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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the famous agricultural journalist Mr. Leroy van Dyke performing Auctioneer, in 1956 (2:48). Interestingly, perhaps, Auctioneer sold over 2.5 million records. How much would you bid for that? But wait, there’s more. Here, veritably straining your delectation, is footage from the Top Livestock Auctioneers Competition, in 2008 (5:14). Personally, I like Mr. Ty Thompson, from Billings, Montana, best. By the way, that’s called the Auction Chant. What a species 😉

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

39 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. If you notice on the comments, my handle is “stubbleking.” I agree with Kate–Ty Thompson of Billings is tops!

  3. Technically, Jack, you agree with Vitruvius, since it was Vitruvius who posted that, not Kate. After all, Kate might like Lance Cochran, from Medford, Oklahoma, or one of the other chaps, best. Just for the record, I’m saying.

  5. Reminds me of when I was young and accompanied a young lady to an auction. She was furnishing her first place. Rough neighbourhood so she wasn’t going alone. I wasn’t aware of what the H was going on until the auctioneer informed her she was bidding against herself. She furnished an apartment for about 75 bucks.

  7. I attended the huge Richie Bros auction here in Kelowna last summer. Amazing !!
    The main Auctioneer keyed on about another six spotters who intensely watched their section of the crowd. In rapid-fire like action, the bids, sometimes a hundred grand at a crack, came pouring in. Internet bids also. But it was all kept straight and fair.
    The biggest ticket – a smallish lake front residential lot sold for about $1.3 million. $600k machines rumbled up and we’re sold in a minute or so.
    Worth while attending a Richie sale just for the experience. Biggest auction outfit in the world – all started in Kelowna with a small store closing out auction.

  9. The New GM: Socialist Motors
    I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m very disturbed by what happened with GM today. I’ve put together a short piece which brings together a number of related factoids.
    For example, are you aware that ‘Brian Deese’ is the new Henry Ford? Obama seems to think so.
    Disturbing times we live in!

  15. The Obama Infatuation
    Robert J. Samuelson, who is definitely not any sort of right wing zealot, has written a stunning indictment of the MSM.
    Here’s the opening paragraph:
    “The Obama infatuation is a great unreported story of our time. Has any recent president basked in so much favorable media coverage? Well, maybe John Kennedy for a moment, but no president since. On the whole, this is not healthy for America.”

  16. Leftist Environmental Hypocrisy
    Turns out that the environmental rules we’re all supposed to follow don’t apply if you’re a Leftist activist & multi-millionaire.
    Laurie David, wife of Seinfeld co-creator, Larry David, has been fined for violations against a Wetland Protection Act. Full story here

  17. Listening to an auctioneer is how it must be in Democratic Caucuses when they are deciding how much money to tax.
    We have 5%, I see 6, 6%, can I get 7? 7 anyone 7? I have 7, 8, 8, 9 , I have 9 , 10! Thanks Ms Boxer, I have 10, going once, 10 going twice and Sold a 10% increased tax rate on the top bracket!
    Ok we start the progressive taxation brackets as a reverse auction, 250, can I get 250, 250 from the Speaker, can I get 240 who wants to see the bracket at 240? I have 240, 230? Can I see 230…

  18. It’s the 35th anniversary of the Globe & Mail’s decision to torpedo the election campaign of Robert Stanfield, the best Prime Minister we never had, by publishing the football fumble photo on the front page, thus handing the election to Trudeau. Doug Ball shot 36 pictures of Stanfield throwing, catching and, once, awkwardly fumbling the football. “Ball won an NNA for the Stanfield photo, but it is one he now says he regrets taking.”

  19. Hey, just a brief announcement … my show trial begins soon, I am supposed to bow down to my Liberal lords and masters starting on June 16th in Ottawa. I am told it used to be the capital of a free country some time back in the past.
    All details are available as they happen over on Free Dominion.
    Anyone familiar with successful counter-revolutionary strategies that individuals can use against G-7 nations, give me a shout.

  23. Oh Happy Day! A SDA reader would have to doublecheck to see if have read this wrong: “CBC, Via Rail flagged for possible sale…”. This a hope and change story by Andrew Mayoda in today’s National Post. He even mentions the National Arts Centre, to boot.
    Cue the Friends of CBC, Arts groups and other progressive types in three, two, one…

