The Golden Palace Casino has just reported … or maybe confessed is the word … that it paid $5001 for Britney Spears’ used home pregnancy test, which was allegedly retrieved from the trash bin behind her house. I hope the one they’ve got is authentic, because they only thing I can imagine that would be more embarassing than publicly admitting you paid five grand for Britney’s whiz is having to retract that and admit you got ripped off on the deal.
The thread title is a genuine quote from Drew Black, a spokesman for the casino. I imagine he’s getting all the practice he can in saying it with a straight face before he has to deliver this line to the board of directors. It could be worse - sixty years ago he’d have to talk to Bugsy Siegel.
That’s true. I’d rather somebody put a price on her head, though.
They bought it from a Radio Station here in Ottawa. The station originally paid $250 for it and everything but that $250 has gone to local charities.
Can anyone tell me why anyone would even want it?
The casino needs to change their name to The Golden Shower Palace.
Er…$5001? Somehow, I’m picturing an auction.
I bid 4000!
Well, I bid 4250!
4500!
4750!
5000!
5001!
…
Fine, take it. I can’t top that.
Clearly the urine isn’t worth $5000. Thus the casino
a) gets to write off the purchase as a donation, since the money is going to charity
b) gets to claim that support whichever charities
c) gets free advertising by the radio station, and evidently free advertising in other news and here on the SD as well.
Seems like a pretty good use of $5001. The question is, what are they going to do with it now? It’d be a little odd to put it in a glass case on display or something.
Probably. If it were an eBay auction, and the second-highest bidder had set $5000 as their max price, then the casino would have gotten it for $5001.
And would the used pregnancy test actually include any urine? I thought that you just stuck the little plastic thingy in the stream and pissed into the toilet as usual. I guess it’d be a little wet, but it’s not like there’d be a cup full of the stuff.
That’s nothing – I have a Madonna pap smear. (Vintage '91)
If you look close, you can see one of her pubic hairs in there. Black as the ace of spades.
Wanna buy it? Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
I’m no tax lawyer, but I think you’re wrong here. The casino paid $5001 for the kit. The radio station donated the money to charity. So the casino doesn’t get to claim the money as a tax deduction for charity - that would be like me claiming I bought a car from my local dealer and he donated the money I paid to charity so it was like I donated my money to charity. That said, the casino probably can write it off, but as a business expense related to publicity not as a charitable deduction.
Ugh. Is the Golden Palace going for the title of Kitsch & Trash Capital of the World or what? They’ve been buying up every piece of vaguely religious-shaped food product in the US in the past few months and now THIS?!
And it’s not like they’re trying to attract tourists to their future Museum of Really Stupid Objects, either. They’re an E-Casino!
Britney could drive down the price by, uh, flooding the market.
I tried that once.. . waaaay back.
Apparently, my efforts were not as fruitious as I thought they would be. . . 
Tripler
Long live the Fightin’ 19th!!.
I agree. When it comes to her true talents, she’s been holding back for far too long.
This is truly disgusting. Who would actually WANT a used pregnancy test. Not only does it have urine on it but the whole idea is enough for me to gag. Simply gross. And why would oyu go searching through her trash to get it?
I wonder how many pregnancy test are dug out of the trash at this casino… :eek: