PLA Brick

[kuraz]

"PUSH HERE TO OPEN SECRET DOOR"

how can we be sure this is not a scam and rbcp takes the money and runs?

[wicc]

"Redeem this brick for a free entree at Applebees."
"For Uncle Charlie Keller- Mary Ellen" (They'll never catch the first letters.)
"We fired a teacher to pay for this fine carousel."

[ApprenticePhreak]

"PUSH HERE TO OPEN SECRET DOOR"

how can we be sure this is not a scam and rbcp takes the money and runs?

Because Arby is an old man. He lost his running legs when he lost that bet in Vegas.

[kuraz]

"PUSH HERE TO OPEN SECRET DOOR"

how can we be sure this is not a scam and rbcp takes the money and runs?

Because Arby is an old man. He lost his running legs when he lost that bet in Vegas.

Okay, but how can we be sure that he doesnt take the money and drives off in an electric wheelchair?

[MIB]

Okay, but how can we be sure that he doesnt take the money and drives off in an electric wheelchair?

I took the tires off and put the wheelchair on cinder blocks.

MIB

[rbcp]

Seems like there's enough interest in the brick for me to set up a page and try to get people to donate.  I can keep a list of all the people who donated and the amounts on the page forever so it'll be like you own part of a brick in some random town that you'll never visit!  I'll drop by that place soon and take pictures of the sample brick and any details they have on it. 

Hopefully the $100 brick is allowed for a "business" name like PLA.  Maybe we can get enough donations for just a brick with the PLA name on it, then we can start trying for additional bricks with all kinds of craziness on them.

[rbcp]

I went by the carousel place yesterday and took a picture of their sample brick.  I was wrong about our words being engraved in the brick itself.  We get a gold plaque, which is so much better!  (I think.)

I set up a page that tells about the brick and there's a PayPal button to donate.  So you people who said you'd donate better do it, you jerks!

http://www.phonelosers.org/brick/

I'll be putting $10 or $20 towards it, depending on how quickly the donations happen.  So really all we have to come up with is $80 at the most since I'm so generous. 

[kingmob]

Wow, a gold plaque even.  I'll put in $17 when I get paid Friday.

[rbcp]

$11 has been donated so far.  $89 to go!  I think once it reaches $50, I'll go ahead and pay for the brick and hope that the remaining $50 is donated.

I put just $5.00 on the brick page for myself, not to be a cheapskate, but to give everyone else a chance to donate and get their names on the page.  For realz, that is the reason!  I'll put more in if donations stop happening though.

[blu3b0y]

I'm in for donating to this. I've been trying to think of something witty about about throwing this brick through a window if you locked your keys in the car, locked the baby in the car, etc... the best I can come up with is "slim jim version 1 courtesy of the PLA". but it seems sorta stupid and maybe others can elaborate on this idea and make it better.

[nyphonejacks]

i think it should maybe just be something in crypto..

[kuraz]

i think all your great ideas are not worth very much if nobody donates...

[MIB]

2 more ideas,

"I went to Disneyland and all I get was this lousy brick"

"TOYNBEE IDEA IN Kubrick's 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER"

MIB

[trevelyn]

"Switches are my Bitches" -- Phone Losers of America 2011

[rbcp]

Thanks for the $50 Trevelyn!  And the $20, kingmob!  There's not much left to donate.  I'll get the brick page updated soon.

Once I get this one paid for, we can either find some other brick somewhere in the U.S. or we can get another one at this same place and write something crazy on it.