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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Trading Up

Posted by on July 13 at 11:25 AM

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File this under Why Didn’t I Think of That, or That Goddamned Brilliant Bastard.

A Canadian man was handed the keys to a three-bedroom house Wednesday, exactly a year after he offered a red paper clip online, asking to trade it for “bigger or better” things.

In his latest trade, Kyle MacDonald, 26, swapped a bit role in a Hollywood movie for a house in the small Western Canadian town of Kipling, Saskatchewan.

When he started his quest with the paper clip, MacDonald said getting a house was his goal.

He traded in the paper clip for a fish pen and eventually moved up to an afternoon with rocker Alice Cooper before snagging the Hollywood movie role in his 14th trade.

The choice role he had to trade for his brand new house? A walk-on in Corbin Bernsen’s latest, “Donna on Demand.”

I got half a bag of Rainier Cherries in here. Who wants to trade? The bidding starts at 3 avocados.


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Does anyone know where I might be able to trade an oil can for a heart--a real heart?

I'll trade you this handful of magical beans for all the money in your bank account.

wow, how very interesting! and only 48 hours after msn and every other major news outlet got the story. way to go scoop!

Ooh, a snarky comment! How interesting!

I was wondering how that guy was doing....

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