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RooK
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Yeah, don't do that.
If you really care about quality posting, it's better to donate to organizations that are less corrupt - like me. Just send me whatever you were going to send to the Organ Fund, and you'll see some immediate tangible benefits from the extra slack and malicious favours I can provide. After all, we don't know how this "Organ Fund" money is being spent, and I haven't heard of a single organ benefitting from the fund. It's so obviously a scam.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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malicious favours
Sounds like a great movie title. It also rhymes with "delicious flavors".
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Zeke
Ship's Inquirer
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RooK's House of Kickbacks and Ice-Cream Stand.
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Sarkycow
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Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
How would people in Kent translate the American word retard? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Northerner, poor soul.
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Amazing Grace*
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Originally posted by Ophthalmos:
What the FUCK is going on?! How has this thread got to 14 pages? What the HELL have you been talking about?! ![[Confused]](confused.gif) ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
O brother Rob of the eye and the many changing names, the LORD has graciously provided an answer to your question.
Which can be yours, courtesy of me, for a suitably generous donation to the Organ Fund.
Otherwise the LORD says for you to do your own homework ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) .
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The Riv
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Originally posted by Simply 'Normous:
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Originally posted by Ultraspike:
Sorry to disappoint you, Sine. Not feeling very subtle today, even tho it is Spy Wednesday.
Actually Ultra, that was The Riv. But we're frequently mistaken for one another, due to the similarity of our political & social convictions.
Kind of a male version of Laura and Louise.
Moreso since I was finally able to afford the extensive plastic surgeries necessary to look just.like.Sine (and wear his clothes).
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"Riv, you've done a much better job communicating your passion than your point. I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about." Tom Clune
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Originally posted by The Riv:
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Originally posted by Simply 'Normous:
Actually Ultra, that was The Riv. But we're frequently mistaken for one another, due to the similarity of our political & social convictions.
Kind of a male version of Laura and Louise.
Moreso since I was finally able to afford the extensive plastic surgeries necessary to look just.like.Sine (and wear his clothes).
You need to work a bit on the angle at which you're holding the cigarette, dear.
After that, we'll work on the rest of it. You did put in for at least two weeks of vacation? Will they be upset if you need some additional time?
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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Originally posted by Simply 'Normous:
... And I bet its got great potential as a fundraiser. Beats having to have an ethnic festival and making a bunch of baklava. Plus we wouldn't have to learn any strange dances for entertainment.
Dear SN:
Sorry, I have to pick someone to quote in an attempt to recoup the 9 pages that have elapsed since my previous post to this thread. Faint!
As an ethnic Greek, Russian, Antiochian, Romanian, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon Orthodox Christian™, I am highly (nothing doing with colonics*) offended by this slur of yours. Sin.
Not only that, but you neglected an apostrophe. Mortal Sin.
Please be sure that you confess these during your reconciliation.
And yes, I'm feeding the Ship's Organ Kitty at this very moment - robbing my feline Fearless of Iams Chicken and Salmon Feast for the next year.I explained to her that she is a mere Peter to the Ancient Mariner's Paul. By the slit in her eyes and the snarl of her teeth, I assume she's not pleased. It will be worth her wrath though, even as she bites my face into shreds as I sleep tonight, to be numbered among the true flock.
*Thinking of colonics always reminds me of Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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RooK's House of Kickbacks and Ice-Cream Stand.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) I like it!
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Zeke
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I am deeply offended by the words "Organ Fund". How vile. Sheesh. Sounds dirty.
Okay, I caved in and gave $. But I did not do it out of the goodness of my heart. I gave cuz I wanna selfishly do another MG8 Ball thread and pick on a few of my favorite leftys again. Besides, being Protestant means I don't have a heart. I am cold as ice. Frozen.
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RooK
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I believe the term you were looking for was "frigid".
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mousethief
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What is it now?
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The Bede's American Successor
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It's time for another pledge break. Will the Ancient of Ages (or Ancient Mariner) please tell us what our pledge goal is for today, and how close we are to making it?
