I hope I get this famous...or from the "Don't Drink the Water Because It's Worth Millions" file and Yahoo! News
Purported Elvis Water Brings $455 Bid on eBay
Wed Dec 29,10:13 AM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay.
The winning bid for the water was $455. He says he won't sell the cup. (Sudiegirl's note...cheap bastard...)
A 40-year-old resident of Belmont, North Carolina, Jones said he was 13 when he attended a Presley concert at the Charlotte Coliseum in February, 1977, six months before the death of the rock 'n roll icon.
After the concert, Jones went to the stage looking for a souvenir. A policeman gave him the plastic foam cup, from which he had seen Elvis drinking earlier, he said. (Sudiegirl's comment...of course, you should ALWAYS trust a cop, right? )
Jones said he kept the cup and water in his freezer until 1985, when he transferred the water to a vial and sealed it. Over the years, he said, he acquired a photograph of Elvis holding the cup at that concert as authentication for his claim. (Sudiegirl's note...and of course that proves EVERYTHING! It was that exact cup and that exact concert, huh? How could he tell that was the exact cup, anyway...did it have bite marks on it?)
"I promise this thing is 100 percent legitimate," Jones said. (Sudiegirl's note...and if you believe that, he's got some swampland in Florida to sell you, as well as a quaint bridge in New York.)
It was the $28,000 eBay sale of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich (ALSO STUPID! ) in which some people saw the image of the Virgin Mary (More like Ted Nugent to me) that persuaded him to auction off his Elvis water.
"I've been selling on eBay since 2000. People said you ought to sell that Elvis cup," Jones said. "When I heard the recent news ... about the grilled cheese sandwich, I kind of thought about it.
"I didn't get $28,000, it's true," he said of the winning bid on the 3-4 tablespoons of water. "But I'm happy." (Sudiegirl's question...was he dropped on his head as an infant or what?)
Jones said he got a lot of e-mails asking how much he wanted for the cup. He's not going to sell but is offering to allow the highest bidder to "exhibit" it for a short time. Minimum bid is $300.
"It's something I've had since I was 13 and I'm just not going to get rid of it," he said. (Sudiegirl's comment...let's just hope he's gotten rid of other things he's had since he was 13, otherwise he's going to have some explaining to do about the girlie mags, Hot Wheels and Star Wars action figures to his significant others.)
OK, hope you enjoyed my insertions...it just goes to show that the only way he could have made more money is if he had said that Dale Earnhardt had drunk out of that cup instead of Elvis. I don't know who's dumber...him for believing the cop that said, "Yeah sure, kid, Elvis drank out of it, and Jimmy Hoffa used those squares of toilet paper too..." or the dumb-ass that bought it from this guy on E-Bay.
Sorry if I sound cynical and don't appreciate this memorabilia, but if I were this guy's mother I would have made him throw out that damned cup and ice years ago, Elvis-tainted or not.
And with that note, I'll walk off into the sunset for today in my blue suede shoes to Heartbreak Hotel...
Sudiegirl
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