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Man Chooses Girlfriend Over Elvis
AP - Yahoo ^ | January 9, 2006

Posted on 01/09/2006 9:36:55 AM PST by EveningStar

Hundreds of pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia were auctioned off over the weekend by a longtime collector trying to win back his girlfriend after she warned: "You leave the Elvis clothes or I'll leave you."

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; History; Humor; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: elvis; elvispresley; memorabilia; presley
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1 posted on 01/09/2006 9:36:55 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; EggsAckley; Xenalyte; ...

ping


2 posted on 01/09/2006 9:39:37 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

With the $2 million, he can buy a new girlfriend.


3 posted on 01/09/2006 9:40:35 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: EveningStar

LOL! You beat me at posting this by about 3 minutes or so - mine got pulled already.


4 posted on 01/09/2006 9:44:02 AM PST by Peace4EarthNow
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To: EveningStar
Total auction sales wouldn't be tabulated until Tuesday, but organizers estimate the take could reach $2 million.

Tough decision: Stupid collection and being able to dress up like long dead Rock icon vs. live girl and $2,000,000 (don't forget the prenuptial agreement)

5 posted on 01/09/2006 9:44:16 AM PST by JimSEA (America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
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To: EveningStar

She'd better be worth it.


6 posted on 01/09/2006 9:44:41 AM PST by shekkian
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To: EveningStar

Part of his collection...

7 posted on 01/09/2006 9:46:35 AM PST by Peace4EarthNow
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To: EveningStar

I know a guy's hat collection that was, in part, the downfall of his marriage.

He had thousands of baseball caps, with slogans on them, pinned all the way around the living room walls. Cool for a young single guy in college, not really the decor a grown up or a woman is gonna want to live with, and he refused to take them down. It wasn't the only concession he failed to make in making room for a wife in his life, but it was a very visible symptom :~D


8 posted on 01/09/2006 9:49:34 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: EveningStar
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"Say it isn't so baby..don't give up The King"
9 posted on 01/09/2006 9:54:17 AM PST by PaulaB
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To: EveningStar

No picture?

How can we know if he made the right choice?


10 posted on 01/09/2006 9:57:31 AM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EveningStar
He also tried to auction off his...er...jewels, but she quickly snapped those up, put them in her purse, sold his tools, changed his name, and put a pink cardigan sweater on him to go see her mother.

(insert sound of bull whip)
11 posted on 01/09/2006 10:08:54 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (If the enemy is in shooting range, so are you.)
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He's gonna regret this.


12 posted on 01/09/2006 10:18:14 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: EveningStar

I got an Elvis collection for my girlfriend. it was a good trade.


13 posted on 01/09/2006 10:18:52 AM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: EveningStar

wrong decision


14 posted on 01/09/2006 10:19:28 AM PST by bigsigh
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To: HairOfTheDog

"""I know a guy's hat collection that was, in part, the downfall of his marriage... and he refused to take them down."""

Good for him. No man should change himself for any woman. Your friend needs to find someone that likes his hats because they are a part of him. Not say they like them, then try to change them. I am glad he stood up and was a man about it.


15 posted on 01/09/2006 10:19:34 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (If the enemy is in shooting range, so are you.)
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To: EveningStar
The woman knew what she had in the man when she started a relationship with him. I wonder what other hoops and demands she is going to make on him now that his prized collection is auctioned off?

I suspect after she has raped him of his cash she is going to leave him flat anyway. This is SOP for most spoiled rotten females that are trained in the American way of ruining a man's financing and personal self esteem.

16 posted on 01/09/2006 10:23:28 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: bigsigh

No. Good decision. Elvis is dead.


17 posted on 01/09/2006 10:25:15 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: vetvetdoug

I repeat post #16.

Except to add that some turn once decent men into groveling lap puppies with no identity.


18 posted on 01/09/2006 10:27:03 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (If the enemy is in shooting range, so are you.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

His marriage lasted 6 weeks and it's end broke both their hearts. The hats were but one symptom.

Life is not about never accomodating another person, unless you want to live alone.

He outgrew wanting to have hats all over the house, and he's succesfully remarried. I imagine he learned that living successfully with someone else means you will not remain unchanged by it.


19 posted on 01/09/2006 10:27:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Elvis dead? You've had too much kool aid.


20 posted on 01/09/2006 10:30:59 AM PST by bigsigh
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