Word: auctioning
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...nephew and uncle) and look for another subplot that will utilize Kramer and Elaine. David assembles the few writers who are around on Sunday for an emergency brainstorming session. Robin suggests that Jerry's bad haircut force him to cancel some plans with Elaine. Larry Charles proposes a bachelor auction for charity; when Jerry can't go, Elaine has to take Kramer instead...
Among yard sales of the rich and famous, this is one to watch. Next week Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis hopes to raise about $8 million at a Sotheby's auction to be held over nine days in the 500-room palace she calls home in Regensburg, Germany. To make the last payment on taxes of $40 million owed after the death of her billionaire husband Prince Johannes in 1990, the princess, once known for punk and profligacy, is offering a 4,000-lot array of paintings, jewelry, silver, furniture, liveried uniforms and ball gowns, as well...
...meals with the huge gold eating utensils around his neck (he takes his drink from a gold and diamond goblet, the idea for which he got "from the Pope"), and he uses the diamond and gold Rolex he bought for $8,000 cash at a Federal Marshal's auction to keep the time (although the date does not seem to work). To settle all the rumors about the reasons for his appearance that have undoubtedly floated around the campus community over the past decade, here is the truth in the words of Mr. T himself...
...found where he was storing it, talked to the general manager of the storage place," Nino said. "He said the All-Pro guy hadn't paid him in months and that he was close to putting our stuff up for auction. So we explained everything to him, rented a few rental trucks and went down there on Labor...
...this particular whale, the track led directly up the coast of Norway -- and on June 17, into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International Whaling Commission...