Son-of-a-Weizen

Is that what you'd call the Mosaic style? close to running low.....closer to running low........now running low......ruuuuunning low.......still running low.......okay, last chance......last chance......last chance......still last chance.......get off your ass and buy the %$#@ set 'cause it's last chance! .......hurry up, last chance........bang, it's gone.

That actually ties in to another reason not to place early bids but rather wait to snipe at the very end. Let's say for instance that you're on some rock board and know that fellow board member 'Tommy' has been dying to get a rare copy of a Monkees CD...and suddenly one appears....and soon afterwards you see that 'Tommy' has placed a bid. Well, you're pissed at 'Tommy' because he insulted your mother and also beat you out on 10 other auctions over the years, so you start to screw with him (he doesn't know your eBay handle) and start placing bids. Well, given the fact that he's been foaming at the mouth about this rare cd for 2 years you just know that, up to a point, he's gonna keep coming back.....so you decide to place a few more bids and up the ante...but not too high......and suddenly just back off. The auction finally ends two days later and 'Tommy' ends up paying $78 for the disc...but had you not 'intervened', he might have had it for $40? He telegraphed his interest by placing an early bid and you took the opportunity to mess with him a little. He should have just popped in with a few seconds to go and avoided it.

We're tired of your hollow excuses. If you're going to place more importance on things like going to the movies or showering or trimming the hedges, than you are on cd acquisistion, then we just can't be bothered having you around anymore!!!

However, from a seller's perspective, a sniping program has to be viewed as a good thing because it allows some better known deep pockets types to hang out in the wings until the very end rather than have them enter into the mix at an earlier stage -- a move akin to a largemouth bass entering the minnow pool and essentially 'scaring off' other potential bidders who realize that they have virtually no chance of beating him out in the final stretch. There's at least one eBayer that has that effect on me......and if I see him sitting there with three days to go, I simply move on. Well, okay...there was that one time that I turned and did a tap dance on his face...but it cost me $160. Now how dumb was that?

<<<<USPS delivery time, any ballpark figures?>>>>> Sometimes your packet just sits in a corner down at the substation until?????????? I buy a Bill Evans gold disc from a guy in Portugal on March 3. Yesterday, I drop him a quick note to let him know that there hasn't yet been a sighting and to inquire about the shipping date from his end. He quickly responds with a tracking number and says that, based on a quick online check, looks like the USPS attempted delivery at my place on March 15? Hmmmm, well that's news to me....sure haven't seen any delivery notice..... so I quickly phone the substation and give the clerk the tracking number. He places me on hold for a minute. Comes back on and says 'well, looks like it's here' 'So, no notice was left at the door first time 'round.....nor was a 2nd delivery attempt made. How does that happen?' 'Um, I can't even begin to speculate about what's going on with this? 'Okay, thanks.....I'll drive right over to pick it up!' .....lucky for me that the guy in Portugal is on the ball and knows what's going on 2 miles away.

I've got two snipes programmed to fire off at 5 seconds within the next day. God help ya if you (or even a jazz luvin' she) are in the way, Al. ....you don't really want those Mel Torme cds anyhow.

No shit! Two years in a row someone gave me a Best Buy gift card at Christmas, the first year I searched and searched and finally found something to buy and second year, I gave it to my nephew.....can't stand the place! m~ For starters you could (should?) be buying up the rapidly vanishing Stones SACDs (digipaks), particularly 'Let it Bleed' and 'Beggar's Banquet' if you can find 'em. Don't have an SACD player? Well, okay. Don't like the Stones? Well piss off then!!!!

Oooooo, very nice!!! I'm now draining a Jever.

Now stop it boys! I'll tell ya though.....if it came to that, it sure would take more than a lowly raisin to get 'it' back. That new 2007 Audi S8 perhaps?

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Robert Johnson ist ein Schleimbeutel !

No leg pulling going on. Will be swinging through for a short spell and are supposed to be meeting up with another party....but things are still in a state of flux. I'll drop ya a line if things work out. That would be fun. .....but only one or two? I do that before breakfast.

It's always an eye-opener to see how cheap the good bottled beer is in Germany. No poxy little bottles either - its 0.5L and up. I'll tell ya though....the Dutch have outdone the Germans when it comes to the design of the pump system on those 5-litre mini kegs. Having tried both a zillion times now, the Heineken one is far superior. On those rare occasions when one doesn't drain the whole thing in 2 days, the brew will not lose any carbonation if you suddenly have to run out of town for a few days and leave it in the fridge. With the German ones, you constantly have to keep fiddling with the pressure valve on top and it's tiresome. For shame...for shame. -_- BTW, Sidewinder.....the first bit of a WSJ article I was perusing last night: MMMMMM.....Warm, Flat Beer Wall Street Journal by Conor Dougherty To the list of British imports that includes fish and chips and the Beatles, you can now add flat beer. Microbrewers have tried everything from chili-pepper beer to raisin-flavored beer to lure drinkers from mass-market brews like Bud and Coors. Now they're trying their hand at a British staple, cask beer, that is only lightly carbonated and served via a retro hand pump. U.S. bars, in addition to serving American cask, are increasingly stocking English brands. This comes as more Brits are shunning these traditional ales in favor of U.S.-style beers. ...funny, I hadn't read anything about a wave of mass insanity suddenly sweeping the English countryside?

No. All you have left is an autobahn without (in many areas) speed limits.....and now the evil EU bureaucrats in Brussels are conspiring to take that away! Sorry, but you got that all wrong: THAT's what I have when things get too bleak ... P.S.: I'm the ONLY German without a driver's license, a car and a mobile phone. Oh yeah....forgot about that. No car, huh? Damn, I was depending on you for a lift from Bingen to Luxembourg next month.

No. All you have left is an autobahn without (in many areas) speed limits.....and now the evil EU bureaucrats in Brussels are conspiring to take that away!

...we're not necessarily interested in what you drink, but rather if you shave (face, that is) while standing at the wash basin....or in the shower with one of those neat little fogless mirrors? I hate it when those cruddy suction cups weaken and they fall off the wall

Yes, "enthusiastic" indeed!! I just checked out the Sassy's Blues clip over at B&N and she seems to be getting a bit annoyed with the audience toward the end. Do you have the cd? What ends up happening? Does she throw a shoe at them? http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/pro...amp;wrk=2810479

Oooooooo that does sound like a 'neat' little trick. Never heard that one before. Did that actually happen to you or did you see it on a show?

Allrighty.......thanks Jim.

Is the live version of Sassy's Blues on the 'Swings the Tivoli' LP the same one that seems to show up on several compilation cds out there or was there also a studio version recorded with a trio and released on a different LP (...one that's available on CD)?

12030 Clarke & Burke Jazz Young Blood Mike F. has it listed as such.......but the '93 Jpn cd (SV-0211) has Chuz Alfred as the leader (the one and only time for him, yes?).

Hey Paul, Happy to hear that things are starting to gel well for ya. -R

He's on this one. Just showed up on eBay a few weeks back.

I like that series very much as well and am constantly on the prowl for 'em. Too true about there always being a new one that ya had no idea existed suddenly popping up out of nowhere. I only wish that they had issued the Clarke's 'Klook's Clique' as part of the series..but ya gotta live with what ya have. Of those that I own, favorites are: Ronnie Ball 'All About Ronnie' Johnny Coates 'Portrait' Ernie Wilkins-kenny Clarke 'Septet' Ronnell Bright 'Bright's Spot'

I think so. From what I've seen, she was with Brubeck on 2 different cds, once with his trio....then again with the full quartet in 1961. Haven't heard either of them though.