http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...cal&id=6832106 (http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...cal&id=6832106)
(http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wls/cms_exf_2007/news/local/6832700_600x338.jpg)
(http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wls/cms_exf_2007/news/local/6832689_600x338.jpg)
How awesome would that be?
Quote from: Sinister on May 27, 2009, 10:52:36 AM
How awesome would that be?
right? so cool.. 2.3 mill and its going to fetch more then that I bet
is there a rotted out ferrari california in the ravine?
Quote from: MrFry - Cycles on May 27, 2009, 11:03:39 AM
is there a rotted out ferrari california in the ravine?
More like a rotted out Volkswagen Beetle with a fiberglass overbody on it. [laugh]
It doesn't really look like a house, more like a glass box. :-\
Quote from: Sinister on May 27, 2009, 11:11:43 AM
More like a rotted out Volkswagen Beetle with a fiberglass overbody on it. [laugh]
it was a mg, not a vw.
Quote from: derby on May 27, 2009, 11:31:46 AM
it was a mg, not a vw.
Thinking about it, that makes more sense; that was a pretty small car. Good catch.
Quote from: Ducaholic on May 27, 2009, 11:29:53 AM
It doesn't really look like a house, more like a glass box. :-\
Glass box? You were lucky! We grew up in a hole in the ground with a piece of tarpaulin stretched over it!
Quote from: Ducaholic on May 27, 2009, 11:29:53 AM
It doesn't really look like a house, more like a glass box. :-\
That's just the detached garage...
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 27, 2009, 11:39:43 AM
Glass box? You were lucky! We grew up in a hole in the ground with a piece of tarpaulin stretched over it!
A PIECE OF TARPAULIN? BOY, WERE YOU LUCKY! We didn't even have a hole. We lived in the middle of a road. Every morning we would have to lick the road clean, with our tongues.
All that money and it isn't even a Mies or Philip Johnson house
Here's the Google Street View of the house.
Cameron's House (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=370+Beech+Street+highland+park&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.726391,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=42.173709,-87.785676&spn=0.008397,0.013733&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=42.173778,-87.785564&panoid=PfqD_JihFuIJ3uSBgccGMg&cbp=12,329.77,,0,-0.91)
Quote from: Sinister on May 27, 2009, 11:50:30 AM
A PIECE OF TARPAULIN? BOY, WERE YOU LUCKY! We didn't even have a hole. We lived in the middle of a road. Every morning we would have to lick the road clean, with our tongues.
And work 23 hours a day at the old mill
Quote from: Vindingo on May 27, 2009, 12:19:42 PM
All that money and it isn't even a Mies or Philip Johnson house
Ya but Ferris was there!
Quote from: CairnsDuc on May 27, 2009, 12:51:08 PM
And work 23 hours a day at the old mill
After which father would beat us within an inch of our lives and send us to bed without any supper.
Quote from: Sinister on May 27, 2009, 01:46:34 PM
After which father would beat us within an inch of our lives and send us to bed without any supper.
And we didn't have a glass to drink out of! We had to suck on a bit of damp cloth.
Forget storing bike in the garage, I wish I could live there.
You had a road??? phfffht!
We lived in a graveyard. Every Monday we'd go off and dig ditches, 24 hours a day, all week long. Saturday too. Then, Sunday morning, our Da would cut our throats and kill us and we could lie down for a day. Then, Monday, back to digging. No food, of course, and we had used motor oil to drink.
The MLS listing (http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563). This realtor missed a really good opportunity to have a sense of humor
"Georgeous 4-4 surrounded by trees! Like a museum - Very beautiful and very cold. You should not touch anything! Perfect for families! Emotionally distant families!"
I would buy that house and hold car launching parties. I would buy ten-year-old Hyundais and raffle off tickets to act out the Cameron kills the Ferrari scene.
Might as well have the whole thing:
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine,
ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin'
here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup
o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a
rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money
doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to
live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one
room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the
floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for
fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a
corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a
palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish
tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting
fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered
by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and
live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty
of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home,
out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in
the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to
work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad
would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we
were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox
at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues.
We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four
hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we
got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night,
half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump
of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill
owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home,
our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves
singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't
believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
That just made my day ;D
Quote from: The Architect on May 27, 2009, 01:27:27 PM
Ya but Ferris was there!
Yeah, but think of all the other places he's been since then.
(http://magicmafia.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/01.jpg)
Not necessarily a selling point.
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 05, 2009, 08:28:32 AM
Yeah, but think of all the other places he's been since then.
(http://magicmafia.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/01.jpg)
Not necessarily a selling point.
That's not right! What did that horse ever do to you that it deserved an insult like that?
For "A few hundred grand more" the broker will throw in a Ferrari? The one in the clip that books @ $50k?
Ferris Bueller's House is for sale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBgoIIhfJM#ws-lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
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