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[Crosby]

There's one born every minute

LUCID ABSINTHE - Imported from France!! Sealed look!!!!

Item Description:

You are looking at a Sealed bottle of Lucid Absinthe distilled in the fabled Loire Balley of France.

lucid is formulated by world renowned absinthe expert T.A. Breaux, and is distilled in strict accordance to traditional French methods. Lucid is crafted in the historic Combier distillery, founded in 1834 and designed by Gustave Eiffel in the fabled Loire Valley of France. Unlike most contemporary imitators, lucid is distilled entirely from spirits and European herbs, and uses no artificial additives, oils, or dyes. lucid recalls the rich tradition of Absinthe, and is crafted using a full measure of Grande Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), Green Anise, Sweet Fennel, and other fine European herbs traditionally used in making fine Belle Époque absinthe.

This Absinthe is one of the first brands of Absinthe that is legally available in the United States in over 95 years. This item is a collectible and should be treasured as the item is not available across the U.S. yet!!

eBay has strict policies on the sale of alcohol. All of these conditions must be adhered to:

· The value of the item is in the collectible container, not its contents.

· The container has not been opened and any incidental contents are not intended for consumption.

· The item is not available at any retail outlet, and the container has a value that substantially exceeds the current retail price of the alcohol in the container.

· The seller will take all appropriate steps to ensure that the buyer is of lawful age in the buyer and seller's jurisdiction (generally 21 years of age).

· Buyers and sellers both ensure that the sale complies with all applicable laws and shipping regulations.

BUYER OF THIS ITEM MUST BE 21 TO PURCHASE. Proof of age will be required before item is sent.

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[G&C]

Looks to be more than one.

mechincal38( 86Feedback score is 50 to 99) Changed User ID (less than 30 days) US $80.00 Oct-20-07 16:17:20 PDT
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morgana-morticia( 464Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $27.50 Oct-20-07 15:01:24 PDT
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[mthuilli]

9 bids - $81 ?!?!

And what the fuck is a "Balley"?

[Crosby]

[Louched Liver]

It's the low spot
in your underwear.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Looks like the ebay watchdogs took a look at that cheesy packaging and decided there was no way it was a collectible bottle that was more valuable than whatever was inside it.

[Crosby]

Maybe the bar code gave away the "not available at any retail outlet" part.

[absinthist]

Beside the bottle, what was inside? Just LuXit™.

[Crosby]

Grate

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[absinthist]

LA MARQUE "ABSENTE" N'EST PAS UNE MARQUE ANCIENNE.

As if there was one.

Edited by absinthist, 22 October 2007 - 12:33 PM.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Fourth Reich finds New Use for Cheesy Cordial Glasses

[Bognoz]

Looks like the perfect way
to tip your tipple
all over the fucking table.

Boneheaded design.

[absinthist]

Wood suit ya both, puppet and master. And yes, I am very, very bitter.

[jaded prol]

You're not old enough to be bitter.

[absinthist]

HA! I feel young, especially today. Bitterness comes with aging, ya say?When I am that age I shall tell ya, how it is and we compare how it was.

[GreyBoy2]

How'da'thunk the new Reich was gonna start in Chicago?
Based on wind Gods?

[Wild Bill Turkey]

fuck

[pierreverte]

made in the 1950's

[Oxygenee]

Late 1960's actually. They were made in Japan for the US restaurant trade, as a novelty decor item.

[Porkio]

Thanks guys. Now how am I supposed to unload those 27 boxes of them I bought off the back of a truck? Thanks a lot !

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Tits?

[Bognoz]

Comprehension is optional, indeed.

[absinthist]

Similar to mine, butt has a different handle, also my doesn't have the closing dripper (from which I have made a simple grille).

Also as the seller mentioned "it has not been polished", whereas mine obviously had been Polished™. Moreover, if I were in Florida, I wood not be selling it, but drinkin' with the Crew; not counting the fact, I have never used the nick: "dave" and my posts are prone to be misunderstood, butt I try to watch out for the spelling and grammar aspects in them, unlike the seller.

Thanks for findin' that one, made my day, really, hehe

Edited by absinthist, 12 November 2007 - 12:12 PM.

[Crosby]

Bid early, bid often.

Empty Collectible Absinthe bottle absinth absenth Lucid

This is an Empty collectible Absinthe bottle sold in the states but very hard to find. This absinthe taste & looks like it's genuine but it's has a very low thujon content. I haven't found this stuff under $60 a bottle, so it only makes since to import the real thing. The brand is Lucid, the size is 7.5cl with cork.

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[Louched Liver]

And we haven't found
it very good.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE

[Crosby]

[Louchelooker]

Interesting that someone
checked how much shipping
would be to the 02122 zip
code. That's my zip but I
didn't do it.

[GreyBoy2]

Djipxit.

