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Determining value of used books.
foad wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message ... On Dec 26, 6:07 am, "foad" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message news:45f63610-996e-436f-b946-\ No. Any sort of printed price guide is essentially out of date by the time it is published. (The only exception perhaps being a price guide to books ========== Way to set those margins newbie. Excuse me, fellow, but since when have I claimed to be engaged in any such boring-sounding activity as "setting margins?' I stopped "setting margins" when I put my Smith Corona out to pasture quite a while back... Whee... ========== Exactly newbie, you hadn't set your margins, which is why your post looked so retarded. You're new to the usenet obviously, but there are a bunch of conventions such as line length that you'll be expected to follow. Some of them, such as x posting (that's when you post to more than one group at a time) you might be able to master, despite how stupid you seem. Others will probably be beyond your limi9ted intelligence. Anyway, if you need any more pointers I'll be happy to help you out. I am well known in the usenet for my helpfulness and philanthropy. Beyond the facts that (1) Bill is not a newbie and (2) this rant of yours is beyond silly, his messages showed up perfectly fine on my news reader. Perhaps, the problem is that you have set your margins to narrowly. -- Francis A. Miniter ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις βροτων, πριν αν θανη τις, ουτε ει χρηστος ουτ’ ει τω κακος. |
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Determining value of used books.
On Dec 26, 5:22*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote: foad wrote: "Bill" wrote in message .... On Dec 26, 6:07 am, "foad" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message news:45f63610-996e-436f-b946-\ No. Any sort of printed price guide is essentially out of date by the time it is published. (The only exception perhaps being a price guide to books ========== Way to set those margins newbie. Excuse me, *fellow, but since when have I claimed to be engaged in any such boring-sounding activity as "setting margins?' *I stopped "setting margins" when I put my Smith Corona out to pasture quite a while back... Whee... ========== Exactly newbie, you hadn't set your margins, which is why your post looked so retarded. You're new to the usenet obviously, but there are a bunch of conventions such as line length that you'll be expected to follow. Some of them, such as x posting (that's when you post to more than one group at a time) you might be able to master, despite how stupid you seem. Others will probably be beyond your limi9ted intelligence. Anyway, if you need any more pointers I'll be happy to help you out. I am well known in the usenet for my helpfulness and philanthropy. Beyond the facts that (1) Bill is not a newbie and (2) this rant of yours is beyond silly, his messages showed up perfectly fine on my news reader. *Perhaps, the problem is that you have set your margins to narrowly. Sensible words, but what you may not know is that the troll in question is "Fundoc", who has been slinking around under a new name since I raked him over glowing newsgroup coals a while back for both his ignorance and his impertinence. This odd and paltry fellow has been pestering me for attention almost since I came into Usenet in 1995. In essence, he is a notorious, though minor, newsgroup pest, annoying to most readers and downright repugnant to a good many others. While your comments make sense, be assured he won't listen and will no doubt flail back with wet-noodle sentiments befitting a medfly. Sad. [Memo from the upstairs office] -- Francis A. Miniter * * *' * *, * *, *.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Determining value of used books.
On Dec 26, 1:39*pm, "foad" wrote:
He's ashamed. |
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Determining value of used books.
"Bill" wrote in message ... Sensible words, but what you may not know is that the troll in question is "Fundoc", ========== Be fair BiLp, you didn't know who the troll in question was until the troll in question told you who the troll in question was, you being too stupid to figure it out yourself, depite its obviousosityness. Before that you were cowering behind the couch ranting about Menjy and wetting yourself. who has been slinking around under a new name since I raked him over glowing newsgroup coals a while back for both his ignorance and his impertinence. =========== Hardly true, and for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that you were to get anywhere near a rake and a bunch of coals you'd no doubt step on the end of the rake, causing the handle to fly up and smash you in the forehead, causing you to fall into the coals, where you'd burst into flame due to the enormous quantities of gas you emit. Better safe than sorry. As to my new identity - not that it's any of your business - but it was as the Germans say an affaire de coeur, and I didn't have to murder any of her siblings either. Nothing you'd understand, so don't trouble yourself. This odd and paltry fellow has been pestering me for attention almost since I came into Usenet in 1995. =========== If by pestering me for attention you mean "kicking me until his leg gets tired to the great amusement of his many fans" then yes. Elsewise no. In essence, he is a notorious, though minor, newsgroup pest, annoying to most readers and downright repugnant to a good many others. While your comments make sense, be assured he won't listen and will no doubt flail back with wet-noodle sentiments befitting a medfly. Sad. ============== OTC, Palmjabber, I am a well regarded - and surprisingly well behaved - member of of this group in good standing. As such I even enjoy your little essays about the shoebox full of Harvey comics you call a book collection, although I suspect you over estimate their desireability. As other group members have mentioned, the semen stains encrusted on Little Audrey will affect both value and collectibility. |
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Determining value of used books.
