10 year rule

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Wed Nov 17 19:39:28 2004

> news_at_computercollector.com sez:
> Let's change the topic. I HEARD A RUMOR THAT SELLAM IS PUTTING HIS WHOLE
> COLLECTION ON EBAY.



   LIVERMORE (for immediate release) Long time 'orphan computer' collector,
raconteur, bon-vivant, and All-Around Swell Guy Sellam Ismail today
reported that, after climbing to the very top of the sprawling 10-meter
tall mountain of s.......tuff in his backwoods cyber-reclamation facility
to take the photographs demanded by the EPA and the Berkeley Siesmological
Department, he noticed an uncanny, some might say prophetically eery,
likeness of the ancient Sumerian God of Accountants and Calulators -
'Abbaquus Qiipoo' when the photos were downloaded and heavily
Photoshopped.

   Realizing the awesome portents of this wildly magical revelation, the
wily entrpreneur immdiately did the only thing concievable in this
situation: he put the entire collection, as it is, on eBay, with a
starting bid of US$1.5Bn, and No Reserve.

   "Well, fuck!" says Ismail with characteristic candor. "If some
incredibly stupid bitch in Florida can auction off a crummy goddam
*sandwich* in the name of God and the Holy Roman Church, then I say 'get
the fuck outa my way' because I'm at least two orders of magnitude more
K3WL in every way than she is, or her fucked-up nasty old bitten-off
schiesse grilled cheese!!"

  When asked how a potentially successful bidder would essay to move the
entire collection with out disturbing the critical arrangement of
cabinets and monitors and cast-off impact printers, Ismail replied:
"Like I even give a fuck?? I'll already be on a jet to my own private
Island, and they can bomb the goddam shit, for all I care.."

  Any last words for our audience, Sellam?

  "Jeeeezus Aitch Kreist do I love eBay!!! Now where's my goddamn Taser? I
gotta hot date tonight..."



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