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Such books are/were referred to as "stripped books".

Yeah - but the horse and carriage was a manual transmission..........

I don't follow it closely since I only fill up about every three weeks. But I have noticed it rising over the last couple of weeks as I drive around. Heh - I remember in high school it was around $.15.

What are prices in your neck of the woods - I just filled up at $3.79 a gallon?

IIRC they were required to just send the covers back (lot less expensive that way) and they were supposed to throw out the books themselves. I would see them at the flea market way back when fairly often (in large lots) so the bookstore employees were nabbing them.

Who the f**k is asleep at the wheel again? And how much of this is going on across the country that doesn't get any coverage? https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-career-criminal-slashes-man-231729049.html

I just can't resist - WHAT A RIPOFF!

Just got my copy of Triangle Strategy in today!

The other use putting those holes in would be if items were being sold at a reduced price - it would prevent them being brought back with a receipt from a full priced game. This was done with books, records, cds, dvds what not. Records would sometimes have the corners cut off. Items so marked were usually called cut-outs or overstocks. Back in the good old days it was not uncommon to see records for $1 or $.50in the cut out bins when regular items would cost $8 or so. For people who were into music those bins were a bonanza since a lot of good (and obscure) stuff wound up in those bins. This was done to help retailers since they usually provided receipts that didn't specify each purchase by title -just what category it feil in. *This is still done with books - usually they mark the page sides of the book with a magic marker.

That is a statement worthy of Nostradamus - can you put it in a quatrain? ^___^

There are 8 million fantasy stories in Cloud Cuckoo Land - this happening would be one of them.

I never could afford real caviar.....Thanks Russia.

I once had to message a seller on something I didn't get - the message I got back said the seller had been giving her his packages to mail with money for postage and that she was simply pocketing the money and doing who knows what with the pacakages. I assumed that it was now a former girlfriend. Another time a seller said the package was stolen out of his car at the post office (he had several packages so he had to make two trips) and he forgot to lock the door on his first trip. I got refunds on both but odd stories.

Heads up! Be on the lookout for this! https://news.yahoo.com/stolen-box-human-heads-investigated-232042849.html

You can pre-order the switch Live A Live for $49.99 at gamestop - when it comes up it will list digital but there is a tab you can hit that says new and that will take you to the physical version.

Sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles! https://www.yahoo.com/autos/lego-jeep-120-000-pieces-233700555.html

How much do you want to bet that if either of these two were the next lucky recipient of a free poo face that a way would be figured out to incarcerate this f**kface?

Clean living!

Heh - they even have a song about me!

None of the above - I just have a land line. I don't want to be that much in touch with the rest of the world and I don't want them to be in touch with me. Plus I can't lose what I don't have!

This brings new meaning to the term "fire water"! https://news.yahoo.com/buffalo-trace-distillery-evacuated-workers-200820295.html

Could you say the guy kicked the bucket?

Here is another good (in a depressing sort of way) from way back in 1959. I couldn't find a decent trailer for it so this will have to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film) No happy endings in this one either. This one and "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (also 1959) were probably the first serious big budgeted movies about nuclear war (nuclear bombs weren't the cause in "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" but the cause was the not clearly defined weaponized use of "nuclear isotopes").

Here is another one from the same era: