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Something For Nothing
Rated: ASR | Non-fiction | Comedy | #455711
You give me Gift Points. I give you nothing...
UPDATE This item is no longer active, and I should've added this rider a long time ago, for which I apologise. SfN is as of now dead. The donating of GPs for no reason will no longer cause the adding of your name to this list. However, a new free-GP related item will shortly be created in my port, in which the names of both future donators and past donators whom I never put on here will be placed. Many thanks for your patience.




CURRENT TOTAL RECIEVED: 44,688 GIFT POINTS



OK, so you clicked on the link....


Heh. You're obviously dumber than you look.

Oh. You're going. Ooops.

If anybody is still reading this, here are the rules of the game:


1) You send me Gift Points

2) Repeat stage (1) as desired.



Each time I recieve GPs from poor unsuspecting members of the site, I will send you absolutely nothing in return. This means that all GPs will go to a worthy cause, or at least in my opinion they will, anyway.

The three biggest donators will have their names printed just here, and can brag to their friends, until they realise what fools they've just been, giving away GPs like that.

To be one of those fools, I mean donators, just send them along with a review of this item, telling me that, of course, this venture, like so many other ideas of mine, is doomed to failure.

Thank you for your time.

POSTSCRIPT: As of 11:18 GMT, 27th June 2002, the first gullible idiot gave me GPs. Here he is:

Frailty of Words


11:25 GMT, 28th June 2002, although not strictly connected with this item, I recieved a total of 200 GPs from:

trisha


22:00 GMT, 28th June 2002, the latest idiot has made a donation. Introducing:

dingolord


And he summed my quest up thus:

"I'm not sure if this is funny, or if it's sad. If it's funny, it deserves some gift points. If it's sad, it still deserves some gift points out of pity."


13:37 GMT, 29th June 2002, donator no. 4, in joint third place, is:

japbrat

With the theory that I am "trying to take over the world..." Rather worrying, really. Still, it's something to aspire to, I suppose...

13:45 GMT, 30th June 2002, Crickey O'Reilley! Donator no. 5 is none other than the infamously twitterpated AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur , donating a massive 3950 GPs! Her quote is long, confusing and full of maths, but basically I can thank the equally infamous Johnny Angel for all of these lovely GPs (Don't know him? Try "Cheap Imitation Crystal Ball.)

A big round of applause, please!


11:04 GMT, 3rd July 2002. Oh dear, oh dear oh dear... In a wanton attempt to gain more publicity, previous contributor Frailty of Words has sent me an extra 247 GPs in order to bump himself up to second place. If only triciabee hadn't sent me 1,500 just before him, he would have made it. Anyway, here's some more comments on your favourite money-making scam:

triciabee:"P.T. Barnum said it best... so here's some GPs from one of the "masses" that has to admit, you're damned clever!!"
Why, I am, aren't I?

Frailty of Words :"You...are THE greastests...greatest...flamboyant
swashbuckler...so, here's a present for my friend, and we all know, second
place aint that bad..."

What about third? Is that OK?

12:18 GMT 3rd July 2002. Well, really. I go away for an hour and someone else donates. Another 100 GPs on the total from Aphrowrite . A simple, yet honest comment: "...Here's to your patheticness!...". Don't you just love GPs?

10:04 GMT 9th July 2002. Just as I was giving up on getting any more, Authoress goes and sends me 15 more. Just goes to show, eh?


11:10 GMT 10th July 2002. A donation of 100 lovely GPs from kittygirl, who points out that it's very American to "throw money... at people who find themselves clever..."
Not just me. The world finds me clever


GOD KNOWS WHEN, ABOUT 18th July 2002. Well, I don't care so much anymore, but still got 30GPs from inbuninbu-- in Japan!! . Yay.


17:33 GMT 21st July, 2002. Back in the mood for this kind of thing now, having recieved another donation from the infinately generous AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur . 1600 GPs, and a nice article on the whole phenomenon, named "If You Can't Pamper Don Rickles. . .. If only I knew who Don Rickles actually was... ho hum.

21:51 GMT 21st July, 2002. Another 105 GPs from some person called Nikki is smiling . Woo, yeah, etc. Comment: "um... I only wonder why I didn't think of this first... well these gps have been burning a hole in my computer... so here you go..."<<Sarcastic Comment>> ;)


SOMETIME IN THE NIGHT OF 21st July - Wooohoo! We hit the big triple figures, as over 100 people have looked at this item! Break out the champange! If only I had gotten GPs from them all...


