Calamerica

Quite the contrary. Never! I have some on ignore. let me think about it. The ones on ignore have no information that I can use later for comics, etc. If I recall the evidence that you are not comic-saavy, or financially saavy, or otherwise worthless, maybe I will put you on ignore. I thought about it. You go on ignore. CAL who understands the ignore function

I like the circular logic of this. Well...Escheresque circular... You signed up whenever. The day of your last post, whenever that day is, is your actual quit date. CAL who will quit by other reasons NOT in the hater's control...

sorry OAKMAN I tried hard to apologize for my so-called "crimes", etc., and actually tried the Olive Branch a few times but that apparently does not work. There are many reasons why others want my demise. Yet the CGC comics collecting should NOT be one of them. But that is what started 99% of what you see. Yet they are HERE, NOW, and I can't stop it. CAL hopes this helps...

But you already quit. Which means you quit once. But you never quit That means you never quit once One signs up. They say they quit. but they come back. Did they truly quit in the first place? who really gives a CAL the best!!!

Like vowing to leave the boards and never come back?

Like vowing to leave the boards and never come back? Yes I quit twice. But I corrected that, and declared that I am here UNTIL I DECIDE TO QUIT. You can truly only quit once. Thus, I never quit. Saying you are going to put someone on ignore and then not doing it, well, I don't care if you don't understand. So I hope you are hating the fact that i am here, and you will be seeing myposts everywhere. OR, be a man and put me on ignore. CAL who can't really post what he wants to tell Crisco37

Luxx please stop CAL

Answering the last PM I just received. No, SKY won't post here anymore. She said what she had to say, but cannot counter-claim or prove her case. Her "friends" rallied behind her, PMed her, and NEED her to stop here, as they also know she has no true case against me. She WANTS a case against me, but I am not going to give it to her. So please, no more PMs. Put what you have to say here on the posting Threads. CAL who does not like PMs

The coinees have not done anything to me, why don't YOU go over there and entertain them? As you once told me, "go play in traffic". CAL who openly does not care for shad... .....but happily sends me his money whenever I offer an Iron Man and Submariner #1 for sale. As I've no wish to engage a person with such obvious mental problems, I should really put you on ignore, only I get such a kick out of reading your rambling non-sequiturs. Just for the record, Cal- I'm laughing at you, not with you. Business is business, but I do NOT recall sending you $$$ for IMSM's. I really don't have these "mental" problems, and that is a slam that is, to me, inflammatory. I have yet to pin that label on anyone else here, nor would I. I'll answer your reply with a PM I just deleted... what does all of this really say about us? I'm not surprised all this transpired the VERY NEXT DAY after the 9.11 remeberance. We all just could not wait to resume the ill will... just for the record, don't SAY you are going to put me on ignore - DO IT! CAL who dislikes people who say one thing and does not follow up on it

The coinees have not done anything to me, why don't YOU go over there and entertain them? As you once told me, "go play in traffic". CAL who openly does not care for shad...

I'm completely out of the loop here, but I gather you had an argument on the ebay comics board with Stu and then they shut it down ? No. Stu was infuriated that I kept defending CGC, the owners of this Board, and saw me selling submitted CGC books on eBay was the final straw for him AND others on the eBay Comics Chat. many thinks transpired there, so I decided it WAS A LOST CAUSE as they say I am a lost cause. Ditto for ditto. Could care less. eBay Chat never got shut down, as far as I know. I found this place BEFORE Stu did, and he signed up as "read em., slab em" and many different shill names, just for the sole purpose for trolling me, dispite what SKY says. Eventually, Borock kicked Stu off. Now he can't post here, except via his many shill accounts. Stu's mantra was anything AGAINST encapsultaing comic books. At the time, many on the eBay Chat agreed with him, and defended him just like you see SKY doing here. What irks me is that those who ALSO bashed CGC, it's products, are now here. Yes, they may have CGC books but my gues is that they don't submit any. I quit here twice because of Stu, but am back, and for good. They are going to try to take me down every time, but I refuse to quit anymore. I quit ebay chat for a long, long time, but that crew from 2000 stopped posting there too. But SKY openly blamed me for them quitting, First she said that it was my posting( see her post above about me "causing trouble over there" if that is not a shut-down the whistleblower command I don't know what one is) that made the others quit there, but they got into it with each other, and my "tsk*tsk*tsk* infuriated them. They quit for reasons not known tome, but SKY is trying to pin that on me. I am fighting back, and she, as well as others, think that I should not fight back. I am suposed to forgive and forget. I tried that too. Does not work. THEY have yet to forgive and forget. Ask them, don't ask me. CAL giving you what you are asking.

