Elizabeth Louten

[Plane]

What you'll likely get in response Plane is 2-fold rationalization
1) that Palin isn't the President, so that supposedly makes the ridicule ok
2) that Palin is somehow dumb, and thus justifiably brings about the ridicule.  Even if its aimed at her children

I'll sit back and watch

Sara Palin gets such a large amount of attention because she is seen as a real contender.

I Can't name all the recent Libertarian candidates, they didn't draw much attention because it was assumed from the first that they were not serious contenders.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Sarah Palin is not any sort of serious contender for anything.  There is ZERO chance they would allow her to get the nomination.
Who needs someone who just up and quits, rather than finishing her term?

[sirs]

Send Palin money so she can run for president. That would be amusing.

Not even remotely addressing the point now, is it     

[Xavier_Onassis]

You are the clown that brought up Sarah Stupid Palin. Live with it.

[sirs]

I brought up the double standard, that you apparently embrace.  It had nothing to do with trying to get her to run, Professor Deflection

[kimba1]

Not sure it's a double standard at all . Is the daughter in question a minor? It was soo long ago for me i totally forget the details.

I do remember sarah defending. The younger daughter but it turned out it was a comment toward the older  and  sarah's response quite confusing since it was actually a compliment

[Plane]

Is the daughter in question a minor?

   That does make a difference.
   I remember Billy Carter, who really suffered because he was poorly equipped to be a public figure.
   Are adults fair game?

[kimba1]

as I said before this is an issue of political polarizations. meaning nothing the presidential daughters do will be good enough to the point any non-amish act will be a scandal. ex. the bar hopping dresses and teenagers being bored.

goodthing no one found out what music they hear. if it`s anything non-classical it`ll probly be connected to gangsta rap

[Plane]

  Privacy is important to people that haven't got much of it.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I passed up an opportunity to purchase an unopened can of Billy Beer at a yard sale last month.

Bunny Yeager died in May, and I got some interesting stuff at her yard sale, though. A set of silver plated iced tea spoons, some office supplies and blank notebooks and some interesting costume jewelry: a bracelet, a couple of pairs of earrings

Bunny Yeager was the photographer who took most of the famous shots of Betty Paige. She also shot a lot of Playboy centerfolds from the 50's to the 80's.

She was a close personal friend of  Betty Paige, and was once quite a dish.  If the clothing in her sale was any indication she seems to have ballooned consideably in her later years. Her manager was running the sale.

I bet that an unopened can of Billy Beer might be worth $1000 on Antique Roadshow. Bthen, I imagine that would get you a couple of burgers by then.

[Plane]

I bet that an unopened can of Billy Beer might be worth $1000 on Antique Roadshow. Bthen, I imagine that would get you a couple of burgers by then.

Last I looked , Billy Beer is not yet rare enough to be a rare and valuable collectable, and canned beer that old isn't likely to be good beer either.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/billy-beer

No, pretty reasonable , but twice what I remember a few years ago nonetheless.

I suppose that if I had bought a lot of these a few years ago I would have doubled my money now.

Or by contributing to the scarcity perhaps even more.

Hmmmm....


Too bad I spent all the discretionary budget on lotto.

[kimba1]

 I remember bunny yeager. She looked great and it totally made sense she did well as a photographer. It's not like she had any competition in the safe to pose nude market.

[Plane]

http://www.bunnyyeager.net/


She liked Cheetahs.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I watch Antique Roadshow from time to time, and some of the nostalgia stuff is incredibly ugly. The experts fawn all over it and nothing that has a high market value is ever called "ugly". Of course, they have a lot of cool-looking stuff as well.

I like to collect small carvings, souvenirs from before when they were all made in the Orient. I have a couple of pewter Viking ships from Norway and a rigged three master someone made as a souvenir in the Gaspé peninsula. I only buy what looks interesting to me, and I never pay a lot.  The latest was a handcarved statue of Paraguayan president Francisco Solano López, who declared a war on Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and fought for the next four years, until 1871, when they were down to using wooden lances, slingshots and bows and arrows.  His dying words were "Yo muero con mi patria." I die with my country. Strangely, he is considered a great hero and is the most prominent face on the money.

Paraguay continued to exist, because, like Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil both wanted to take over and neither wanted to fight a war over them.

Eventually, Billy Beer will be a collector item. If you had Andrew Jackson's jockstrap,  Jefferson Davis's spitoon, or Alexander Hamilton's truss, those would also be "collectible" of immense value to a few wealthy collectors.

I once heard a tale of some Mexican in Chihuahua who offered a tourist a unique collection: the three skulls of Pancho Villa. One when he was a child, another when he was a young man, and the last one, with bullet holes, from when he was assassinated.  It would be fun to bring those to the Antiques Roadshow.