"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ... Beyond the facts that (1) Bill is not a newbie and (2) this rant of yours is beyond silly, his messages showed up perfectly fine on my news reader. Perhaps, the problem is that you have set your margins to narrowly. No. Here's the google version of the bLiP post in question. See the first paragraph. See the line breaks. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...3?dmode=source |
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Determining value of used books.
foad wrote:
"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ... Beyond the facts that (1) Bill is not a newbie and (2) this rant of yours is beyond silly, his messages showed up perfectly fine on my news reader. Perhaps, the problem is that you have set your margins to narrowly. No. Here's the google version of the bLiP post in question. See the first paragraph. See the line breaks. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...3?dmode=source Ah, you are using Google as a reader. Use a Usenet reader. Motzarella is a free one. Go to http://motzarella.org -- Francis A. Miniter ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις βροτων, πριν αν θανη τις, ουτε ει χρηστος ουτ’ ει τω κακος. |
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Determining value of used books.
"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ... foad wrote: "Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ... Beyond the facts that (1) Bill is not a newbie and (2) this rant of yours is beyond silly, his messages showed up perfectly fine on my news reader. Perhaps, the problem is that you have set your margins to narrowly. No. Here's the google version of the bLiP post in question. See the first paragraph. See the line breaks. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...3?dmode=source Ah, you are using Google as a reader. Use a Usenet reader. Motzarella is a free one. Go to http://motzarella.org I'm not using Google as a reader, no. I'm showing you the post as it exists in the Deja Mountain, the offical compendium of BiLp's idiocies, or as I prefer to think of it, Mount Rushmore carved out of twaddle. -- Francis A. Miniter ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις βροτων, πριν αν θανη τις, ουτε ει χρηστος ουτ’ ει τω κακος. |
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On Dec 27, 5:39*am, "foad" wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message [Fundoc's perverted slurs snipped. It amazes me how often this sort of troll gives himself away by trying to attribute to others the nasty perversions which fester in the match-head sized bundle of neurons he flatters as his brain.] By the way, what people may not realize is that back in the early 1950's Harvey published some of most terrifying horror comics ever. Harvey was not all about Richie Rich, Casper, and Little Dot. However, after they dropped their horror comics line in the mid-1950's with the coming of the Comics Code Authority, Harvey (meaning whoever owns the current rights to Harvey Comics) seems to have become ashamed of their horror comics. They should not have be:they had artists like Bob Powell and Howard Van Nostrand, some of the best in the business in those days. I don't know if the Harvey horror stuff has gone into the public domain, but recently I have found some excellent reprints which have included Harvey stuff with no mention of Harvey. {One possiblity might be that whoever put out the reprints I refer to paid for the re-publishing rights but agreed not to use the Harvey name, in order to "protect" their image, which is now associated with Little Audrey, Richie, etc.} It might be added, Fundoc,that I have not collected comic periodicals in years. At one time, I had a superb and frankly quite vast collection from what some now call the "Atomic Age", the period from after World War II to the mid-1950's. (To people who know nothing about comics: This period is not so well-known because it came between the end of the Golden Age of the super-hero period, and the "Silver Age" superhero-period of the 1960's. Conversely, the "Atomic Age" was not about superhero comics,but rather, horror, science fiction, crime, western,war, romance, and teen-age comics, although Classic Comics and some funny-animal comics by Disney and others remained immensely popular. Probably the most famous comics of the "Atomic Age" comics were the EC's, but there were many other great comics published during that era. At one time, I had a sizeable percentage of them, with almost all the EC's., including the first 23 Mads which were ten-cent comics before Bill Gaines went over to his magazine format in the mid-1950's. [Footnote: At the most recent Comic Con convention I noticed that one of the dealers was offering the comic book I had once referred to in a posting -- not in this group --, about a comic which,in the early 1950's in a terrifying manner seemed to predict Charles Manson! That cover still gives me the shudders, Anyway, the seller at the Comic Con was asking around $3,000 for it.] I sold my comic collection many years ago because the comics were getting too old and too valuable and needed too much protection and maintenance, My own view is that collecting should be fun: having thousands of sealed comics you don't want anyone to touch because the pulp paper makes them extremely delicate is not my idea of enjoyment through collecting. Many of the great old comics deserve to be reprinted and it seems to me that more of that is occurring, though not nearly enough. Just imagine a situation where if you wanted the read Charles Dickens you would have to obtain a first edition. That's about the way it is with some wonderful old comics (and I mean both newspaper comics and comic books) Fundoc's ignorant cheapshots rely on the notion that I should be ashamed over any reference to comics in a distinguished book collecting forum such as this. His very narrow consciousness does not seem to grasp at all the validity of comic art as an authentic medium for both communication and artistic expression. That'''s what I mean when I refer to him as a paltry fellow. He