Ladies and Gentlemen, Please welcome your new overlord...

Tom Dunne

For Sale: One Internet Bar, good turnover, popular with the locals, also serves food and has resident DJ.

Yore Ma's is your typical Irish bar, ideally located in the Rec category, on the popular website, Boards.ie. The bar is spacious enough, with plenty of seating areas, including a unique snug, popular with some of the older clientèle. Another unique feature is the outdoor roof garden, though not yet finished, will be ideal for those long Summer nights we are so used to in this country.

The clientèle range from your internet-aware 20-somethings, to your refined, 30-something professionals, with the occasional older, scoundrel/lecherous type who don't like to talk about their age, but love getting jiggy with the young people.

It also comes complete with a fully fitted kitchen, with all modern conveniences and an experienced chef from Antwerp.

It is expected that the current staff will remain in situ, seeing as nobody else would hire them, but that is open to negotiations.

Why is the owner selling? Boards.ie has a popular charity, the Santa Strike Force, and all proceeds of this sale will go to that charity.

The serious bit

This is an auction for The Santa Strike Force. The winner of the auction will donate the winning amount to SSF and in return, get modship of BGRH for a week (or longer/shorter if we like/dislike you ).

How to take part in the auction - post your bids on this thread, serious bids only, please. If you would prefer to PM me your bid, I can post an acknowledgement in the thread for you.

Latchy

:eek: Can see some serious bidders for this .

Heisenberg.

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Ruu_Old

15 europeans! Anything to keep it out of the clutch of one of them wimmens!

Saibh

Ruu wrote: »

15 europeans! Anything to keep it out of the clutch of one of them wimmens!

€20 :P

Tom Dunne

I am proxy-bidding for Lucy Lu who is in the US at the moment - €25.

Edit: didn't see Saibh sneak in there. Bid upped

copacetic

€30. I will reign with terror so outbid me or be banned...

Latchy

*Sticks hand up * £50


if only to say i once bid for yore ma's

Saibh

€55

6th

latchyco wrote: »

*Sticks hand up * £50


if only to say i once bid for yore ma's

What is that in €s?

Saibh

6th wrote: »

What is that in €s?

they must trade in £ in lapland

6th

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

Tom Dunne

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

Nope.

Latchy

6th wrote: »

What is that in €s?

About 85 euros ....roughly ? ( i haz no euro sign on keyboard )

Saibh wrote: »

they must trade in £ in lapland

Or reindeer meat

Zaph

latchyco wrote: »

About 85 euros ....roughly ? ( i haz no euro sign on keyboard )

Closer to €58 actually.

nkay1985

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

You could get that person to bid with the promise of refunding them I suppose?

Latchy

Zaph wrote: »

Closer to €58 actually.

typo error Think euros much stronger at moement .

Tom Dunne

Zaph wrote: »

Closer to €58 actually.

At today's rates, yes, it approximates to €58. So latchyco has the leading bid at the moment.

copacetic

so is the bid at 58 or not? can we stick to euros please?

if so, €60. I've never been happy with the direction BGRH went
after a good start, a blood letting would do it good. muhahaha

Saibh

€65

copacetic

Saibh wrote: »

€65

whats your gameplan Saibh? Reign of terror or
reign of luvey duvey hugs and kisses for non-manly behaviour?

Saibh

copacetic wrote: »

whats your gameplan Saibh? Reign of terror or
reign of luvey duvey hugs and kisses for non-manly behaviour?

no game plan* but you will be the first to know

*yet

copacetic

ok then, in lieu of a firm reign of terror treaty.

€70

Tom Dunne

Wow, bid via that venerable messaging system, SMS. How quaint.

Our anonymous benefactor wishes to bid €80.

(Note: all PMs and text messages can be verified or shown upon request, this is all above board, seriously)

Saibh

my final offer - €100

copacetic

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Wow, bid via that venerable messaging system, SMS. How quaint.

Our anonymous benefactor wishes to bid €80.

(Note: all PMs and text messages can be verified or shown upon request, this is all above board, seriously)

whens the end of auction Tom?

Tom Dunne

Saibh wrote: »

my final offer - €100

Wow! Fair play to you.

copacetic wrote: »

whens the end of auction Tom?

Probably Friday week, the 19th of December, I have to get onto to DeVore and find out when they plan the strike. It's usually the week/weekend before Christmas, AFAIR.

