Hijack me
 

I have never been hijacked, but this is not about me.

The forum needs an outlet for hijackers it seems, so please limit your hijacking to this thread. You may apologize to a prior poster for hijacking the thread, but it is not necessary and you may be held in contempt for doing so.

Most importantly do not forget to change the subject every time you post. If you want to respond to prior content in another thread, please use the PM system. If you demand recognition for such an act, just post "PM sent". It's that simple.

Every thread needs a card so I will get that out of the way right now.

https://www.collectorfocus.com/image...oester-burkett

Current Topic - I'm opposed to cropdusting

Does changing Cards Count as "Hijacking the Thread"?

This Card seems more appropriate only because it is easier to Hijack when you look mean and hold a bat

Here is a picture of by far the greatest athlete of all time,Žydrūnas Savickas. He is Jordan. Ruth, Pele, and any other greats rolled into one.

The picture is him pressing the Austrian Oak over his head at the Arnold Classic. He did 4 repetitions when not a single other of the best strongmen on the planet could even do it once.

He is now 46 and semi retired but will be at the Shaw Classic in a couple months. I will also be there screaming like a little kid for one of my idols.

Mustard is a superior condiment to mayonnaise. #Mustard2024

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Cats (not the musical)...
 

Einstein was much more responsible for developing what has come to be known as the ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ thought experiment than frickin' Schrödinger was!!!!

So then she says "what the F time did you leave the party"?

Does anyone else who rescues feral cats find that they have to sell their cards to keep doing so?

You have your hands full.

We have 2 at 11 months now and they keep me hopping for the most part!

Couldn't imagine 9, if that's all of them, but good on you for rescuing them. :)

More cats, please.

My Grandkidds...
 

...are adorable.

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Took my kid to her college orientation yesterday. As a freshman, her "dorm" is actually a 4-BR, 2 BA apartment with full kitchen! And it's an on-campus dorm!

She's spoiled rotten.

Orlando.

Named after the great "Baby Bull" himself since he is currently 90 lbs and still growing.
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How about Larry Berra, USN, in World War II. He fitted out a spare landing craft with .50 cal machine guns, rounded up a crew, and went in to several beaches trying to take out as many German pill boxes and machine gun nests as he could. Got wounded, Purple Heart. Nothing funny about it. He did not like talking about it.

That's a darned nice Orlando Cepeda card, Phil

That's a darned nice pal you have there, too

I've read a couple of Berra's biographies but they have very little on his war years. I found an MLB.com article relating his war service after reading this: https://www.mlb.com/news/yogi-berra-...oo/c-151195348. A lot of the players in the armed forces didn't really have to fight and just did promotional work for Uncle Sam or played games on bases far behind the lines. Yogi clearly wasn't one of them.

Thanks James,
He's a handful but worth it. Great Berra story, I never knew about that, new found respect for the guy.

Yogi! Great man.

Folks, can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stay on topic?!?!
 

So, how do ya'll feel about new gun laws?

Who was the greatest lefty of all time?

Spahnie, of course.

Card for sale
 

email me your best offer

Your car warranty is about to expire

Those callers are so stupid. Last one that called me I had to give them my credit card number twice before they got it correct.;):D

This one time, in band camp ...

Has anyone else ever noticed the creased cards are cheaper, or am I a genius?

Brings up a good point. Why is a GU bat that is "pounded" with ball and stitch marks, tape and pine tar, graded a 10, while a baseball card that shows game use (from being flipped constantly, or put between bicycle spokes, or taped into an album) is graded Poor?

I'm thinking a card grading company should come along and grade cards the same way GU stuff is graded. Cards showing good use should get the highest grades, while pristine, mint unused cards should get the lowest grades associated with "game ready" examples.

A crease on a card = a crack on a bat, or appropriate wear on a jersey.

Awesome grandkids Bob.

Thank you, Phil. They have stolen my heart. They were born a month apart last summer. We take care of Ellis Rose several days each week, splitting the duty with her other grandmom.

We haven't been able to travel to meet Leo in person but that changes in July when we head up to Evanston for his first birthday. We are really excited about that trip.

Hijack - Herbie Mann 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8k-3KJglFU

My Grandfather had a green wheelbarrow.

John Deere

or

Dear John

Freedom isn't free. And you don't throw in your buck o' five, who will?

Would a 30 round magazine for my shotgun be large enough to protect all my vintage altered cards in PSA slabs form bigfoot and the aliens when they attack?

Also could someone please explain Ebays authenticity program? From all the posts on the main page it must be very very complicated.

Every thread needs a vintage cart

HIJACK ALERT!

This goes really nice with baseball card sorting:

https://archive.org/details/pink_flo...oon-vinyl-1973

ISO: purple stickers
 

Looking for purple stickers to place directly on raw ungraded cards.

Particularly if you take Brain Damage seriously.:eek:

I am sure Mathew could help you out.:D:D:D

Kitties
 

Love the kitties. Haven't had to sell cards yet.

More kitties
 

The only thing better than some kitties is more kitties.

Yogi
 

Yogi was my favorite player when I was a kid. I heard he had been at D-Day, but I didn't know the details.
Most people know this, but he was a player on 10 World Series winning teams. That's the all-time record. Joe DiMaggio was second with 9.

There are three current MLB players named Luis Garcia. Name the one with highest career WAR.

Winner receives a fractional share of a Luis Garcia NFT, as soon as it passes TP authentication.

Luis Garcia!

