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O'Brien Family Visits World's Longest Yard Sale
Aired August 08, 2003 - 15:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: This weekend is your last chance to get to the world's longest yard sale, which stretches 450 miles or so along Route 127. If you're looking for cows or horses, though, you may have a problem, because the O'Briens swept through looking for just that.
Check it out.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: So what do you think goes on here the other 51 weeks of the year?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nothing.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): For the O'Briens, it's become a pilgrimage. In the dog days of August, we are drawn like moths to light. Or is it flies -- well, you get the idea. In any case, we motor our way to the mecca of mature merchandise, Route 127, home of the world's longest yard sale.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here looks good.
O'BRIEN: Of course, looks can be deceiving. And some stops are bound to leave you flat.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Prices fluctuate with my blood sugar. Sugar up, prices down.
O'BRIEN (on camera): How's the sugar?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Prices -- sugar's high. Prices are down.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): I'm not sure what's more interesting: the flotsam and jetsam you can buy, or the colorful characters doing the purveying.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a hog stretcher.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And when they killed hogs -- kilt (ph) -- kilt them. They hung the hog up with his leg here and a leg here.
O'BRIEN: My kids were on a mission.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guess what I found.
O'BRIEN (on camera): What?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A cow salt and pepper shaker.
O'BRIEN: Let's see.
(voice-over): Murrah (ph), on a cow jack (ph), for reasons unknown.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much for the craw (ph)?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Three dollars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you think about that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
O'BRIEN: And Connery (ph) only has eyes for horses.
(on camera): What do you think?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I like it.
O'BRIEN: What's his name -- her name?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hmm. Nelly (ph).
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Sixteen dollars for the cow.
(on camera): You've got a client who is udderly happy.
(voice-over): And Connery was quite pleased with this $6 horsey mug.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If the horse barked, even though horses usually don't bark, it barks out whatever you (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Out of its mouth.
O'BRIEN: And it's at that moment, as we leave 127, behind that this pearl of wisdom echoes in my mind:
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You need it, you think you need it, and then when you get home, you say, Golly, what did I buy that for?
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: That's exactly what we said. The yard sale continues through Sunday.
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Aired August 8, 2003 - 15:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: This weekend is your last chance to get to the world's longest yard sale, which stretches 450 miles or so along Route 127. If you're looking for cows or horses, though, you may have a problem, because the O'Briens swept through looking for just that.
Check it out.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: So what do you think goes on here the other 51 weeks of the year?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nothing.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): For the O'Briens, it's become a pilgrimage. In the dog days of August, we are drawn like moths to light. Or is it flies -- well, you get the idea. In any case, we motor our way to the mecca of mature merchandise, Route 127, home of the world's longest yard sale.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here looks good.
O'BRIEN: Of course, looks can be deceiving. And some stops are bound to leave you flat.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Prices fluctuate with my blood sugar. Sugar up, prices down.
O'BRIEN (on camera): How's the sugar?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Prices -- sugar's high. Prices are down.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): I'm not sure what's more interesting: the flotsam and jetsam you can buy, or the colorful characters doing the purveying.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a hog stretcher.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And when they killed hogs -- kilt (ph) -- kilt them. They hung the hog up with his leg here and a leg here.
O'BRIEN: My kids were on a mission.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guess what I found.
O'BRIEN (on camera): What?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A cow salt and pepper shaker.
O'BRIEN: Let's see.
(voice-over): Murrah (ph), on a cow jack (ph), for reasons unknown.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much for the craw (ph)?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Three dollars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you think about that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
O'BRIEN: And Connery (ph) only has eyes for horses.
(on camera): What do you think?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I like it.
O'BRIEN: What's his name -- her name?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hmm. Nelly (ph).
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Sixteen dollars for the cow.
(on camera): You've got a client who is udderly happy.
(voice-over): And Connery was quite pleased with this $6 horsey mug.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If the horse barked, even though horses usually don't bark, it barks out whatever you (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Out of its mouth.
O'BRIEN: And it's at that moment, as we leave 127, behind that this pearl of wisdom echoes in my mind:
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You need it, you think you need it, and then when you get home, you say, Golly, what did I buy that for?
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: That's exactly what we said. The yard sale continues through Sunday.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
