Give the Gift of Slashdot

Give the Gift of Slashdot 334

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:01PM from the getting-on-the-beg-train dept.

It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

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Sure... (Score:4, Funny)

by jargoone ( 166102 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:02PM (#7670186)

Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!

gifts (Score:4, Funny)

by Mohammed Al-Sahaf ( 665285 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:02PM (#7670191)

I shall give you the gift of bullets and shoes!!

subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:-1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:02PM (#7670193)

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If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:02PM (#7670196)

Do we all get a cool account to use?

Giving Slashdot Access (Score:5, Funny)

by Acidic_Diarrhea ( 641390 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:03PM (#7670205) Homepage Journal

Can I pay to have certain moderators taken out of the pool? Can I pay to get certain people put into the moderator pool?
My checkbook is open Mr. Taco - all you have to do is give me the answers to write you the dollars.

Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by santiag0 ( 213647 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:03PM (#7670215)

and never have sex with your girlfriend again.

mysterious future (Score:2, Funny)

by Cyberop5 ( 520141 ) * writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:04PM (#7670218) Homepage Journal

And thanks to my subscription, I got a heads up from the mysterious future on this ;) Just in case /. gets slashdotted

The gift of Slashd? (Score:5, Funny)

by Lev13than ( 581686 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:04PM (#7670235) Homepage

Give the Gift of Slashdot(ting)

Funny, when I first read the headline I thought it meant you could buy a service to crash someone else's server....

Laundry! (Score:5, Funny)

by nullard ( 541520 ) writes: <`cc.daehymniseciov' `ta' `margorpllun'> on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:04PM (#7670242) Journal

The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?

Obviously... (Score:2, Funny)

by Professor North ( 606910 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:05PM (#7670253)

"... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry."

Well, isn't that the geek mantra?

Of T-Shirts and Laundry (Score:5, Funny)

by Doesn't_Comment_Code ( 692510 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:06PM (#7670262)

If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

Not to mention that once you own enough t-shirts, you can start a pile in the corner. As you remove a dirty t-shirt, you through it on top. When you need a new one, you take from the bottom. The weight of all the t-shirts on top pressure cleans the ones toward the bottom. Once you acheive a critical mass of t-shirts in your cleaning queue, you will never have to do laundry again.

Cool! (Score:3, Funny)

by American AC in Paris ( 230456 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:06PM (#7670263) Homepage

It's not a dupe, it's the gift that keeps on giving!

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by winkydink ( 650484 ) * writes: <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:08PM (#7670285) Homepage Journal

You have sex?
You have a girlfriend?
You are obviously new here. ;)

Re:just to keep plugging... (Score:5, Funny)

by B3ryllium ( 571199 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:09PM (#7670304) Homepage

... extracted from the rare wool of sheep-like Slashdot Moderators ...

Slashdot Subscription (Score:4, Funny)

by isa-kuruption ( 317695 ) writes: <kuruption@NoSPam.kuruption.net> on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:11PM (#7670333) Homepage

<troll> Due to high costs of energy this holiday season, the lump of coal in your stocking has been replaced by a Slashdot subscription.</troll>

Do you take e-gold? (Score:5, Funny)

by Thud457 ( 234763 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:11PM (#7670336) Homepage Journal

I'll only subscribe if I can blatently troll and have unlimited karma!
Oh, and a complimentary First Post to sweeten the deal!

A CHEAPER WAY TO SUBSCRIBE (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:12PM (#7670350)

edit your hosts file

127.0.0.1 ads.osdn.com

no more ads!

Ironic! (Score:5, Funny)

by h4rm0ny ( 722443 ) * writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:12PM (#7670359) Journal

I bought myself a subscription basically because I read /. so often that I wanted to help out. (Other than with my witty and insightful posts, of course).

And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!

Oh the irony!

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by The Snowman ( 116231 ) * writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:13PM (#7670362)

and never have sex with your girlfriend again.

Giving a Slashdot subscription is like getting married?

No, I'm not bitter...

Make your /. Gift Open Source! (Score:3, Funny)

by Lieutenant_Dan ( 583843 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:13PM (#7670366) Homepage Journal

I think it would help the Open Source developer community if they were granted a gift subscription to /. . The content in Slashdot would be invaluable in their daily research, as informed individuals share their experiences and insights. It would also alleviate the tedium that permeates their lives when they get to follow the insight GNAA, TEH SPOKE, and Subject Line trolls.

So don't delay and support your local Open Source developer, since you never know when you need that Ogg Vorbis support in your favorite application!

Re:just to keep plugging... (Score:5, Funny)

by Davak ( 526912 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:13PM (#7670368) Homepage

For those that don't know...