  24. Goreacle’s QuotesOTD:
    1. Environment Canada “is confident temperatures will remain below normal for the final two weeks of spring.”
    2. “predicting the June, July and August forecast gets “hazy””.
    “Cooler Summer in the Forecast
    Environment Canada warns the summer could be cooler, and wetter than normal in Ottawa.
    Meteorologist Peter Kimbell tells CFRA News predicting the June, July and August forecast gets “hazy”, but the forecast calls for below normal temperatures and above average rainfall.
    Kimbell says the agency is confident temperatures will remain below normal for the final two weeks of spring.”
    http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=65583
    …-
    “After Challenge, Scientist who boasted he could ‘slaughter’ skeptics in debate backs off from debate
    By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, a prominent proponent of man-made global warming fears, appears to be backing off of his boast that he could “slaughter” skeptical scientists in a global warming debate. In a May 24, 2009 interview, Schneider publicly boasted any skeptical scientist would be “slaughtered in public debate” against him.
    But after many dissenting scientists happily took up the debate challenge, it now appears Schneider is shying away from any such debate. [Editor’s Note: Climate Depot has received numerous notes from scientists eager to accept Schneider’s debate challenge in the past week.]
    “I certainly will not schedule some political show debate in front of a non-scientific audience,” Schneider told the San Francisco Examiner in a follow up June 1, 2009 article.
    “A presidential like debate format with shallow staccato jibes and no nuanced arguments, no–confusion only in that style. I never do those anymore,” Schneider explained.
    “If [Climatologist] Roger [Pielke Sr.] wants a debate, he can set one up at the American Meteorological Society meeting or the American Geophysical Union meeting and if dates work I’ll be happy to go and will encourage others like Ben Santer or Kevin Trenberth to join in. That I would do,” Schneider now asserts.
    Schneider explained: “Some of the skeptics are going ballistic over my admittedly too provocative word ‘slaughter’–though given the framing I said I believe it would happen. But they misquote me in saying I challenged them to a debate. I challenged them to go to a legitimate scientific meeting with a knowledgeable audience and challenge from the floor with a room full of experts. I think they would be pretty unhappy with the outcome.”
    Below is Climate Depot’s May 24, 2009 report on Schneider’s debate challenge.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262515/posts

  25. Obama to Michelle: “Honey, I shrunk the Hillary”
    Obama Is Shrinking Hillary
    But she is shrinking by the day. Once Obama’s equal — and before that his superior — she now looks tiny compared to the president. She doesn’t look like a president in waiting; she’s more like a senior staff member hoping to rise in the bureaucracy. No longer at the head of a movement or the symbol of rising women all over the world, she has faded into the State Department woodwork.

  26. Did anyone else catch I’m-Peter-Mansbridge-and-you’re-not last night being the perfect shill for the Left?
    On The National’s piece on the recent passport legislation, requiring Canadians to have passports in order to enter the U.S., newly bespectacled Mansbridge pointed out that George Bush had not known about it.
    What he failed to note is that neither did Bill Clinton.
    From the CBC’s own Web site: “At one point during the event … both Clinton and Bush admitted they were surprised to learn Canadians and Americans will require a passport or an enhanced driver’s licence to cross into the United States as of Monday.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/29/clinton-bush-conversation-toronto.html
    But, media bias is just a figment of our paranoid imaginations, right?

  27. Iggy, the “astute” cosmopolitan. Correction: Iggy, the rootless cosmopolitan.
    Iggy, the Plumber “will want to pull the plug”.
    Wait until you see Iggy’s fees.
    Don’t worry ’bout it.
    Iggys’ News Service, with BYaffe as spokesman, says Iggy will “pounce” on those juicy consultants’ teabags and “pounce when the economy turns around”.
    Leave this for
    “the more politically astute Michael Ignatieff.”
    …-
    “Expect the Liberals to pounce when the economy turns around
    The Opposition will want to pull the plug on Parliament at an opportune moment and that probably won’t come until sometime next year”
    urlm.in/cnwy

  28. This is at the bottom of the MSM’s item:
    “Van Loan’s legislation allows suits dating back to 1985, the year of the Air India bombing which killed 320 people, mostly Canadians.”
    Watch the non-reaction from Liberal Iggy’s Boob Rae*. Will any Liberal skeletons fall out of the sky?
    Notice MSM’s use of “Tories”.
    …-
    “Tories introduce new anti-terrorism bill
    OTTAWA — The federal government is introducing legislation that would allow it to formally brand countries as sponsors of terrorism, opening them to lawsuits in Canadian courts.
    Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan revealed some details today about the anti-terrorism bill announced on the weekend by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
    The proposed law would sidestep the legal tradition which makes sovereign states immune to lawsuits.
    Van Loan says the legislation would allow Canadian victims of terrorist acts to seek damages against countries, organizations or individuals.
    He wouldn’t speculate which countries might be designated as terror sponsors, saying that will be up to cabinet.
    Van Loan’s legislation allows suits dating back to 1985, the year of the Air India bombing which killed 320 people, mostly Canadians.”
    urlm.in/cnyc
    …-
    *Flashback: “[Liberal] Minister McLellan announces inquiry into outstanding questions concerning the bombing of Air India Flight 182″
    “Air India review
    On April 26, 2005 , the Minister of Public Safety appointed the Honourable Bob Rae to provide her with independent advice on a way forward to answer outstanding questions of public interest related to the Air India crash.”
    http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/airs/airs-en.asp

  29. To: Vitruvius: Sorry!! I apologize–and it was a good treat to hear “The Auctioneer.!!” I think you’re “oversensitive.” They do have counselling for that you know!! And it was Kate who got this site going!