10:23 GMT 22nd July, 2002. 10 GPs from Unicrn(^-*-^)KnghtsBusy!^_^; . Every little helps...



17:26 GMT 27th July, 2002. A massive 5,600 Gift Points from the wonderfully generous katherine76. She now knocks AJ off the top spot and becomes Fegbarr's Generous Person Of The Year (So Far, Until I Get Even More From Someone Else)!!


22:17 GMT 31st July 2002. Well, katherine76 is now off the top spot again, bumped back down by AJ, with another 162!


22:01 GMT 14th August 2002. Another 456 from AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur

GOD KNOWS WHEN, I CAN'T REMEMBER, ABOUT THE 8th September 2002. Bluey sends 10GPs, (big spender, then) and the *hilarious* quote "aarraahHHHAArrggggahahahahaaarrghhhhhhaaAAaaaaaaaaaa....eeheheee....*wheeze*....." And you wonder why I never bother with this anymore. Idiots, the lot of you...


21:37 GMT 15th September 2002. EmeraldEyz donates 50GPs to the fund, and forces me to mess about with the table trying to find where I should fit her in. More work...


15:43 GMT 25th September 2002.
jay has just gone and given me an outrageously large SEVEN THOUSAND Gift Points. The words "taking" and "biscuit" come to mind. Heh. Anyway, here's the quote: "you are funny. you get gps. *grin*"

16:08 GMT 7th October 2002.
Well, whadd'ya know? Not only has our good friend, donator, and plugger AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur given me another 1669 GPs, putting her once again in first place, she's also given this very item one of those wonderful electronicatamated awardicons, namely the Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover award. To find out the details of my, and several other people's, awards, head on down to "AJ's Awardicons (PG-13 & Under). Ah, heck. For an awardicon, AJ gets bitem. Here it is:
ID: 533670   (Rated: 13+)
AJ's Awardicons (PG-13 & Under) 
Once in a blue moon, I'll present some kind of Awardicon. Find them here!
by AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur
.

10:57 GMT 9th October 2002. All of your Gift Points are belong to us. Ahem. Anyway, another biscuit-removing donation today, this time from x-centrick, who gives us (and by "us" I mean "me") 8,000 GPs. Hence, AJ is once again knocked off the top spot, and I have to mess about with numbers and tables and things. Here's the quote: "Happiness is more complex and elusive than peanut butter." I don't get it, but what the hey.

18:00 GMT 13th October 2002. The insanity continues, with eight-and-a-half grand coming from thunderecho, with a nice dumb comment: "Just how stupid do you think we are?? That stupid, huh? OK... here."


A MINOR BACKLOG OF GPs: I put off uploading these a while back, and then I forgot completely. So, coming all the way from... wherever they come from, we got 600 more points from x-centrick(with a K!) and 2,162 from AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur . Great.


NOT LONG AFTER, ie, 10:38 GMT 4th November 2002. Another donation, but a measly one of 10 GPs from ethos5. Last of the big spenders, eh?


A LONG TIME AGO, IN THE DISTANT PAST. Oooops. These've been sitting in my mailbox doing nothing. That's 225 GPs from AinsleyJoGenuineEntrepreneur and, actually, 2000 from x-centrick. Sorry for the delay, folks.


09:15 GMT, 20th January 2003. 263 GPs, or, in the donator's own terms, a "kingly ransom" from Petra Pansky . Whadd'ya know?

21:30 GMT 16th February 2003. A mysterious visitor left 10 GPs in my inbox today, which would have piqued my curiosity as to their identity but for the small amount involved. On the list it goes.

The Big Table!



I promised a top-three table thingamy, so, in order and everything, here are the donators thus far:

NAME
DONATION
RANKING


10,600
1

10,224
2

8500
3

7000
4

5600
5

1500
6

Petra Pansky
263
7

261
8

200
9

105
10

100
Joint 11th

100
joint 11th

50
13

30
14

15
15

10
joint 16th

10
joint 16th

10
joint 16th

10
joint 16th

10
joint 16th

MYSTERY DONATION
10
joint 16th


TOTAL IDIOTS, erm... DONATORS: 21


Crickey, that was tiring.


UPDATE This item is no longer active, and I should've added this rider a long time ago, for which I apologise. SfN is as of now dead. The donating of GPs for no reason will no longer cause the adding of your name to this list. However, a new free-GP related item will shortly be created in my port, in which the names of both future donators and past donators whom I never put on here will be placed. Many thanks for your patience.

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