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Former lover's T-shirt on eBay ($15k and counting)

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales

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James_Runner

Mar 4 2008, 10:08 am

Here's a link to the story in the TimesOnline.

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She was Rachel Marsden, 33, the Canadian right-wing political pundit used to airing the tangles of her personal life online. He was Jimmy Wales, 41, the co-founder of Wikipedia, the web encyclopaedia that aims to provide up-to-date “user-generated�? information.

On Saturday Ms Marsden logged on to discover that her own particular affair had also been updated. She had been dumped on Wikipedia. Mr Wales posted a statement on the site noting that: “I am no longer involved with Rachel Marsden.�? In response Ms Marsden did what any self-respecting scorned cyber-pundit would do. She dug out the shirt and jumper that her former lover had worn during what was apparently their only night together and put them up for sale on eBay. “Hi, my name is Rachel and my (now ex) boyfriend, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, just broke up with me via an announcement on Wikipedia,�? she wrote.

If they only hooked up once, is it correct for her to classify him as an "ex"? Anyway, here are links to the eBay auctions for Wales' T-shirt and sweater. And for those interested in acquiring these relics of spurned lust, it appears that Marsden will ship to Germany.

Katrina

Mar 4 2008, 10:16 am

As said on the odd news thread, blind fear might well have come into his decision making process, but still.

alimess

Mar 4 2008, 11:11 am

QUOTE (James_Runner @ Mar 4 2008, 10:08 am)

If they only hooked up once, is it correct for her to classify him as an "ex"?

nope, it takes much more to qualify as an ex...

Gen

Mar 4 2008, 11:29 am

I remember the thread about leaving your underpants somewhere, but leaving your tshirt and sweater? He went home in just his trousers? I hope it was summer.

sarabyrd

Mar 4 2008, 11:31 am

QUOTE (James_Runner @ Mar 4 2008, 10:08 am)

If they only hooked up once, is it correct for her to classify him as an "ex"?

That's more a one-night-stand kind of "relationship", ships passing in the night as it were. Or one or both are a lousy lay and not worth trying again.

BadDoggie

Mar 4 2008, 11:32 am

I support anyone managing to flog a used T-shirt for more than €10. I wonder how much I could get for selling a T-shirt Jimmy allegedly left at my flat after a his drunken "experiment".

For the record, alimess, how long do two people have to be together (or how many times do two people not "together" but "getting it on") before they can count each other as "an ex"? As both a lover of the English language and a linguist I'm quite saddened not only by the fact that we have no word for "genau", we don't even have a word for "someone I fucked once or twice".

woof.

alimess

Mar 4 2008, 11:35 am

QUOTE (sarabyrd @ Mar 4 2008, 11:31 am)

That's more a one-night-stand kind of "relationship", ships passing in the night as it were. Or one or both are a lousy lay and not worth trying again.

true! happens all the time and she should get over it!

alimess

Mar 4 2008, 11:37 am

BadDoggie,

I don't think that you can call someone an ex after one night spent together... or ?

Editor Bob

Mar 4 2008, 11:40 am

QUOTE (BadDoggie @ Mar 4 2008, 11:32 am)

we don't even have a word for "someone I fucked once or twice"

Conquest.

BadDoggie

Mar 4 2008, 11:41 am

QUOTE (sarabyrd @ Mar 4 2008, 11:31 am)

Or one or both are a lousy lay and not worth trying again.

I'm guessing he was lame in the sack, not her. Feisty, vindictive women rarely are.

QUOTE (alimess @ Mar 4 2008, 11:37 am)

I don't think that you can call someone an ex after one night spent together.

What about after the second night? Or the fifth? Or what if it's over between two fuckbuddies for whatever reason? And over what period of time would they have had to have had their trysts before they could use the word "ex-" (if at all)?

I like the cut of EB'S jib, but I don't see sex as a contest. It's generally a cooperative effort.

woof.

Renia

Mar 4 2008, 1:27 pm

QUOTE (BadDoggie @ Mar 4 2008, 11:41 am)

I'm guessing he was lame in the sack, not her. Feisty, vindictive women rarely are.

woof.

Love that!

James_Runner

Mar 4 2008, 1:38 pm

Update: Someone on eBay must have retracted a bid on the shirt, as the bid currently stands at $12,100--still not shabby. At present the sweater commands a modest $857.47.

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