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Man Selling His Life On eBay
A number of readers have sent in the story of the guy in Perth, Australia who is selling his life on eBay. 100 days before the auction opened, he put up a site detailing all that was on offer: house, car, jet ski, friends, job, and so forth. (No wife.) The auction has five days to run and the bidding is up over $300K, supposedly from qualified bidders. The seller says: "Upon completion and settlement I will walk out of my home for the last time in just the clothes I am wearing, and carrying only my wallet and passport."
Here's your chance to finally get a life! Gentlemen, place your bids!
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I wanted to sell my life too, but then I remembered I didn't have one. :(
Man, he could have at least thrown in a PS2...what a cheap bastard.
I'd probably wind up having to pay the auction winner to take it off my hands.
So actually, its only half a house and half a jetski. Better keep that in mind when you're bidding upwards of AU$300k.
i have to pay 300K to get a house AND i have to work two weeks as a rug store sales assistant. What a sweet deal.
People sell their WOW accounts all the time.
I can tell you why his wife left for free right now...
"hey honey, I decided to sell my life on ebay!"
slam pitpatpitpat screeech vrooom! and there she goes.
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I haven't bought any recently, but I used to get them three for a quarter.
the winning bidder wants to have it sent to his brother in Nigeria.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
You can buy a house and a jet ski and all the other stuff anywhere, but friends? Whoa!
I can't wait to show them my complete Star Wars Action Figures collection!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
We're going to find out that the Mafia has a hit out on him or he's supposed to be in an arranged marriage to a cannibal princess or something. The lovable everyman who buys this guy's life will now be in a madcap race to escape the consequences, probably falling in love with a girl-next-door Hollywood starlet in the process.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
[quote]and so forth. (No wife.)[/quote] That's why he's getting so much.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Oh come on people, the guy lives in PERTH. Surely nobody is bidding on that.
(Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...) Meh. He's selling his current living conditions. He'll continue to live; if he's happy, he's still "winning," just like any of us. I'm not losing just because someone has more stuff than me (see George Carlin on that). BTW- It will be hard to see George since this weekend...
You'd better fly over and check it out. Make sure his friends aren't all loud talkers with BO who like to "get nekkid" at parties.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
PS1? Dude, come on....
Probably very difficult because his employer could pull the rug out from under him at any time...
What? That his wife was a man?
that his boss and friends support the idea. I imagine him asking, "Is no-one going to say 'please don't go'?"
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
I am happy, but I feel encumbered.
Ahh, another case of life imitating nethack.
Perhaps you are stuck with cursed armor or a loadstone.
Or maybe you should "D" some of those items
and do a polypile later.
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> Not too hard to guess what that might have been.
I wonder which would be more ironic:
1) If his ex-wife marry the guy that buy "his life", so she get back the whole lot ("Oh, that is soo sweet, I recovered my friends, my house and my jetski" )
2) If the guy his wife left with win the auction to buy "his life" ("Your taste in women was pretty good, what else do you have?")
I was blindsided at about 11pm on a Wednesday evening by a shocking and awful discovery.
She was a Collingwood fan?
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
People who have no imagination, and can't imagine themselves without any possessions or money?
They've also conditioned modern man to get 10-20 credit cards and a subprime ARM mortgage
You know what they say about ARM mortgages? too much risc!
Sorry.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
Catching your wife in bed with another man is bad but not bad enough to sell your whole life. This guy must have caught her in bed with his best friend.
Which is bad news for the person buying his life. Guess who's going to be your new best friend?!
I prefer:
"He who dies pennyless has impeccable timing."
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.