TPIR taxes woes.

[J.R.]

In attempting to pay for the taxes of a $86,000 Viper won on TPIR, a couple set up a website asking for donations but instantly regretted it and took it down.

Full story here:

http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2007/0...tate07viper.txt

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'148041\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 08:47 PM\']
In attempting to pay for the taxes of an $86,000 Viper won on TPIR, a couple set up a website asking for donations but instantly regretted it and took it down.

Full story here:

http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2007/0...tate07viper.txt
[/quote]
Wow. That's to the couple.

I'm sure a Viper would've been nice, but honestly, I would've sold the car, paid the taxes, then still pocketed about $50K.

[Matt Ottinger]

My guess is that they got bombarded with comments that were a little stronger than "wow".

Really, really stupid idea, but at least he came to his senses.  Although maybe I was reading too much into it, but to me even the apology had a "feel sorry for me" vibe to it.

People realizing after the fact that winning extravagant prizes on TPIR isn't necessarily the greatest thing in the world?  That goes back to Cullen's version.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148053\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:50 PM\']
People realizing after the fact that winning extravagant prizes on TPIR isn't necessarily the greatest thing in the world?  That goes back to Cullen's version.
[/quote]
But why isn't it?  After all, it's possible to make a profit on those items 99% of the time!

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148055\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:58 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148053\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:50 PM\']
People realizing after the fact that winning extravagant prizes on TPIR isn't necessarily the greatest thing in the world?  That goes back to Cullen's version.
[/quote]
But why isn't it?  After all, it's possible to make a profit on those items 99% of the time![/quote]
Forgot all about that.  Interesting that after he so proudly got the last word (actually typing the words "hee hee" as if he'd really put one over on us) he actually left for good.  How often does THAT happen?

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148056\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 11:06 PM\']
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148055\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:58 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148053\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:50 PM\']
People realizing after the fact that winning extravagant prizes on TPIR isn't necessarily the greatest thing in the world?  That goes back to Cullen's version.
[/quote]
But why isn't it?  After all, it's possible to make a profit on those items 99% of the time![/quote]
Forgot all about that.  Interesting that after he so proudly got the last word (actually typing the words "hee hee" as if he'd really put one over on us) he actually left for good.  How often does THAT happen?
[/quote]
Well, technically, he didn't leave voluntarily -- after I closed the thread, he posted this and landed in the Isolation Booth, where he's been since then.

For what it's worth, Lemonjello declared to me that his only crime was to disagree with everyone ("everyone" apparently including himself, as anyone who examines the original thread can see), that he got in plenty of "good punches," and that everyone was against him just because all of us supposedly trade tapes and he doesn't.  He actually begged me to ban him, probably so he could run to other forums and tell them how he was kicked out just for expressing his opinion.  I told him that we don't ban for a first offense of that type, and that before he could be banned, he'd have to apologize, promise not to repeat the offense, then get out of the Isobooth and commit a bannable offense.  He whined some more about how we really all trade tapes, and that was it; I haven't heard from him since.  (At least in email, I let him have the last word, something that seems really, really important to him.)

As a result, Mr. Lemonjello currently shares the Semi-Permanent Isolation Booth with a guy who claimed to have inside information from the L.A. Coroner's Office about Peter Tomarken, a guy who thought it would be funny to change all game show titles to include a reference to the male sex organ, and everyone's favorite gender-confused cackler.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148058\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 09:24 PM\']
As a result, Mr. Lemonjello currently shares the Semi-Permanent Isolation Booth with a guy who claimed to have inside information from the L.A. Coroner's Office about Peter Tomarken, a guy who thought it would be funny to change all game show titles to include a reference to the male sex organ, and everyone's favorite gender-confused cackler.
[/quote]
Without trying to rehash things here, I remember three of the four...who was the guy who had "inside information"?

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148058\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 11:24 PM\']
and everyone's favorite gender-confused cackler.
[/quote]
Wait a minute...Witchiepoo's in isolation? And all this time, I thought he left because he was sick of the ridicule. Shows what I know.

[TheLastResort]

Geez, what tools.  I wonder what Mary won to get up on stage - was she asking for donations to cover those taxes as well??

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148058\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:24 PM\']
As a result, Mr. Lemonjello currently shares the Semi-Permanent Isolation Booth with <among others> a guy who thought it would be funny to change all game show titles to include a reference to the male sex organ <and Witch>
[/quote]

I'm gonna be sorry I asked...but what happened there?

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'148060\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 09:30 PM\']
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148058\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 11:24 PM\']
and everyone's favorite gender-confused cackler.
[/quote]
Wait a minute...Witchiepoo's in isolation? And all this time, I thought he left because he was sick of the ridicule. Shows what I know.
[/quote]
Witch talks about Pillsbury.
[quote name=\'pyldude\']I'm gonna be sorry I asked...but what happened there?[/quote]
Whammy500's "fun" can be had here.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'148059\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 11:29 PM\']
Without trying to rehash things here, I remember three of the four...who was the guy who had "inside information"?
[/quote]
Robert Donahoo -- aka "WorldClassRob" here and "ROBDON33" back in ATGS.  He tried to post it once and I deleted it and warned him; his response was to try to post it again, hence the IB stay.  (He hadn't posted here enough times to be taken off the initial moderation status, which is why none of you saw the posts in question.)

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'148063\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:33 PM\']
Witch talks about Pillsbury.
[quote name=\'pyldude\']I'm gonna be sorry I asked...but what happened there?[/quote]
Whammy500's "fun" can be had here.
[/quote]

Oh, that guy...

That's not the worst I've heard from him...I seem to remember something involving him, Travis Eberle, and his being "saved" from Tim Connolly's ezBoard, trying to justify a point he had no business making and completely misinterpreting something Travis had said.

Sorry to veer it so far off topic.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'148066\' date=\'Mar 13 2007, 10:39 PM\']
Sorry to veer it so far off topic.
[/quote]
You're forgiven.  The misadventures of our miscreants are occasionally fun to rehash (especially when I had forgotten all about them--thank G-d Dave's got the mind of a steel trap).  

[dale_grass]

"Kurt Wait from Redwood City, California made pioneer history by winning the Bake-Off with his fudge macadamia torte cake!"

I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes.  (I've Got a Secret, Beat the Clock, holy moley.)

As for the needy couple, I would have expected more brains from a pair of teachers.