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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (146)	8/15/2000 5:16:46 PM
From: ms.smartest.person	Respond to of 307

COMMON ON-LINE AUCTIONS TERMS (humor?) USED IN THE COMPUTER COMMUNITY This is a list translating those On-line Auction Terms (humor?) you see in cyberspace messages. Much of it is based on a file called CISexp.doc compiled by Josh Mandel. That file included earlier files by James Bach & Joan Friedman. Other contributors since are: Sally Neuman, Neil Rubenking, Orville Fudpucker, Dave Konkel, William Crockett, and Rey Barry. On-line Auction Terms (humor?) ADORABLE Too tacky to be kitsch ACTUAL SHIPPING CHARGE You'll pay every last dime including the parking meter at the PO ANCIENT My grandmother owned it ANTIQUE My mother owned it BEAUTIFUL If you think rust is art BRILLIANT SHINE My buffer really did a number on this CHECK MY FEEDBACK All my Negs are on other accounts CIVIL WAR Made in India last month (India is always in civil war) COLLECTIBLE I have WAY too many CUTE Butt-Ugly CLEAN PER EBAY I wore these panties on a hot date DON'T MISS THIS ONE! Somebody PLEASE buy it EXCEPTIONAL Has everything except what you hoped FABULOUS This auction required a totally imaginative description FINE New paint didn't hide the glue joints GREAT CONDITION The dog seldom used it for a chew toy GREAT CONDITION FOR SOMETHING THIS OLD Barely recognizeable GREAT ITEM! Every customer in the shop handles it; no one buys HTF - Hard to Find There were only 3 others for sale when I posted the auction HOT! I shilled this item with my 30 bogus registrations I WAS TOLD THIS IS ... No one bid when I said what it really was L@@K This item has nothing going for it (see MUST SEE) LE - Limited Edition Only 4 million before they stopped numbering them MIB Mashed In Box MINT Meticulously cleaned NEAR MINT Wouldn't quite clean-up MUST SEE This item has nothing going for it (see L@@K) NICE Dumping it because I got a much better one for my collection NR No Reserve. I used a whopping opening bid instead NOS New Old Stock is often Nasty Old Schlock OLD Useless then, useless now (See VERY OLD) ONE OF A KIND I have no idea what this is PATINA Rust never sleeps (see WONDERFUL PATINA) PERFECT It is for all I know; I've never seen another PRIMATIVE Untalented, unskilled, pre-school art PRISTINE All remnants of mouse feces came off in the washer RARE Site search found only 2 others for sale when I posted the auction STUNNING Garish SUPER RARE Site search of current auctions found no others VERY OLD Been useless for generations (see OLD) VERY RARE Site search found only 1 other for sale when I posted the auction WONDERFUL PATINA I polished the rust (see PATINA) SHELF PIECE Damage visible on one side only UNBELIEVABLE The description doesn't fit my item in any way UNIQUE Site search of current and completed auctions found no others UNUSUAL Site search found only 4 others for sale when I posted the auction VINTAGE Made way, way back in the 1980s when I was born WONDERFUL You'll forever wonder why WOW!!! I'm really desperate to dump this freewarehof.org