I've not been feeling too good and for a few days I've vegetated in
front of the TV watching mainly daytime crap.

There are a number of American reality shows concerning pawn shops,
abandoned storage lock-up auctions, pickers (antique dealers cold
calling to cherry pick the more valuable items), the transport of items
across country by the lowest bidder and the restoration of American junk
to make an antique look new.

What has been noticeable is that the SAME very rare and valuable items
have turned up on more than one of these programs, either found in a
locker full of worthless junk or supposedly owned by someone claiming
ownership for 10s of years. For one of these items there were at least
2, and maybe 3, different people claiming long term ownership.

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing them.

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Its like the other popular crap, the ghost chasers etc, they are fake. No
need to mess with words here.

I'm waiting for the brave company who puts out a program based on people
committing suicide. Lots of interesting variations could be envisaged on
that. Monty Python did it, and called it for no good reason Ethel the Frog,
or in America Phrog.
Brian

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I've not been feeling too good and for a few days I've vegetated in front
of the TV watching mainly daytime crap.

There are a number of American reality shows concerning pawn shops,
abandoned storage lock-up auctions, pickers (antique dealers cold calling
to cherry pick the more valuable items), the transport of items across
country by the lowest bidder and the restoration of American junk to make
an antique look new.

What has been noticeable is that the SAME very rare and valuable items
have turned up on more than one of these programs, either found in a
locker full of worthless junk or supposedly owned by someone claiming
ownership for 10s of years. For one of these items there were at least 2,
and maybe 3, different people claiming long term ownership.

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing them.

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On 25/02/2018 00:09, alan_m wrote:

I've not been feeling too good and for a few days I've vegetated in
front of the TV watching mainly daytime crap.

There are a number of American reality shows concerning pawn shops,
abandoned storage lock-up auctions, pickers (antique dealers cold
calling to cherry pick the more valuable items), the transport of items
across country by the lowest bidder and the restoration of American junk
to make an antique look new.

What has been noticeable is that the SAME very rare and valuable items
have turned up on more than one of these programs, either found in a
locker full of worthless junk or supposedly owned by someone claiming
ownership for 10s of years. For one of these items there were at least
2, and maybe 3,Â* different people claiming long term ownership.

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing them.


No Jeremy Kyle then?

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On 25/02/2018 08:59, Brian Gaff wrote:
Its like the other popular crap, the ghost chasers etc, they are fake. No
need to mess with words here.

I'm waiting for the brave company who puts out a program based on people
committing suicide.

Well you are Mr Cheerful or do you want to be on TV?


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In article ,
alan_m wrote:
What has been noticeable is that the SAME very rare and valuable items
have turned up on more than one of these programs, either found in a
locker full of worthless junk or supposedly owned by someone claiming
ownership for 10s of years. For one of these items there were at least
2, and maybe 3, different people claiming long term ownership.

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing them.

Perhaps the same as adverts for classic cars which are well past their
best. Almost always described as a barn find. Even when they've been
rotting away in an aged parent's garage.

And inventing an interesting history for them seem to be a national
pastime.

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:09:26 +0000, alan_m wrote:

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing
them.

It does smell funny. There is that massive pawnbrokers in Las Vegas run
by the Grant Mitchell look-alike bloke and they frequently call in
experts on all sorts of abstruse and obscure memorabilia who apparently
live only a few minutes' drive away from the place, none of whom charge a
single cent for their appraisals!




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On Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:28:47 UTC, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:09:26 +0000, alan_m wrote:

Furthermore, the people/dealers featured in these programs all seem to
have an encyclopedic knowledge of these rare object on first seeing
them.

It does smell funny. There is that massive pawnbrokers in Las Vegas run
by the Grant Mitchell look-alike bloke and they frequently call in
experts on all sorts of abstruse and obscure memorabilia who apparently
live only a few minutes' drive away from the place, none of whom charge a
single cent for their appraisals!

It's those antique guns they find and want to know if they still work so they go and fire them, sounds a bit dangerous if they are likely to explode, they just take them to a field and try them out.