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Post by WhutScreenName on May 22, 2013 13:19:20 GMT
On a related note, today is my daughters 10th Birthday. She's our only child and even then it took years before my wife could conceive. Kids grow up so fast and change ones views on the world. I sure do feel lucky to be a dad
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 22, 2013 13:30:51 GMT
Happy Birthday to her! Kids: The reason we go to Chuck E Cheese even though the mention of the name makes us want to drink arsenic...
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Post by ponytail61 on May 22, 2013 22:14:24 GMT
I think for the first tooth we gave a couple $$, but subsequent teeth only get a $1. When I was a kid, a quarter was a score. And that quarter would get you a comic book, bottle of coke and a candy bar. I remember being a little jealous when my little brother would get paper money ($1) for his teeth.
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Post by Antigone68104 on May 22, 2013 22:50:31 GMT
On a related note, today is my daughters 10th Birthday. Happy Birthday!
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 23, 2013 0:10:12 GMT
I remember when a pack of trading cards (baseball, football, etc) was only 50 cents and, if it was Topps, it came with that cardboard that required carbon dating to figure out how old it was... Then again, I remember the days when neighborhood card/comic shops were located in your neighborhood. If you were lucky enough to get allowance - which was earned by doing 80 or more hours of hard labor on top of school & homework every week - you couldn't get on your bike to the card shop fast enough to see what came in that week...
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Post by ponytail61 on May 23, 2013 0:37:16 GMT
50 cents a pack Urban? You must be a young buck. I believe they were a nickle and you got about half a dozen cards. Oh yea and the gum we got was the same you got. It was made during the Korean War and stored in a shed in Death Valley.
Some memorable cards I remember were an early Lew Alcindor, d**k Butkus, Fran Tarkington and Lenny Dawson.
edit - Really ?? as many mods as we have here and as few members we need to censor Richards nick name?
Mod: It's automatic. Even I can't fix it.
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Post by GTCGreg on May 23, 2013 0:42:13 GMT
Right, Pony. 5 cards for 5 cents and you threw away the so called "gum."
If you wanted gum, you spent an extra penny and got a piece of Bazooka. Complete with a comic strip.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 23, 2013 2:29:30 GMT
50 cents got you 10-12 cards/pack depending on the brand. Nowadays, $2 might get you pack with five cards...
Bazooka was a nickel when I younger. If trading card gum was manufactured during the Korean War, I'm guessing all the Bazooka was manufactured shortly before Vietnam...
If you were really feeling rich, you might go for a pack of Big League Chew. And you know that you tried to get the entire contents of the package in your mouth everytime!
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Post by ironhold on May 23, 2013 2:55:01 GMT
If you guys have one, go look for the local Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree has a deal with CardsOne, a vendor that specializes in buying vintage cards, comics, and collectibles in bulk and then selling them cheaply.
*For the past few years, you could get two random comic books and a random trading card in a bag for $1; some of the comics are little more than pulp, while others are legitimately valuable finds (such as Moon Knight #1 from 1980, which goes for $8 apiece).
*For about a year now, there have been bundle packs of vintage sports cards from the 1980s - early 2000s. If you're lucky, you can get a generic "all sports" 30-count bundle for $1, but there are also baseball 20-counts for $1 and football (North American) 20-counts for $1.
Someone has also been vending international-edition Yu-Gi-Oh cards, in such languages as Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. Previously they left the cards in their original packs, but now they've taken to opening the packs and randomly mixing them.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 23, 2013 13:09:56 GMT
That is a sweet deal! I'm gonna have to get to the nearest Dollar Tree.
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Post by ironhold on May 23, 2013 15:10:25 GMT
The comic books are an odd mix, both in regards to publishers and quality.
On one hand, they somehow scored a large quantity of product from Comico (a surprisingly strong third-party publisher during the 1980s, but who went bankrupt in the 1990s), Valiant (good during the early 1990s, all but dead a decade later) and CrossGen (another strong third-party from the early 2000s, but who sadly also went bust). I've also found the first issue of the vintage 1980s M.A.S.K. tie-in series and the first issue of Static Shock. They've also had a fair amount of Marvel and DC from the late 1980s and early 1990s, including a handful of issues from "Death of Superman".
On the other hand, I've also gotten a large quantity of Image and Wildstorm from the "Extreme" era of the early 1990s, plus a number of one-offs from smaller publishers like APC which were rightly forgotten about. They've also had a handful of Devil's Due and Dreamwave, which I only picked up due to the fact that there were G. I. Joe and Transformers titles in the mix.
Lurking in the midst is "Spawn / Batman", a crossover between the two that embodies 90% of everything that was wrong about the "Extreme" era; all they needed was a granola-eating hippy and an improbably posed muscle girl and it'd have been a home run of failure.
Officially, all of the comics in the batch are uncirculated, but one bag I bought had an issue of Death's-Head that was obviously poly-bagged by a comic shop as it had a price tag on it.
For the trading cards, I've seen cards from The A-Team, Goonies, Baby (a movie from the 1980s about a dinosaur), Star Wars, Star Trek, Valiant, Marvel, DC, Power Rangers, Creator's Universe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (plus a few others I might be forgetting about).
Although the people who actually assemble the bags tend to be good about ensuring that X is paired with Y (the card is totally random), the fact that they're working with whatever's on hand means that you'll not only see XY bags but also XZ bags and AY bags as well; as a result, it's almost a given that you'll get duplicates.
As far as the bags themselves go, the back of each bag is covered in text that explains a redemption promotion; as a result, it can be hard to see which comic is the second one in the set. With the cards, on some instances they'll put two or more in the same bag, while in others there won't actually be a card; either the cards stuck together or nobody was paying attention that day. And if one of the comics was a "sealed" special that came bagged with a card, they'll count the card fro the bag as your free card.
Also, you might see card protector sheets next to the rack with the trading cards.
Skip those.
They aren't rated "acid-free", and so there's no guarantee that they don't have acid in them. (If they do have acid in them, they'll damage your cards in time.)
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 23, 2013 18:33:03 GMT
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 4, 2013 18:19:31 GMT
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Post by the light works on Jun 5, 2013 1:26:17 GMT
While I am glad it ended well, I see a lot of possibilities for it to go horribly wrong.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 5, 2013 13:05:02 GMT
Seems odd a home with that many people in it would be targeted. Glad no one was hurt, and the 10yr old has a story to tell now.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 20, 2013 15:11:57 GMT
Everything turned out pretty well in this story. I like the fact she's a famous catcher's daughter too
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Post by the light works on Jun 21, 2013 14:08:16 GMT
Everything turned out pretty well in this story. I like the fact she's a famous catcher's daughter too "bounced off an awning" = myth confirmed.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 21, 2013 14:11:32 GMT
I saw that too. Sounds like a lucky break for the kid and the woman who caught him.
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Post by mrfatso on Jun 22, 2013 5:08:34 GMT
My own family had a bit of good new recently.
My Aunts Grandson was injured in a patrol in Helmand Province, in an attack that killed three other Soldiers in the Highland Fusiliers, I now have been told he will make a full recovery.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 28, 2013 12:59:58 GMT
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