of course that is what you want. It would be too good to be true if you would post something like' let bygones be bygones" as the reason for her not to post but you did not and would not. I understand your need to defend your friend. But what puzzles me is that is IS OKAY that THEY post hostile things about someone who defends himself vigorously. Put it this way: she HAS posted, which is her right, she HAS put her nose in something she says she wants no part of but still hammers me because of the part she does not want part of; I don't know how to put it to you, but she is not what you think she is. All in the name for her "friend" has this escalated. And I thought that we were on a different plane so to speak. My faith in you was misguided, and somewhat filed with some regrets... CAL

from spb So, call me what ever names you like, talk to yourself as much as you like, I hope you find happiness get kicked off here/die for smoking out my Troll friends CAL who did not call any names, just the facts, ma'am

I'll say something positive, I think you should positively post these more often, as a matter of fact, twice a day would be optimum, it should keep you out of trouble... and the next time you talk to yourself about people being (I'll leave the word out because it was a curse word) x for liking, defending or talking to someone who is a former member or shill, explain to yourself why you were pm'ing luxx in the 9.11 thread... then post the conversation with yourself here, it will be amusing;) I asked him to remove the falling man pic. I had no idea that it was luxx. I don't know who some of these Trolls/shills are, and I was asking in good faith to the respect of other Board Members. Now that I know, I won't contact him again. I was not going to mention this, but YOU did: Your " You don't know xyz shill/troll, he's a great guy/it's only words/can't really damage you" defending people like that means that you are just like him. He DID do severe damage, not just to me, but still you coddle them/him. If you think I am going to deliberately PM them, you are truly grasping for straws. It seems like you WANT me to make some major mistake, as retribution for calling your "friends" out for their malfeasance and hostile actions. YOU defend them, YOU are thus condoning their actions. I really don't care one way or another, but I WILL keep the barrage coming until everyone leaves me alone. Yes I have gotten rid of a few of them, kicked off, whatever, but sooner or later they will mess up. Those with too much time on their hands have such time for reasons I don't care to spell out to you or anyone else. Your post may have started out positive but sure did not end positive. You can win the others over, but true colors eventually show and I am not color blind. CAL who is NOT in the circle of PMing whick Troll is who is what where... I was being sarcastic, Cal...I don't really think you should post these twice a day...and as for my "true colors" Yes, ..I have always been fond of Stu, not all shills, not ANY other shills as a matter of fact, but I've met him in person, and I always liked him, I never understood what on earth started the feud between you guys, but as I saw it, you were always the first aggressor. Do I think he should keep signing up here?, no...because it's the CGC's board, and they chose to ban him...but that doesn't mean I can't like him as a person and I do. When I speak to him, and it's very rare, it's on another board, I don't' believe I have even PMed him here, or if I did, it was long ago. I knew him WAY before you showed up and started making trouble on the eBay boards. What's really funny is Steve B, also doesn't like Stu, and he knows I do...but he has NEVER held that against me, because he's not only a really nice guy, but extremely rational. So, call me what ever names you like, talk to yourself as much as you like, I hope you find happiness. who chased who? Was I chasing Stu or was he chasing/trolling me? I guess your buddy Borock kicked Stu off for me chasing him, according to you above post. You also blamed ME for the Comic Chat demise. I quit there first. They quit for other reasons. You are so wrong, but your rage has skewered your version of what really transpired. Even your other friends know it was Stu. Who is being not rational here? You are so mad ayt me, you may have forgot why Stu started in on me. That also did not fly well here, during Borocks' tenure( thank goodness). CAL who has it straight.

