USAGE GUIDELINES - comment thread 3 3

[dave32563]

We also never received one of these:

 

 

And if we had, it would have been promptly thrown in the nearest trashcan!

[Ryan.]

Backinmydayisms

[Jeffro.]

I remember when the Kaiser stole our word, twenty. We had to say "dickety" in place of twenty. This was back in 19-dickety-two

[comix4fun]

[revat]

We also never received one of these:

 

 

And if we had, it would have been promptly thrown in the nearest trashcan!

 

I'm ok with these (although I'd rather not waste money on them), but think the winners should still get bigger better stuff.

 

 

[Ryan.]

Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball.

[Jeffro.]

Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball.

 

Tie an onion to your belt. It's the style

[Ryan.]

Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball.

 

Tie an onion to your belt. It's the style

 

I fell 8000 feet to my death. Of course, folks were tougher in them days. I was jitterbugging that very night!

 

[seanfingh]

 

Walking-Bird made me giggle.

 

That is unacceptable, as it is well known that Ryan is, in fact, unfunny.

[comix4fun]

Walking-Bird made me giggle.

 

That is unacceptable, as it is well known that Ryan is, in fact, unfunny.

 

 

This should make you feel better....

 

 

[seanfingh]

 

It does. I should have known he couldn't have been responsible for that giggle.

[Jeffro.]

He can't bust heads like he used to but he has his ways. He just tells stories that don't go anywhere

[Ryan.]

It does. I should have known he couldn't have been responsible for that giggle.

 

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably.

 

The lesson is: never try.

[jsilverjanet]

This is the most action this thread has seen in years

 

 

[wombat]

This is the most action this thread has seen in years

 

 

[chrisco37]

My favorite Grampa Simpson rant is the one about the Metric System.

 

[october]

Does anyone else find it frustrating when a group shot is posted of books that will be for sale, only to have them sell by PM before they are posted? It has happened to me many times and I end up feeling like a sucker when I wait around for them only to see them go to a PM sniper.

 

It's not against the rules right now and I don't fault people who have done it, but I personally think it should be against the rules. Anyone feel the same?

[jsilverjanet]

Does anyone else find it frustrating when a group shot is posted of books that will be for sale, only to have them sell by PM before they are posted? It has happened to me many times and I end up feeling like a sucker when I wait around for them only to see them go to a PM sniper.

 

It's not against the rules right now and I don't fault people who have done it, but I personally think it should be against the rules. Anyone feel the same?

 

one of the things I like about your threads, you never presell

[EC ed]

Does anyone else find it frustrating when a group shot is posted of books that will be for sale, only to have them sell by PM before they are posted? It has happened to me many times and I end up feeling like a sucker when I wait around for them only to see them go to a PM sniper.

 

It's not against the rules right now and I don't fault people who have done it, but I personally think it should be against the rules. Anyone feel the same?

 

I don't know about encoding it in the rules, but I agree that it's lame. Don't list or post an image of a book in a sales thread if it isn't going to be made publicly available in that very thread. Otherwise, we straight shooters get hosed.

 

Maybe it should be a rule

Edited July 23, 2016 by edowens71

[EC ed]

Does anyone else find it frustrating when a group shot is posted of books that will be for sale, only to have them sell by PM before they are posted? It has happened to me many times and I end up feeling like a sucker when I wait around for them only to see them go to a PM sniper.

 

It's not against the rules right now and I don't fault people who have done it, but I personally think it should be against the rules. Anyone feel the same?

 

one of the things I like about your threads, you never presell

 

I don't have an issue with preselling. What I mean by preselling is that you have a book to sell...you know Joe might want it. You send Joe a PM asking if he wants it BEFORE you reveal the book's existence in a sales thread. Fine. I do that myself. That's different.

Edited July 23, 2016 by edowens71