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Topic: You're not going to believe this one
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Accidental Altruist
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posted 02 March 2006 05:55 PM
This HAS to be a spoof. quote:
"My boyfriend, my friends, and even my boss had been hassling me to do my chest for months, but I wasn't sure." [...] Dawn, 19, Cincinnati
Uh. Please. somebody tell me this is a spoof - I can't find it on Snopes.com. I am so flabberbasted my arms feel numb as I type this. [ 02 March 2006: Message edited by: Accidental Altruist ]
From: i'm directly under the sun ... ... right .. . . . ... now! | Registered: Dec 2005
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kimmy
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posted 02 March 2006 06:01 PM
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Originally posted by Judes:
I am stunned by this internet ad. Plastic Assets
You're right, I'm not. That can't be real, can it?It's gotta be a joke, right? Satire? I mean, there couldn't seriously be a real financial institution that would seriously launch a campaign like this, could there?
???
Right?
From: Awesometon, Alberta! | Registered: Jan 2006
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'lance
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posted 02 March 2006 06:08 PM
If you google "Bank of National Credit," the institution supposedly offering this card, you get all of 63 hits, none of them referring to a real bank:search results So I'm pretty sure this is a gag. The "Real Stories" page is hardly believable, either. Correction: now there are several more hits -- and this page is listed as no. 2, because people have started to link to it. [ 02 March 2006: Message edited by: 'lance ]
From: that enchanted place on the top of the Forest | Registered: Jul 2001
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kimmy
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Babbler # 11914
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posted 02 March 2006 06:15 PM
A gag, or perhaps a scam designed to get personal information from gullible people. (and if you're looking for gullible people, offering free breast implants seems like a brilliant way to find some...)
The registration information doesn't provide much help either, and certainly no evidence that there's a real financial institution behind this...
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: PLASTICASSETS.COM
Created on: 24-Feb-06
Expires on: 24-Feb-08
Last Updated on: 24-Feb-06 Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration [email protected]
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599
From: Awesometon, Alberta! | Registered: Jan 2006
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'lance
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posted 02 March 2006 06:40 PM
Beats me, but plasticassets.cf.huffingtonpost.com is the alternate domain name, apparently.Maybe this was created by someone who blogs on The Huffington Post? Or by someone piggybacking on it, somehow? quote:
A gag, or perhaps a scam designed to get personal information from gullible people.
A good point, I hadn't thought of that. Perhaps Arianna Huffington will be getting email asking her what the hell's going on with her site. Edit: Aha! Scroll way, way down to the bottom of the page, and you find a link to the Huffington Post Contagious Festival: quote:
Do you enjoy Rumors on the Internets, Mr. Pibb + Red Vines, and brilliant political strategy?
Do you want to be the first one at work to discover the next JibJab, Detroit Project or Black People Love Us? Each month, the Contagious Festival features original work by talented designers, activists, filmmakers and comics. You determine who wins the contest by deciding which entries to forward to your friends and which ones to ignore. Then the most popular sites rise to the top of our live rankings and get the attention of our panel of esteemed judges.
Ta-da. [ 02 March 2006: Message edited by: 'lance ]
From: that enchanted place on the top of the Forest | Registered: Jul 2001
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kimmy
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Babbler # 11914
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posted 03 March 2006 03:33 PM
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Originally posted by skdadl:
'lance, do you not find that weird? I find it weird.I mean, I am an expert at wasting time, but does that not seem to you an EGREGIOUS way to waste time?
Well, if you look at the responses in this thread, I think you can say that the author wasn't wasting his time at all. I mean, this was so exploitive, so crass, so tasteless... and yet, none of us were completely convinced that it wasn't *real* until 'Lance found the background. Isn't that a rather startling statement about how low our expectations have become? I think it's an excellent piece of satire.
From: Awesometon, Alberta! | Registered: Jan 2006
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Pyed Typer
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posted 04 March 2006 01:50 AM
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Originally posted by kimmy:
. . . this was so exploitive, so crass, so tasteless... and yet, none of us were completely convinced that it wasn't *real* . . . Isn't that a rather startling statement about how low our expectations have become? . . .