  30. MORe CBC HYPOCRISY:
    Yesterday, the gov. of Alberta passed Bill 44 that allows parents to pull a child out of school if they are not in agreement with the teacher’s course on issues such as religion, sex, politics etc. I don’t know if I agree with Bill 44, however part of my commenet on CBC.Ca was,
    “I wouldn’t want my kid going out into the world thinking that babies are found in the cabbage patch, the thing between daddy’s legs is a tire iron for an oil field truck, or that Jesus did actually walk on water.” (End of Quote.)
    Needless to say, my comment wasn’t published, although it may be by now, because I actually told the CBC.CA’s editor that I was going to write this.
    Question: Why are so many leftists opposed to Stelmach’s legislation that allows teachers to control what their kids are being taught? Yet they don’t oppose the CBC (or CBC.Ca) for suppressing our views on their site??

  32. batb at 9:01 am: iPeter was “newly bespectacled” last night because his teleprompter failed and he had to read the news the old fashioned way: from a sheaf of paper in his left hand. And he seemed to be having trouble reading it too: perhaps the spectacles needed to be de-mothballed. Of course the leftist spin, like a second skin, remained intact.

  34. Sandra Upson, Rockets for the Red Planet
    Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back
    Decades ago, Chang Díaz, who holds a Ph.D. in applied plasma physics, concluded that chemical rockets were a dead end, owing to their modest performance specs and huge appetite for fuel. Voyaging in a chemical rocket is the celestial analogue of drifting around the world on a yacht that got its one burst of speed by charging out of port like an angry elephant. It’s heavy, it’s inflexible, and it breaks all the rules of sensible travel. So in the late 1970s he began developing an alternative technology he calls VASIMR, for ”variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket.” In its most ambitious form, VASIMR would be a nuclear-electric rocket engine—a fission reactor with a plasma thruster that could potentially push people to Mars and back using a fraction of the propellant and time needed for a chemical rocket…

  35. Toomy Douglas: Not Dead Enough for a “re-do*”, er “redo**”.
    Where is the “cure” for cancer?
    Meanwhile, Taliban Jack*** LaytoNDP has gone to O “to spread virtues of Canadian universal health care”.
    …-
    “Quebec will likely re-do* breast cancer tests
    CTV.ca – ‎1 hour ago‎
    The Quebec government will likely have to redo** an untold number of breast cancer tests in the wake of a study that suggested some women may have received the wrong treatment for the disease due to faulty test results”
    …-
    ***”30 May 2009 … Jack Layton to spread virtues of Canadian universal health care to … “If Obama succeeds, it helps us hang onto our public health care …”
    http://www.macleans.ca/canada/wire/article.jsp?content=n293522824

  36. GOat Ops: submitted by TalibanGoat Jack O’LaytONDP.
    …-
    *”If word gets out that goats, for example, are being bred in the U.S. with nano transmitters in their bones, we might be able to starve the Taliban.”
    …-
    “Cdn charity sends 875 goats to Kenya – Canada – Canoe.ca
    24 May 2009 … “We commend you on your efforts to raise funds for the purchase of goats for needy Kenyan villages,” Campbell wrote. …
    cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/05/24/9552216-cp.html
    *”“Watch the skies””
    urlm.in/cnzc (Belmont Club)

  38. Know you know the rest of Liberal Iggy’s story.
    “Helene Desmarais, the wife of Paul Desmarais Jr., head of the Power Corp. of Canada;”
    Liberal Iggy is Mao Stlong*’s anointed heir; Power Corp. is the proxy.
    …-
    “The special guests who will preside over the fundraiser include Jacques Menard, chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns and president of the BMO Financial Group in Quebec; Helene Desmarais, the wife of Paul Desmarais Jr., head of the Power Corp. of Canada; and Pierre Roy, president of Chaines Tele Astral and a manager at Astral Media Inc. Tickets are being sold for $500 per person.”
    “Federal Liberals optimistic heading into Quebec fundraiser”
    urlm.in/coad
    …-
    Mao Stlong:
    “Maurice Strong
    Maurice Strong, United nations, oil for food, cordex, tonsung park, kyoto, … The Canadian company that Saddam Hussein invested a million dollars in …”
    http://www.canadafreepress.com/maurice-strong.htm

  39. Kate:
    There is a vote in the HoC tomorrow on a Bloc private members bill.
    http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3661337&Language=e&Mode=1&File=27
    Something to do with amending the official languages act to recognize bill 101 and that the federal government will do nothing to stop its implementation up to and including labour.
    Word is the Bloc is setting its sights on Iggy waiting to see if he votes against it because they figure Harper will not vote for it.
    Odd that I didn’t hear diddly about this from the MSM?

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