Marketing genius or sick mind?
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Topic: Marketing genius or sick mind?
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Subject: Marketing genius or sick mind?
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 20:52
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http://www.savetoby.com/
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 21:01
| yum. |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 21:03
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yum indeed. he's made $15,000
------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 21:07
Hey...if he indeed can extort some money out of a bunch of animal lovin retards then more power to him. I, being a member of Peta: People Eating Tasty Animals am unmoved and unaffected. Do I think he is a jerk....yes!....but whatever.
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 21:22
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I thought this was a treath about Kunta Kinte.
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 21:43
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Did you two happen to know where that bunny killing fiend is...I'd like to pay him a visit and give him a piece of my mind"
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 16 2005 at 22:20
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You may all be too young to remember (...), but about 20 years ago, there was a very famous monthly magazine called "National Lampoon." One month, the cover showed a photograph of a cute dog, looking sad, with a gun pointed at its head. The headline on the magazine was "Buy this Magazine or We'll Shoot This Dog." Even though National Lampoon was famous for its sarcastic, sardonic and even occassionally "sick" humor, this cover created quite a "firestorm," and set off a national debate about the "limits" of "humor," and when "taste" becomes "offense." No one was questioning their right to use that cover; everyone supported their First Amendment right to free speech - especially since there was no question that it was a joke; no dog was going to be killed, and everyone knew it. However, in the case of "save toby," there is no such understanding. In addition, while buying the magazine would have cost the same with or without that particular cover, it certainly seems that the man behind "save toby" is engaging in a borderline form of extortion. Certainly, no one is forced to donate, or buy any of his merchandise. And I think anyone who does is an idiot, unless they are doing so in the belief that, like the National Lampoon cover, no real threat exists, and the person simply wants a "save toby" shirt or hat or whatever. On the other hand, if no real threat exists, the man behind the scheme may be guilty of fraud, since he is deliberately misleading people into giving him money. It would be one thing if he was going to donate the money raised to an animal shelter, or some other worthy cause. But there is no indication that he intends this. Given this, if I had the time, I would probably begin a massive campaign against this guy, since I think what he is doing is at best repugnant, and at worst fraudulent and borderline illegal. Peace. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 04:31
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I think the guy has been busted.
How many idiots have fallen for this scam??? ------------- 
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 07:58
There's one born every minute and three more duly cooked in an oven with little white wine. 
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 08:16
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hmmm bonjour lapin, tu raiser moi 49,999 $.. et une tres bonne diner! I suck at french -------------  
Reed's failed joke counter: ||||| R.I.P. You could have reached infinity.... |
Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 08:23
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I will send him a rabbit recipe. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:22
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Sigod:
Peace. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: February 18 2005 at 10:52
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |