(imitates Sgt. Schultz) Nothing, NOTHING!

[Stormbringer]

Wanna buy nothing?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2933240866&category=1469

And/or see nothing?

http://www.nothing.net/

:D

[Shell]

someone actually paid $14.50 for nothing?

[Jeff O Rocks]

Shouldn't this be on an INSURANCE website??? You pay..and pay..and pay...for nothing.... :roll: :D

[Turbulence]

Wow. The stupidity of sherpa159 amazes me. I wish I had 14 bucks to burn like that. :beatup:

[AbNormal27]

I sent that auction to some friends with the message "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?" attached to it. I thought the Dairy Queen commercial with the 2 guys singing "A-DOOA-DOOA" to their thick sundaes boggled the mind, but THIS, this takes the cake!

Aaryn

[Stormbringer]

I sent that auction to some friends with the message "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?" attached to it. I thought the Dairy Queen commercial with the 2 guys singing "A-DOOA-DOOA" to their thick sundaes boggled the mind, but THIS, this takes the cake!

Oh man...thankfully, I've yet to see that Dairy Queen ad. The description you gave Aaryn is quite enough! :eek2:

Speaking of stuff that boggles the mind, check out this thing I found a couple of days ago...

http://home.comcast.net/~dwedit/flash/jamezbond.html

I swear it's like something Terry Gilliam and his Monty Python chums would come up with if they reunited today and decided to concoct an anime feature...and as much as I like Monty Python, I don't know if that's good or bad. :crazy: :eek2:

[moonstomper]

there is a 7 inch french fry on ebay as well (hurry, only 6 hours left to bid!)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2937200633&category=1469


or maybe youd like the invisible french fry?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2938366757&category=1469

[Stormbringer]

http://www.wctc.net/~hatch/bigfry.jpg

Is it just me, or does the dude holding the "world's longest french fry" look like a combination of Jeff Smith (Better known as the Frugal Gourmet.) and this guy?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/graphics/bigcat.jpg

As for the auction itself...I'm surprised that E-Bay allows for bidding on foodstuffs, then again, I'm surprised that they allowed bidding on nothing... :crazy:

[Jeff O Rocks]

It is his quest in life to make the first 7 inch french fry??? :roll: :D

He looks like a professor!

[moonstomper]

He looks like a professor!

I was thinking Mad Scientist...hes got crazy eyes :crazy:

[Jeff O Rocks]

He looks like a professor!

I was thinking Mad Scientist...hes got crazy eyes :crazy:

I agree Stompy....I was thinking along those lines...a Nutty Professor! :D ;)

[Stormbringer]

He looks like a professor!

I was thinking Mad Scientist...hes got crazy eyes :crazy:

I could just hear that dude in a press conference about his discovery...

"IT'S FRONKENSTEEN!"

Jeff Smith or not, the guy could definitely pass for Dr. Frankenstein... :crazy: :eek2:

[Turbulence]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2738666915&category=24540
Whoa! Jeff Sanderson! Whalers in 1997!
I could have sworn the 'Canes were in Greensboro in 97...and is Jeff related to Geoff?
What a sham...

Edited: They were in Hartford for the 96-97 season. D'oh!

[Shell]

:crazy: :eek2:

French Fry Is Sold for $200 on eBay
Thu Jul 3, 7:51 AM ET

LA CROSSE, Wis. - A man has sold what he billed as the world's largest french fry for more than $200 on the Internet auction-house eBay.

Simon Holland found the 6 3/4-inch fry during a meal at a Wisconsin Rapids Culver's on June 24. Instead of eating the spud, he immediately froze it and put it up for auction on eBay.

The winning bid — $202.50 from a bidder known only as "Culver's Fan" — was announced Wednesday afternoon. Restaurant owners Greg Giese and Brad Prohl celebrated by giving patrons complimentary pieces of custard cake.

"I could probably write the book, 'How to Sell a French Fry on eBay,'" Holland said, laughing.

The fry's claim as the world's largest has not gone undisputed.

Two restaurant employees at Chips of Wisconsin Rapids found one fry last week that was about 8 inches. On June 29, a second french fry from Wisconsin Rapids that's allegedly longer than 7 inches also went on sale on eBay.

[AbNormal27]

I sent that auction to some friends with the message "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?" attached to it. I thought the Dairy Queen commercial with the 2 guys singing "A-DOOA-DOOA" to their thick sundaes boggled the mind, but THIS, this takes the cake!

Aaryn

For those of you who haven't seen it, here is the commercial I mentioned..............http://www.cs.duke.edu/~kathryn/DQ.mpg

The funniest thing about this is....... they made a second commercial with these 2!

Aaryn

[Shell]

along the same vein..

Much Ado About Nothing at Edinburgh Fringe
Tue Aug 5,10:19 AM ET
By Paul Majendie

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Sit back, relax and watch the play that offers absolutely nothing -- no actors, no props, no sound and no plot.

For The Theater of Relativity has come up with the ultimate nihilistic experience on stage -- a play called "Sweet FA" -- that is the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The problem is that no one is coming to see it.

For an entrance fee of $5, the audience are invited in the early hours of the morning to take their seats in a 142-seat theater set up in a four-star hotel.

And that basically is it.

If you survive a full hour of nothing, then the management refunds half your ticket.

On the first night, six journalists attended, ensuring the play hefty media coverage. On the second night, one journalist turned up and he fell asleep in the lobby before the show started. Despite the publicity, the play has not caught on yet with the theater-going public.

"We will see," said Julian Caddy, venue manager for the British company Sweet Productions which is staging the play.

"Only time will tell if it captures the public's imagination as they drain out of the pubs and clubs."

Composer John Cage "wrote" a piece of silent music in 1952 entitled "Four Minutes and 33 Seconds." Britain's Turner Prize has been won by a room with a light switching off. So what is so absurd about "Sweet FA," argued Caddy.

"It's the play Samuel Beckett (the prize-winning Irish author of "Waiting for Godot") always tried to write but never had the balls to pull off -- no set, no actors, no script, no props...just Sweet FA."

There is nothing pretentious about Caddy. He is vastly amused by the press coverage, clearly thinking you can fool all of the people all of the time with what he billed as the perfect antidote to the noisiest festival in the world.

But members of the Scottish parliament were not amused. "It's just nonsense," said Conservative Phil Gallie.

"I don't think it's art. Art usually indicates that somebody did something," complained independent parliamentarian Margo Macdonald.

Pickings are slim so far but hope springs eternal for Caddy.

Perhaps the madcap Fringe, billed as the world's biggest arts festival, might garland the production with an award?

"I think if the Fringe is about anything, it is about having fun and experimenting," Caddy said. "The beauty of the Fringe is you can do anything you like and, if you choose, nothing at all."

[Jeff O Rocks]

If you survive a full hour of nothing, then the management refunds half your ticket.



Are you allowed to snooze? :D