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December 6, 2004
For Sale: Apparition Apprehension
Grilled cheese sandwich, a plate from the Titanic, a ghost of a grandfather--these elements only have one thing in common, and it has nothing to do with a joke about a bar or an urban legend. They've been sold for thousands of dollars on Ebay.
Most Ebay auction items are "going, going... gone" to the highest bidder, but this one's already gone; well, dead, actually.
Can you auction a ghost?! This mother is trying to alleviate her son's fears, because he told her he was frightened of his grandfather's ghost. What an interesting way to assuage a fear. Hm, this could conjure more phantom fears in the youth of today...
(I can see it now--psychologists will experience a new purported pop culture-propagated phenomenon with throngs of children thrown into therapy for their apparition apprehension...)
This is right up there on the list of the strangest things sold on Ebay: the grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary,
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the porcelain plate from the Titanic... and now something that's not even Earth-bound. Hmm, gives a whole new meaning to the old phrase that "you can't take it with you...." This is international news, people. Wow...
So what sort of anomaly will be sold on Ebay to top this one?
Could this be the new get-rich-quick scheme in America?
*shrug*
Whatever happens, I know that I'm going to keep my eyes peeled: sell my Elvis in the eggplant, barter for the gastrointestinal wonder-pioneer: the tiniest ship-in-a-bottle, the S.S. MicroEss; cat litter formed like King Tut's sarcophagus... who knows...
If nothing more, I suppose all this nonsense could change long perceived perceptions of everday items. Now what did I do with that Hershey bar wrapper that could have been mistaken for the Torah? (Pocket version, of course.)
Posted by KarissaKilgore at December 6, 2004 9:16 PM
Comments
Cheese n rice! That's nothing but moldy old bread!
Posted by: Neha at December 6, 2004 10:59 PM
Danny once found a Hot Pocket Crisper Sleeve on ebay, and it was going for over three hundred dollars... and we don't know why.
Posted by: Mike Rubino at December 7, 2004 12:45 AM
I wonder what sort of junk we could come up with at SHU to auction on Ebay--we could donate the cash to a charity or something... : D
Posted by: Karissa at December 7, 2004 9:30 AM
Maybe she should be searching on Ebay for some non-Halloween makeup. Egads!
Posted by: Donna at December 7, 2004 11:06 PM
No kidding... even fire-engine red is better than black lipstick! lol... I'm still hunting about my house trying to get something worthy of auctioning.
What do you think of a half-full gallon of milk with a dent near the top that resembles Darth Vader?
Posted by: Karissa at December 8, 2004 10:03 AM