Remember folks, SOF is here because of the support from its readers. Over 50% of the support for SOF comes from people just like you. Many of your friends and neighbors have pledged to SOF during our Spring Pledge Drive, so click that link at the top of the page now and make your pledge now to SOF.
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This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride of wealth and food in plenty, comfort and ease, and yet she never helped the poor and the wretched.
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The Riv
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![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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"Riv, you've done a much better job communicating your passion than your point. I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about." Tom Clune
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Og: Thread Killer
Ship's token CN Mennonite
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Originally posted by Sarkycow:
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Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
How would people in Kent translate the American word retard?
Northerner, poor soul.
OWWW...
Will some of you Catholic types please pray to stop the souls of my Lanky and Geordie ancestors thumping me with their clogs for giving Snarky that opening?
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Papio
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Origianlly Posted by Duchess of Delights
and pick on a few of my favorite leftys again
I Object In The Style Of JohnBoot to your prolonged failure to flirt with us on a hell thread. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Papio.
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Ancient Mariner*
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Originally posted by The Bede's American Successor:
It's time for another pledge break. Will the Ancient of Ages (or Ancient Mariner) please tell us what our pledge goal is for today, and how close we are to making it?
Remember folks, SOF is here because of the support from its readers. Over 50% of the support for SOF comes from people just like you. Many of your friends and neighbors have pledged to SOF during our Spring Pledge Drive, so click that link at the top of the page now and make your pledge now to SOF.
Couldn't preach it better myself but I think you need to put more emphasis on 'now'.
They need to be more like NOW...
Well, we've reached above and beyond the £500 I had faith for from this thread. That doesn't mean we are rich - it means we can, at last, pay some acute bills.
I shall give you an idea of what has resulted from this thread in due course - hopefully before close of play today (Maundy Thursday).
Please click that link, everybody who hasn't given. We're keen to action a site re-design and it costs serious money to do.
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marmot
Mountain mammal
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If there is such an immediate and dire need, a more direct approach might be in order. Like an announcement: "Please give to the organ fund. We're broke!"
I happily give when asked, but this request was buried in a thread I didn't bother to read until today.
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Papio
Ship's baboon
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Yes.
Ancient Mariner - I will happily give as much as I can*, in addition to what I have given already, if the ship is in any danger of having to fold. And I think others, who may not have read this thread, may feel the same.
*which isn't a lot tbh, I am pretty skint at the mo, but honestly - I like the ship, as people may have noticed, and don't wanna see it go.
Papio
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Chorister
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I'd like to encourage people to consider giving a donation every year on the anniversary of them joining the ship. That way the ship admins get a regular income they know they can rely on. (Not to say there shouldn't be extra, crazy fundraising activities like giving to guess a 'which shipmate is Erin thinking of now' competition, or a sponsored 'only post one post a day' competition, or some such.....), which can provide extra income.
What a strange subject this has become for Hell
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RooK
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That's right, everyone, help keep the Ship afloat, and freshly painted!
How much have I given personally?
Well, um, it's like this... I have a pretty dire personal financial situation. I'm having difficulty saving up for a Porsche.
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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Originally posted by Papio*:
Ancient Mariner - I will happily give as much as I can*, in addition to what I have given already, if the ship is in any danger of having to fold. And I think others, who may not have read this thread, may feel the same.
*which isn't a lot tbh, I am pretty skint at the mo, but honestly - I like the ship, as people may have noticed, and don't wanna see it go.
Moi aussi. I only gave cat food money last night, but my income tax refund check is on its way and I can give again when this check increases the sum of my bank account.
I sort of figure I'm celebrating 2500 posts - to an amazing Ship.
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Mr. Spouse
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Originally posted by RooK:
Just send me whatever you were going to send to the Organ Fund, and you'll see some immediate tangible benefits from the extra slack and malicious favours I can provide.
Do I get a ride in the Porsche?
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RooK
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Originally posted by madferret:
Do I get a ride in the Porsche?
If you deliver yourself to wherever I am when I finally get it, pass my hygeine/mass/behaviour requirements for passengers, and sign the necessary waivers... sure thing.
If you talk to my previous passengers, however, you might want to rethink it.
