01/09 - Miscellaneous Monday

Haven't seen a craptar in 15 seconds, anybody else

 

Wait I was making a stupid joke but then looked at the description and it actually says
Instrument
Lot # 130A

Antonios Stadivarius

I thought they were super rare?

 

A Stradivarius made in the 1680s, or during Stradivari's "Long Pattern" period from 1690 to 1700, could be worth hundreds of thousands to several million U.S. dollars at today's prices.[citation needed] The 1697 "Molitor"[8] Stradivarius, once rumored to have belonged to Napoleon (it did belong to a general in his army, Count Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor), sold in 2010 at Tarisio Auctions to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers for $3,600,000, at the time a world record.[9][10]

Depending on condition, instruments made during Stradivari's "golden period" from 1700 to about 1725[11] can be worth millions of dollars. In 2011, his "Lady Blunt" violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold in London for $15.9 million (it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years). It was sold by the Nippon Music Foundation in aid of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami appeal.[12] In Spring 2014 the "Macdonald" viola was put up for auction through the musical instrument auction house Ingles & Hayday in conjunction with Sotheby's via silent auction with a minimum bid of $45 million.[13] The auction failed to reach its minimum bid by 25 June 2014,[14] and the viola was not sold.

Vice magazine reported in May 2013 that "in recent years, Stradivarius investment funds have started to appear, pushing already astronomical prices even higher".[15]

Stradivarius instruments are at risk of theft. However, stolen instruments are often recovered, even after being missing for many years. They are difficult to sell illicitly as dealers will typically call the police if approached by a seller with a Stradivarius known to have been stolen.[16] In recent years, the General Kyd Stradivarius was stolen in 2004. It was returned three weeks later by a woman who 'found it' and handed it over to the police.[17][18][19] The Sinsheimer/Iselin was stolen in Hanover, Germany in 2008 and recovered in 2009.[20] the Lipinski Stradivarius was stolen in an armed robbery on 27 January 2014[21] and subsequently recovered.[22] The Ames Stradivarius was stolen in 1981 and recovered in 2015.[16]

However a number of stolen instruments remain missing, such as the Davidoff-Morini, stolen in 1995,[23] the Le Maurien, stolen in 2002[24] and the Karpilowsky, stolen in 1953.[25]

 

So @Hummingbirdee what's for breakfast today?

 

Ha! I got a website eval from a business in my hometown. What are the chances?

 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...=1&LH_Sold=1&_nkw=stradivarius violin&_sop=16

The ones made by him are, but the term is used to describe the model/design as well.

 

gotten a handful tbh

 

Slow turdar day

 

Really? I wouldn't have expected that.

 

I actually saw a photo of a man who is a personally know by me.

 

http://pokupkavolos.wixsite.com/kiev
goods or services...

 

Is this an auto dealer? WARNING... kinda NSFW
https://secure.realdoll.com/

 

The word podunk is of Algonquian origin. It denoted both the Podunk people and marshy locations, particularly the people's winter village site on the border of present-day East Hartford and South Windsor, Connecticut.[1][2][3] Podunk was first defined in an American national dictionary in 1934, as an imaginary small town considered typical of placid dullness and lack of contact with the progress of the world.[4]

The earliest citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English is from Samuel Griswold Goodrich's 1840 book, The Politician of Podunk:

Solomon Waxtend was a shoemaker of Podunk, a small village of New York some forty years ago.
The book portrays Waxtend as being drawn by his interest in public affairs into becoming a representative in the General Assembly, finding himself unsuited to the role, and returning to his trade.[5] It is unclear whether the author intended to evoke more than the place near Ulysses, New York by the name "Podunk". Possibly the term was meant to exemplify "plain, honest people", as opposed to more sophisticated people with questionable values. An 1875 description said:

Sometimes the newest State, or the youngest county or town of a State is nicknamed "Old Podunk," or whatever it may be, by its affectionate inhabitants, as though their home was an ancient figure in national history.[6]
In American discourse, the term podunk came into general colloquial use, through the wide national readership of the "Letters from Podunk" of 1846, in the Daily National Pilot of Buffalo, New York. These represented "Podunk" as a real place but one insignificant and out of the way.[7] The term gained currency as standing for a fictional place. For instance, in 1869, Mark Twain wrote the article, "Mr. Beecher and the Clergy," defending his friend, Thomas K. Beecher, whose preaching had come under criticism. In it he said:

They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be. It excited a two-line paragraph there.
At the time he was living in Buffalo, moving to Hartford, Connecticut in 1871, in a home within 4 miles (6.4 km) of the Podunk River. Elmira, where Twain had lived earlier, is within 30 miles (48 km) of Podunk, New York, so it is not clear to which village Twain was referring.

 

@Jagdpanzer still bad luck on Zoltars? I keep seeing them pop on Worker.Mturk but am having trouble snagging them with pczy this a.m.

 

Peacock & Peacock Psychologists

 

Yeah, those are the websucktars, I hate them.

 

Good morning and happy Monday!

 

Just caught a pickfu

 

I improvised some leftovers for the fiance: sauted some onions and mushrooms and the last of the crispy duck fat potatoes from last night, added the last hamburger steak from saturday, tossed in the last of the tomato sauce from friday I made, grated some mozzarella over the top and topped with a fried egg. Serve with fresh grapefruit and coffee On the other hand I'm having a glass of tomato juice because @Randomacts has yet to make me pancakes yet!