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Subject: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 28 Jun 06 - 08:22 PM Okay, I'm sure this is against the rules but... ... hey, you all know me... Right??? So in about 3 week's I will have a great 2000 sq.house under roof, with unfinished basement (with bath, however...) The house is situated on the lower 7.6 acreas on my small farm and looks up at the most spectacular view of the Blue Ridge Mountain that anyone will find anywhere... Situated just 9 miles south east of Luray, Va. and two hours to the nation's capitol, this place is a steal at $480,000... Room for horses, gardens or whatever and located in a holler, this property is for someone who likes privacy... AND... Should a Mudcatter refer a buyer to me I will donate 1% to Mudcat which will come down to the largest donation, I'm sure, that Mudcat has ever recieved... House plans at www.archwaypress.com... Plan #4773... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Barry Finn Date: 28 Jun 06 - 08:29 PM Bobert, do you think you could sell me a couple dollars worth? Thanks, I've been looking for some thing to invest my life's savings in & I always wanted to "be in some dark hollar, where the sun don't never shine". Good Luck. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: frogprince Date: 28 Jun 06 - 08:41 PM Thinking of the rain you've just been getting, I would hope that house isn't situated anywhere near the bottom of that holler! |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 28 Jun 06 - 08:44 PM Bobert.... 'once bitten twice shy'... (I only ACT the Fool...) I seem to remember you touting a brilliant Elevated Holiday Home with multi-million dollar views here before, mate... and I don't need a spare bridge either, mate... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jun 06 - 08:50 PM This sounds like a real possibility for the first House of the Setting Sun. Sure you don't want to donate the entire house, Bo? |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Rapparee Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:01 PM Yeah! Donate the house and use it as a tax write-off! (It's not a bad deal at all for the area and the land it's on. And that's a gorgeous part of the country.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:20 PM Like, haha... I can't donate it unless I want to go live in the poor house... Which I don't... But 1% will get a check to Max $4,800... Now that's worth maybe, jus maybe, someone going, "Hey, Ralph... Isn't yer Uncle Ernie lookin' for a secluded place in the Southland to retire???" And like I said, Max wouldn't turn down $4,800... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: bobad Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:33 PM Bobert You may want to try a pitch something like this: "Million dollar view for only $480,000 with new 2000 sq. ft. house thrown in for free." Ya never know, everyone likes something for free. |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: jimmyt Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:39 PM If it just wasn't for all that damn dobro booming up the holler it would be bucolic! grin |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Amos Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:51 PM How're the skeeters out there, Beau-bayer? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 28 Jun 06 - 09:58 PM At 1700 feet, Amos??? Skeeters??? I ain't has a skeeter bite in the year I been here... Got stung on my tummy last week by a danged wasp who figgerated that my shirt would be a nice place to build a new nest... ..but no skeeters... Don't firget , folks... ...$4800 to Max!!! Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Sorcha Date: 28 Jun 06 - 11:44 PM Swamp land for sale next? LOL! (sorry, beaubert) |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: M.Ted Date: 29 Jun 06 - 01:33 AM This is too bizarre a coincidence to pass up--I just finished googling an old friend(he made a lot of money a few years back, and graduated to new and better friends, I guess) and found that he was auctioning off his house with a million dollar view! Then I come back to mudcat, two minutes later, and find Ol Bobert has got the same deal going on--hope you do better than he did, though, he had listed the house for $3.25 million, but when it finally sold, it netted $1.8 million, still a tidy sum(depending, of course, on what you still owe on the property), but coming up $1.5 million dollars short on a deal must hurt just a little bit-- The Other House |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Jun 06 - 04:33 AM Could we take up a collection and buy it as a Mudcat Clubhouse, we could rent it out to FSGW for folk gatherings etc. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Jun 06 - 04:17 PM The jackpot on the Euromillions Lottery is £40million this week... anyone else want to buy a ticket? Bobert - if I win the whole lot, I'll buy the house and set up a branch of the NYCFTS... I've a feeling it would be well populated! