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Woman Auctions Father's Ghost on eBay
Yahoo! News ^
| 12-04-2004
| AP
Posted on 12/04/2004 4:58:25 PM PST by steveo
HOBART, Ind. - A woman's effort to assuage her 6-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on eBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78.
Mary Anderson said she placed her father's "ghost" on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ghost
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When our 15-year old daughter was three, we had to lock up her 'mean friend, Fardydardy' in a jar. Sometimes she wanted her out but not at night.
After a few months of this we took the jar to a park and let her go.
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posted on
12/04/2004 4:58:25 PM PST
by
steveo
To: steveo
My kids would love to have a ghost!
2
posted on
12/04/2004 4:59:22 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Poison ivy berries are a favorite food of the Downy Woodpecker.)
To: steveo
It might be rather difficult to confirm the delivery of goods sold; wouldn't it be easier just to donate the ghost? Say, by telling her son that the ghost was dropped in a SA kettle...
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:02:41 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: steveo
To: steveo
Are you able to visit your youngster at the home?
Just kidding, steveo....I'm a kidder.....
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:03:51 PM PST
by
anniegetyourgun
(Taglines are optional, right?)
To: streetrepair
$560 now. You gotta love a free market economy.
To: CurlyBill
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:04:40 PM PST
by
Bahbah
To: steveo
After a few months of this we took the jar to a park and let her go. I'll bet you're sorry you didn't keep Fardydardy in the attic until eBay was invented!
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:05:39 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
To: streetrepair
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:06:13 PM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: GSlob
To: GSlob
Kind of like the Simpson's episode where Bart sells his soul on a piece of paper for $5.00
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:06:13 PM PST
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
Grilled cheese sandwiches, bloggers, and now ghosts? Ebay is where it's at!
To: streetrepair
You gotta love a free market economy. Absolutely. It's amazing that something that depends on the sanity of it's participants can tolerate such insanity.
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:07:05 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
To: steveo
It is up to $610.00 now.
I guess the cane might be worth $610. I hope the winner writes a very nice letter to the little boy saying that the ghost is well and the two (ghost and winner) are having a grand time.
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:07:44 PM PST
by
Talking_Mouse
(Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
To: steveo
Fardydardy is a cute name for an imaginary friend. My daughter had two of them. One was Susie and the other was Itsy. And yes, Itsy was a spider.
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:08:48 PM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Talking_Mouse
There is more than one ghost up for auction on ebay.
To: steveo
LOL! That's EXACTLY what I thought.
;o)
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:15:51 PM PST
by
USF
(I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
To: steveo
This seller's one other auction is a 2003 college text. Judging from this, my guess is that she's a single mom, taking college courses in the evening, working part/full-time during the day, and looking for some extra $$$$. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose.
To: steveo
You know this is going to haunt her
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:22:04 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.)
To: streetrepair
If ebay lets her sell this, I know where I'm going to get rid of some ghosts from my past.
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posted on
12/04/2004 5:30:16 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
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