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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

CHARITY! WE ARE KICKING GAWKER'S ASS TIMES FIFTEEN THOUSAND (CHARITABLY!!!)

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM

Sorry, but I must shout: SLOG IS OFFICIALLY FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE GENEROUS/SMARTER/BETTER-LOOKING THAN GAWKER!!!

So far, Slog has donated $15,355 to Northwest Harvest to help feed hungry people in the the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge! I am SO PROUD THAT I AM STILL SHOUTING!!!

Let's keep giving! Have you made your mom give yet? (Hi Mom! You are awesome!) How about your neighbor, hmmm? That friend with the great laugh and the heart of gold? That friend with the cranky attitude but secret heart of gold?

Maybe you or your mom or your neighbor or your friend would like a $50 gift certificate to Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria! Just give to Northwest Harvest before midnight tonight—any amount counts, because any amount helps!—and email your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!*

Be an elf yourself! Give now!

*Santa sees those of you who do not have your AWESOME PERSON tags yet and he is making his list RIGHT NOW. (If you're wondering why no staffers are AWESOME, well, the webmonkeys say they can only do one tag per person, I guess because there's a limited amount of space on the internet. Anyway, I gave! Hi Santa!) Give to Northwest Harvest right now—whatever amount you can afford—and then forward us your receipt, and we'll update your commenter handle with the AWESOME PERSON tag (be sure to tell us your handle and/or the email address your account is registered under!). Because you are awesome for helping.

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Mmm, pizza!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on December 13, 2011 at 3:17 PM

Is Strangercrombie happening this year?

Posted by Andrew Chapman

on December 13, 2011 at 3:21 PM

@2, no.

I would like to request that my AWESOME PERSONI tag be replaced with one reading CUNT.

Posted by Fnarf

on December 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM

How come these never say how much Gawker has raised (or for what charity)? "FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE GENEROUS..." suggests that they've raised no more than $1.02, but that would be really sad.

Posted by So-called Claire on December 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM

I will donate an additional $200 if I can have tag that reads SCHMUCK.

Posted by gloomy gus on December 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM

@4, no one at Gawker has ever heard of the Slog, let alone this contest.

Gus, you can have ASSHAT for a mere $25. I think DOUCHEBAG is taken, but LICKS WINDOWS can be yours for a mere $45.

Posted by Fnarf

on December 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM

I can't find the Gawker donation link; where is it?

Posted by mayor on December 13, 2011 at 3:53 PM

@5 You are SO onto something here. While there's no Strangercrombie (still totally bummed), this seems like a GENIUS way to raise more much needed funds for Northwest Harvest.

Sell custom tags/signatures. $200 seems a decent price point. It's more than most of us can afford, but definitely enough to make it worth the tech-monkeys time to do all of the necessary work. (Tech-monkeys is typed with love and respect, as I was a primatology major!!)

Posted by Tracy on December 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM

But Brendan said you don't shout.

Posted by care bear on December 13, 2011 at 4:22 PM

Every time someone calls us monkeys, the Internet gets a little bit smaller.

Posted by Anthony Hecht on December 13, 2011 at 4:35 PM

I would give $50 to Planned Parenthood for "Feminist Buzzkill," but that already got shot down. :(

Posted by leek on December 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM

Very odd. I keep trying to give, and I have tried multiple credit cards, but it keeps rejecting it -- telling me the expiration dates are wrong. Which they most certainly are not. Is anyone else having that problem?

Posted by litlnemo

on December 13, 2011 at 4:43 PM

@6 What is Gawker anyway, and why not have it be an actual rivalry between two communities? Seems like it would be more successful that way...

Posted by So-called Claire on December 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM

@13, Gawker is some New York bullshit that no real American needs to know about.

Posted by Fnarf

on December 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM

I do all my charitable giving in my own tumbleweed-choked dusty shithole for now because, as you can imagine, the need is very great... but I can't help vibrating in sympathetic excitement to the notion of a self-chosen tag (beyond that afforded by one's own Slog ID, of course).

I would pay respectably for "KNAVE," generously for "POLTROON," and extravagantly/ruinously for "TRIPOD."

Posted by rob!

on December 13, 2011 at 7:23 PM

I have my name,and It suites me just fine...

Posted by superhyrulean on December 14, 2011 at 7:32 AM

@10 I'm not joking about the primatology major thing. I put most non-human primates above many humans, so it really is said with compliments. But sorry for making the internet slower, everybody

Posted by Tracy on December 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM