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On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:33:32 -0500, Sqwertz >
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>On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:52:57 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
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>> Gary W's LTH form went for the 40 grand. There's a thread over in
>> chi.eats about it. I don't do AFB currently so you may want to pass
>> it along. The whole thing is very weird.
>>
>> <http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-lth-forum-sold-for-40000-20110629,0,1963550.story>

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>Got it, thanks. I'm surprised it went for that much, but I think the
>buyers knew they were just "donating" the money, practically. They
>could have bid lower.


The folks over in chi. are kinda confused too. Gary didn't even think
it was worth anything I guess. It's never made any money. It seems
he's made some friends along the way as well as ****ing his lawyer
friend off.

>And people who thought about buying it to commercialize it, they knew
>everybody would bail on it out of spite.


So it seems.

Lou