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2012/11/08 00:31:09
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/11/08 01:39:41
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
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2012/11/08 01:46:29
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/11/08 01:48:21
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
If you can buy 16 lbs of corkscrews for $8, and you can sell a single corkscrew for $8.....
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2012/11/08 02:28:15
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Lordhat wrote: If you can buy 16 lbs of corkscrews for $8, and you can sell a single corkscrew for $8.....
When you put it that way, maybe I should start selling screws.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2012/11/08 02:33:15
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Auctions are really about potential. I personally cant do squat with 16lbs of corkscrews but I'm sure someone could make a piece of modern art or simply sell them at a profit. Just this week I bought a lot of machines that look like junk to most people for about $300 (driveby gloat) Each one is easily worth 10x that new and at least 5x that in used, operational condition. My wife see's 1500lbs of rusty metal and I see a new machine I could never afford for my shop and enough money to pay the bills for a couple months.
Really I started this thread because I hate all things TSA and the auction just set me off.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/11/08 02:33:20
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Lordhat wrote: If you can buy 16 lbs of corkscrews for $8, and you can sell a single corkscrew for $8.....
Yeah, but how do you resell this? I know little about eBay and such and such, but would corkscrew be on high demand?
Swap meets and flea markets. Linda's grandparents sell old handtools and such (not that old just rusted) to hipster types who want some thing vintage for $2-10. They pick them up at yard sales for change. I'm sure if you got something like this for say 2-15cents ea and sold them for 25-50 and sold in volume you could turn a profit...I mean I wouldn't but.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/11/08 03:02:35
Subject: Re:Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Ma55ter_fett wrote: Seems like a weapon that a high class bond villain would have... maybe one of those hot lady villains.
"Oh James *Takes out corkscrew* I'm going to screw your brains out!"
*Hot villainess lunges at 007, but Bond grabs an unopened bottle of champagne and shoots her with the cork.*
*Bond looks at her lifeless body*
“My dear, you’ve just been corked.”
*Bond turns to the bewildered accomplice, hands him the bottle, then glances back at the body*
"I'd put it on ice if I were you."
*Bond smiles at the accomplice and walks out*
Or maybe not...
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2012/11/08 03:20:56
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/11/08 03:39:08
Subject: Re:Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
After this election he might make a good profit with all the whi...eerrr...wine drinking going on
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2012/11/08 05:16:52
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
To be fair (bit of a ad-hoc calc) this is what I reckon:
ASSUMPTIONS:
average corkscrew weighs 5 ounces (calculated based on weight of a pen-knife due to similar size and composition
average market value of a 2nd-hand corkscrew is 50cents, based on what you could sell one for at a car boot sale in the UK
16 pounds = 256 ounces
so number of corkscrews = ~51 corkscrews
so thats 51 * 50cents = 2550 cents = $25.50
Cost is $8 so that's $17.50 profit.
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
2012/11/08 10:41:07
Subject: Have you ever wondered what happens when the TSA confiscates your stuff?
Ma55ter_fett wrote:Seems like a weapon that a high class bond villain would have... maybe one of those hot lady villains.
"Oh James *Takes out corkscrew* I'm going to screw your brains out!"
*Hot villainess lunges at 007, but Bond grabs an unopened bottle of champagne and shoots her with the cork.*
*Bond looks at her lifeless body*
“My dear, you’ve just been corked.”
Avatar 720 wrote:
*Bond turns to the bewildered accomplice, hands him the bottle, then glances back at the body*
"I'd put it on ice if I were you."
*Bond smiles at the accomplice and walks out*
Or maybe not...
Still better then Quantum of Solice.
Sadly I'm still stuck on the question of why they had a cork screw to drink champaign...
I kinda suspended my disbelief when a bad guy managed to live perfectly happily in a live volcano
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
