rssJoe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 9:00 am
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Reasonable people can differ about how much to cover Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, but the last time I spoke to him, he was speaking cryptically about a “new project” he would launch at the end of March. The project is now online: IRSVote.com.
It’s sort of self-explanatory, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing.
Visitors can click on a button that lets them “vote” on whether or not to keep the IRS, but either vote takes them to a page where they can get a T-shirt with Joe pointing out at the viewer, in his best Lord Kitchener pose. Or visitors can use their cell phones to vote. There are rules governing this.
We actually only wanted to charge 10¢ per vote but unfortunately the Telephone companies are now regulated and it is not possible to charge 10¢. Unbelievably, there is now a minimum charge of $2.00 or more. Fortunately for the campaign, we managed to find an existing company that let us use their 900 number etc to enable us to charge 99c, as they were grandfathered in, prior to the new regulations.
This prose reminds me of something. Ah, yes.
He took the hilt of his ashplant, lunging with it softly, dallying still. Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me. All days make their end. By the way next when is it Tuesday will be the longest day. Of all the glad new year, mother, the rum tum tiddledy tum.
So that’s what he’s up to.
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Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
No, it's more like this:
“Her legs were quills. They were bundles of wicker, they were candelabra; the muscles were summer lightning, that flickered like a passing thought; they were captured eels or a cable on a windlass. Her thighs were geese, pythons, schooners. They were cypress or banyan; her thighs were a forge, they were shears; her thighs were sandstone, they were the sandstone buttresses of a cathedral, they were silk or cobwebs. Her calves were sweet with the sap of elders, her feet were bleached bones, her feet were driftwood. Her feet were springs, marmosets or locusts; her toes were snails, they were snails with shells of tears.”
Comment posted April 5, 2009 @ 9:16 am
huh.. looks like he updated his site to remove that whole 'wanting to charge 10 cents, but law makes him charge $2.00 so we should thank our lucky stars that he found a loophole to only charge 99 cents'.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: “Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to.”
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:17 am
I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: “Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to.”
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