Balaram,

I am so looking foward to going out and giving this a try too. Hopefully in ~5-6 weeks I'll be able to post a report of my own. Thanks for sharing your experiances here.

Steve

Sounds like a very successful Sunday!

Congratulations!

How envious I am! Enjoy!

Bill

Doug Higley is cool.

Doug Higley is GOD.

Any of the following will fit much better though I do accept 'cool':

Old

Fat

Broke

News:
I have it on good authority the Mr. Ligon is about to join the 'family' due to an
Anonnymous Angel...hmmm

Doug Higley is a cool, old, fat, and broke GOD. Just the way I like my gods.

Hm...Mr. Ligon doesn't yet own a Higley? My goodness.

I'm horny for my next paycheck. TRUTH. And when I get it, I'm a orderin some Higleys.

I apparently posted at the same time as Stoneunhinged, and mine vanished.

I'll try again!

Anonymous Angel, I don't know how to thank you enough. I am both pleased and embarrassed by your wonderful gesture, but I thank you with all my heart.

Doug, I also am

Old

Fat

Broke

but sometimes someone like the Anonymous Angel comes along and restores your faith in humanity. Thank you, again, Angel!

Stoneunhinged, I do own a Higley shrunken head that my son gave me just recently. I treasure it; my wife won't touch it, and that means a lot!

Bill

And, yes, Doug is COOL!

Bill

Magicians helping magicians...it IS the Café...don't let anybody tell ya different./ This bunch in spooky is the best of 'em all.

I've been the recipient of an Anon Angel myself as you know. No need to be embarassed...people do what they do...sometimes it's a great thing.

I made an accidental donation myself recently of a Zibit to someone who couldn't afford it but wanted to buy one. So I made him a deal. I'll make the Zibit...he go out and show it and make the money then pay for the Zibit. As a rule I don't do that. Broke my own rule and naturally got it up the wazoo. I wound up donating it because he disappeared on me. He wrote that the show he did was not all that well attended blah blah blah...so I said no problem...just send it back then, no biggie. He said "OK I'll send it next week." Then promptly disappeared from the Café and the earth. Never heard from him again. or the Zibit. Takes all kinds. Of course I'll never do that again, can't afford to...they ruin it for everybody. I should post his name.

I've flat out donated befiore though...like to Slim and a couple of others. Got to take care of the brothers...it all comes around.

Sorry to hear about that. I once lost a lot of money also by "for once" deciding I was gonna help someone in need.

its a shame but then it ruins it for everybody else.

that's how it is.

it takes many to mke up a world.

It is too bad that there are people out there who abuse other people's kindness. Bill, I'm so glad that you have an Anonymous Angel looking out for you!

As has been stated before...there is a wonderful brother/sisterhood that exists in the spooky corner of the Café, and it does my heart good to see such a caring group of people.

Cheers to all of you.

Scenario...Bill takes the Zibit and makes a bunch of money...then has books written about him and parades and stuff...then he pays it forward.

Here's MY scenario:

I buy lots of Higley props, store them and care for them and admire them, and wait 20 or 30 years. It's 2043, and Doug is dead (or his head is frozen like Ted Williams'), and I SELL EVERYTHING for gazillions and live happily ever after.

It's a good plan, I think.

Of course, in 2043 I'll be 80. But advances in medicine will mean I will have another 50 years to live with the wealth from my Higleys. WAIT! Maybe Doug will also still be alive, and my Higleys will only be worth marginally more than what I paid for them. That sucks.

Doug: as my friend, I hope you live to be 216 years old!

But as an investor, I say: live a couple more years and accept all my commissions, then CROAK. I promise I'll donate a dollar or two to the charity of your choice.

I'll line up for the Bill & Doug Parade!

Bill, you are gonna LOVE it--the PERFECT Respite!

Just think about your posterity opening up the old trunk in the attic and discovering.....Great Grandpa was one weird, sick mother ****er! Holy ****! He collected dead monsters and...oh ****...are those human body parts????? Oh ****, should we call the FBI??

Now isn't that worth it just for that day?

I miss my sick mother********* of a gramps.......he sure did collect weird ****

I can't wait until my grand kids open up some old trunk long locked away in my attic. Mwaaaa-huaaa-huaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

I've just read the Zibit manuscript today, and I just can't wait to do it! In spite of having to take care of my elderly mother-in-law (she's only 16 years older then me!), my wife has agreed to letting me have weekends free to show the Zibit! Wheee!

Angel and benefactor, I can't express my gratitude as I wish I could. I just don't have the words, but thank you so very much!

Bill

Bill,

I'm very glad that you're joining the family of zibiters (many thanks to Bill's agent) I'm looking foward to a logging of your experiances here. I'm still a virgin but I've got a tent to practice with now!