[Louchelooker]

What was that for?!
I didn't do it fo real.

[greeneyes]

Woke up on the wrong side of the litterbox.

[mthuilli]

OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE

The signed bottle was really sold 500€, not sure that one has been signed by MM though.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

This one was signed by Mari Mayans.

[absinthist]

So, xould be sold fer much much more.

[Bognoz]

Now we know
who'll be sniping
for a bargain.

[absinthist]

DILLIGAF?

[Bognoz]

You look like you
'd have a hard
time gittin' one.

[Bognoz]

Speculumating on the
e-gad market might make
you more cuddle-able.

[absinthist]

Still 'tis just a speculation.

[mthuilli]

Oh boy, now they're making ugly Zippos

[G&C]

Better than ugly Zippy's.

[Zippy]

Indeed™!

[Crosby]

Looks like a real bargain.

[G&C]

Plus, lighter fluid always makes the pot taste like xit!

[Kirk]

"Not available on eBay"
"Sold only over seas"

[Wild Bill Turkey]

He's selling two zippos, both from the same source (although that one isn't on the website anymore, so maybe they finally ran out of them). I thought they were heinously, laughably overpriced before, in addition to being butt-ugly, but this guy's set a new standard for gouging the rubes. He's going after the La Fée XS crowd.

[RedBastid]

butt there's a chance for you to change all that!

the Absinthe Artwork Competition 2007

Absinthe Competition Prizes

Best absinthe image wins a CASE OF FINEST C Z E C H ABSINTHE!!!, chromium plated absinthe spoon and two traditional absinthe glasses.............................

Edited by RedBastid, 27 January 2008 - 05:19 AM.

[mthuilli]

Buy it now for only $499!
Yea cool.

[absinthist]

Worth the starting bid only, I suppose.

[Kirk]

No.

[Kirk]

eBay crap, again

[TheGreenOne]

Still beautiful.

[Kirk]

Anyone here know about a virus called Daily digest, I had an e mail with that title and I deleted it without opening,
today, I had an e mail from a friend, (i thought) but it looked like a duplicate,
I opened it and it was the daily digest, it had swiped my mail header and used it to get me to open.
Now I can't get rid of the S.O.B.

[Kirk]

It seems to be a virus that has taken hold of my mail box, and is trying to sell me mostly virus protection.

[Helfrich]

Can't help you there. I'm on Linux so to me a virus is just a sub-microscopic parasitic agent consisting of some nucleic acid within a protein capsid, that reproduces after infecting a host cell.

[Bognoz]

The Dutch guy's got
the low-down down on
the Boggy Tits. Fits 'im
to an illness giving T.

[absinthist]

Huh? Off yer meds again?

[Bognoz]

Must be. As usual
yr making me sick.

[absinthist]

If I were that sensitive as ya, Buggy, seein' a glimpse of yer posts, I wood be pukin' my entrails out, butt I do not do it; I simply ignore yer thru hat-talk.

[Bognoz]

Butt yr gutless, so there
goes that theory, scienTits.

[Bognoz]

Sorry, misspelled "clueless"

[absinthist]

Dumass™.

[Bognoz]

Fine by me.
Yr a dumass™.

Whatever
suits you bestest.

[absinthist]

Um, no. I am a Pinhead, ya are a NOROM™. Hasn't it been settled already?

[Bognoz]

That's right, I'm no
Rom. Did someone say
I was?

[Louched Liver]

Thru Hat Talk
is a casino in
CT.

[Bognoz]

Wanna bet?

[Louched Liver]

Odds are I don't.

[Bognoz]

You'd prolly win.

[sixela]

I simply ignore yer thru hat-talk.

You seem to ignore people in quite long winded manner...

[Louched Liver]

Much ado 'bout doo-doo.

[Bognoz]

Well, poo on you
party-pooper.

[Kirk]

Speaking of poo, my cane auction went all the way to 500 some dollars,
pretty risky bidding, considering the scrap yard would pay nearly $3000.
Some of the stuff that does sell is bewildering though.

[Crosby]

It sux that the fucker didn't pay you.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Old Absinthe Spoon from all the way back in 2006, when it was made for the Boveresse festival. Obviously the poor spoon has fallen on conspicuously hard times since then.

[absinthist]

And that 1 USD banknote is what? Free gift or used instead of wrappin' paper?

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[Bognoz]

It's used for something called "perspective,"
which, of course, you wdn't be expected to unnerstand.

It shows that the spoon is shrinking daily.

[absinthist]

Corossion of brain=corossion of spoon.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Collectible First-Batch bottle of St. George
At least the sales pitch is completely honest:

The value of this item is in the bottle and not the contents.

[Rimbaud]

Yeah, beautiful packaging at least.

[elfnmagik]

The value of this item is in the bottle and not the contents.

Finally, some truth in advertising.