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: dwditty Date: 29 Jun 06 - 04:45 PM How far is it from Sperryville? |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: GUEST Date: 29 Jun 06 - 05:10 PM In addition to Bobert as your neighbor look what else you get: * House ages are above state average. * Institutionalized population percentage above state average. * Number of college students significantly below state average. * Population with a bachelor's degree below state average. SEWER - employees = 5 PARK - employee = 3 JUDGE - employee = 0 POLICE- employee = 15 SCHOOL - Parent review from "GreatSchools.net" "Luray High School is desperately in need of being replaced! It is way beyond saving! But that won't happen anytime soon, as the county supervisors have squandered what money there is for new schools and are even considering selling land they ALREADY OWN that was purchased for a consolidated county high school. The Science program is the most appalling -- with no current technological advances in 50 years -- most of the equipment is broken! The 3-story school is un-air-conditioned and stifling. It's not a great learning environment in warm weather. There is too much emphasis on sports and not enough on academics and the arts." |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 29 Jun 06 - 05:45 PM dwdiddy, As crow flies 'bout 15 miles but as the car drives make it about 24 miles and one big ass mountain... GUEST, Yer correct... Page County ain't no Fairfax County an', yeah, the county needs to build possible two new high schools or one big one and it will get done but not with the local Board of Spervisors... Folks are moving into the country, though, with a little more wisdom, vision and education than the folks who grew up here, so it will take some time... But, the people are in general much nicer than the folks either back in Wes Ginny or anywhere in NoVa and the views are spectacular... The house I'm buildin' ain't gonna get bought by some 20 'er 30 somethin's with 2.5 kids... Probably going to be bought by folks in their 50's who ain't got school aged kids and just want to have their privacy, which they will have here in Pine Grove holler, that's fir sure... Lastly, GUEST, yer comments probably ring true in just about any southern rural small town the size of Stanley, Va., where there isn't even one stop light or Luray, where's there's 2 lights... And plus, havin' me as a neighbor ain't all that bad... We keep a tidy farm other than an occasional party with semi loud acoustic music, we are some quiet fo9lks to live 'round... Plus, I keep the driveway in good shape... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 29 Jun 06 - 08:05 PM Bobert, How about snakes, got many? |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 29 Jun 06 - 08:08 PM Snakes, no, Shakes, yes... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 29 Jun 06 - 08:26 PM Ahhhh, you want the truth 'bout the snakes??? Yeah, okay we got a couple or three but not as many as I thought there'd be... Actually, last fall I had some guys workin' fir me and one got a call from his wife... She said that a 4 foot black snake had got stuck in one of them sticky boxes ya' set fir mice and she wanted him to come home and kill it!!! Well, I jumped in and asked if I could have the snake and he looked at me as if I'd lost my mind but black snakes is good so I went with this feller and in 'bout five minutes I'd pried that poor snake off the sticky box and had 'im in a gunny sack and brought him home and let him loose in the barn... Found his shedded skin last week in there so, yeah, I gotta say that I* got at least one snake... Oh yeah, almost forgot that I was in this rock pile last week and a copperhead come out from unner a rock I was about to get and slithered away... He was too purdy to hurt... But, I ain't seen the first snake down on the new house site an' I done benn bush-hoggin' it 'bout every 3 weeks... That's the truth... Deer? Yeah... Fox? Yeah... Racoons and possums? Yeah... A million kinds of bugs? Yeah... But ain't seen no snakes... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 29 Jun 06 - 09:07 PM They just stay up in your barn and rock pile, eh? ROFL! How's the fishing? Is it nearby? What kinds of water fowl do you have? |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 29 Jun 06 - 09:38 PM Well, we got ducks in our run off pond and we got frogs by the hundreds an' there's trout in the Hawksbill Creek which runs at the bottom of the hill... Feller 'caught a 5 pounder jus' the other day... Now I don't want no part of a 5 pound trout, no mame... Prolly a couple thousand, er hunnerd years old and tough as an innertube... But they got a couple nice big lakes where you can catch crapie and bass... The Shenandoah River, however, is going this little problem right now that is unexplained with fish diein'... They'll get it figured out 'cause Page County wants tourists comin' to fish and ya' can't catch a dead fish... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 29 Jun 06 - 10:51 PM Kewl beans....sounds like there's quite a bit of fishing in the area...not good news about the river though. :( How about small streams for fly fishing? See any kayaking going on in any of those larger lakes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: GUEST Date: 29 Jun 06 - 11:04 PM Bobert, let me understand this: So, are you the USA verion of John-frum-Hull? You are trying to sell a house, which you have not finished, and you will not finish, for more than the going rate for the neighborhood? The home is in a ditch (hollow,) draining off your farm, something you call private, but, with a view? The purchase of this home, (house,) ((thing,)) will include you as a neighbor, therefore, a right click of the MC mouse will reveal with a scroll through threads the personality/nature of the new owner's neighbor. ANDY GUMP indeed! Go through a professional real-estate. Pay