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QUICK Site FundRaiser

by John Cole|  January 24, 20176:21 pm| 52 Comments

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Hey guys- it’s been over a year since Alain redid the site, so I want to do a quick and small fundraiser to send him some money for all the time and energy he has spent fixing the site and keeping us up to date. If you are so inclined, please hit the paypal jar.

Many thanks in advance.

**** UPDATE ****

AND WE ARE GOOD.

Anything you send now will be spent on hideous window treatments to piss off Suzanne or maybe this couch:

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52Comments

  1. 1.

    amygdala

    January 24, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    Done!

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    January 24, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    ? Alain. Sent my bit.

  3. 3.

    raven

    January 24, 2017 at 6:32 pm

    Ding, let us know if you don’t get enough.

  4. 4.

    phoebes from highland park

    January 24, 2017 at 6:42 pm

    Just kicked in $100. Thanks for all your good work.

  5. 5.

    Boussinesque

    January 24, 2017 at 6:42 pm

    Chipped in what I could spare. Thanks so much for this space, John. I really appreciate all you, Alain, and the others front-pagers do.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 24, 2017 at 6:49 pm

    Very small, embarrassingly small donation. This site is worth many times what I give it, and I hope at some point to be able to demonstrate that monetarily.

  7. 7.

    Miss Bianca

    January 24, 2017 at 6:51 pm

    very small, considering all I get from this place, but all I could spare for now!

  8. 8.

    FlyingToaster

    January 24, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    Done!

  9. 9.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    Tip of the chapeau to Alain, and thanks to our host.

  10. 10.

    Elmo

    January 24, 2017 at 7:04 pm

    In for $25. This is a great community!

  11. 11.

    prob50

    January 24, 2017 at 7:04 pm

    Tossed in what I could. Thanks for the Forum, John.

  12. 12.

    waysel

    January 24, 2017 at 7:08 pm

    Way past high time, 50 from me . Thanks to JC and all for being here. An amazing resource of information, wisdom, and utter bullshit.

  13. 13.

    martian

    January 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    Tomorrow when I have money! Please still be collecting tomorrow. Gah, fundraisers always seem to hit when I’m busted. I so appreciate having a sane corner of the interwebs and the work folks have put in to maintain it.

  14. 14.

    Beeb

    January 24, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    I’m in. Thanks, JC and Alain.

  15. 15.

    Yoda Dog

    January 24, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    Done. Thanks so much to all you do guys. I’ve just de-lurked pretty recently but I’ve been here for almost a decade and I extra appreciate this safe space in these troubled times. One love.

  16. 16.

    MomSense

    January 24, 2017 at 7:26 pm

    Thursday is payday and I’m in.

  17. 17.

    debit

    January 24, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    Done! I can’t ever repay all that this site and community have done for me, but I can try.

  18. 18.

    raven

    January 24, 2017 at 7:42 pm

    @martian: PayPal don’t close.

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    January 24, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Done. Thanks JC and Alain.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  20. 20.

    Kristine

    January 24, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    Done.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 24, 2017 at 8:05 pm

    LOL @ couch!!

  22. 22.

    lollipopguild

    January 24, 2017 at 8:05 pm

    The couch is fit for burning.

  23. 23.

    Bex

    January 24, 2017 at 8:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s a pussy couch!

  24. 24.

    La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)

    January 24, 2017 at 8:08 pm

    That didn’t take long. Instead of contributing to that rather colorful sectional, I’ll buy some Balloon Juice swag instead.

  25. 25.

    Larkspur

    January 24, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    @lollipopguild: I think you are right. Usually you can fix a rectal prolapse with surgery, but seven rectal prolapses, it’s gonna get pricey.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    January 24, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    Uhhh, I’m not the only one seeing a series of vulvas decorating that couch, am I?

    Who’s the designer, Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs?

  27. 27.

    crawdad

    January 24, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    Was that couch designed by Georgia O’Keefe?

  28. 28.

    frosty

    January 24, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    Just got paid Friday I’m in too. It’s a fraction of the value — I can’t possibly afford to contribute what this site is worth to me.

  29. 29.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 24, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    the couch needs writhing tentacles to complete it’s Fruedian nightmare.

  30. 30.

    Chris T.

    January 24, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Hah, I was going to ask if anyone else counted seven vulvas on it…

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 24, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    @Bex:

    “Honey, I have a headache. Could you sleep on the uvula tonight?”

