Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]



This is an archived forum, so it is here for read-only purposes only. We are not accepting new members and members cannot post any longer. Members can, however, access their old private messages. Strawberry Fields was open from 2006 until 2011. There is a Strawberry Fields Beatles Forum on Facebook. If you are registered with Facebook, join us at the group there!

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
$1350 for a corn flake?
Topic Started: Mar 22 2008, 12:55 PM (371 Views)
Bill
Member Avatar

http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepa...ubcat=&pageid=1

Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

This is the kind of thing that makes me despair for civilisation. <_<
Put a puppet on it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

I like fun, quirky, often pointless things but that's just too much.
Quote Post Goto Top
 
ohnotjimagain
Member Avatar

Bill
Mar 22 2008, 12:55 PM
http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepa...ubcat=&pageid=1

Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

This is the kind of thing that makes me despair for civilisation. <_<

I agree with you Bill.
With every mistake we must surely be learning.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Old Brown Shoe
Member Avatar

I agree also Bill. :o
Rest in Peace Mom!!!!4/7/38-2/8/09 I Miss You!!!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

:huh: That is ridiculas, unless you are owner of the flake, there are people silly enough to pay that kind of money for a flake. I saw an interview where the one sister said she wants to go to Disney World/land. I am happy for her. Tell Mickey Mouse I said "Hello".
Quote Post Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

I'm happy for them, too. Envious, in fact. People constantly demonstrate how easy it is to make money off wacky ideas these days. Where's my thousand bucks hiding, I wonder.
Quote Post Goto Top
 
Bill
Member Avatar

Yes, well if there's one born every minute, why not be the one taking advantage of it?

Perhaps I'm over analysing it, but to me there's something very fall-of-Rome about this kind of thing.
Put a puppet on it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Aimee Wilbury
STOP CHANGING THIS ADMINS
Am I the only one who finds it just hilarious? :lol:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
fab4fan
Member Avatar
Caretaker
Just think how its value will skyrocket when the senator from Illinois becomes president. What a great investment.

:P
Mnisthiti mou Kurie!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sci-Fi/Macca Fan
Member Avatar
I'm goin' down to Junior's Farm!
Well, if it was the same corn flake in "I Am The Walrus" I could see..but since that's not the case, this is kind of silly.
Visit my blog of album reviews and anything else I can think to put on it here!
Please listen to my podcast at Vintage Clothes Radio
Latest podcast: Ringo Starr's Apple Albums, 1970-1974

Do you like worms?

Posted Image

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Aimee Wilbury
STOP CHANGING THIS ADMINS
I once tried to sit on a corn flake, but it turned to powder. :blink:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

I think we shouldn't care about what people do with their money. It's their money not yours. If they want to spend on silly things,it's their life and problem.

What makes me despair for civilisation is when people care about what others do. Was that a crime? It's an absurd, but it doesn't affect us at all.

And after all, people come full of reason talking about democracy and the live and let live.
Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mia Culpa
Member Avatar
This space intentionally left blank.
Message boards that don't express outrage over things that have nothing to do with them are doomed to extinction.

I agree that it's silly. It's not like it looked like Paul and Heather. How much would people pay for that?
If you read my posts backward there's evidence that Paul is dead.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Bill
Member Avatar

I'm aware of the irony that this thread is as pointless as trivial as the topic it's discussing. ;) Of course it's none of my business what people do with their hard-earned and if these kids can make a buck by convincing someone to pay that much for one corn flake, then good luck to them. It does seem a somewhat sad reflection on what people value though.
Put a puppet on it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
fab4fan
Member Avatar
Caretaker
I don't know about you guys but I'm putting together 50 cornflakes in the shape of the USA. :P

:devil:

Which reminds me of the blonde joke when she called her friends over to help her with a jigsaw puzzle. She said it was a puzzle of a rooster. Her friends found a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

Posted Image
Mnisthiti mou Kurie!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
FamousGroupie
Member Avatar
Obsessive Saddo Fangirl
Mia Culpa
Mar 24 2008, 01:25 PM
I agree that it's silly. It's not like it looked like Paul and Heather. How much would people pay for that?

25 million pounds.
I don't believe in Bondi. I don't believe in rugby league. I believe in Yoko, John Lennon, the Lost Weekend and me.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
temptresss
Member Avatar

can you believe it? and yesterday when i poured out my frosted flakes, i ALSO found one. i think mine is worth more coz it's Illinois in Winter...nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

again?

DAMN!!!
Quote Post Goto Top
 
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Free Forums with no limits on posts or members.
Learn More · Sign-up Now
« Previous Topic · Things We Said Today · Next Topic »
Add Reply


"Treasure these few words"