SlashNOTES: Only You can save SlashNOT
Posted by Matthew on Monday February 28, 2005 @10:21PM
from the blatant-extortion dept.
Matthew writes:
I’ve been writing SlashNOT for three years now. I really like SlashNOT. But I swear, if you don’t donate a dollar to SlashNOT, I will eat it. You can see how funny and satirical SlashNOT is. Don’t you want to help save SlashNOT?I’ve got a bunch of recipes picked out, including Hassenslashnot, SlashNOT under tooled leather with an Orange glace, A nice SlashNOT zuppa, and SlashNOT with fava beans. I haven’t decided which recipe I’m going to use yet, but on June 30th, if I haven’t gotten $ 50,000 in donations then I’m going to eat SlashNOT.
Some of you might be saying “How can he eat SlashNOT? SlashNOT is a website.” Yes, it’s true that SlashNOT has no physical manifestation. I don’t actually even know where the server that hosts it is, other than that its somewhere in Virginia which is like 3,000 miles away from me. So I’m going to print out the entire site and eat it if you don’t donate one dollar to saving me from eating SlashNOT.
Subject:DO NOT DONATE!
I know that most of you get that SlashNOT is satire. But (from the e-mail) it's clear that some of you don't. Just to be clear, please do not donate to the jackass with the rabbit thinking that it will save SlashNOT. SlashNOT is not really in danger. I'm not actually going to eat SlashNOT.
Comment by Matthew — February 28, 2005 @ 10:38 pm
Subject:Slashnot
Eating a website is never wise. I found transistors and the like gave my dentist a few moments pause before making a call. Also, the fact he could see spy satellites from my bicuspid didn't aid matters.
I like this website and only found it today by accident. Keep it going. I'm unemployed but I would like to help.
Comment by Ed Parnell — March 1, 2005 @ 1:34 am
Subject:Re: DO NOT DONATE!
How do I know that this comment is not satire?
Comment by Anonymous Poster — March 1, 2005 @ 7:14 am
Subject:Re: DO NOT DONATE!
If you do decide to eat SlashNOT on account of bunny guy making $16,000 for threatening to eat a rodent, I recommend bacon. Pretty much anything is tastier with bacon.
Comment by Tyson — March 1, 2005 @ 10:22 am
Subject:Re: DO NOT DONATE!
That was supposed to be a number much larger than zero. Guess I should use the preview button.
Comment by Tyson — March 1, 2005 @ 10:23 am
Subject:No Subject Given
I suppose I could move SlashNOT onto one of those portable versions of Apache you can install on a USB key, and then you could eat that. It's a bit anti-climactic though.
Maybe you could eat a printout, and then whatever remains uneaten we'll put back online.
Comment by Michael Moncur — March 1, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
Subject:Oops
How… uh… how do I convince PayPal to cancel a payment?
Comment by daan — March 1, 2005 @ 5:28 pm
Subject:Re: Oops
you…are…uh…screwed.
Paypal sucks, and they hate everybody.
Comment by hmmz — March 2, 2005 @ 12:58 am
Subject:No Subject Given
I am horribly suprised anybody actually donated to that person. That is just another example of the stupidity of the entire human race. Eat the goddamn bunny, okay? I mean, it probably tastes good with Tabasco, you don't need $50k of my money, and I don't give a shit. If you want to eat your pet rabbit, go ahead, just make sure to decapitate it first, because you wouldn't want to get any strange illnesses from consuming brain matter. $16k says that this entire planet is filled with idiots with too much money, and not enough sense.
Comment by hmmz — March 2, 2005 @ 1:00 am
Subject:Re: No Subject Given
Hmmz, it took the dollar signs and the numbers following out. The first one is 50, and the second one is 16, just a heads up.
Comment by hmmz — March 2, 2005 @ 1:01 am
Subject:Re: not eating,
This is $15.00 dollars
Comment by matthew — April 18, 2005 @ 9:43 am
Subject:Re: not eating,
This is .00 dollars
Comment by matthew — April 18, 2005 @ 9:44 am
Subject:Re: not eating,
This is %15.00 dollars
Comment by matthew — April 18, 2005 @ 9:44 am
Subject:Re: not eating,
This is $15.00 dollars
Comment by matthew — April 18, 2005 @ 9:45 am
Subject:Re: Tobystew attack of the clones
Has any one seen all the clones that exist
save toby copy cats
Comment by max — April 25, 2005 @ 5:53 pm