[QUOTE=MrDibble]
Dumb, either way.
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Dumb like a fox. Dumb all the way to the bank.
We’ve done this before. Remember the chick who needed to raise a similar amount because she went on a foolish shopping spree? Dumb as hell, yeah. But she got reimbursed by thousands of well-meaning netizens. Plenty of RO was raised about her, but as I recall, the “dumb” chick was the one who ended up with all the cash.
Donate or don’t, up to you, but this topic fills me with little else than meh.
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Oral Roberts. He claimed God would ‘call him home’ if he didn’t raise eight megabucks.
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And there were bumper stickers that read Send Oral to Heaven in '87, which is how I can remember when he did it.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Dumb like a fox. Dumb all the way to the bank.
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Also true. I meant more “tasteless” or “not funny”, I guess, assuming the point was the message not the cash..
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
… ozobs* …
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Since you didn’t actually provide your footnote, is this “mixed up bozos”?
I GOTTA KNOW!
How about donating for sterilization? Tubal ligation and a vasectomy have to be a lot cheaper than $50,000 right? And then we won’t have to worry about them pulling the scam again later.
Weird - it’s still $7100 and still 85 days left.
Heh. This shtick again.
[QUOTE=Scruloose]
Heh. This shtick again.
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Damn, I just popped in to post that!
[QUOTE=MrDibble]
It seems to me like an elaborate hypocrisy-sting by some pro-choicers, or else a performance art piece. Dumb, either way.
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My guess would be that it’s a pro-life person, not a pro-choice person.
They are trying to make it look like pro-choice people are venal and shallow, that they would make life-altering decisions based on popular opinion and cold, hard cash, that their morals are for sale, etc.
I would bet a dollar that the person behind it is pro-life.
[QUOTE=Scruloose]
Heh. This shtick again.
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We saw something similar on “Robot Chicken” last week - everyone ended up dead, except the guy who came in later to pick up his rented monkey. That’s what happens when people get trigger-happy, man.
[QUOTE=Scruloose]
Heh. This shtick again.
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Didn’t even need to click the link to know what was on the other side, heh heh…
The original:
http://www.savetoby.com/
The Snopes on it:
My first throught was, “so Karyn’s having a kid, eh?”
Y’know, I knew somebody IRL who really did open a website in order to ask for donations for her husband, who had cancer (mesothelioma). They received some money, too, from people online and from friends/church.
Even assuming this isn’t all made up, anyone else think they are probably beefing up the alleged donations so far, to try and make it seem legit? I have my doubts they will make it to 50k.
So it’s okay for YOU to have an abortion, even though you are pro-life? The only moral abortion is your abortion.
[QUOTE=fessie]
Y’know, I knew somebody IRL who really did open a website in order to ask for donations for her husband, who had cancer (mesothelioma). They received some money, too, from people online and from friends/church.
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Knitwear designer Annie Modesitt is doing this right now.
Those are the worst fucking idiots I have ever heard of. I am so pissed off right now, I am shaking. I can’t believe the nerve of some people. My wife and I can’t have kids of our own, so we have to adopt. Financially, we can’t do it right now. I know you get the money back, but you have to pay the fees up front. Then these two fuckheads threaten to kill a potential child that my wife and I could raise unless we PAY them. I would pay for that sorry fuck’s public castration! I would pay to see that stupid cunt have her womb immolated. At times like this I really wish there was a hell so these two assholes could be sent there for eternity. I know it is probably not real, but how the fuck could anybody think this is a good idea?
**FUCK!!! **
Sgt Schwartz
[QUOTE=Sattua]
Knitwear designer Annie Modesitt is doing this right now.
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She’s also tied her drive to a free downloadable pretty awesome pattern, though. I like that she’s trying to make it some sort of exchange. I get the feeling that she’ll pay the kindness on when she can.
(I hate talking about my charitable donations… I sent her some money but I’ll probably never knit the pattern because the damn yarn costs a fortune!!)
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin]
Can I donate for the abortion instead?
I’m going to aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks for that one.
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This is the Pit. You are allowed to vent in a more colorful fashion. I will adjust your remark accordingly:
