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Thanks to Joe R for the graphic; thanks to all of you for awesomely hitting 89K today.
A couple of the remaining projects need less than a hundred bucks to get finished.
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
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Like a lot of others I am sure, I just redonated. No way is Colbert going to beat TN and the awesome.
$11 more and $ and the Mysterians kicks in another $2500! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Simply put: Awesome.
He may have gone to my college, but you are from my state, so clearly, you are far more awesome.
I was also totally suckered in by there only being $11 left to hit $90k, and I am totally hitting refresh until they flip the numbers over.
Me too! I love Colbert, but I love Sars more :)
Plus – wow! Just checked back in and someone (or someones) went big and we’re up to $90,000! I can almost taste the six figures. And it tastes AWESOME.
90%!
Woo! $90,075! The extraordinarily good-looking and charismatic $ is all “Where is my checkbook of giant checks?”
I felt so “on notice” that I had to find another project to donate to. I’ve been wanting to support some Louisiana schools all along, it was kismet that the project at the top at the moment was from Gretna, LA. Go Virgil.
Yay over 90K!
Aaaand we’ve hit $90K!
Colbert just rejected my pitch to pitch my book on his show. So I of course just donated to put that rat bastard in his place.
SCREW YOU, COLBERT. TOMATO NATION KICKS COLBERT NATION’S ASS.
See that? ASSCAPS.
@Allyson: I blurbed said book, so word, fuck him. Heh.
I’m-a go hand ? a pen and stand over him. You guys are awesome!
Maybe we should send Colbert some tomatoes.
Hellooooo 90k!
The Tomato Nation can SOOOOOO take the Colbert Nation.
Am I the only one all a-twitter with the Bunting name on the board? Don’t get me wrong, 90k is a bigger deal, but She. Is. On. The. Board.
Hey, wasn’t Colbert’s Challenge goal a MILLION the other day?
Now… not so much?
I get paid friday. last paycheck went to med bills, this one too, but I want to donate what i can because yeah. I want those six figures like nobody’s business.
@Zeep: Which board? The one in the graphic is Photoshopped.
@A^3, it totally was the last time I looked.
I don’t know. Being whomped by a deeply resonant six-foot tomato seems like the kind of thing Stephen Colbert ought to be able to appreciate.
@Linda, I totally agree.
And oh, good morning, 91%! :-)
@Allyson and/or Sars (whoever answers first): What’s the name of the book?
I love Colbert, but it is kind of nice to see TN beat him down. Unless Donors Choose offers to name a bridge or mascot after him, or change the name to Colbert Chooses, I don’t think we have much to worry about.
Forgive me for being a little slow, but was there an actual moment where Colbert called you out on his show, Sars? I’ve been trying to watch the last bunch of episodes online to see the Colbert-Tomato Nation Challenge Showdown (or whatever he would have called it), and I’m not coming up with anything.
So far, the ony thing even close was Colbert’s interview with Craig Newmark of Donors Choose/Craigslist. Is that it?
I realize the “Sars is On Notice” graphic is an auto-generated thing, so I know I’m not likely looking for an actual segment, but still. Is all my searching in vain?
There wasn’t; I didn’t see it, but evidently he mentioned his challenge on Donors Choose. He doesn’t know me from a bear so I doubt he’d mention me by name.
The graphic above, again, is Photoshopped, courtesy of Joe R.
92%! Which is Kelly Kapoor awesome.
Allyson – what book? Can we all read it??
Not that it won’t already be a mob scene, but Colbert will be doing a reading tonight at Barnes & Noble Union Square.
7pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free
Just sayin.
So anyone attending the reading should bring tomatoes. Rotten, squishy, stinky ones.
Rule not with projectiles, but with smug shaming!
Or perhaps with the suggestion that a resonant tomato might make a good guest on “your little TV show — ‘The Colbert Hour,’ is it?”
I’m kidding. Colbert is awesome. I just went back to watch his correspondents’ dinner speech again last night. So so good.
But I’m still going to kick his ass.
Let’s not forget the cats- for those that can go, be sure to toss some Cherry Tomatoes at (president) Colbert!
yes I’m still hoping to bribe the cats into giving me a prize, why are you asking?
over 95%! This is so cool :D
Because I am occasionally a naive goof, I thought the Colbert graphic was real, until I read the comments. And I thought, “Yay for Sars, the TN contest is crazy famous now!” Oh, well.