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		| Don't smear someone because he doesn't "get it". | 
	 
		| By Mr F - 03/08/2002 3:13:35 PM; IP 68.80.223.14 | 
	 
		
  
  
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       Alan's position is understandable. This kind of 
      stuff has value only to a select few. It looks very  odd 
      to outsiders, when they see us carrying on over nothing more than a pile 
      of old photocopies. After all, collectors don't refer to paper 
      goods as ephemera* for nothing. 
      And, frankly - I like       it 
      that way. For the past couple decades, I've bought tons of stuff from 
      owners who thought it was worthless....or very nearly so. Some of them 
      thought it so peculiar for me to buy their old "junk" that they would not 
      have been surprised had I a grown a third eyeball, right on the spot. 
      ;-) 
      Mr F 
      *New Latin, from Greek ephEmera, neuter 
      plural of ephEmeros Date: 1751 1 : something of 
      no lasting significance -- usually used in plural 2 ephemera 
      plural : collectibles (as posters, broadsides, and tickets) not 
      intended to have lasting 
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