Right now? 90% of me is celebrating…
January 1st? 95% of me is celebrating…
January 23rd? 100% of me is celebrating!
Dammit, we have to hold our breath for over three weeks?
Life tain’t fair, I tells ya!
Oh! I Didn’t see that thing about Jan.23rd.
Do Liam and Therese know how much all us Dopers love ‘em, an’ stuff?
We won!!!
Quasi
We need an investigation of those cheating bastard Basset Hounds!
From my wife’s fingertips:
They were hiding all those extra votes in their jowls! BASTARDS!!
I realize that it may take months, but you will have to do a video of the smart board in use and how the kids benefit. I’m sure Pepsi would enjoy it as much, if not more, as we will.
I plan on doing something although I am not the best when it comes to video. I’m gonna try doing some pictures with the smart board installed…and my kid (and possibly the teacher and/or other classmates with permission) using it. Depends on how much latitude the school gives us.
Yeti?
Can we take 'em to court?
I have never felt so empty here in my life. I can only imagine what this must be doing to you all.
This smells like a dead rat.
Quasi
I’m ready to contribute to a legal fund to battle this, on behalf of Liam and other kids like him!
Time to go to work, y’all!
Dopers don’t let shit like this go laying down!!!
Bill Craig
Er, they finished in the top 20, which means they won. Why do we need a legal fund? 
I’m sorry! Blame my bat-shittedness, because I thought that last-minute “push” from the other people knocked our friends out of the “Top 20”.
Please excuse me!
Bill
Since Liam is getting his smart board I am going off to enjoy a refreshing Pepsi.
Sending a note to Pepsi headquarters telling them how much I, as an average soft drink consumer, appreciate their generosity in funding each of the top 20 ideas in each of the four funding amounts as well as letting us vote for the best ideas.
Yeticus Rex thank you for letting me be part of this.
Still going zero to sixty with my head to the wall!!! I am so sorry I spoiled this happy time with my stupidity!!!
Bill
I don’t think you spoiled anything! 
But as the mom of two incredibly spoiled rescued Basset Hounds, I would be terribly torn! 
That’s top 20 for $5K category, top 15 for the $10K and $25K categories, and top 10 for the $50K category. Which is still generous of Pepsi - over a million dollars spread over 60 projects will hopefully do some good work, even if the Long-Ears Lobby did scoop a disproportionate amount of it. 
Actually, I note that roughly 25 of the 60 are animal shelter-related charities or projects, and 13 were about high school music programs (mostly marching bands and similar). Interesting distribution.
Anyway, well done all.
Quasi, it’s cool…just having fun with the Bassest Hounds…all 4 million of them…
We only needed to be in the top 20, and we finished at 17…we were just worried that we would get pushed down below 20 in the last few days…we were at #19 just a few days ago…scary it was.
I’m an idiot.
Thank you for being a great doper, and Happy New Year to you!
Yeah…until you see your basset’s mobile phone bill for this month!
Actually, there was an article I read somewhere (NYtimes or Huffington?) that many animal shelters and individual pet lovers latched on to the PRP early on a few years ago and depend on each other for voting blocks that go back a few years…it’s still allowed I guess. I don’t know if you are allowed to compete for another grant if you won a grant in the past, but I would be concerned that there may be some of that going on also.
Where there is money, their are those who try to scam for it…was pretty much the theme of the article.
Better have that bike helmet on!!!
We know better than that!