Time for a new hobby

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Time to pack it up and start drinking beer
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start?

and collecting stamps
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too late for that as well

I will never forget that glorious moment when I was able to make a sophisticated 4-way trade at a major stamp trading club that finally got me the only stamp i was missing in an otherwise complete collection of everything issued by the politburo between 1964 and 1979 inclusive.
I think it was some fancy tokyo olympics multi-stamp block thing.
I was in high school. I was a geek.

or something.
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now *that* I need to try
 
There's some pretty good Muscadet out there for less than $20/bottle. Beaujolais has gone up somewhat, but still, for $35 or less, you can get some great wines. And then there are German Rieslings, wines from Jura, Bandol, Savigny, etc.

Just stop fucking those labels, Keith! ;)

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Gotta agree with BJ, too.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Time to pack it up and start drinking beer
Click to expand...

start?

and collecting stamps
Click to expand...

too late for that as well

I will never forget that glorious moment when I was able to make a sophisticated 4-way trade at a major stamp trading club that finally got me the only stamp i was missing in an otherwise complete collection of everything issued by the politburo between 1964 and 1979 inclusive.
I think it was some fancy tokyo olympics multi-stamp block thing.
I was in high school. I was a geek.

or something.
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now *that* I need to try
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Hmm, $3 on Ebay today; stamps are cheaper than wine!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Russia-Tokyo-Summer-Olympic-Games-1964-/380479838707
 
I am ashamed to admit that I used to own a few bottles of that wine which I "flipped" at what I thought was a very healthy profit of 100%. Now I deeply regret selling them.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I was wiped out in the Russian stamp crash of '09.
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Given your background, I'm surprised that you weren't hedging with a few Vatican City mint blocks.

Mark Lipton
 
The issue on this one is that my best guess on the wine inside is that it is, or soon will be, undrinkable. 19 y.o. rose of ripe grenache? Maybe not.

So the price paid is completely decoupled from the beverage--in reality, they're buying the bottle and probably never intend to open it.

So it's all about the fetish.

Other people's fetishes are weird, I find.
 
Keith, I am thinking of how many 60 to 80 year old bottles of perfect Bordeaux and Burgundy I could buy for $42780. Or maybe five years worth of best in the world Riesling.
 
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