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It seems time to revive this name.
Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).
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Welcome back. :)
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Did you sell all your books or was that part of the ploy?
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CarlJung wrote:Did you sell all your books or was that part of the ploy?


They did not all sell. I have maybe 40 or 50 left. I did sell over 200 books and about half the Go Worlds. You can see what is left by looking at http://www.onlineauction.com/store/FloydPreciousMetals.

I did make several thousand dollars on what I sold and bought silver with it at prices much lower than current prices so I ended up making a very nice profit overall.
Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).
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DrStraw wrote:I did make several thousand dollars on what I sold and bought silver with it at prices much lower than current prices so I ended up making a very nice profit overall.

congrats, and welcome.
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Welcome. ( But I have mixed feelings about saying that because I thought that you were iamnotwhoyouthinkiam. Now that you are not him, maybe it is Sakata? )
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:Welcome. ( But I have mixed feelings about saying that because I thought that you were iamnotwhoyouthinkiam. Now that you are not him, maybe it is Sakata? )

you should read the "When did you hit plateaus?" thread then
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xed_over wrote:
Joaz Banbeck wrote:Welcome. ( But I have mixed feelings about saying that because I thought that you were iamnotwhoyouthinkiam. Now that you are not him, maybe it is Sakata? )

you should read the "When did you hit plateaus?" thread then

That's hilarious. I never would have thought that Sakata and Dr. Straw were the same person. I was pretty sure that IAmNotWhoYouThinkIAm was Sakata but... Yes, well played indeed. And to think, I bought some books from you Sakata - you were so nice. I suppose another tip off should have been that he doesn't use eBay, a signature Sakata thing to do.

So how are we going to address you now Sakata-DrStraw-IAmNotWhoYouThinkIAm? How about "Hermes" - a god of many faces. I mean you're probably old enough to be a Greek god anyway, right? :mrgreen:
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Post by ross »

Glad to see you back in your "true" form. :) I must say I've long suspected this, and when IANWYTIA showed up it merely confirmed my suspicions. Welcome again!
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Maybe you should use a compromise nick, like DrStrakata.
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A great mystery has been solved. Welcome (again) :).
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I think it's time now to reveal that sol.ch. (araban) and Joaz are in fact the same person. When you think that he played a Malkovich game against himself just to confound us...
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Wait, Dr. Straw and Dr. Straw Book Sales were the same person? :)
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Tryphon wrote:I think it's time now to reveal that sol.ch. (araban) and Joaz are in fact the same person. When you think that he played a Malkovich game against himself just to confound us...


Oh come on, it's time "we" stop this nonsense and start taking "our" meds. We all know there's only one member of this forum. "We" just have a very complex dissociative identity disorder. The real reason we left GD was because we just couldn't stand all our other 4000+ personalities. Damn, We're talking to ourselves again. :-?
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DrStraw wrote:I ended up making a very nice profit overall.

Bigger than a 20 point corner? ;-)

Anyway, howdy Doc, good to see you.
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