I will update the thread title when I find out for sure.

copacetic

right then, auction fever has died off based on that info. Will wait until last couple of days, can we make last bid a reasonable time of the day so people won't all be in the pub?

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

Saibh

copacetic wrote: »

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

+1

Hagar

Tom Dunne wrote: »

I am proxy-bidding for Lucy Lu

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf?

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Nope.

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

Tom Dunne

copacetic wrote: »

right then, auction fever has died off based on that info. Will wait until last couple of days, can we make last bid a reasonable time of the day so people won't all be in the pub?

Yeah, good point. I haven't thought this through fully. I'll wait until I hear back from DeVore and see what he says.

copacetic wrote: »

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

If the powers that be want to do it, not a bother. Again, I'll let DeV make the call on that one.

If everybody put a link in their signature, it would help spread the word too.

Tom Dunne

Hagar wrote: »

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

Feck off you and quit stirring. If I, or any of the mods receive a serious bid, we will post it here. We would like to keep it all above board and know who is bidding for who.

And on that very topic, our anonymous benefactor has upped the bid to €110.

*waves at mystery bidder*

I should point out that the mystery bidder is female (not Lucy Lu).

Lads, do we seriously want another female mod in here?

*runs for cover*

cHaTbOx

Hagar wrote: »

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

Steve

Tell you what Tom, I'll bid €120 and win or lose, it's going to this most excellent cause anyway.:)

Fair play to you, this is a great idea!

Nevyn

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Lads, do we seriously want another female mod in here?

*runs for cover*

Ah now here trout as his sensitive side but there is no need to be calling him female.

Nevyn

Hagar wrote: »

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

Bit of difference between phone bids and start a slush fund to get a certain person made mod.

trout

Thaedydal wrote: »

Ah now here trout as his sensitive side but there is no need to be calling him female.

*rams hands down cacks ... checks ... fondles and scratches gently for a moment*

Nope ... must be Robbo :cool:

I'll bid 150 of yore Earth Eurines. What happens if I top the bidding ? Can I pick someone else ?

Tom Dunne

trout wrote: »

I'll bid 150 of yore Earth Eurines. What happens if I top the bidding ? Can I pick someone else ?

Damn you. I had just received a telephone bid for €150 and, in true BGRH style, I said I would post it up after a bite to eat.

And no, you can't pick someone else.*

We have to be seen to be fair.

Edit: bid has now been upped to €155. Thanks, seriously











*may not be fully true. We'll see.

trout

€175

Tom Dunne

trout wrote: »

€175

Brother trout, I couldn't help but notice your signature.

While I appreciate your benevolent intentions, I feel I really must ask one pertinent question - your pub?

trout

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Brother trout, I couldn't help but notice your signature.

While I appreciate your benevolent intentions, I feel I really must ask one pertinent question - your pub?

PMA. It WILL be my pub ... when I buy it. I am loaded. :cool:








I couldn't help but notice yore tagline






... I've edited the sig ... for now


*looks shifty*

Gary ITR

When does the auction end?

Anyways my bid is €210

Kimbot

Also can a few people join together in a bid for the place?

I would have no problem chipping in a few quid on a joint bid. If Tom says its okay and anyone is interested I would accept PM's on how much people would like to contribute for the bid.

Tom Dunne

jonny24ie wrote: »

Also can a few people join together in a bid for the place?

I would have no problem chipping in a few quid on a joint bid. If Tom says its okay and anyone is interested I would accept PM's on how much people would like to contribute for the bid.

If it means more money for SSF, then that's fine by me.

While I don't have a problem with it, you would have to vote amongst yourselves who would be added as mod. To keep it simple, I would prefer to add only one new moderator.

6th

Hagar wrote: »

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

So thats how its gonna be then Tom? Huh? :pac:

nkay1985

6th wrote: »

So thats how its gonna be then Tom? Huh? :pac:

Hey 6th, if the person you want to mod is that good, maybe they could be the recipient of the vote by the joint bid that may be forming ^^^^^ up there.

Saibh

if the person who 6th is going to nominate wins the bid, we will then know who they are

Ginger

Whats the current highest bid then?

Tom Dunne

Ginger wrote: »

Whats the current highest bid then?

Good point, the figure has got lost in all the discussion. I've updated the thread title with the current bid.

Oh, and it's €175.

Ginger

Just read.. didnt Onkle bid 210?

Tom Dunne

Ginger wrote: »

Just read.. didnt Onkle bid 210?

Doh! Updated.

Not with it today.