• pandemic: 2005

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to All on Sat Jul 17 21:01:00 2021
    Hello All!

    Look what I found in my midst:

    https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic1-IMG_20210717.jpg https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic2-IMG_20210717.jpg


    --- OpenXP 5.0.50
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Cyberpope@21:4/106.1 to Ogg on Sun Jul 18 14:52:06 2021
    Hello All!

    Look what I found in my midst:

    https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic1-IMG_20210717.jpg https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic2-IMG_20210717.jpg

    Nice! I've just requested Book One of the series! I should have it in 6-8 weeks!

    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Cyberpope on Sun Jul 18 18:13:00 2021
    Hello Cyberpope!

    ** On Sunday 18.07.21 - 14:52, Cyberpope wrote to Ogg:

    https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic1-IMG_20210717.jpg

    Nice! I've just requested Book One of the series! I should
    have it in 6-8 weeks!

    I could have sold you mine! (after I had a chance to check it
    out first! LOL). Shipping from Ontario to BC for that wouldn't
    be over $10.

    It's amazing that people are asking over $60 for "new" copies
    of that out-of-print pocketbook title!

    --- OpenXP 5.0.50
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Cyberpope on Mon Jul 19 03:15:10 2021
    Re: Re: pandemic: 2005
    By: Cyberpope to Ogg on Sun Jul 18 2021 02:52 pm

    Hello All!

    Look what I found in my midst:

    https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic1-IMG_20210717.jpg https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic2-IMG_20210717.jpg

    Nice! I've just requested Book One of the series! I should have it in 6-8 weeks!

    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM

    I hope you requested it from Ogg, the most friendly of the Internet book sellers, who puts horse stuff for free in your deliveries :-)

    --
    gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)
  • From Cyberpope@21:4/106.1 to Ogg on Sun Aug 1 14:30:38 2021
    Hello Cyberpope!

    ** On Sunday 18.07.21 - 14:52, Cyberpope wrote to Ogg:

    https://kolico.ca/tmp/pandemic1-IMG_20210717.jpg

    Nice! I've just requested Book One of the series! I should
    have it in 6-8 weeks!

    I could have sold you mine! (after I had a chance to check it
    out first! LOL). Shipping from Ontario to BC for that wouldn't
    be over $10.

    It's amazing that people are asking over $60 for "new" copies
    of that out-of-print pocketbook title!

    I got my library to buy it. . . not in budget for me to buy. . .

    I have seen what you mean -- people are asking insanely ridiculous prices for old junk online now!

    Women were paying over $100 per single tampon made by a company that closed
    up shop!

    Single Scrabble tiles for $5K & up!

    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Cyberpope on Sun Aug 1 23:26:00 2021
    Hello Cyberpope!

    ** On Sunday 01.08.21 - 14:30, Cyberpope wrote to Ogg:

    It's amazing that people are asking over $60 for "new" copies
    of that out-of-print pocketbook title!

    I got my library to buy it. . . not in budget for me to buy. . .

    One local library here orders titles from me. That's nice,
    considering that they get gov't money to buy their material and
    therefore use that money to support local.

    "Pandemic" (the book) reads so much like a playbook of what we
    are experiencing now. Knowing what I am living through wrt the
    pandemic now, the book is not as shocking as would be if would
    have read it in 2005.

    I really enjoyed "The Grid" by Philip Kerr. It's about a
    smart-building that goes rogue and starts killing its
    occupants. A funny part was a sex scene in an elevator, but I
    don't remember how come the smart-building didn't detect the
    action going on in there.

    I have seen what you mean -- people are asking insanely
    ridiculous prices for old junk online now!

    All it takes is one sucker.


    Women were paying over $100 per single tampon made by a
    company that closed up shop!

    Single Scrabble tiles for $5K & up!

    I think those are set up as jokes. When this covid shit started
    and people were hording toilet paper, the runing joke on eBay
    was single sheets for $20+

    --- OpenXP 5.0.50
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Cyberpope@21:4/106.1 to Ogg on Sun Aug 8 22:30:56 2021
    One local library here orders titles from me. That's nice,
    considering that they get gov't money to buy their material and
    therefore use that money to support local.

    My library uses one major wholesa;er/distributer for all books, but they'kll mnalre an excepton to buy direct for local talent.

    Women were paying over $100 per single tampon made by a
    company that closed up shop!

    Single Scrabble tiles for $5K & up!

    I think those are set up as jokes. When this covid shit started
    and people were hording toilet paper, the runing joke on eBay
    was single sheets for $20+

    You got to pay to list an item? Or only if it sells?

    The tampon thing was pre-Covid.

    It was a beloved company & producer, apparently ('twas in NYC -- a long way from here, so I have no first-hand or even dsercond-hand knowledge)

    Idiots gotta idd, I always say, sometimes. . .

    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)