[nephrite]

I recycled all of mine butt 2. Xit!
Then I finally tasted absinthe.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Absinthe Bottle Oil Lamp!!!

[Crosby]

That's something even Oxy's collection is missing.

[Rimbaud]

Primitive anal bead?

[absinthist]

How much is worth a full litre of Tarragona right now? Or a 50cl flask?

[Crosby]

Betty's asking $15k for the litre and $20k for the flask, onacuz it's much mo' rare.

[absinthist]

Butt what sum Frenchie might ask for?

[mthuilli]

Was overpriced (300€) and not even 50cl I think...

[Absinthe Ben]

http://cgi.ebay.com/...F...93:1|294:50

Looks like the little bitch even added his own "special touch" to the photo to make it seem more deviously ballztrippin'.

On the plus side, I won my auction on Point Blank for the Playstation 1 yesterday. yay.

[Crosby]

Even more T-bones! Sign Smuttty up.

[DrinkSlinger]

Funny,
but hey, AssPen, what does it have to do with absinthe (other than a minimal mention of wormwood)?

[Bognoz]

Kind of encapsulated most
of the conversation here
with that pithy observation.

[Absinthe Ben]

Funny,
but hey, AssPen, what does it have to do with absinthe (other than a minimal mention of wormwood)?

It was in the shoppe of that guy who sells full bottles of absinthe on eBay. I was going to rip on one of the poopball's horrible choices and ridiculous descriptions, but he actually had something good for a change in the form of Vieux Pontarlier, so I chose this instead. For the hell of it, maybe I'll check a few of the Filterated Czeckerland Xit kit listings before long. There should be something worth ridiculing there.

[Bognoz]

Why wd a kit
even be worth
the ridicule?

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Should I buy this "vintage" plastic cocktail monkey for $6, or get a bag of fifty new ones in different colors for $5?

[Crosby]

You c ouls get Heady P. to give it the dirty monkey treatment.

[Absinthe_1900]

Head always was on the leading edge of things

http://cgi.ebay.com/...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT

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[Absinthe Ben]

Gotta love those loopholes for selling alcoholic beverages on eBay, eh?

Nice monkey, though..

[Guy Faux]

COLLECTORS ONLY For The Lol.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...g-o...tn=3&ps=6

[The Owl]

Whenever you see an add on eBay that throws in the gratuitous 'From Hell' and 'Moulin Rouge' reference...


Run!

[HeeB-GeeB]

THIS LISTING COMPLIES WITH ALL EBAY RULES HAVING TO DO WITH COLLECTIBLE BOTTLES
which are as follows:

# The value of the item is in the collectible container, not its contents.
# The container has not been opened and any incidental contents are not intended for consumption.
# The item is not available at any retail outlet, and the container has a value that substantially exceeds the current retail price of the alcohol in the container.
# The seller will take all appropriate steps to ensure that the buyer is of lawful age in the buyer and seller's jurisdiction (generally 21 years of age).
# Buyers and sellers both ensure that the sale complies with all applicable laws and shipping regulations.

Well, as pointed out earlier, the E-Bay rules provide a sliver of truth to the bullshit.

Edited by HeeB-GeeB, 29 November 2009 - 09:42 PM.

[DrinkSlinger]

Ha! "Ban-Era".

It's funny that bottles made before the US acceptance of Absinthe are now referred to as "ban-era". Ooooh, I want one!

[G&C]

Anybody that is somebody already has one.
They're worthless now.

[Bognoz]

I've never been
prouder to be
a nobody.

[Wild Bill Turkey]

Liver's new Tiki Mug

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[GreyBoy2]

beautiful

[Crosby]

I grew my own...

[Stroller]

Arrived last week, I was the only bidder. Hammered copper, brass tip, tin lined & just the size I wanted.

[artemis]

Better be careful with that thing.

DUKE VINCENTIO: O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you
imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I
can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again.

LUCIO: I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,
friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if
Claudio die to-morrow or no?

DUKE VINCENTIO: Why should he die, sir?

LUCIO: Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish.

Bill Shakespeare - Measure for Measure

[Kirk]

I think I'm going to sell off my absinthe stuff, I'm keeping the spoons and glasses Cros gave me because they were a gift from him.
I've got an antique oxygenee pyrogene, an antique Y glass, 6 saucers, a toppette and 4 modern fountains. I also have about 60 bottles, most of them private labels and completely empty.
I'm keeping all my spoons so I can smash them in my press.

[Félix]

I'd be interested in the ~Why~ glass...

[Kirk]

I've actually got two of them, if you want them I won't list them. Give me whatever you think they are worth. one has a scratch on it from a diamond ring, the other doesn't.

[Félix]

I have no idea what they are worth.

[Kirk]

They are worth about 75 a piece to me but I doubt it will bring that on Ebay, should I list them and see?

