Going Once... Going Twice... Almost Sold Out On Various Techdirt Offerings

from the get-'em-while-they're-hot dept

Thu, Aug 20th 2009 12:43pm — Mike Masnick

Just a quick update that we're getting close to shutting down a bunch of the limited edition offerings in our CwF+RtB experiment. So if you were thinking of ordering things like the t-shirts, hoodies, Book Club or Music Club do so soon. Most of them probably won't last more than another week... We'll eventually be offering up new tiers as well, but if you like what's there, don't miss 'em.

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Fake Billy Mays, 20 Aug 2009 @ 1:41pm

HI BILLY MAYS HERE AGAIN FOR TECHDIRT.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 1:44pm

Ahem
When does the "I, for one, welcome our new helmeted overlord" Tshirt bearing my signature get released?

Not that I'd get one for myself, but I've been having this fantasy about coming to bed and my girlfriend wearing it while lying in a skanky, some might say Cohen-esque pose....
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zaven (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:27pm

Silence Techdirt
C'mon RIAA representatives. I know one of you can afford that silence Techdirt for a year promotion. I know I'd hate it if this site was gone for a year, but I don't think Mike would be complaining with that big fat check.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:30pm

Re: Silence Techdirt
For 100 million, you could silence a whole bunch of the internet. After all, the posts are all public domain, so there isn't a whole bunch of value here!
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Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:30pm

Re: Silence Techdirt
"C'mon RIAA representatives. I know one of you can afford that silence Techdirt for a year promotion. I know I'd hate it if this site was gone for a year, but I don't think Mike would be complaining with that big fat check."

Funny story actually, I understand that the RIAA wanted to utilize that option, but like with most of their artists, they couldn't figure out where to send the check...
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Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:31pm

Re: Re: Silence Techdirt
"After all, the posts are all public domain, so there isn't a whole bunch of value here!"

Way to completely confuse price and value, moron...
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:40pm

baaaa-baaaa, come on sheep! Cue up for a shearing.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 2:43pm

Re:
"baaaa-baaaa, come on sheep! Cue up for a shearing."

Yeah! Cue up for a shearing! Then we can go play pool with our queue sticks.

Idiot.
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Not RD., 20 Aug 2009 @ 7:46pm

Re: Re:
fucktard.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Aug 2009 @ 8:18pm

Re: Re:
>>Then we can go play pool with our queue sticks.

Queue Sticks? You are a dolt, sir. I bet you play with a granny stick.
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Chargone (profile), 20 Aug 2009 @ 9:10pm

Re: Re: Re:
.... did you seriously miss what he did there?
because if you did, this comment makes you look a lot worse than it does him :D
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Dark Helmet (profile), 21 Aug 2009 @ 4:52am

Re: Re: Re:
"Queue Sticks? You are a dolt, sir. I bet you play with a granny stick."

Allow me to quote:

“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.” - Lord Chesterfield.

Guess which way you fall in that last sentence there, sparky...
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President Skroob (profile), 21 Aug 2009 @ 9:43am

Re: Re: Re: Re:
What is this? Helmet, are you talking about me again? You know I play with a Granny Stick.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 21 Aug 2009 @ 10:08am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Bwhahahahaha! Am I really inspiring more Spaceball character profiles? That's fantastic.

"Granny Stick."

That's the sort of thing an idiot would use to carry around his luggage!
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