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Want to Buy a Town? Now you Can!

Started by InformationGeek, April 05, 2012, 11:38:44 AM

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InformationGeek

April 05, 2012, 11:38:44 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/05/us/wyoming-town-auction/index.html?npt=NP1

I say we all pool our money together and buy it!  We b-movie fans can rule our own little plot of land and as first order of business, we should rename it!  What would we call it?
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We live in quite an interesting age. You can tell someone's sexual orientation and level of education from just their interests.

Chainsawmidget

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April 05, 2012, 11:58:28 AM
Let's go for it! 

I'm willing to kick in ten or twenty bucks, but only on the condition that we have an official elected village idiot and town drunkard. 

Jack

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April 05, 2012, 12:07:49 PM
I'll kick in twenty bucks I suppose.  I'd even go as high as $25 if I can be the mayor.   :smile:
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

- Paulo Coelho

tracy

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April 05, 2012, 12:27:08 PM Last Edit: April 05, 2012, 12:34:48 PM by tracy1963
I'm in for $20....and a rename is needed. Although,if we named it Hooterville,folks might get the wrong idea. :teddyr:
Yes,I'm fine....as long as I don't look too closely.

RCMerchant

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April 06, 2012, 05:23:09 AM Last Edit: April 06, 2012, 05:25:32 AM by RCMerchant
Quote from: Chainsaw midget on April 05, 2012, 11:58:28 AM
Let's go for it!  

I'm willing to kick in ten or twenty bucks, but only on the condition that we have an official elected village idiot and town drunkard.  

I think it should be named Dunwich. And I'm in the running to be elected town drunkard ...or village idiot. Or both simutan...simotan...at the same time.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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InformationGeek

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April 06, 2012, 11:38:57 AM
Dammit!  It just got bought for $900,000.  Guess we won't be buying that town after all.   :bluesad:
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BoyScoutKevin

#6
April 06, 2012, 11:56:51 AM
Quote from: InformationGeek on April 06, 2012, 11:38:57 AM
Dammit!  It just got bought for $900,000.  Guess we won't be buying that town after all.   :bluesad:

Do you think whoever bought it would sell it to us, if we offered him or her $900,001? Of course, we'll need 1000 of us to put up $900 each, and one person to put up a $1.00. I'll put up the $1.00.

Jim H

#7
April 06, 2012, 12:08:46 PM
This actually isn't super rare...  Ghost towns used to get sold quite cheaply, as they'd be on worthless land in out of the way places.  Don't think this is so much the case anymore. 

Remember reading a short story about it once, where a guy tried to fleece a young man by selling him a worthless ghost town.  Turns out the "naive" young man bought it and ground up all the buildings for the tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold dust in the mortar.  Good stuff. 

:cheers:

Olivia Bauer

#8
April 18, 2012, 11:13:01 PM
Badmovieville

Everyone on the forum would have to move there.

Andrew - Mayor
Menard - Pimp
RC Merchant - RC Merchant
Circus Circus - Town crazy


The movie theaters only show bad movies, and you can't get kicked out for talking.

Chainsawmidget

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April 20, 2012, 10:01:33 AM
QuoteRC Merchant - RC Merchant
He runs a store that only sells RC cola and remote controlled toy vehicles?
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