I had a very rough week last week, buying, selling and trying to explain to ers a little of what goes on in my world of selling on . I got many emails from people going \"Oh, you are SO funny! I peed in my pants reading your descriptions of the people you deal with going to tag sales! You should be a comedy writer!\" WHAT writing? Every word was true! So I decided that my descriptions every week will introduce you to a few more of the Scum-Of-The-Earth Gang, the people I have to spend my weekends standing on lines in front of Long Island\'s finest (and worst) homeslying with to bring you this crap I offer on . One of my personal favorites is \"Flow-Blue Maxine\". She\'s called this because she collects old ironstone ware that has a white base glaze with cobaltblue decorations that are so old that the blue is running, or\"flowing\" into the white glaze,making it distorted. Currently, there\'s a cartoon character on t-shirts and agreeting card seriesof a cranky old woman named Maxinewith glasses that basically says \"F*** You!\" all the time. This IS Flow-Blue Maxine with only 2 small differences:Our Maxinedoesn\'t have glasses, and she chain-smokes. I\'m sure one of her kids is responsible for the cartoon character. Of all of the SOE gang, I consider her a friend. She\'ll greet me with a friendly \"How are you, S***head? Get anything yesterday?\" Sometimes, we\'ll meet at her house to exchange things we may have bought for each other in our travels, or to glean information onthe crap we bought. She has several dogs with her exact disposition, yapping and trying to bite me non-stop. I continue the friendship so that her husband will one daysell me cheaply all the stuff she\'s bought over the years when she\'s no longer around, as he hates the stuff. I keep trying to tell her she\'s senile, and should consider an Adult Facility, but she\'s not buying. Someday.....Another character is Radio Rob. Because he buys and sells old radios! Are you people paying attention, here? This guy is one of my UN-favorite characters. He\'s extremely obese,VERY loud and could not be any more abrasive and obnoxious. Oh, yeah! AND he stinks and smokes on line, too. And if you have the nerve to ask him to stepaway while he smokes, he\'ll start cursing you out. This is a guy with absolutely NO redeeming qualities. He\'ll regale everyone on line with lies about all the great \"scores\" he got at full volume at 7 AM, and every other word is fu** or fu*****, and you\'re a captive that cannot leave, or you won\'t get the \"stuff\". One time, we were crowded onto a wrap-around porch at the door of a sale at a 125 year-old house, when the porch let go under Radio Blob. He was stuck up to his waist in the splintered wood, and people started grabbing his arms and whatever to help him out. But justthen, the door opened for the sale, and he was summarily instantlyabandoned, the line passing him by on both sides, like a truck in the middle of the road filling potholes. A classic! He DID eventually get out. I think. Anyway, that enough for THIS week. This item is one I got from an early 1800\'s farmhouse in an oceanfront town on Long Island. There were 2 houses with barns, sheds, outhouses and even vehicles to dig through. THIS item isa WEIRD ANCIENT \"MEDICINE\" BRASS SCARIFIER or MULTI-FLEAM BLOOD-LETTING MACHINE. You think MODERN medicine is bad? All these commercials on TV saying \"Ask your doctor if Zyzznyx (they LOVE to use x\'s, y\'s and z\'s in the drug names!) is right for you!\" A month later, there\'s an ad for a law firm there \"Did you take the drug Zyzznyx and die or experience any adverse affects from loss of sleep to sneezing? Call our law firm! You MIGHT be entitled to a large cash award!\" Enough from our sponsors! back to the item! It measures 1 7/8\" by 1 5/8\" and has 12 slots on the bottom. You pull the \"trigger\" on top, and 6 blades come out of the slots, ready tocut 6 matching, and beautifully-spaced gashes in your arm (or whatever). I don\'t know what the OTHER 6 slots are for, and I don\'t want to know. As you might have guessed by now, I\'m not all here, and this thing even scares ME! This thing should be used in a deli to make julienne strips of cold cuts or something! I didn\'t open it up to see what\'s inside. Any questions? Check out my OTHER listings! I might have even MORE bizarre things!A few things before you offer: Please read the entire description and look at the pictures carefully.Most of the items I offer are antique. Ibelieve I\'m an honest guy, and I try to describe and picture every as honestly as possible. I note every flaw I find. If you have any questions, please don\'t wait until the last minute to ask them. I go to bed early, and I\'m usually asleep whenmy sales end. Finally, I don\'t make any money from the -estimated shipping costs. If actual shipping turns out to be less than quoted, OR if you win more than 1 item and it\'s possible to ship them together, I will refund the difference back to the buyer AFTER shipping. This weeks bad joke:I stopped at a yard sale on my way home last week. While looking at the stuff laid out in the yard I spot a sign, \"Talking Dog for Sale\".So, jokingly, I say to the homeowner \"You have a talking dog for sale?\"\"Yup!\" says the homeowner \"He\'s out back. Go check him out!\"I go around the house, and spot a regular-looking dog, cleaning himself.\"So!\" says I \"You\'rethe talking dog, eh?\"The dog looks up and says \"That\'s right! And I\'ve had a really exciting life! I discovered and developed my gift at an early age. Then, the government found out about me, and put me to work! I mean, who would suspect a dog, right? I eavesdropped on drug dealers at the airports for the DEA! I did advance spying for Desert Storm for the DOD, and caught crooked politicians and counterfeiters for the FBI! Yes, I\'ve had an exciting life, all right! But I\'m retired now, I met a nice bitch, and we just had a litter of pups!\" I run back around the house to the owner. \"How much for the dog?\" I ask. \"5 bucks!\" says the man.\"FIVE BUCKS! For a talking dog? Why so cheap?\"\"He\'s such a liar! He never didANY of that stuff!\"