My IPs has relatively effective spam-blocking, and I have a most efficient kill-file lurking within the bowels of my email client, and yet approximately twenty to thirty messages a week get though, offering to enlarge my breasts, increase my stock portfolio, extend my penis, or participate in a truly rewarding case of philanthropy.No doubt, were it not for the efficacy of my software, my expectations of my fellow man would be truly contemptuous.
From: Somewhere ahead of the rats | Registered: Feb 2006
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kimmy
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posted 04 March 2006 02:28 PM
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Originally posted by Pyed Typer:
My IPs has relatively effective spam-blocking, and I have a most efficient kill-file lurking within the bowels of my email client, and yet approximately twenty to thirty messages a week get though, offering to enlarge my breasts, increase my stock portfolio, extend my penis, or participate in a truly rewarding case of philanthropy.No doubt, were it not for the efficacy of my software, my expectations of my fellow man would be truly contemptuous.
...and then, like, I got this email for, like, herbal breast enhancement, y'know? And I was like OH MY GAWD, this, like, totally rawks! Because, it would make my bewbs look totally hot, y'know? Without icky scars. How awesome is that? And so I was like, where is my credit card? And I was, like, entering my credit card number into the website, when, like, the phone rings. And OMG, it's the bank. And the chick is, like, we're totally cancelling your credit card. And I'm like, why? And she's like, because you're totally behind on your payments and you're out of credit and we're calling a collection agency. And I'm, like, that's totally not fair. So now I can't get the herbal breast enhancement.  and I have to sell my panda-fur jacket and my pink chinchilla cowgirl hat to make payments. Life is, like, totally unfair.
From: Awesometon, Alberta! | Registered: Jan 2006
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Pyed Typer
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posted 04 March 2006 03:43 PM
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Originally posted by kimmy:
. . . I have to sell my panda-fur jacket and my pink chinchilla cowgirl hat to make payments . . .
You will just have to suck it up, and lower your standards to include men who previously sported visible patches of scalp in male pattern baldness, but who now sport tiny corn-row-like-tufts of transplanted hair, seeded into tiny clumps prepared with minoxidil.Then, you will be able to afford the herbal breast enhancement ointment without having to sell off your panda-fur jacket and pink chinchilla cowgirl hat. You will, however, be pressured into acquiescing to accept the largest breast implants permitted by the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons. By the way, unless you are able to convince both your future husband-to-be, and his heirs, to bypass the usual prenuptial agreement (or the terms of that agreement is unusually generous) you would also be well advised to consider a course of CPR to help ward off his inevitable minoxidil-hastened coronary. Good luck, and if you ever consider a baby sealskin muff that can be dyed pink to match your hat, I know where you could pick up a sealskin that has actually shared screen time with Sir Paul & Heather McCartney.
From: Somewhere ahead of the rats | Registered: Feb 2006
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Pyed Typer
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posted 06 March 2006 10:50 AM
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Originally posted by 'lance:
-- I never starred under either my real name, or my 'lance... persona...Er, yeah. So, how about that Jonah Peretti, anyhow?
It doesn’t matter what alias you use, ‘lance since they secreted a subcutaneous radio frequency identification device somewhere that you are unlikely to be willing to amputate, they always know what you are getting up to.As for Jonah Peretti, he also is tagged, so his handlers always know what he is busy at, also.
Following Peretti’s request to see a colour photograph of the 10-year-old Vietnamese girl who made his running shoes, Nike — of course — was unable to oblige, but thankfully, Cherry Blossoms already had her photo on file, in their Mail Order Brides of Tomorrow department.
All was not lost, however. By submitting his photograph to said 10-year-old Vietnamese girl as a possible suitor Jonah Peretti was able to gather enough material to initiate his latest scheme, the official New York Rejection Line, at 212 - 479 - 7990. [ 06 March 2006: Message edited by: Pyed Typer ]
From: Somewhere ahead of the rats | Registered: Feb 2006
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Email this thread to someone!
It's awesome satire, and an excellent statement on our consumer culture and the way it targets young women.