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chive
Ship's nude
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I presume these standards include no throwing up as you go round bends at great speed?
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RooK
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To say the least.
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The Riv
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And, just like that, we're reminded of the question: What would Jesus drive?
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Mr. Spouse
Ship's Pedant
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Originally posted by RooK:
If you talk to my previous passengers, however, you might want to rethink it.
Is that 'previous' as in no longer with us?
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RooK
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My lawyers have advised me to make no comment.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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That, of course, would be the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe.
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Sine Nomine*
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I'm sorry. Advertisements for Tortuf's firm are not allowed.
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Mr. Spouse
Ship's Pedant
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Hmmm, can I donate my place in the Porsche to Sine?
Or, better still, one of Erin's chosen few?
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RooK
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Well, there's certainly no point in giving it to Siné - he's already got a reservation in my chariot of death.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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Hey -- he rides in my "Chariot of Death" all the time, and I've managed to talk him out of a lawsuit every time.
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Sine Nomine*
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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I can't remember. Is a ride in RooK's car a premium if you do plege or if you don't pledge?
(2nd prize: Two rides in RooK's car.)
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Mr. Spouse
Ship's Pedant
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Doesn't sound like anyone's ever got to ride #2...
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Ferijen
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Originally posted by Marmotte:
If there is such an immediate and dire need, a more direct approach might be in order. Like an announcement: "Please give to the organ fund. We're broke!"
I happily give when asked, but this request was buried in a thread I didn't bother to read until today.
If it is at all possible, can you say how much it costs to run the ship, or is it too 'bitty' to be clear. Or is it policy not to mention the money-word too much?
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Ancient Mariner*
SOF Co-editor
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I promised I would return later and give you a summary of what we have raised from this thread, this week...
The total so far is a massively-encouraging £1100.57 (approx $2035 US) - more than double what my faith was believing for ![[Biased]](wink.gif) - and your generosity gets us back in the black after a difficult period. Thank you very, very much.
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Sine Nomine*
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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...and Spawn, don't forget, I made a special extra donation in your name.
Oh shucks. Don't mention it. I was glad to. No really. You don't have to pay me back. I wanted to do it. It came out of my Mite Box for the poor Third World children in Nigeria. I knew Archbishop Akinola didn't want my tainted money anyway.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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And see how easy it was! I'm going to a fundraiser tonight that will be fun. It's a giant fish fry at the fairgrounds for our inner city ministry, where we won't be seated good until they're telling us to whip out our checkbooks. Eat, give, then socialize or get out. It will be loud and informal, they will raise almost $100,000. They make no bones about it being a fundraiser, so there are no pretenses, no pleas, no pity-inducing slideshows, etc. Just people coming together to meet and greet and eat, and help out a very, very good cause.
In other words, from now on, when the Ship needs a little boost in funds, TELL US, for Pete's sake. Make it silly and fun, like this thread has been, and I think you'll always be given more "what your faith was believing for".
Way to go, SoF!
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Sine Nomine*
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Originally posted by Grits:
In other words, from now on, when the Ship needs a little boost in funds, TELL US, for Pete's sake.
Yes, Mariner, the Ship shouldn't ever have to not be in the black, for Pete's (whoever he is) sake.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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That would be Saint Peter, of course. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Sine Nomine*
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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Oh right. The first Pope.
You and La Druid, always dragging Roman Catholicism into any discussion.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Ahem. He was our saint too.
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JohnBoot
BOOTED
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Originally posted by Mousethief:
Ahem. He was our saint too.
Was? Been doing some culling lately?
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Sorry, I was using "was" in the Clintonian sense.
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Sine Nomine*
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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Oh, how lovely.
Just had the nerve to open my tax return from my tax lady. Due to poor performance by certain gold mine stocks recommended by my investment "professional" I'm getting a bit back from the tax Nazis.
I'll be able to make an additional modest donation to the Ship in the name of JohnBoot. Erin will have to grin and bear that one.
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Sarkycow
La belle Dame sans merci
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Well people, we've come to the end of our time together.
Let's all go away and think about what just happened here.
Sarkycow, hellhost
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