[Zeke]

This thread is gonna get interesting. Somebody come up with a 914 story to save it!

Several years ago, I was at an auction for a restaurant that had gone belly up. They were selling the lights off the walls and the carpets off the floors. When they got to the automactic booze dispenser in the bar, the auctioneer says, "Let's start the bidding off at one hundred dollars, do I have a hundred dollars? Yes! Ok, now 125.............(pause about 5 seconds)..........Sold! One hundred dollars, next item is..................." And the buyer turns out to be one of them (the auction company) because I stayed all the way until the end when people were loading up the goods. Autioneer directs the movers to put the dispenser over in the pile of goods "not sold." The drink system was worth hundreds, if not in the thousands. So it works both ways, inside deals, shills, you name it.

Now let me tell you about the Armenian oriental rug auction in LA.......Naw, I'll save it. Just figure, "goat rope.'