Wade Jones, in an interview with The Gaston Gazette published on January 20, 2018, after auctioning a 61 year old flattened Dixie cup he owned and which had been used by Elvis after a concert in Tulsa Oklahoma on April 19, 1956.
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I feel good. It was kind of nail-biting all day yesterday. It'd be nice to have $3,300 in my pocket and still have the cup, and I hate to see it go. In fact, it's really going to be weird putting something that has that kind of value in an envelope and sending it off to the people who bid the most in auction, the owners of the "Icon Hotel" in Luton, U.K

— Wade Jones

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I feel good. It was kind of nail-biting all day yesterday. It'd be nice to have $3,300 in my pocket and still have the cup, and I hate to see it go. In fact, it's really going to be weird putting something that has that kind of value in an envelope and sending it off to the people who bid the most in auction, the owners of the "Icon Hotel" in Luton, U.K" in the context of "Wade Jones, in an interview with The Gaston Gazette published on January 20, 2018, after auctioning a 61 year old flattened Dixie cup he owned and which had been used by Elvis after a concert in Tulsa Oklahoma on April 19, 1956." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.