 | From: Where the Art is. | Registered: Jun 2004  |  IP: Logged Flausa Mad Woman # 3466 Posted                    I'll pin my first bid up at $30. Posts: 4610 | From: bonny Scotland | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Dee. Ship's Theological Acrobat # 5681 Posted                     $40 -------------------- Jesus - nice bloke, bit religious Posts: 2679 | From: Under Downunder | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged IngoB Sentire cum Ecclesia # 8700 Posted                     $60 If I get the number, I will claim it for the Counter-Reformation and call myself Paul III with a "Council of Trent" avatar - or something like that. Try and outbid me, you heretic Lutheran weaklings... -------------------- They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear Posts: 12010 | From: Gone fishing | Registered: Oct 2004  |  IP: Logged Flausa Mad Woman # 3466 Posted                    Just for that IngoB, $70. Posts: 4610 | From: bonny Scotland | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged IngoB Sentire cum Ecclesia # 8700 Posted                     $80 say Exsurge Domine had it right all along. -------------------- They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear Posts: 12010 | From: Gone fishing | Registered: Oct 2004  |  IP: Logged Flausa Mad Woman # 3466 Posted                    Well, you leave me no choice. I nail my bid for $95 on IngoB's forehead. Posts: 4610 | From: bonny Scotland | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged IngoB Sentire cum Ecclesia # 8700 Posted                     $100 then to Inquisitor Fr Dr Johann Tetzel, OP, to buy the indulgence that finally gets Martin Luther out of purgatory! It will buy a golden candle stand for Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The Triumph of the Chair of Saint Peter at St Peter's Basilica... -------------------- They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear Posts: 12010 | From: Gone fishing | Registered: Oct 2004  |  IP: Logged Flausa Mad Woman # 3466 Posted                    Nails another $10 on BIngo's head, bringing the bid up to $110. Posts: 4610 | From: bonny Scotland | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Alfred E. Neuman What? Me worry? # 6855 Posted                    Tightly rolls up $120, sets it on fire and lights his cigar with it. -------------------- --Formerly: Gort-- Posts: 12954 | Registered: May 2004  |  IP: Logged Flausa Mad Woman # 3466 Posted                    $121 Posts: 4610 | From: bonny Scotland | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged JonathanHunt Apprentice # 9495 Posted                        $122 If only the number 1689 was going... -------------------- Jonathan Hunt Posts: 17 | From: Gloucestershire | Registered: May 2005  |  IP: Logged Auctioneer Going... going... gone! # 12 Posted                    And the newbie comes out of nowhere! Good going! All funds collected on winning bids go to support the Ship. Whether or not there is any benefit to your soul in the afterlife, we don't care to speculate. But it can't hurt! Posts: 127 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Amazing Grace* Shipmate # 4754 Posted                  $123 Charlotte -------------------- .sig on vacation Posts: 2594 | From: Sittin' by the dock of the [SF] bay | Registered: Jul 2003  |  IP: Logged Sinistærial Ship's Lefty # 5834 Posted                        Sinisterial boldly nails $125 onto the door of the cathedral -------------------- People laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at other people because they are all the same. &aelig; = æ Posts: 894 | From: The Holy City - Adelaide | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Amazing Grace* Shipmate # 4754 Posted                  $130 Charlotte -------------------- .sig on vacation Posts: 2594 | From: Sittin' by the dock of the [SF] bay | Registered: Jul 2003  |  IP: Logged Auctioneer Going... going... gone! # 12 Posted                    <hammer falls> The winning bid on this thread was for $130 by Amazing Grace. You can make your payment on this page... http://shipoffools.com/Products/auctions/cc_payment.html Please note your Lot number (5) as you'll need to enter it into the payment form. Thanks for supporting the ship! If you wish to transfer your board identity to this number, please post on the Winners! thread and we'll arrange your move in the next seven days. And thanks to everyone else who took part in bidding on this thread. If you'd like to give to the Organ Fund anyway, here's the link... http://shipoffools.com/Organ/options.html Thanks! 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