the full commission. You are over priced for you market location. Most folks, into folk, are not inbreeding and ignorant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 29 Jun 06 - 11:21 PM Ahhhh, yeah, GUEST, you got it 'bout 75% right... No, I'm not going thru a realtor... I'm going thru ForSaleByOwner.com which commits me to 3%, as opposed to 6%, and gets me a MLS listing... What I am offering here is an opportunity to lob of all but 1% so that the buyer will get the best deal... And better yet, should a buyer come forth, since we are just finishing the the basement (2700 blocks worth) and going to get on framing the middle of next week that a potential buyer can come in and put some serious custom tricks into this wonderful house... Now is the time... It will not be listed with ForSaleByOwner.com for another 3 weeks so now is the time to get in on this weonderful opportunity.... BTW, I know all about the real estate game... I have now sold 3 homes without on, though by poor ol' brother owns a real estate company, without one... Saves the buyer and the seller... Lilyfestre, I ain't been to them lakes personally but I have a tenant who is opening an outfitters shop and will be dealing with lots of them folks... It's big 'round these parts... I'm a canoe kinda guy myself with a cooler o' beer an' a fishing rod... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: GUEST Date: 30 Jun 06 - 12:21 AM life is fer enjoyin', not gettin' and workin' an gettin' and workin"...YOu haven't been in a canoe in years, I bet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:07 AM Now, now, now.... Little testy, ain'tcha, GUEST???... Actually, there's nuthin' inherently wrong with workin'... Good fir ya'... Keeps you in the game mentally and physically... And if by doing it you can also keep up with the utterly rediculous cost in health insurance and be able to have some level of comfort from it than, hey... Oh, BTW, how much you want to bet on me not being in my canoe in years??? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:17 PM I went into the source code to see what the link was that didn't work in M.Ted's post (your "ahref" were run together) M.Ted's link. (Pretty house, but they always waste so much space with those incredibly high ceilings). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:22 PM Bobert, Are you a fly fisherman? What kinds of fish do they have in your neck of the woods? Do you catch and release or catch and have dinner? *G* Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:25 PM SRS, I'm thinking with 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 7,200 square feet, space isn't an issue! I will say that we have a cathedral ceiling in our home and the only drawback I can see is that the heat rises in the winter....you have to have ceiling fans on year round. I don't mind the missed space...ours is all tongue and grove...very homey...it gives the house that little something extra special. :) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:25 PM OK, so let me get this straight... The million-dollar view is that I get to look at BOBERT??? Hey, Bobert, I can't see anything wrong with a Mudcat "regular" posting this as a non-music thread. If John Q. Salesquota posted it as a money-making thing, that would be another matter. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: beardedbruce Date: 30 Jun 06 - 03:30 PM Joe- That would be almost enough for him to pay ME for the view.... Actually, that area has some of the best views this side of the Mississippi.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:33 PM Well, well, gol danged well... No, you ain't gonna be lookin' at me and I fir, gosh sakes, ain't gonna be lookin' at you!!! Yeah. lets get that real clear... What you is going to be viewin' from the front of yer house is the highest point of Skyline Drive with is Big Meadow Lodge area... Fortunately you can't quite see them, or anyone else fir that matter... Michelle, I'm a catch and release fishermen when it comes to fresh water fish... I did catch about a dozen blue gill (brim) about ten years ago and planted them under tomato plants... Worked good but just gave me a creepy fellin'... Ohter stuff works good as well... This area is known for its good fishing... The South Fork of the Shenandoah River runs thru the Luray valley and the area is big for canoe'ers, kyackers, fishermen because, unlike the North Fork on the other side of the Massanutten Mountain, it's still rural and off th beaten path... Not that the other valley is like all the developed but with I-81 running thru the middle of it the towns over there are more built up... As fir fish: small mouth bass, large mouth bass, crappie, cat, eals, brim, a few pike, trout... That's 'bout it... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Desert Dancer Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:38 AM So, what yer sayin' is that there's crappy fishin' there? Best to just skip it, stay on the porch, enjoy the view and a brew and pick a few tunes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:33 AM So, the view of the moon rising, is NOT you then Bobert? