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O.K. - "Pawn Stars" - What do you think???
On Aug 22, 6:57*pm, Reid Goldsborough
wrote: On 8/22/2010 4:11 PM, oly wrote: Mr. Harrison could possibly have excellent academic credentials This also is hilarious. Yes indeedy, he probably does have excellent academic credentials. Isn't it obvious by how much knowledge he displays on the show? But the word "excellent" here is highly subjective. I suspect, from your posts, you'd consider this as having graduated from high school. Or was graduated from, if you're a Miss Thistlebottom type, though this passive construction is no longer considered the only correct one now makes you look fuddyduddyish. With your trying to hard to poke fun at me by misspelling both of my names over and over, I know you're no Miss Thistlebottom and suspect without a Google search you even know what this means. You're much more of a Mr. Harrison, actually very much like him, come to think of it. Just the type, in a general kind of way, from what I've seen of his TV persona anyway. But feel free to share your SAT scores, GPAs, degrees, academic honors, and anything else you feel is of academic relevance, since you're asking so vociferously about my academic background and suggesting I didn't graduate from college. I did, with a bachelor and then a master degree. But I don't regard what a person did in preparation for a career as being the best indicator of that person's current proficiency or expertise. Relevant background, yes, useful, mostly, necessary, not necessarily, depending. -- Consumer:http://rg.ancients.info/guide Connoisseur:http://rg.ancients.info/glom Counterfeit:http://rg.ancients.info/bogos FWIW, I have the pedestrian old, run-of-the-mill Bachelors Degree (BS in Business Administration) from the College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Entered August 1977, Graduated May 1981 (the standard eight semesters). Made the Dean's List twice, First Semester and Last Semester. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana usually ranked in the top fifty American schools. My ACTs and SATs were excellent, for whatever tests taken 33 years ago are worth today. I took business classes, history, classics, literature classes, foreign languages and did well in all; my advanced math classes were mostly ****y. I had a very strong minor in beer drinking. This U of I degree has been leveraged into a 30 year career in government, mostly commercial bank examination. oly |
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O.K. - "Pawn Stars" - What do you think???
"oly" wrote in message ... Anybody watch "Pawn Stars"??? Rick Harrison, the Old Man, son Corey and flunkey Chumley at their Pawn Shop in Las Vegas??? (Well, actually, it doesn't belong to Chumley). It's really one of the few TV shows (besides Wheel of Fortune) that my wife and I can sit down and both enjoy. It's frequently contrived (it has to be, it would take years and years for all that good stuff to come in off-the-street, although you might see most of it over one or two decades), and I think that the prices paid tend to be difficult to believe - at least somewhat high, I would guess. Probably slightly glorifies a hard-nosed and tough business. Also, television shifting from the supposedly profitable "house- flipping" to "guess what I just gotta pawn today" is a sign of the times. But still, a really good TV show. Anybody have any insights??? The show is rigged but enjoyable in a perverse way. The old man is repulsive and should be taken out back and shot! I find it impossible to believe that the average seller would not be aware of eBay or regular auction venues to sell their goods, rather than taking them to a pawn shop where you obviously aren't going to make as much. |
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O.K. - "Pawn Stars" - What do you think???
On Aug 23, 6:34*pm, "El Kabong" wrote:
"oly" wrote in message ... Anybody watch "Pawn Stars"??? *Rick Harrison, the Old Man, son Corey and flunkey Chumley at their Pawn Shop in Las Vegas??? (Well, actually, it doesn't belong to Chumley). It's really one of the few TV shows (besides Wheel of Fortune) that my wife and I can sit down and both enjoy. It's frequently contrived (it has to be, it would take years and years for all that good stuff to come in off-the-street, although you might see most of it over one or two decades), and I think that the prices paid tend to be difficult to believe - at least somewhat high, I would guess. *Probably slightly glorifies a hard-nosed and tough business. Also, television shifting from the supposedly profitable "house- flipping" to "guess what I just gotta pawn today" is a sign of the times. But still, a really good TV show. Anybody have any insights??? The show is rigged but enjoyable in a perverse way. The old man is repulsive and should be taken out back and shot! I find it impossible to believe that the average seller would not be aware of eBay or regular auction venues to sell their goods, rather than taking them to a pawn shop where you obviously aren't going to make as much.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - My only note is that the coin biz used to have lot and lots of guys just like Old Man. Most of them apparently didn't have a wife or somebody to pull 'em back from the edge. I guess Reek isn't going to tell us about his GED in Art History. oly oly |
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