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WOW!
Posted by M_Robinson on Thursday, August 31, 2017 7:23 PM

Words escape me! 

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Z-Scale-Layout-EJ-Gold-Official-Clinton-White-House-Artist-PROOFS-PUBLISHED-L-K-/391399096760?hash=item5b213441b8:g:L0sAAOSwAvJW~RxY

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Posted by 7j43k on Thursday, August 31, 2017 7:36 PM

Well, it DOES have a "make offer" button.

I know I have a number I'm considering offering.

 

 

Ed

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Posted by areibel on Thursday, August 31, 2017 7:38 PM

I think his username says it all?

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Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, August 31, 2017 7:55 PM

I had never heard of EJ Gold until now.   Scientology seems as tame as Garrison Keilor's Sanctified Breathern after reading about IDHHB, the Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being.

I would definitely would benefit from his seminar on Levitation, Invisibility and Immortality. Except invisibility requires death.  That's a major downside.

Do you suppose I will need drugs to do this?: 

soon you’ll be able to enter the Ashram through your eyeglasses or wristwatch, and not long now before you’ll be able to browse the internet with that fantastic new Galaxian Internet Implant Device that enables your brain to assemble full-blown tactile hallucinatory shopping malls and never-ending reverberating mental infomercials.

Unless you feel lacking in informercials in your life, there is nothing to see here folks except someone trying to take advantage of a rich and stupid follower of a really weird mixture of religion, paranormal and extraterrestrial.

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:02 PM

BigDaddy
Except invisibility requires death

I don't think that's true.  Just because you can't see someone doesn't mean they are not there.  I have a couple invisible friends that I speak to often.

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:00 PM

Special forces go invisible wearing a ghillie suit

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, September 1, 2017 6:49 AM

 Let's see, you can get one of those Noch Z layouts for under $150. You can get a mighty fancy briefcase for $150. And if that watercolor is "fine art" I'll eat it. Friend of mine draws better than that - you should see her Darth Vader I have hanging up, or even better, the picture she drew of my dogs. She'd love to get $50 for painting a briefcase lid sized mountain scene.

                                  --Randy

 


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Posted by tstage on Friday, September 1, 2017 7:18 AM

It's the 50' Ken doll that really makes the statement for me.  I think he's worth at least $100K alone. Yes  Or, maybe he's the one that painted the watercolor???

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Posted by Steven Otte on Friday, September 1, 2017 8:53 AM

"The first of these "attache case railway layougs" [sic] was intended for Bill Clinton to take aboard Air Force One, although it never got aboard the aircraft, due to legal complications..."

I'd bet money the legal complications took the form of the Secret Service telling him, "No way we're taking a briefcase full of wiring and circuit boards from some random guy and bringing it aboard Air Force One." Laugh

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Posted by maxman on Friday, September 1, 2017 9:09 AM

Steven Otte
"The first of these "attache case railway layougs" [sic] was intended for Bill Clinton to take aboard Air Force One, although it never got aboard the aircraft, due to legal complications..."

It would never remotely occur to me that a president would want or need one of those things on his airplane.  So if all that is true, well yeah, I wouldn't blame the secret service for saying no way, Jose.

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Posted by Lonnie Utah on Friday, September 1, 2017 9:09 AM

$1.4 Million?

 

 

 

Is that all? 

 

 

 

I'll take 2. Wink

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Posted by maxman on Friday, September 1, 2017 9:11 AM

Lonnie Utah

$1.4 Million?

 Is that all? 

I'll take 2. Wink

I hope you have the money because I think you just made a verbal agreement with one of those invisible guys.

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, September 1, 2017 9:13 AM

 Very likely. And anyway didn't MR show one of those briefcase layouts way before Bill Clinton was ever President? I seem to recall it may have even been when the Bull Session column was still active. Maybe it was this one or maybe another I also recall reading, that was truly home made, not just the Noch layout fitted to a briefcase. 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, September 1, 2017 10:09 AM

maxman
BigDaddy
Except invisibility requires death
 I don't think that's true.  Just because you can't see someone doesn't mean they are not there.  I have a couple invisible friends that I speak to often.

 
It truly is the strangest stuff I ever read.  But the Workshop description  of this "requirement is quite clear.
 
Take solice in this thought  "Enigmatic as this may sound, it becomes even more enigmatic upon listening to the entire workshop. However, clues and exercises are given for a lifetime of follow-up work"  Laugh
 
 

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Posted by 7j43k on Friday, September 1, 2017 10:42 AM

Ya know, a briefcase layout, to me, is really unappealing.  I wouldn't take a free one if offered, 'cause then I'd have to find a place to keep it.  Not an easy task, these days.

Really.  What good is it?  Goes round and round.  Wow.

If the idea was really great, there'd be an annual NMRA competition for the best one.  Hey, is there?

 

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Posted by PM Railfan on Friday, September 1, 2017 11:08 AM

Dont know what every one is clamoring about. For a dollar-two-ninety-eight, you can get a bonafide 3-7-5 Barkshore locofizzle made by the ACME Floormat company in Y6B scale.

Featuring multi-gauge trucks, anti slack rubber-band couplers, and waving stick figure crew members. Now available in Chesshire Pink.

Call BRY-549 now, and place your order with an authentic cloaked dumkophf. Call BRY-549 now. Again thats BRY-549. Call today!

 

 

 

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Posted by selector on Friday, September 1, 2017 3:17 PM

But wait! There's more!  If you call within the next ten minutes, you'll receive a second absolutely FREE!!!  Just pay a small charge for shipping and handling.

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Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, September 1, 2017 4:16 PM

Kinda makes the guy a few years ago who was selling a genyooine Athearn SD45 from 1966 for $5K or so look like a downright piker.

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, September 1, 2017 4:27 PM

I finally got my dear old sister to stop calling me every time she saw some antique Tyco cars for sale for only $400.00 when antiquing. I sure hope she doesn't pick this up for me.WhistlingLaugh

Brent

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Posted by "JaBear" on Friday, September 1, 2017 7:23 PM

PM Railfan
Dont know what every one is clamoring about. For a dollar-two-ninety-eight, you can get a bonafide 3-7-5 Barkshore locofizzle made by the ACME Floormat company in Y6B scale. Featuring multi-gauge trucks, anti slack rubber-band couplers, and waving stick figure crew members. Now available in Chesshire Pink. Call BRY-549 now, and place your order with an authentic cloaked dumkophf. Call BRY-549 now. Again thats BRY-549. Call today!

In your excitement, you forgot the email address!!!
 

Cheers, the Bear.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 2, 2017 10:36 AM

7j43k

Ya know, a briefcase layout, to me, is really unappealing.  I wouldn't take a free one if offered, 'cause then I'd have to find a place to keep it.  Not an easy task, these days.

Really.  What good is it?  Goes round and round.  Wow.

If the idea was really great, there'd be an annual NMRA competition for the best one.  Hey, is there?

 

Ed

 

Technically you could enter it in the NTS layout contest, or in the convention contest, if you built one yourself.  Not garunteeing that you will win anything.  The show in 2014 had a few layouts similar to this (a brief case and a few instrument case layouts). 

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Posted by NYBW-John on Saturday, September 2, 2017 5:40 PM

What happens if I accidently click Buy It Now?

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:04 PM

NYBW-John

What happens if I accidently click Buy It Now?

 

Read ebay's rules.

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Posted by Bernd on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 7:15 AM

How about a guittar case? Here's a TT scale layout built in a guittar case.

Bernd

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