[Kirk]

http://cgi.ebay.com/...=STRK:MESELX:IT

[Félix]

Yeah, go ahead and list em. They're only worth slightly more than the price of broken glass to me...

[Kirk]

That's probably about what they're worth, slightly more than a new one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/...=STRK:MESELX:IT
I have a bid for .01$ Sold!

[Kirk]

Never pay more than it's worth, I listed these things at no minimum bid. What they sold for is what they are worth.

[Kirk]

Of course, I payed (way the fucking god damn hell more) way more than that for them, years ago (many fucking).

[Bognoz]

Well, you know, it wuz prolly the dealers
who sez they're worth way fuckin' more.

The ones who bought 'em
and are gonna resell 'em.

[DrinkSlinger]

and there I was, happy for you. I guess it shows I have no clue.

[Kirk]

2 Beautiful antique absinthe glasses sold for 10.50 each, 1 tenth of what they cost me. I was going to give them away anyway, glad Spoon ended up with them. I suppose it was the poor pictures and brief description, then again, that's prolly exactly what they are worth. I've got two that were a gift that I'll never part with.
Boggy, the dealers bid on some of the stuff but dropped out early.

[sixela]

Spoon's got a very good deal. I wouldn't have parted with them at that price.

[absinthist]

I have been given several absinthe-related gifts , but Artemis grille from Kirk is the most precious gift of them all. Kirk's da man.

[Louched Liver]

The gift you were never given is makin' it.

[absinthist]

What gift?

[Louched Liver]

*ding, ding, ding, ding!*

[Absomphe]

Oh, snap!

[Kirk]

"Spoon's got a very good deal. I wouldn't have parted with them at that price."
I appreciate that, but I did, and so did you.

[Kirk]

I've got a silver flask that weighs 10 ounces and only holds 125 ml, anyone interested, 600$. I made it for a friend of mine 6 years ago, he gave it back to me the other day along with all his other stuff, I guess he's checking out.

[Félix]

What's the price of silver, these days?

[G&C]

$34.68

[G&C]

Live Current Prices
Info Spot Commodity Last Change Chart Open High Low
Gold 1,490.00 15.00 1,505.00 1,510.00 1,483.00
Silver 34.68 0.22 35.37 35.91 33.93
Platinum 1,770.00 5.00 1,775.00 1,779.00 1,761.00
Palladium 712.00 5.00 715.00 721.00 707.00

[G&C]

If I had a dollar x 600...

[Kirk]

You want it? It's yours.

[Kirk]

I thought you had one, I'm slipping.

[G&C]

I don't have any $$ to cover you with.

[Kirk]

I made one for Bruce and engraved a rendition of this on it, from Lautrec Fest. I'd show you a picture but the shirt fluoresces too much, might burn your cornea.

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[Kirk]

Cool, you're just the person that should have it. I put it in a showcase right now, I can pull it after a week or so, if it doesn't sell, you can have sloppy seconds. Or, if that hurts I'll call the gallery and tell them to scratch it right now.

[Kirk]

He looks prettier in my picture.

[G&C]

Edited by G&C, 13 May 2011 - 01:26 PM.

[Kirk]

I'm thrilled with my EBay auction, got what I got, what it's worth, dredged up the memory of what I payed though, looking forward to the time when I forget.

[Louched Liver]

Give it a minute.

[Kirk]

Less than that.

[sixela]

"Spoon's got a very good deal. I wouldn't have parted with them at that price."
I appreciate that, but I did, and so did you.

Hey, at that price it would cost a bucketload more to ship them over the pond than you would get for them.

[Absinthe_1900]

This idiot thinks an Ojen bottle is an Absinthe, another retard thinks anything with L.E. Jung & Wulff embossed on the bottle, means absinthe, and money.


http://www.ebay.com/...US:1123#vi-desc

[Félix]

"...I'm not an expert..."

Edited by Félix, 09 December 2011 - 11:29 AM.

[Absinthe_1900]

http://cgi.ebay.com/...em=220968707023

Back again trying scam somone with the same bottle.

[Stroller]

http://www.ebay.fr/i...=item2a507999c9

[G&C]

I like the one that looks like a stall shovelspoon

Edited by G&C, 11 May 2015 - 09:35 PM.

[jaded prol]

or a spatula . . .

[G&C]

That one is also nice.

[TheGreenOne]

Whisky

[jaded prol]

Nice!

 

 

 

But not that nice.

[TheGreenOne]

Oh but it would be so very that nice if only I were the seller of that bit of artificial scarcity.

[jaded prol]

True enough. I like The Macallan but it isn't worth more than $75.00 a fifth.

[TheGreenOne]

The 12 is on sale for $60 at the county store but still I think I'll pass though I would enjoy any free pours poured my way.

[artemis]

Is "Whisky" the right title? "Work of alleged art that's actually a label"?