Author Topic: If not a misprint...someone please explain this to me...(lol) (Read 5685 times)

JJ · « **on:** February 01, 2018, 01:43:48 PM »

Lannis · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2018, 01:49:45 PM »

Lax enforcement of Florida mind-altering drug laws.

Lannis

JJ · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2018, 01:55:25 PM »

Quote from: Lannis on February 01, 2018, 01:49:45 PM

Lax enforcement of Florida mind-altering drug laws.

Lannis

I thought the same thing...

... unless this is some UBER-rare book...which I highly doubt..

v7john · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2018, 02:04:43 PM »

I've got a copy you can have for $500. Postage free from the UK. Always ready to go the extra mile to help.

Lannis · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2018, 02:05:19 PM »

Quote from: JJ on February 01, 2018, 01:55:25 PM

I thought the same thing... ... unless this is some UBER-rare book...which I highly doubt..

Well, now that I look, I don't know whether the buyers or the sellers are brain-impaired.

"Abe Books" has it for $35.00. But various Amazon and eBay sellers have it for anything from 60 euros to $960. Maybe I just don't understand the motorcycle book market .... It's Mick Walker for heavens sake, not Shakespeare ....

Lannis

JJ · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2018, 02:16:40 PM »

Quote from: v7john on February 01, 2018, 02:04:43 PM

I've got a copy you can have for $500. Postage free from the UK. Always ready to go the extra mile to help.

That's what I'm talking about today... concerned Guzzisti's helping other poor Guzzisti's!! (lol)

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2018, 03:34:14 PM »

S'not'a misprint. There really were Guzzi singles.

JJ · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2018, 03:38:00 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on February 01, 2018, 03:34:14 PM

S'not'a misprint. There really were Guzzi singles.

"Dooooohhhhh!"

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normzone · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2018, 03:39:16 PM »

No, it's just a misinterpretation - this is a book about Guzzistas looking for mates - a compilation of motorcyclist personals ads.

Muzz · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2018, 03:41:37 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on February 01, 2018, 03:34:14 PM

S'not'a misprint. There really were Guzzi singles.

AND, you get a free one along with the book! (at that price)

Well, maybe not.

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2018, 03:46:10 PM »

"Very Good"

rodekyll · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2018, 04:01:03 PM »

The seller has 1,225,646 items on ebay. Many are books. 607 are over $1000. 1300 are over $500. Nothing rare or significant about any of them, except the goofy prices that nobody is going to pay for an unremarkable book. Unless it's not a book. I'm gonna speculate that the listings are coded messages. Here's a top ten list of what might be up with that:

10) The seller is listing shipments of contraband and looking for mules. The titles and prices are placeholders for type, amount, location, etc.

9) Communicating with a sleeper cell and the book title is the member alias. The price and description is his coded message.

8) It's an assassin's clearinghouse coding targets and details.

7) Illegal sports gambling event and odds

6) Catalog of stolen business secrets and prices

5) Scavenger hunt with the item and location coded

4) CNC programming for perpetual motion device. Each listing is a separate module. Batteries not included.

3) Patriots game plan coded to positon and plays

2) North Korea's plan to invade Antarctica

1) Fragments of Beetle's fuel maps. Be the first on your (big)block to complete the set!

Tom · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2018, 04:43:06 PM »

No. 4.

Kiwi_Roy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2018, 06:24:14 PM »

Funny that it talks about singles and twins but show a pair of V8s?

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Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2018, 07:17:47 PM »

3) Patriots game plan coded to positon and plays

pebra · « **Reply #15 on:** February 02, 2018, 01:33:30 AM »

I get ads for Ukrainian singles all the time - what's so strange about this?

tris · « **Reply #16 on:** February 02, 2018, 01:43:33 AM »

Quote from: rodekyll on February 01, 2018, 04:01:03 PM

The seller has 1,225,646 items on ebay. Many are books. 607 are over $1000. 1300 are over $500. Nothing rare or significant about any of them, except the goofy prices that nobody is going to pay for an unremarkable book. Unless it's not a book. I'm gonna speculate that the listings are coded messages. Here's a top ten list of what might be up with that:

10) The seller is listing shipments of contraband and looking for mules. The titles and prices are placeholders for type, amount, location, etc.

9) Communicating with a sleeper cell and the book title is the member alias. The price and description is his coded message.

8) It's an assassin's clearinghouse coding targets and details.

7) Illegal sports gambling event and odds

6) Catalog of stolen business secrets and prices

5) Scavenger hunt with the item and location coded

4) CNC programming for perpetual motion device. Each listing is a separate module. Batteries not included.

3) Patriots game plan coded to positon and plays

2) North Korea's plan to invade Antarctica

1) Fragments of Beetle's fuel maps. Be the first on your (big)block to complete the set!

WOW - is the snow keeping you inside and putting your creative mind into warp drive RK?

I think you need to put a snow blower on the front of that trike and get out there before your head explodes

rodekyll · « **Reply #17 on:** February 02, 2018, 03:10:13 AM »

I'm getting brain pains from designing my new dashboard.

This is comic relief.

JJ · « **Reply #18 on:** February 02, 2018, 10:40:42 AM »

Quote from: rodekyll on February 02, 2018, 03:10:13 AM

I'm getting brain pains from designing my new dashboard. This is comic relief.

When you pay over $500 for a book on Moto Guzzi singles...it's obvious that you have been sucked deeply into..."The Vortex-Zone!"

Sheepdog · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2018, 11:00:43 AM »

Maybe it’s autographed...by Leonardo de Vinci.

JJ · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2018, 11:09:22 AM »

Quote from: Sheepdog on February 02, 2018, 11:00:43 AM

Maybe it�s autographed...by Leonardo de Vinci.

Yes...the book has a special tri-fold-out section in the center with prints of these famous paintings.... signed by the man himself! !!!

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2018, 11:06:29 AM »

Yeah, Leonard painted a lot of stuff. Like that first portrait of an Eye talian hooker,
The lady hugging an albino mongoose.
A first Saturday Guzzi breakfast.
And a rider who overslept at a campout.

dxhall · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2018, 12:46:21 PM »

There are similar asking prices for Walker's book on big twin restoration. I've never figured out what's going on with these.

redhawk47 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 03, 2018, 06:13:33 PM »

Quote from: Kiwi_Roy on February 01, 2018, 06:24:14 PM

Funny that it talks about singles and twins but show a pair of V8s?

Moto Guzzi raced "dustbin" singles. #72 is shown on page 91 of The Complete Book of Moto Guzzi by Ian Falloon. It was a 350.

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Author Topic: If not a misprint...someone please explain this to me...(lol) (Read 5685 times)