(I miss the days when time moved slowly. Every kid sits in class agonizing about the clock moving backward. Even many adults I know do that, as they spend countless hours in mind-numbing meetings. I have very few meetings at work. Because there's no time for them. Time never moves too slowly for me. Never. It always moves too quickly. So I'd really appreciate an hour or two to sit back and relax for once. Cardboard Appreciation will be the closest I get to that today. This is the 50th in a series): How old do you think the guy is in this photo? Thirties? Fourties? Fifties? He is 28. This topic has come up a number of times across the blogs. I wrote about it back in the early days of Night Owl Cards. For some reason, players of the past look older -- in many cases much older -- than players of the present who are the same age. I haven't examined why that is a perception almost universally shared among collectors. I don't have time to do a thesis on it, so I...
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