  32. 32.

    dmsilev

    January 24, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    Can we contribute so that you don’t buy that …thing?

  33. 33.

    randy khan

    January 24, 2017 at 8:27 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Ditto. World’s ugliest cat tree.

    But use my $25 for anything, even that.

  34. 34.

    FlyingToaster

    January 24, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    You know, you aren’t required to have hideous window treatments. I made what are now our curtains for my then-boyfriend now-husband’s old place. And I bought the unlined curtains that came with WarriorGirl’s rocket bed and sewed in blackout lining*.

    *Living on a corner means that we have a streetlight in front, and a streetlight on the side. Both shine into her bedroom; one shines into ours. Neither shine into the guest room, which has cheap-ass curtains because my guests don’t have to deal with the streetlight.

  35. 35.

    Chris T.

    January 24, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    OK, 5 and two halves … and apparently this was custom-made for someone? See http://geekologie.com/2013/10/custom-20k-vagina-couch-for-sale-for-onl.php

  36. 36.

    jonas

    January 24, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    Wow. Looking at that couch, I’m so glad the “distended genitalia” phase of modern interior decorative art passed in the late 70’s. Who had that thing made? Bob Guccione?

  37. 37.

    Suzanne

    January 24, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    That couch would look even better if you could get it in black with gold piping.

  38. 38.

    glaukopis

    January 24, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    Done. Thanks, John. And that sofa is hideous.

  39. 39.

    burnspbesq

    January 24, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @jonas:

    Who had that thing made? Bob Guccione?

    Trump, obvs.

  40. 40.

    martian

    January 24, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    @raven: Missed the fundraiser window again, damnit, but perhaps I can hit PayPal with a donation dedicated towards dragging the coochie couch to the nearest incinerator.

    Or, wait… The family quarters in the White House will be getting makeover soon, right? A little gold leafing and it’s puurrrrffffect.

  41. 41.

    SectionH

    January 24, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    Done. I don’t like PayPal, but I love BJ, so WTH, may as well spend money while I still have a little.

    The sofa is so hideous all I could do was laugh.

  42. 42.

    amygdala

    January 24, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I’m telling you, he needs a pink hat!

  43. 43.

    Aleta

    January 24, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    Should we take this dare and festoon his house in menstrual proud window panels.

  44. 44.

    Just One More Canuck

    January 24, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @amygdala:I can picture Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear on this couch

  45. 45.

    raven

    January 24, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @martian: Hang onto your dough, something else will come around.

  46. 46.

    Lavocat

    January 24, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    I believe that is the oft-rumored but rarely seen “clit couch”. OMFG!

  47. 47.

    opiejeanne

    January 24, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Er, I think autocorrect sabotaged your post.

  48. 48.

    TaMara (HFG)

    January 24, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Jeebuz, did you google “world’s ugliest couch” to come up with that threat?

  49. 49.

    stinger

    January 24, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    Chipped in even though you said you had enough. Maybe you can purchase that godawful thing and have it shipped to the Trump Tower penthouse. It would be the least tacky thing there.

  50. 50.

    SgrAstar

    January 25, 2017 at 12:24 am

    Thanks for everything, Cole. Let us know if you need more.

  51. 51.

    HeartlandLiberal

    January 25, 2017 at 6:59 am

    I chipped in 20 bucks, although you will not be able to correlate the payment account with my posting nom de plume here, and there was no way to leave a note with the payment that I could see. Anyway, this is one of four blogs I read every morning and every evening, primarily because it remains reality and non-alternative fact based, which is becoming something to appreciate in our current decent into madness.

    Also, being five years deep into retirement, and having just made the second minimum required distribution dip into my funds, I have become a real Scrooge about where I put my money. By necessity.

    P.S. Alain, I was serious about the test -> backup -> production platform design, speaking from about 35 years in computing, doing everything from database design to managing IT ops for a major Big Ten university sports operation. Hope your recent experience will suggest the validity of the notion. $DEITY knows I had to learn sometimes the hard way along the road.

    Shoot, I even just brought up a virtual machine on my new Windows 10 box, with a separate virtual install, just to test stuff in, because my attempt to add a route created by a fan to Microsoft Train Simulator blew up the entire Train Sim installation so bad I had to reinstall it all. Bummer. But a brutal reminder of how easily things can go south fast.

  52. 52.

    waysel

    January 25, 2017 at 2:38 pm

    That couch is chock full of Trumpian grandeur. Awesome, truly. You should buy two, for balance.

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