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October 12, 2006
Corvette vs Chess Club
Ebay auction for a car ad in a magazine that that says "Sure Beats Joining The Chess Club." It's for Corvette. (Chevy/GM) I'd say chess beats buying an impractical gas-guzzling sportscar you can only drive up to 75MPH anyway. Ooh, that yellow really matches your feelings of inadequacy. Quick Robin, to the midlife-crisismobile! There are already two bids, up to $8. If people in the chess club are losers, what does that make the people who buy car ads on the internet and put them on their wall?
Well, I suppose in this case it could make them chess fans. I could see putting that up over my thousands of chess books...
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Yeah, but can you go to the bathroom in the Corvette?
Posted by: Yuriy Kleyner at October 12, 2006 18:37Well if I could buy a Corvette for 30 quid it probably would beat joining a chess club. As it is I can probably join for a year for one gas tank full. Why not both?
Posted by: Mark Crowther at October 12, 2006 20:02Coming too close to a Corvette could sap your intelligence. I'd stay the hell away from this item.
Posted by: Chris Anderson at October 12, 2006 20:35Mark, thats a good point, but... a corvette? Surely chess players have better sensibilities. At that price, how about something European?
Posted by: Ellsworth Toohey at October 12, 2006 21:21Read the COMMENT in this Ebay auction from a chessfan. Crazy cool!
Posted by: Herbert Saul at October 12, 2006 21:35How about some Dirt on the Fischer - Karpov Gothic Chess Match announced on chess.fm today?
10 Mil to winner, 5 Mil to loser....If those numbers are right, I'd be PISSED if I was Kramnik or Topalov.
Who said Chess cannot get sponsors? So what if it's not ~really~ chess....
Comment was crazy lame, they're laughing at it.
Anyway I like Corvettes. A yellow Z06 is awesome. That car's shape is so beautiful it deserves a bright color. Wish I had one. Only problem with the Z06 is that the roof isn't removable (unlike the "normal" vette.)
Posted by: artichoke at October 12, 2006 23:32Haha, who would actually pay money for a car ad, how lame, almost as lame as the car itself. No wonder the american car industry is going bancrupt...
Posted by: Vidar Lund at October 13, 2006 00:20From the Ebay site: "This is an ad that probably didn't circulate too widely"... and you wonder why
Posted by: toguints at October 13, 2006 01:45To follow up on the subject of auctions - here's something cool - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6039806.stm
Posted by: Dimon at October 13, 2006 02:53Corvettes are not "gas guzzling". A 2007 Corvette gets an EPA rating of 28 MPG. Now go back to your 1974 Ford Pinto and try not to be depressed about your lack of station in life.
Posted by: ChessBat at July 15, 2007 02:19
