Shop Goodwill Auction Site Online

[Oggie]

Possibly *everyone else* knows this, but I learned yesterday that Goodwill Industries has an online auction site. It is called shopgoodwill.com and there are currently several open auctions for fountain pens & related items.

I'm not affiliated--saw it on the television news.

[GClef]

It's too bad this guy doesn't know enough to show the top of the nibs. It looks like that Eversharp might be extra fine, and perhaps *gasp* flexible!

[inkstainedruth]

I was not aware of this site. There are definitely a couple of things worth considering bidding on -- with the caveat of course that I suspect the condition of the items are "as is", and being sold by folks less knowledgeable than some of the Fleabay sellers I've run across (although there was a book search place I dealt with once, years ago, out in Ohio: when asking about a specific needlework book, which was priced for a lot less than I'd seen elsewhere -- possibly because it was the German edition -- the response was along the lines of: "Uhh, it's a needlework book. It's in German...."

Thanks for posting the info (my wallet, however, probably does *not* thank you). My husband will most certainly will not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[BeWitz]

hahah agreed

[inkstainedruth]

Ah, well, got outbid. Feels just like Ebay....

And no, I'm *not* going to tell any of you what it was -- because I don't want yinz to outbid me any *further*. Or gloat if you're the one who did it....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Biff]

"

Ah, well, got outbid. Feels just like Ebay....

And no, I'm *not* going to tell any of you what it was -- because I don't want yinz to outbid me any *further*. Or gloat if you're the one who did it....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"yinz" ?

[BeWitz]

thats sick

[inkstainedruth]

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"yinz" ?

"Yinz" is Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania slang for the 2nd person plural (which isn't mostly used in the US except in slang forms (the New York area version is "youz", as in "youz guys"; down South it's "y'all" and occasionally "all y'all").

Living out here on and off for the past quarter century or so, I've picked up some colloquialisms, of which that's one. But I do keep my New York roots in some things: "pop" is a verb, for what you do to corn you eat at the movies -- it is *not* stuff to drink, IMO (that's "soda")....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

Edited November 13, 2013 by inkstainedruth

[Biff]

I say soda too, not pop, and I've heard of all the 2nd person plurals you mentioned (but never use them), but never heard of yinz before. I'm in the upper midwest.

[inkstainedruth]

I say soda too, not pop, and I've heard of all the 2nd person plurals you mentioned (but never use them), but never heard of yinz before. I'm in the upper midwest.

It really is pretty specific to this area, along with saying things like "That (x) needs fixed" (as opposed to either "needs fixing" or "needs to be fixed"; and "redding up" (which means "cleaning" or "straightening up").

There was a movie a few years ago (forget the name of the movie, but it had to do with a political scandal) where Russell Crowe played a crime reporter in the DC area who was originally from Pittsburgh -- the character kept correcting people and saying he was a "yinzer"!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Letterpress]

No international shipments. Sigh.

[Biff]

Interesting. Of course every area has its own colloquialisms and speech patterns. Someone (by telephone) once remarked that they had some difficulty following my accent. Stupidly I replied that I had no accent!

[DanDeM]

Southern California with its large Mexican-American core can produce some odd moments.

Someone once told me that their shop is located on Trohan Street. Asked her to spell it.
She said TROJAN.

Since then I've called a friend whose last name is Jones, HONEZ.

[raging.dragon]

"Yinz" is Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania slang for the 2nd person plural (which isn't mostly used in the US except in slang forms (the New York area version is "youz", as in "youz guys"; down South it's "y'all" and occasionally "all y'all").

Living out here on and off for the past quarter century or so, I've picked up some colloquialisms, of which that's one. But I do keep my New York roots in some things: "pop" is a verb, for what you do to corn you eat at the movies -- it is *not* stuff to drink, IMO (that's "soda")....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

 

Slang aside, the English second person singular and plural pronouns are the same: you.

Edited December 12, 2013 by raging.dragon

[wvbeetlebug]

I did not know of this site either and I am an avid Goodwill shopper.

 

You'z guyz are crazy. All ya'll! LOL!