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« on: July 16, 2006, 08:23 PM »

As most of you don't know, we here at PWoT like to give money to strangers sometimes. As a result I'm on a lot of charity paper spam lists. One of the groups who like to send me junk mail is St. Jude's Children's Hospital, which is a hospital where they heal children with some sort of terrible disease, cancer I think. Now stay with me, this will get entertaining in a moment.

This particular mailing was a thick envelope complete with blueprints for a new wing of the facility in Tennessee. They'll have a little walkway with bricks imprinted with names. If you donate $750, you get a brick, and you get to decide what the brick says.

My friends, PWoT is going to buy one of those bricks. And we're going to put something ridiculous on it. I'm assuming they won't accept a pornographic name such as Assey Cocklord but surely we can slip something amusing by them.

This is no joke. I'm starting off the donation with $200. We need $550 more in order to get our brick. The money will go to help sick kids. If you want in on this shit, send the money to the PWoT paypal account at:

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We wound up raising more than $2,400.  The bricks:

http://www.cracked.com/forums/index.php?topic=20783.msg675957#msg675957
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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2006, 08:26 PM »

By the way, the brick will say "In Honor Of" before the name we choose.
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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2006, 09:17 PM »

I'm in for $25 (sorry it couldn't be more, but grad students aren't salaried over the summer), but I'll leave the suggestions up to people who are funnier than I.
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« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2006, 09:19 PM »

I also couldn't donate much, but as a former sick kid myself I am in favor of helping sick kids and would like to encourage everyone to give, even if just a little bit.  It adds up.
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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2006, 09:21 PM »

Do you think they'd put down a brick under the name Philipe Enormowang?
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2006, 09:24 PM »

Also, think you could get in trouble for using the prefix 'Dr.'?
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2006, 09:31 PM »

It adds up.

This site has nearly 4500 members.  We really ought to be able to do better than just one brick, provided people haven't blown all their dough to keep Screech in his posh digs.
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« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2006, 09:32 PM »

To be fair, I did get to write my name on Screech's house.  He did wash it off as soon as he saw it, but I remember just how it looked.
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« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2006, 09:36 PM »

I'm in for $4.47.
That should about cover a Happy Meal for one of the little tykes.
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« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2006, 09:48 PM »

Chinko and I threw in ten bucks.  He doesn't think this is a very good idea though.

I think Dr. Albert Oxford would make it on. Nobody would get it though.
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« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2006, 09:55 PM »

I put $5 into the pot.  How about "In the Honor of Gote See"? 
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« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2006, 10:03 PM »

We could spell it Goa Ste. That keeps the original spelling intact.
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« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2006, 10:05 PM »

He doesn't think this is a very good idea though.

Why?
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« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2006, 10:08 PM »

And the best part is, if they find a cure for cancer, they won't have to build any more of those buildings.
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« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2006, 10:11 PM »

I like the suggestions of Dr. Oxford and Goatse, but isn't the idea to just barely slip an obscene name under the radar? Something that pushes the limits, I think, would be better than just an inside joke.
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« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2006, 10:14 PM »

It doesn't have to be obscene.  It can be innocently goofy if we want. 
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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2006, 10:16 PM »

He doesn't think this is a very good idea though.

Why?


He's all for helping sick kids, but he thinks trying to slip a naughty brick past them will somehow get us in trouble. I'm not quite sure how, but he thinks it'll get traced back to him and he will have shamed the Liang name for twenty generations.
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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2006, 10:25 PM »

Man, Texans are weird.
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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2006, 10:26 PM »

I'm in for $100.
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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2006, 10:27 PM »

Everyone please understand, we're not trying to commit any kind of fraud here.  We're not pretending this is a real person; we're not sending them a fake check, we're not sending a brick that says "GAY NIGGERS ASSOCIATION LOL!!!" in hopes they have a computer printing the bricks and won't see them.

We're pooling our money and, instead of stamping one name of a loved one who died of cancer, we decided to invent a name that represents the hopes and sympathies of the collective PWoT audience who donated.  And if that name happens to be Gladys Pimpfart, so be it.  The worst they can do is call me up and ask me to change it.  The money still spends and the sick kids are still helped.
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