considers himself a great wit when quite the opposite remains true. It seems to me it was Wallace Stevens who coined the phrase "...a lustered nothingness.." but with poor Fundoc, the luster on his nothingness seems shabbily foxed and pathetically distressed... [Memo from the upstairs office.] ... Sensible words, but what you may not know is that the troll in question is "Fundoc", ========== Be fair BiLp, you didn't know who the troll in question was until the troll in question told you who the troll in question was, you being too stupid to figure it out yourself, depite its obviousosityness. Before that you were cowering behind the couch ranting about Menjy and wetting yourself. who has been slinking around under a new name since I raked him over glowing newsgroup coals a while back for both his ignorance and his impertinence. =========== Hardly true, and for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that you were to get anywhere near a rake and a bunch of coals you'd no doubt step on the end of the rake, causing the handle to fly up and smash you in the forehead, causing you to fall into the coals, where you'd burst into flame due to the enormous quantities of gas you emit. Better safe than sorry. As to my new identity - not that it's any of your business - but it was as the Germans say an affaire de coeur, and I didn't have to murder any of her siblings either. Nothing you'd understand, so don't trouble yourself. This odd and paltry fellow has been pestering me for attention almost since I came into Usenet in 1995. =========== If by pestering me for attention you mean "kicking me until his leg gets tired to the great amusement of his many fans" then yes. Elsewise no. In essence, he is a notorious, though minor, newsgroup pest, annoying to most readers and downright repugnant to a good many others. While your comments make sense, be assured he won't listen and will no doubt flail back with wet-noodle sentiments befitting a medfly. *Sad. ============== OTC, Palmjabber, I am a well regarded - and surprisingly well behaved - member of of this group in good standing. As such I even enjoy your little essays about the shoebox full of Harvey comics you call a book collection, although I suspect you over estimate their desireability. As other group members have mentioned, the semen stains encrusted on Little Audrey will affect both value and collectibility. |
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On Dec 27, 1:38*pm, "foad" wrote:
[...] He' knows he's caught red-handed now! He's wracking that small, cognitively-malnourished brain of his trying to think of something to scurry back with. 'Twill be of no avail...I am waiting for him to actually prove dumb enough to lash back at me by decreeing that comics should not be discussed in a book collecting forum. His mind will prove far too dim to grasp that comics have been published in hardcover form since before World War One, and many-hundreds of them have been published since then, including newpaper reprints of strips like "The Yellow Kid" and "Little Nemo", comic book reprints, such as all the Marvel and DC hardcover reprints of superhero comics currently on sale, as well as comics such as "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth" which are published as hardcover originals. Contray to the ignorant jibes of "The Paltry One", hardcover comics of one type or another have been sought as collectbles for decades. But don't tell him that, and ruin his "devastating" rebuttal before he taxes his feeble mind to type it... [Memo from the upstairs office] |
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"Bill" wrote in message ... On Dec 27, 5:39 am, "foad" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message [Fundoc's perverted slurs snipped. It amazes me how often this sort of troll gives himself away by trying to attribute to others the nasty perversions which fester in the match-head sized bundle of neurons he flatters as his brain.] ======== The alleged flame giant begins his soon to be hosed Ode to Tedium with: an IKYABWAI. Some things never change: all aboard Cleveland. By the way, what people may not realize is that back in the early 1950's Harvey published some of most terrifying horror comics ever. ============= I for one have no doubt that you **** your pants in terror while reading Baby Huey. Don't worry though, most birds don't get that big, so they won't hurt you. Emus sure, and maybe ostrich. Not chickens though. And they don't wear diapers either if that's what you were worried about. snip [Footnote: At the most recent Comic Con convention I noticed that one of the dealers was offering the comic book I had once referred to in a posting -- not in this group --, about a comic which,in the early 1950's in a terrifying manner seemed to predict Charles Manson! That cover still gives me the shudders, Anyway, the seller at the Comic Con was asking around $3,000 for it.] ================== The true story is somewhat different, viz: PliB once read a comic book and being somewhat retarded and a big girls blouse it caused him to soil his trousers and left him "afraid to go to bed." So moved was he by the experience that he wrote an interminable and stupid essay about it that was relentlessly pilloried by everyone who managed to read any part of it before falling dead asleep. This savaging BiLp trumpeted as a literary triumph until an intrepid soul managed to wade thru the both BlIp 's tripe and the ensuing mockery - which can be summed up thusly, "Palmer has not lost his ability to out-stupid himself." -- and collect the detritus here. After all these years it still makes an amusing read. http://groups.google.com/group/misc....82fa3389?hl=en I sold my comic collection many years ago ======= In that case I've taken the liberty of hosing the rest of your interminable screed, as this group is for collectors, not former collectors. Still, if you run across another rare and terrifying Herman and Katnip first edition that seems to predict the Kenndy assassination or whatever and you wish to share the matter in group, feel free. |
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