Sunday, December 30, 2007

You Paid What? Basketball cards

A 1986 Fleer Basketball Starter Set sold for $9,985.

Other recent sales:
  1. 1986 Fleer Basketball Card Set $4,287.

  2. 1986 Fleer Maurice Lucas $195

  3. 1986 Fleer Karl Malone $967.

  4. Unopened Fleer Basketball Wax Pack $1,222.

  5. 1986 Fleer Sticker 11 pc sticker set $682 (Bird, Johnson, Jordan, Ewing..)

  6. 1986 Fleer Charles Barkley $857.

  7. 1992 Autographed Wilt Chamberlain card selling for $180. (as of 01-21-06) is from Dacardworld.com, wholesale sports cards and other memorabilla

Currently available for Swap are 16,893 Basketball cards, 2 Autographed Basketballs, and lots more, found atSportsSwapper.com

These buyers truly love the game!

reposted from mashoops hoopla blog

Monday, December 17, 2007

What Do Chingy & Fogelberg Have in Common?

Who is Chingy? I have not got the foggiest. My CP friend did an interview article with the rapper~I read all her articles~and at the bottom of the article there is a box: "You May Also Like...". Dave Matthew's Band Comes Alive, Britney Spears, You Naughty Girl, Musicians in the Military Maintaining Health, the ASCAP's Top Ten Christmas Tunes List? This is the stuff the people who like rappers would be interested in, um...

The last caught my eye: Dan Foleglberg Dies. Recalling an AC article: Britney is Dead!, I thought it another misleading headline; but no Foleglberg did indeed die on Sunday, losing a battle with prostate cancer. That news sent me flying back in time and made me sad.

The song Same Old Lang Syne's last line is "the snow turned into rain" and that is exactly what happened when we left the church after a funeral mass for my father. Used a line from the other song Leader of the Band in one of my 96 Musical Games: "...and papa I don't think I said I love you near enough". Both tunes were popular in the last days of my dad's losing battle with cancer. It started with the prostate.

What Chingy & Folgelberg have in common is they both are (or in Dan's case, was) popular musicians, albeit very different genre's and one lead me back to the other.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Disporte

Friday, May 26, 2006

Etymology tells us "sport" is short for the old English word disporte, which came from Old French, desport, or pleasure, from desporte, to divert. In addition to being a pleasurable diversion, games governed by rules, it can describe a person; a good sport, poor sport, gambler, jester, spoil sport. Spoil Sport? Think that came from my mom, not sure. So, come on, be a jolly, good fella, extravagant benefactor, eh. If your Dad's sporting choices don't include fishing or baseball, um, there are a few basketball related items that will make swell gifts, located on other pages of this site. Perhaps, your Dad is simply not a sporting chap at all, well then, perhaps he's the intellectual type and would like a mug or t-shirt or card that reflects his love of:

If his favorite sport is bending the elbow, perhaps a nice beer stein will do?

You can customize most of the items available from My Zazzle,and you'll also be doing a good deed, lending a hand up, not a handout to a sweet old lady, in dire straits. Thank you so very much, for your time.

Postscript: This post was a cyberbegging effort to entice people to make purchases at My Zazzle. Am not uploading the beer stein and other images to this post. The purpose of this post is that word games. Although I guess everyone is aware that sports are games, I wanted to add non-sports stuff to mashoops; I mean is fishing or golf a sport? Backdating mashoops for this games blog, having no idea what I was gonna do with that dismantled blog.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

3 Things You Should Always Lick

AC had a front page showcase article right up on the top: 10 Things You Should Never Lick. Even before reading it, the eye-catching title begged for an article on 10 Things You Should Always Lick. I read the article, which was rather gross or little boy type of humor. As I started listing my 10 things (lollipops...) my mind took the rebuttal article in a totally different direction. I thought it was a great article and I submitted it for pay~hoping to get equal time, showcased. There was just a small voice in the back of my mind reminding me not to get too hopeful~the AC editors might reject it. But I knew it was a good one.

Imagine my surprise when I got rejected the same day I submitted it. There is usually a two week wait time from submission to offer or rejection, making me doubly disappointed. I published without pay and have had some decent comments about it. I no longer beg family and friends to read my articles, helping to earn me some spare change. I begged on this one, hoping to get so many pageviews the AC editor that rejected might take notice of the article and realize even a lousy $3.00 (lowest pay offered for articles) payout would have been a good investment.

Still beggin' for page views, will you please read it and leave a comment. Pretty please with ice cream on top. Thank you.

3 Things You Should Always Lick

Monday, December 10, 2007

CD Baby



A google search for "lend a hand hear the band" will list this site as one of the top results. Interesting. Some college students in Minnesota want you to "hear the band" for free. All they ask in return is that you "lend a hand" by volunteering for 10 hours of community service.

Interesting also, in the search results, was "CD Baby". Talk about customer service! Just ordered a CD from "CD Baby", so one of life's small ironies, that my site and theirs would come up in what I think would be a very unusual search query. Actually, the "Land a Hand" band's CD is available from "CD Baby".

This sounds like an advertisement, but, I am in no way affiliated with "CD Baby". Customer Service seems sadly lacking now-a-days. When a company goes beyond simply prompt service, and really, really appreciates your business, it is a pleasant surprise. The guys at "CD Baby" are also witty and funny. Check them out!

California Homeless


Posted on Sunday, Apr 1, 2007 at gypsywoman website My header subtitle was "Lend a hand up, not a hand out". When I checked my stats I was getting a lot of 20 second visitors. The search term that was bringing them to my site was "lend a hand, hear the band". No longer recall if I made my purchase at CD Baby before or after finding the site listed in search results. That was a while ago, so do not know what search results will be today. Um, think I will go play my google search game...

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Wassup?

Keep in touch the old fashioned way with a postcard from My Zazzle.