What is the best or most expensive card you have ever pulled?

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[frd]

Unfortunately we stopped at 2! Our kids are the best looking 8 & 9-year-olds on the planet (Every parent MUST say that, or they are evil!) Personally, I wanted 3: 1 of each   LOL   Congratulations on having 6. In this day and age (as expensive as they can be), that is a real marvel. I salute you   Is your husband already bald? I know I would be   I am the last born of 7 (there are only 5 remaining - including me). By the way, I just woke up from a 7-hour slumber (5:15 am to 12:30 pm). By now, most of the forum members ar getting ready to go to sleep   That was supposed to be a yawn, I know it is a smiley face, but it is the closest thing to a yawn LOL Talk to you all soon,
frd

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Personally, I wanted 3: 1 of each  

Please define the 3 types

[mcgonagall]

Girl child  Boy child  and wonderful fantastic brilliant child

Thank you for the complaint unfortunately it doesn't afford us alot of money for card collecting but we are getting there.

you can see a photo of 3 of my kids in the photo section.
We are always ahead Because I am in Perth Australia.
Have your kids tried all the harry potter lollies I sent some to ferd and and she is addicted lol

Box on the way to you FTY on friday.

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Cheers mcgonagall...  

[frd]

    Hey Ferdinand...the three types is a joke my best friend & I have shared going back 20 years - 1 boy, 1 girl & 1 undefined (it is meant only as a joke). We in America have a warped sense of humour. Although, I admit to sometimes not getting jokes from across the ponds (I am now including Australia as a pond-jump away)!

    Hey Mcgonagall, who is the "complaint" remark meant for? Hopefully not me  :'( Plus, who were can I find "lollies"? What are "lollies"?

[ferdinand_the_yak]

LOL, frd I think what mcgoangall meant was 'compliment'

Okie dokie, a bit of cross-cultural translation required here:
lollies = candy for those of you in the States

I was in LA last year and asked where the bathroom was at a diner (I love those places we don't have them here in Aus) and got a blank stare. Realised my mistake and asked for the restroom

[beckham1]

I was in LA last year and asked where the bathroom was at a diner (I love those places we don't have them here in Aus) and got a blank stare. Realised my mistake and asked for the restroom

Are you serious, Bathroom is a common term (in fact I would say most people say bathroom).  Did the person speak English?  
Now if you would have said WC or Watercloset or Lou (sp) then I could understand the confusion.  But bathroom - that person probably didn't speak English, after all you were in California, were English is like the 2nd or 3rd language.
Abla Espanole (sp)

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Dead serious

Yeah, it does sound strange, maybe they were picturing a shower, toilet and bathtub kind of bathroom? Thats all I can think of. WC/watercloset? While I have heard of that because I read alot of English literature, we never use that term in Australia

[frd]

Hey Ferdinand,
   beckham1 is right about the language thing here in California. Did the person understand when you asked to use the restroom? You may have been what I like calling "duped"! The person may just have been intrigued by the dialect of your English, and wanted to hear you speak more of it. I know I personally like to here accents that are foreign to me. Good conversation piece if you ask me. Do you think Americans have the foreign sounding accent?  

[frd]

Oh and another thing, Ferdinand, I live in Southern California, and I will intentionally do my best to keep out of LA. I here there are nice "parts" of the city, but I like to stick to the "low country".

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Hmmm... did not think of that! Maybe they were just dense

Frd, I was only in the US for a week, and spent all of my time in LA. It was fun and a great experience, but lets just say that I prefer Sydney to LA any day! I am not generalising that all of California and certainly not all the States is like that as whenever I tell American people that I went there I get an immediate response of 'Please don't think all of the US is like that!!!'

Yes, you certainly have the accent thing going! Some more preferable to others - no offence, but some are very annoying and some are totally and utterly charming. I hope I am not insulting anyone, but I offer this - we may have in Oz the most annoying accent in the world - that of those people that speak like Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter LOL

[Roz]

Lou (sp)

You mean Loo!

I hope it's not as in Waterloo

Anyway we don't strictly use the term WC here anymore but sometimes it can be the labels on the doors if you need them!

[mcgonagall]

I did mean compliment was having a bad typing day.


Accent like steve irwan no way no how eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww

the lolies i meant where licorice wand whizzbees fizzies and every flavour beans lol

I friend of mine in kentucky has the most fantastic accent we got together on line with microphone one night it was really cool

Maybe one day we could all do that here get as many online as possible and chat via mics it would be cool to hear everyone lol

[frd]

Hey everyone,
   Ferdinand - I must admit there are lots of accents in the U.S., most being determined by the region the person lives in (New York accents as heard in movies such as the Godfather, Southern accents as heard in Western-type movies & no accent as heard in California-located movies). I have to admit that I do not believe I have an accent, but you may say other-wise. As for Steve Irwin, I don't believe all Americans are as dense to believe "he" speaks for all of Oz  
   Mcgonagall - if you want to talk about "lollies", Americans have more than their share of sweets   Just look at all the reports, Americans are getting heavier every year.  
   

[frd]

By the way -
   When asked "What is the best or most expensive card you have ever pulled?", is this referring only to the HP series, or all cards in general? If it includes all cards, then I have a doozy for you all! When I was stationed in Europe back in 1990 to 1997, I bought a case of cards for the Upper Deck SP Football inaugural set back in 1995, I pulled 2 Joe Montana autographs in consecutive packs (they were supposed to be inserted at a rate of 1 in "think" 435 packs). I opened 3 boxes & sold the rest a trade shows. I traded both of the Montana Autographs for a leg & an arm (1 for the leg & 1 for the arm   LOL)Shortly after, I gave up trading Sports cards to dedicate myself to my true calling "Non-Sports"  

[beckham1]

Oh, Joe Montana - that was a heart attack pull back then (I am a self proclaimed sports card junkie).   Auto cards were few and far between back then, that must have booked for like $1000 or so.  

Now you could pick up a Montana auto for like $40 I think!

That would be like pulling a Gretzky back in the day!
My first ever memorabilia card was a Mario Lemiuex jersey emblem that booked for $800 at the time (I still have it) and was 1:3000 packs ($25) box.  That is what got me hooked and half of my house value later I have  a room full of cards!

I wish I could get rid of the ones I don't want to keep faster than I can buy them, but no time.

[beckham1]

Don't know if anyone has seen the card set yet but upper deck released a product called US History (I know no one outside the US would care) it features rare cut signatures (like signatures on a letter ((of dead people only)) cut and pasted on a card).

Many of them are presidents and famous history figures.   I haven't been able to find the final list but if I can remember I think there were going to be 1 "cut signature" of 28 different people like Albert Enstien, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

Those cards would probably get at least $10,000 each on ebay (at least).
that would be a nice card (I did order one box last week) keeping my fingers crossed may never post again move to hawaii retire...........what $10,000 of LOTR boxes and HP POA and Star Wars Heritage.... sounds like a better idea!

[Roz]

Don't know if anyone has seen the card set yet but upper deck released a product called US History (I know no one outside the US would care)

That's not strictly true... I was wondering about the base set

[frd]

Hey Beckham1 (and anyone else interested),
   try this site for the checklist on the "History of the United States" you mentioned. As a matter of fact, if you go to this page, you can read all about Jeff Allender's House of Checklists. If a list is not available, and you have information on it, Jeff would probably post it to the sitte giving YOU all the credit for the details of whichever set you provided information on!    

[frd]

Oops,  
Forgot to list the sites:
History of the United States:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/allender/histofus.htm

Jeff Allender's House of Checklists index page:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/allender/jachlist.htm