Soliciting Donations - The Price of "Success"
Published June 04, 2004
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Any other conditions - how about world peace?
MD, remind me why you spend so much time at a site you find undeserving and are eager to help sue?
Eric, no fair editing your own comments when nobody else can!
World peace is a capital idea, but a bit beyond BC's abilities.
c'mon nat! we're gonna bomb the middle east back to glass, followed by korea and then perhaps china.
all will be quiet after that. ;-)
gee, i better get on the ball and get my blogcritics coffee mug before too long...
Fear not fellow blogcritics. I have been thinking about world peace and I will have a solution shortly. It will be done as soon as I figure out women.
Well, considering she is offering a pro boner, I want to know what the pro rate blogcritics will be getting from her Ice-bergmanesque Slim pimp.
Your references are so weird. No one knows what the hell you're talking about, old man. This is even worse than the last one about "old Sun studio slap-back." Even Dennis Miller is funnier. Lunatic.
That is all.
Jim, is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
""Slim," he had said, " A pretty Nigger bitch and a white whore are just alike. They both will get in a stable to wreck it and leave the pimp on his ass with no whore. You gotta make 'em hump hard and fast to stick 'em for long scratch quick. Slim, pimping ain't no game of love, so prat 'em and keep your swipe outta 'em. Any sucker who believe a whore loves him shouldn't a fell outta his mammy's ass.""
-- Iceberg Slim, "Pimp -- The Story of My Life"
However he doesn't mention Paypal donations or Amazon affiliates sales.
nor brand-identified merchandise, I'd wager
So, does this mean you'll be getting the blogcritics.org theme song from Ice Berg Slim Whitman: "When I'm Calling You, Where's My Money, Bitch?"
(If you make this into a tee-shirt, can I at least get some credit?)
MacDiva writes: Jim, is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
No, because to have a firearm, I'd have to have a certificate and registration. And I have neither, that would take about 30 to 60 days from what I understand.
Nope, just a big, throbbing, hairy, purple penis. GLAD (though they don't have anything against throbbing genitals) doesn't really enter into it. (yes, this is going into "Carry On ..." territory).
But isn't vital, throbbing, outstanding issues what Blogcritics is all about?
"Blogcritics is undeserving in my opinion"
Says someone who spends about 14 hours a day posting here...
You know what? Mac Diva can have any opinion of this site that she wants. The most valuable thing she can give to this site are posts. This is the nature of a donation service and of this site. Nobody has to disclose anything, ever. Eric knows and I can guarantee he ain't telling.
CL:
I don't care whether MD donates money or not. I am just curious why someone who holds this site in such comtempt is also one of its major (non-financial) contributors.
"Major contributors" Ha! That would be somewhat like calling the heartworms "major contributors" to your dogs circulatory system.
Jim - talking about your "big, throbbing, hairy, purple penis" is going pretty far afield from the topic of this post: donations for PayPal, dontcha think? LOL
Then again, maybe PayPal [i]is[/i] a sperm bank!
If I have to wear a gold G-string and shake my money-maker to support this site, I guess a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
However, I can't take responsibility if it goes off when I'm cleaning it.
But she did ask what was in my pocket, and I had to do my Iggy best, and head down the old highway.
i really love it that we are able to combine lawsuits, world peace and a big purple penis in one discussion.
i am feeling a hallmark movie of the week coming on.....with iggy pop playing in the background
jack e. jett
I too must decline.
As long as practices such as cutting and pasting news articles and breaking up those with trite, mindless, simplistic and obvious statements of 'opinion' (see MacDiva) -- and allowing her to use this site in her capacity as Cosmic Inquisitor for Anti-Racist, Neo-Confederate Slave Owners, Blogcritics is undeserving in my opinion.
The best I can do is offer pro bono legal advice when some participant sues MacDiva for the lying, libelous flood of psychotic horse-shit that flows from her disturbed pie-hole. Feel free to accept.
A simple, "No, I am not going to contribute." would have been fine.
Actually, Craig the polite thing would be to just not say anything ;)
However, Shark and Mac Diva both contribute to the site content-wise and that is a donation of their time and effort so while either of them might decline to donate in a financial way they are already donating in a content-way.
If they don't want to donate in any way then they will go away.
I agree with you completely TDavid. I think it is kind of funny in a Hatfields and McCoys kind of way that Shark and Diva (Two of the biggest content contributors) won't contribute financially because they oppose each other. I just love that they write here.
jeesus, kids, once again... it was a...
oh.
nevermind.
Your attempts at sharkcasm fell short with this reader, sorry!
This was a serious request by Eric (doh!) for serious reasons. Mac Diva clearly wasn't joking and so it seems you were trying to take a shot at her (which is ridiculously easy to do in plenty of other threads). Ha ha, Shark! Funny, funny!
Just donate or not, but please take the petty playground BS to other threads. There's plenty of 'em to do that fighting at that you two needn't urinate all over this one.
Oh. I see. She smears the thread with feces; I make light of that -- and I get a lecture.
Thanks, TDavid. We needed a new nanny.
Shark, you sound like you need a nanny, grow up. That comment was clearly meant for both of you. If you aren't going to be mature enough to suck it up and recognize what's going on at this site, then kindly take a long walk off a short pier.
I knew it was a joke and it was pretty clearly in response to the anti-donation comment, so it is, ipso facto, a pro-donation comment.
Of course it was pro-donation!
BTW:
I'll DONATE, I'll DONATE~!
(Only because Eric is a hunk -- and he is the only person around here who can use 'ipso facto' in casual conversation.)
PS: Y'all take Type A Negative, right?
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I must decline. As long as practices such as ripping off copyrighted material verbatim (persons seeking an example may examine the listings for RJ Elliott) and allowing Sam Vaknin to use the site in his 'medical advisor' scheme are approved of, Blogcritics is undeserving in my opinion. The best I can do is offer pro bono legal advice when media get around to suing Blogcritics over those copyright violations as they did Free Republic. Feel free to accept.