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 01 Jul 06 - 08:01 AM If it was, f-troupe, you'd be danged disappointed as a suffer from a bad case of noassitol... Bobert )( |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: LilyFestre Date: 01 Jul 06 - 09:49 AM So do you say crappy or croppy in your neck of the woods? Are you a fly fisherman (we have a fly fishing business and would share some flies with you if you'd use 'em). And Bobert, what about trees...does this house have any trees around it or is it in the middle of a field? Michelle the Tree Lover |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 01 Jul 06 - 12:56 PM Well, yeah, it's crappie with an "a" and yes, I'm a fisherman, but a lazy fisherman... Spinnin' reel and cooler o' cold beer fisherman... I do, however, prefer lures over live bait so I'm not the laziest of the lazy fisherman... More on trees later, Michelle the tree lover... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 01 Jul 06 - 08:25 PM "Out here in the field" .. sorry, old song... Bobert, I was tempted to respond to your last to me with some insulting quotes from 'Rocky Horror' which was on TV last night - but there were JUST SO MANY good lines that I could not pick - so please go play the soundtrack to yourself and be appropriately insulted, eh? ;-) (who said you don't have lots of arse then?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 01 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM Well, geeee, F-troupe, I ain't got the sound track and thoughh I prolly saw that stupid movie my share and someone elses, I don't think I ever saw it straight... They played it in Richomnd at the Biograph every Saturday night at midnight for years and years and I would get all smoked 'n toked with a bunch of other hippies and go see it but, like I said, I don't remember much about the movie, other than it was funny as all got out.... Especially when its the danged middle of the night and yer messed up... Know what I mean??? Now, wanta buy this house, 'er what??? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: GUEST,Chickenshitguestshootingfromthebushes Date: 01 Jul 06 - 10:56 PM This asshole bitches and moans about how bad everything is while he brags about his hotel and houses and SUVs. Now he has the balls to try to sell something on the same forum he uses to knock the economy etc. Sounds like a two faced bullshit artist to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 02 Jul 06 - 12:09 AM Yeah, you got the handle right, GUEST, "Cickenshitguestshootingfromthebushes" That 'bout sums it up... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: GUEST,ANONYMOUS Date: 02 Jul 06 - 12:34 AM BOBERT - You remind me of those Morris Dancers around the MudCat. If you spent less time monitoring the MudCat postings and more time building "The Thing" and completing the uncompleted portions (terrible floor-plans, awkward space, ecological un-friendly....) and then....marketed through legitimate, local brokers, you might have a chance. MudCatters "know" you....we are NOT your market. You need a buyer from Richmond, or DC for the type of trype you are trying to pass off at 50% more than local, similar "estates." If you don't sell in 18 months, a mudcatter might look at it, under foreclosuer. Market price has dropped below your cost basis. No wonder you are trying to dump it three months before completion....you have bills to pay. Give it 36 months and the place "up-the-hill" could be tossed in for the same price, everything, all inclusive. http://www.zillow.com Sincerely, ANONYMOUS |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 02 Jul 06 - 08:21 AM Thanks ANON but I wasn't born last night, pal... I have a realistic marketing plan that includes MLS listing thru ForSaleByOwner.com which in addition to the MLS listing also will be listed with various marketing websites such a Realtor.com... Additionally, I can purchase one heck of a lot of those 4 inch by 4 inch picture ads for the 3% I'll be saving from not listing it with the local and somewhat lazy brokers in the area... Sorry you don't like the floorplan... I was just one voice among many on it and it was closen over more than 500 others that were considered... Even my brother, who is a broker in NoVa., voted for it??? Sincerely, back atcha, Bobert p.s. And I'm not in a panic mode... This is the best time to market the house... Just as it's coming off the foudation 'cause it allows the purchaser to have some say on things like counter tops, floorin', landscapin', etc... Just good business sense... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 02 Jul 06 - 09:10 AM Bobert, i was gonna have a go at ya, and say, no thanks, i already own a house with adjoining nutter... but since some GUESTS have been nasty, I won't. I'll just play the soundtrack from Rocky Horror, then... |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 02 Jul 06 - 08:13 PM Well, I may be a nutter, F-troupe, but fir the most part I'm a quiet nutter... And don't fret none about GUEST's... They is harmless... But back to the house fir a minute... The basement came in at 2708 block and we bought 2700!!! I'm sure GUEST won't have to hurt his head to make a joke outta this but we gotta buy 8 more danged block... Ain't that a bummer... Plus, my block guys packed up an' left so poor ol' me gonna have to mix the morter and lay the last 8 blocks... Now ya' know why I play the blues... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 02 Jul 06 - 08:23 PM Use the rest of the pallet of blocks to build a Barbecue, Bobert! |
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Subject: RE: BS: $1M View + New House For Sale... From: Bobert Date: 02 Jul 06 - 08:34 PM Ahhhhh, I'm 8 shy... I ain't buying a "cube" (65 ten inch blocks or 90 8 inch blocks) when I can buy just, 8 blocks and be done with it... |
