[78-L] "Makes me spend my money..."

[David Lennick]

Maybe John Zacherle will buy it.

Still alive at 90!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> The article indicated that the son was considering posting the thing on 
> eBay...frankly I would also be surprised if it ever does show up there.
> 
> That said,  I'm sure there is a market for it.  Think of all the people who 
> have paid large sums for grilled cheese sandwiches which "show" an image of 
> the Virgin Mary...or one I read about a week ago:  fellow paid some hundreds 
> of dollars for a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois...at least 
> that's what it looked like to him and the other bidders.
> 
> Hmmm...makes those broken Dinah Shore records we chatted about a while ago 
> look like  a pretty good buy.
> 
> Taylor B
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] And in other gruesome news..
> 
> 
>> I can't find it on oy-vey.  I looked up Big Bopper and casket.  What
>> other categories would you suggest?  Oh, and be glad they re-buried
>> him.  Othewise that museum that displayed the casket might have turned
>> it into a Lenin situation.  By the way, that DID happen to Caruso.  I
>> just got a copy of Dorothy Caruso's book and she relates that his body
>> WAS on display under glass for EIGHT YEARS until she finally got the
>> Italians to close the coffin.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>> Tom wrote:
>>> My guess is that the casket will be removed, and soon, from ebay. As I 
>>> understand it, ebay doesn't want to be perceived as the world's 
>>> auctionplace for the macabre, the obscene, and the morbid, and goes to 
>>> considerable lengths to prevent people from selling body parts, nazi 
>>> memorabilia, pornography, and all kinds of other unsavory stuff.
>>>
>>> This has gotta fall into one of those prohibited categories.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: [78-L] And in other gruesome news..
>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 4:57 PM
>>>
>>> Own the Big Bopper's coffin!
>>> http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/36759549.html?&showAllComments=y
>>>
>>> dl
>>>