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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:07 pm    Post subject: Dad Sells Baby's Name for $100 Gas Card Reply with quote

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/dad-sells-babys-name-for-100-gas-card/20080712134909990001?icid=100214839x1205513657x1200273579


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know this is totally inappropriate but...this story makes me so laugh...it's something that's happening often lately, finding myself laughing at absurdities/tragedies of human condition...guess it's a psychological defense, a funny one...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so with gas prices going up and up if gas was 4.30 and the card is only worth 100 that would buy about 23 gallons of gas maybe some thing like that. Now is 23 gallons of gas really worth a babys name that he will have to live with till he is 18 if not longer. A babys name is never worth trading.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If this becomes popular, a standard 21st century introduction might go something like this:

Hi, I'm Verizon, this is my wife Pepsi, and these are our two kids, Tampax and Merrill-Lynch...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's actually pretty smart, accept it, all games are quite ridiculous anyway.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pretty stupid parents
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

everyxthing wrote:
so with gas prices going up and up if gas was 4.30 and the card is only worth 100 that would buy about 23 gallons of gas maybe some thing like that. Now is 23 gallons of gas really worth a babys name that he will have to live with till he is 18 if not longer. A babys name is never worth trading.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rainbow-Squirrel wrote:
I know this is totally inappropriate but...this story makes me so laugh...it's something that's happening often lately, finding myself laughing at absurdities/tragedies of human condition...guess it's a psychological defense, a funny one...


Yeah, that's one of my main survival tactics. It's a sick, sick world and it always will be. There's only so much you can do to combat the madness. So I say go ahead and laugh at it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:39 am    Post subject: Dad sells baby's name for $100 gas card Reply with quote

Dixon and Willoughby topic

What is in a name, or names? I assume the baby is a boy, but girls have not been spared the inaneness of the name game. People nowadays are so desperate for fame and fortune that they will do almost anything ridiculous for a few bucks or fleeting notoriety. Shocked

And just how far will a $100 gas card go? Cheap thrills. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would make it slightly more bearable if the name didn't include the 'and'.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vexcalibur wrote:
It's actually pretty smart, accept it, all games are quite ridiculous anyway.


Somes games are not games at all. They're thinly-veiled ritualizations of human aggression.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The era of Mad Max may be just around the corner ... Next it will be people selling sexual favours for gasoline, bartering for it with human organs, their virgin daughters ... Shocked Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still am so thankful that my brother and his wife only produced one son. They had an agreement that she would name the first child of each gender, then he would name the second, etc. Their son is Christopher Gene. The other six kids are all girls. If they'd had another boy, the poor child would have been Harley David Martin. You'll never guess who my brother's employer is... Ah, yes, the motormaniac has his dream job...

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