We have a winner! I guess I made that too easy...

No you didn’t, I just used Google to cheat and find the answer so I could look brilliant and be a winner.

1975 Topps #407 Herb Washington
Position: Pinch Runner

I am at the age now where my memory is getting shorter and my pees are getting longer.

Nevermind, I get it now :o.

I really did not expect this much diverse, useful information to surface in this thread.


I would therefore suggest a new category for Net54, -----------NFT--------

Never Focused Threads


When you hijack, anything goes

The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I'm not a great romancer
I know that I'm bound to answer
When you propose
Anything goes

I love being retired. Hardest choice I make all day is which beer to enjoy
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Cheap fun...

Why are "raze" and "raise" pronounced the same?

I would think it could cause a serious snafu at construction sites, if the workers mis-heard:

"All right, fellows, let's get busy and raise this building!"

or

"All right fellows, let's raze this building!"

90s computer games
 

if any of you played pc games in the 90s, here is a site that has some of the more popular ones. List of games in the tool bar on the right side of the screen. Click the game and then half way down you'll see "run in browser". Only bad thing is if you close the browser accidentally you have to start all over again haha.

https://www.freegameempire.com/

Railroad Tycoon Deluxe and Civilization were two of my favorites. Addicting!

I’ve spent a not insignificant amount of life playing Civilization. This is awesome

Two of my favorites. My favorite pinky ring that I have had since the early 90s. Also my favorite Wade Boggs baseball bat. I got this from the estate of famous drag racer Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen.

I had dinner with Miss America Heather French back in 2000 when she had the title.
She didn't eat her peas.

Love these pics. I mainly had cats growing up but we also had a couple dogs.
Regardless, I love animals and always will.

1. I took a piss with Evel Kinevel at a bar in Montana.

2. I had a drinking contest with Don Larsen when I was 21 at a bar in California (he won).

3. I got hammered with Mickey Dolenz at a bar which I owned (I won).

4. I got pass out drunk with Blues great Jimmy Rogers in a Chicago hotel room. (for those into Blues pictured from left to right in the photo are James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy, Muddy Waters, and Otis Spann).

I can keep going but I think we've established a trend here...
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No Toejam and Earl??
Wasting my time!

Named What?
 

Utah Jazz is the dumbest sports nickname.
Los Angeles Lakers is close.
MiLB has the best names.

Commanders and Guardians aren’t great names.
The Savannah Bananas and Montgomery Biscuits are good names.

Cal McLish had a really long given name.
Ed Ott didn’t.

1960’s and 70’s hockey cards have players with great names.
Jocelyn Guevermont for example…

I want my MTV

Fact: The greatest alliteration of all time, Musical Lyric category:

"A little old lady got mutilated late last night"
- Warren Zevon

I really did take a leak with Leonard Nimoy at James Doohan's final public appearance. This was a gala event at some hotel in Hollywood. Met and shook hands with all kinds of Star Trek people. Went to the boys room, and just behind me in comes Leonard Nimoy. I looked over at him, he looked at me and said, "Even Vulcans have to pee every now and then".

I was standing in line for ice cream at the Denver Airport when I got hit in the back of my head with a metal object, Hakeem Olajuwon's belt buckle.

I bank and insure with same company. I was already talking/texting with roadside assistance about a tow truck when I receive a call from bank that my account has fraudulent activity. I start getting texts about fraudulent activity. Bank rep needs to confirm my identity and sends me a text and asks me to read the text confirming my identity, which I do; I don't give any other personal information except for reading the text. Supposedly a wire transfer is being stopped. Bank hangs up. An hour later I get a text that the wire transfer was completed. At that point I realized it was fraud. I call bank and they confirm previous rep was not from their company. 9 days later I finally got my money back.

Thief already had my log-in ID, password, address, and other personal information. It was super smooth. And since I was already talking about the tow truck I just immediately let down my guard. I figure they got all my info from another company that was hacked which I use and do automatic payments with. They only needed the second step ID to enter my account.

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When I was working for Houston's Athletic Department he'd call me late at night to see if I'd go get him some fried chicken at a popular chicken joint down the street from campus.

He liked to crash intramural and recreation soccer games on campus. His had the ability to kick a soccer ball harder than anyone I've ever seen.

Boba Fett was a dude in knock off stormtrooper armor who died when a blind guy bumped him and he was too stupid to use his jet pack to fly away from the Sarlaac. Bossk was a cool space lizard. Why is Boba the famous one and not Bossk?

Now that is a darned good question.

Can we please keep the posts on topic? It is rude to those of us who enjoy non-cohesive ramblings.

I've never believed Leon's far-fetched origin story of Net54.

I can see you are a man of culture, sir.

Hijack Man Here.

I was just rifling thru these posts and have decided to say 'UNCLE'

That's U.N.C.L.E.

(and, Yes, the blonde is the guy from N.C.I.S.)

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My God! I haven't thought of this show in decades. Those are some the coolest looking guns ever made.

Best Groucho Marx quotes:

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

The other day, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got there, I'll never know.

At the Circus, Groucho as Loophole:

Whitcomb : Pardon me, Madame, but here are the seating arrangements for your final approval.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Oh, no, Whitcomb. Judge Chinner will sit on my left hand and you

[turning to look at Loophole]

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : will sit on my right hand.

J. Cheever Loophole : How will you eat? Through a tube?

If there is a story please let me know!!
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If there is a story please let me know!!
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If there is a story please let me know!!
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