Below is the transcript of the video appeal to help my crippled fish Comet.
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The Make a Fish foundation encourages you to help my poor crippled pet goldfish - Comet. He’s been in a wheelchair after a tragic boating accident claimed his ability to walk underwater. Comet’s dream is to win me a new fridge, and you can help Comet accomplish his goal by placing your vote now on abandonedstuff.com
Hurry, you only have until September 3rd 2006. Do it for Comet!
Please Vote for my Ugly Fridge. (Half way down the 4th column.)
@hotmail.com
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Ross | 31-Aug-06 at 12:08 am | Permalink
i voted for your fridge. in return you must keep a beer cold for me in it for the next time im in yorkton. i prefer pilsner, but in reality will drink anything with the exception of budweiser.
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 12:15 am | Permalink
That sounds like a fair trade. Right now all I have though is some hard alcohol in there, and a bottle of Shmirnov Ice. I’ll have to stock up some.
Ross | 31-Aug-06 at 12:17 am | Permalink
booze is booze, its all good
Soulfood | 31-Aug-06 at 1:17 am | Permalink
Well, as of 1:16am on August 31, you’re at 38 votes. I’ll vote again when I wake up. Then I’m headed to Regina then Weyburn, so when I next get on a computer, I’ll keep voting.
Ashley | 31-Aug-06 at 1:23 am | Permalink
As of 1:24 you have 39 votes. Hopefully more poor in as someone has 89 already.
Miss Cellania | 31-Aug-06 at 4:01 am | Permalink
You should post the URL that goes directly to YOUR frig, instead of making people look for it. Like this one.
http://snipurl.com/vq1n
I voted, early and often.
Soulfood | 31-Aug-06 at 6:54 am | Permalink
Well, I don’t find his fridge hard to find. Takes me about three seconds to scroll. Maybe scrolling is too hard for some people though.
Anyway…as of 6:53am you have 43 votes. Halfway to the leader at 86!!
And 6:53 is an ungodly hour of the day. I’m not a fan of getting up this early. But if I want to take the bus to get to the bus (city to get to STC) I have to be up early.
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 7:49 am | Permalink
That’s a good idea Miss C. but I’m not sure that URL works without making Saskpower think you’ve already voted on another computer, or not?
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 8:16 am | Permalink
The tinyurl goes to a page where the vote is shown at 41, so I don’t know if it’s counting a new vote and displaying the old or not. I’d get more people voting, but the way it is right now is more fair for the other fridges ;-)
Dave | 31-Aug-06 at 6:33 pm | Permalink
Done! Best of luck! (Although I do think your old fridge is rather avant gard).
Does the new one come with fridge magnets?
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
Thank you Dave. Comet thanks you too.
If there aren’t magnets on it, I even have a SaskPower fridge magnet to go right on it when it gets here.
CathiefromCanada | 31-Aug-06 at 10:20 pm | Permalink
Well, I voted for you and your fish (74 votes now) and recommended this post at Progressive Bloggers. Good luck
And your fish(y) story made me remember the time I got a fundraising phone call which began “Do you want to give a dying child their last wish?” — an attempted guilt trip which annoyed me so much that I just said “No” and hung up the phone.
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy » Blog Archive » Photoshop me because I’m so photogenic | 31-Aug-06 at 11:10 pm | Permalink
[...] The winner of my contest will be judged by me and my fish Comet. You can post at any time in this thread, you don’t have to wait until the contest closes. It’s fair game to steal someone’s work, but you’ll lose points for originality, and adding humour by building on something might not be enough for the win. Good luck! [...]
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 11:41 pm | Permalink
Cathie, you just reminded me that I have a “pledge package” coming from the Saskatchewan Police something or other, and I haven’t received it yet. Darn telemarketers.
leftdog | 01-Sep-06 at 12:13 am | Permalink
What follows is an excerpt of discussion over at Galloping Beaver concerning Comet and discussion on this site:
” My eyes sorta water up every time I look at that fridge and I just picture saskboy having to live with THAT! SBoy - I’ve done my little bit and I have voted for her.
be strong!
your pal
leftdog
leftdog | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 10:31 pm | #
Thank you Leftdog, that means a lot to me, but especially Comet.
saskboy | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 10:40 pm | #
Jon | 01-Sep-06 at 8:27 pm | Permalink
Up to 113, but the fridge two to the left is at 136, so he has a little ways to go yet.
Saskboy1 | 02-Sep-06 at 10:09 am | Permalink
There’s also one that has about 200 votes last I looked. They must be spammng friends to get the vote done, or has a large website backing them too.
BuzzTracker.com | 03-Sep-06 at 8:39 pm | Permalink
Featured on BuzzTracker…
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Saskboy | 05-Sep-06 at 1:03 am | Permalink
I made it to over 200 votes, but the winner clearly beat mine with over 400 in their favour.
??????? | 20-Mar-08 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
What does this have to do with the poor fish you only care about the fridge!!!!!!!!! Your mean why dont you put it out of its misery why would you do that!!!!!
Saskboy | 20-Mar-08 at 9:29 pm | Permalink
LOL, ??? it’s a joke, a fake.