I'll say something positive, I think you should positively post these more often, as a matter of fact, twice a day would be optimum, it should keep you out of trouble... and the next time you talk to yourself about people being (I'll leave the word out because it was a curse word) x for liking, defending or talking to someone who is a former member or shill, explain to yourself why you were pm'ing luxx in the 9.11 thread... then post the conversation with yourself here, it will be amusing;) I asked him to remove the falling man pic. I had no idea that it was luxx. I don't know who some of these Trolls/shills are, and I was asking in good faith to the respect of other Board Members. Now that I know, I won't contact him again. I was not going to mention this, but YOU did: Your " You don't know xyz shill/troll, he's a great guy/it's only words/can't really damage you" defending people like that means that you are just like him. He DID do severe damage, not just to me, but still you coddle them/him. If you think I am going to deliberately PM them, you are truly grasping for straws. It seems like you WANT me to make some major mistake, as retribution for calling your "friends" out for their malfeasance and hostile actions. YOU defend them, YOU are thus condoning their actions. I really don't care one way or another, but I WILL keep the barrage coming until everyone leaves me alone. Yes I have gotten rid of a few of them, kicked off, whatever, but sooner or later they will mess up. Those with too much time on their hands have such time for reasons I don't care to spell out to you or anyone else. Your post may have started out positive but sure did not end positive. You can win the others over, but true colors eventually show and I am not color blind. CAL who is NOT in the circle of PMing whick Troll is who is what where...

Hello CGC Forumites. For now on, the CAL'S Column will be delivered in TWO Threads: The Water Cooler and here in Comics General. I want to try something different this Column. Everyone has a Critic within him/her about most anything.Tonight, the Critic CAL will be asking the Performer CAL the Questions in this Q & A format. Have fun with this, I know I am. Critic CAL ( Q) why are you putting out TWO Editions of CAL'S Corner for now on? Do you really have THAT MUCH to say? CAL( A): Not really that much to say. Especially today, 9.11. But to answer your Q, I had three( 3) phone conversations with the people at CGC Headquarters over the last two weeks, and their discussions led me to do the CG and WC. Q: Did CGC Brass TELL you to do this? A: No they did not. They Eric D did "suggest" that I keep the NFL, Indy movie producing, UCLA Extension details, Las Vegas, Stock market Talks/Picks etc. over onthe Water Cooler. He asked me to try to keep the "Comic Book " related discussions here in Comics General. Q: Cal, you're losing me here. You are saying that NO ONE at CGC told you to do this? A: Call them yourself if you don't believe me. Look, it is THEIR chatboard. They can do whatever they want. Q: What ever happened to this business of you getting your OWN thread? A: They said no dice. But they DID sort of, well, thought that I was on a PATH, but not to THEIR best interests. They wished me luck if I still went through my plans to get my own chat board. Q: But THREE( 3) calls? I'm surprised they even TAKE your calls, after what we see here on these Boards... A: Yes they did take my calls. They always have taken my calls, except if the staff was out on a Comic grading site at a Con somewhere. They were very gracious and courteous to me, as always. Q: You have a way of "hitting people's nerves" and even did it over onyour NFL Thread last week. Can you explain this? A. Easy Q. The last batch of CAL "hitting peoples' spot/nerve or whatever, it stemmed from me defending someone who had received some extremely inappropriate PMs. Also last week I defended a Major Comic Book Dealer that I used to do business with. Q. And your point is??? A. Excuse me, I'll finish my answer. I had suggested that CGC start their section for those who send comics to get graded be the only ones who post on the Comics Threads. Only a tiny minority saw the merits of this, and the larger, majority started grabbing their pitchforks. Q. I take it you are not well-liked here, CAL? A. I NEVER posted ANYWHERE anytime on any Forum, etc. that I was here solely to make friends. I have indicated that I WOULD LIKE to be a part of the Community, but also with the understanding that I am going to give as good OR BETTER than which I get. many not only do notn understand this, but have a serious problem with that and me. Q. Can you "turn it around" to a more favorable position? A. Highly unlikely. Q. Pessimistic, are we? A. I learned a very valuable lesson from the eBay Chat Wars in the early 2000's. The Internet posters today can be their truer personalities over a keyboard, and keep what information one may want to know about them to a comfortable minimum. What other Internet users can SEE are things like if they buy/sell on eBay, and here on the CGC Boards. Then others can deduce many things about that person, such as how they conduct business transactions, critical in our online society. Q. I feel that your last A was incomplete... A. OK, let me put it this way: Internet enemies are easily made if they want to be your enemy. They do NOT ever have to meet you face to face and the few times I DID meet them at the SD Con, as sincere as I was to them, they have posted HERE that they did not "buy it". One particular ebayer still has ill feelings of me, and has less than 50 posts, so this is verifiable. Q. Alright, CAL. Direct point blank Q: Can you turn it around here, forgetting ebay? A. No. I already forgot eBay chat, rarely go there, but many of them are now here. Q. Meaning what, "they" being " here"? A. It's ok that they are now here. Most of the time they are actually decent to me. Q. Then what's the problem? A. Probably my direct style. I don't PM behind their backs, I spell it out when I feel the need to right here and now. Q. Can't you be more, "PC"? A. Politically correct? let me put my next answer this way: If anyone has to ask anyone that Q, the cause is already lost. next Q, please? Q. Do you have any Comics items to discuss today? A. Oh, yes. The Comic Books. That is the ONE reason any of should be here for. Without touching the "sensitive" nerves of many here on this Forum, let's close out this dumb Q & A and get to the real dael, shall we? Q. One last Q, then the critic shall leave. A. Only one more,because I have the power to shut this part of the segment down, understand? Q. OK Cal, whatever you say. Here it is: what is your future here on the CGC Forums? A. Easy Q. I will be here as long as I want. I am NOT going to get booted off, and I should have NEVER gotten that one strike. But hey, we all screw up from time to time. OK critic, go away. Good Glad the Critic is gone. Now I can get to the little bit of Comic Book discussion, the reason I am here in the first place. 1) When you go to list comics on eBay, TWO (2) comic Categories have been "removed". I am sad to report that the two of the greatest Titles marvel everpublished are now gone. Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish. There is a part of me that may try to get that back. I had a lot of fun listing the comics in their particular category, now I need to specify who is on the cover only. At least those four choices are still there, for now. 2) I picked up MANY suggestions right here from MANY CGC Forumites about Selling comics on ebay. Some suggestions were actually helpful and I did incorporate them into my Selling practices. But ONE of those suggestions backfired on me last week. It was the FREE SHIPPING/INSURANCE when they bought a certain number from me. One Buyer destroyed my DSR's because he thought that he was going to get a CGC large 200-lb weight-withstand box for his 5 comics that weighed 9 ounces, including the four lightweight packing boards. He also had the NERVE to email me that he had a hard time getting the comics out of the bomb-proof packaging, but he was "expecting" much more in the form of a FREE ship than the way I have sent over 2,000 raw comics in shipment. Moral of this story: Stop offerring FREE SHIP/Insurance. Give them a choice: Envelope shipping, or boxed shipping. Charge them a buck or two more for the box if that is what they really want. For some strange reason, even those who SELL comics don't get this: the Envelope shipping is treated like 1st Class - they are put inthe white BINS, sideways, treated as flat mail. The BOXES are put in the LARGE cart-bins, and can and do get crushed. I ahve had more Insurance claims on the boxed shipping than I EVER have on the Envelope shipping. And now I am going to have to raise the ship fee to cover the extra expense. I hope this finds you fellow comic collectors well,and I hope that i was not too overbearing. But people don't change, such a Character Arc is for TV and the movies. I am sure I "offended" somebody here for something I posted. All I can say is to stay tuned for the next Edition of CAL'S CORNER and maybe I can do it again! Viola! CAL

Purchased a TOS # 68 Q Vf 8.0. Mark told me about the cut coupon but I bought it anyway. Great price, too! I have bought a few times from him, and he delivers wehat he says he will! Good to have met you on this Forum! CAL who remembers the great times here!

fixed it for ya, Frank! Sorry imissed that thread! CAL who has bad posting habits, one is haste...

Anyway, I bought ASM 43 & 58, both CGC 9.0, and are GREAT!!! He also treats me well on the Boards, the make-or-break my impulsive buying trigger! CAL who is grateful to those who do good business !

Got a CAPTAIN AMERICA # 128, CGC NM 9.4 Don Rosa from nochips! Great job, Sir! CAL who likes to trade with CGCers...

Don delivered a Great ASM # 88, CGC NM 9.4 ow paged GEM and is a Seller you can count on! Great Job from a Great Seller and is also a Great CGC Board Member! Viola! CAL on your fan club list!

Your right. This is what I get for defending Mike. CAL won't defend others when they get threats anymore

I missed this one - another great post from another Class Act here. CAL who listens to Roy about many things

Dupont should see WHO THE RESPONDANT WAS RESPONDING TO had you opened up your eyes, youSHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT I WAS REPLYING TO NOT*SURE CAL getting tired of Dupont2005's cluelessness

Are you accusing me of being a shill now? You are insane. I was responding to *Not Sure* and somehow this Dupont2005 took this as a war club wave... CAL can fight on three fronts