It's 1000 pages for 5 dollars.

i just see a bunch of geeky kids now sitting on Santa's lap trying to explain to him what slashdot is...

Merry Christmas All.

Davak

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:17PM (#7670422)

You just got married 18 months ago?!?!

You think the sex is bad now... just wait a few more years. :)

AC

How much do you want to bet (Score:2, Funny)

by tmark ( 230091 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:17PM (#7670424)

that this story gets duped ?

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

by punxking ( 721508 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:18PM (#7670440)

"and never have sex with your girlfriend again. Giving a Slashdot subscription is like getting married?" What if I give the gift of Slashdot to my wife? Two negatives equal a positive right? Woohoo I'm gettin' some for Christmas!

t-shirts bah (Score:2, Funny)

by Ravagin ( 100668 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:19PM (#7670459)

the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

Man, I own plenty of t-shirts. You want to really help me not have to do laundry? Sell slashdot brand underwear and socks in bulk. Every laundry cycle, that's what I run out of first. Or am I the only one?

(Yeah, slashdot undergarments, I'm sure the ladies dig that....)

Re:Of T-Shirts and Laundry (Score:2, Funny)

by twoslice ( 457793 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:20PM (#7670474)

Your idea really stinks...

Re:Girlfriends (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:20PM (#7670475)

Considering that my girlfriend is running BSD, has a Dual Intel Xeon processor, 1 GB ram, a network interface card and can't really walk much further than the length of her powercord...I think a slashdot subscription is just the thing...that is until the price of fuel cell technology drops to the point where we can actually go out on our first date!!!

BTW...she's rack mounted...hubba, hubba.

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by tmark ( 230091 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:22PM (#7670497)

I just got married and I can tell you it's not stopping me from having sex with my girlfriend.

Just don't tell my wife.

Re:Anonymous? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:24PM (#7670531)

Is that like the parallel to "a drink for you, my lady, from the mysterious gentleman in the back" or what?

Not really. You can't slip a roofie into a Slashdot subscription. Nor, I imagine, would anyone ever want to if you could.

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:25PM (#7670542)

Anonymous Coward has a UID of 666.

Re:Laundry! (Score:5, Funny)

by milgr ( 726027 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:27PM (#7670562)

Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff?

Perhaps you need more chairs.

Who wants to be my slashdot sugar daddy? (Score:5, Funny)

by a!b!c! ( 137622 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:27PM (#7670564)

Everytime I get the chance to moderate, I will bestow apon you as many points as I can.

I will honor and support you in any flame war.

During times your times of good karma, and bad karma,
through a dialup or in broadband
I will be there to post by your comment.

Till the subscription runs out...

Re:give a man a fish (Score:2, Funny)

by danknight ( 570145 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:28PM (#7670570)

Build a Man a Fire and keep him warm for a day... Set a Man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his Life !!

Re:Girlfriends (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:30PM (#7670599)

Your girlfriend runs BSD? That's a shame she's dying. My girlfriend is a quad-processor Solaris box. She's as stable as hell and likes to get freaky-deaky!

11) (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:36PM (#7670680)

The ability to fucking count.

Re:subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:4, Funny)

by WhiteBandit ( 185659 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:52PM (#7670869) Homepage

More evidence that not only do users not read the articles, but moderators don't read the comments... ;)

Though that is definitely an interesting study in social behavior. All of us randomly posting comments that have nothing to do with each other and then moderating them "accordingly"! It must look like chaos to those on the outside...

(But that explains all those SCO posts that have nothing to do with the story! Ah ha!!!)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Cow herd ( 2036 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:53PM (#7670882) Homepage

I don't know what you're talking about, I subscrubed to slashdot and I have plenty of sex with your girlfriend.

:-)

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:4, Funny)

by EvilNTUser ( 573674 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:54PM (#7670898)

"I put UID:0 and it said Thanks! and ran off with my money. :("

I'm sure the root account is very thankful for finally being granted read access.

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:3, Funny)

by HoldenCaulfield ( 25660 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:59PM (#7670957) Journal

Looks like Anonymous Coward is user 121762 (http://slashdot.org/~AnonymousCoward [slashdot.org])

less laundry?? Maybe not! (Score:2, Funny)

by ilbrec ( 170056 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @03:22PM (#7671268)

More T-shirts, less laundry, right?
Well, maybe not. I don't know about the rest of you, but even I have a lot of extra T-shirts, I would still need to do laundry every so often. Otherwise, I would run out clean underware! Since ThinkGeek doesn't appear to sell any, I doubt if the frequency of may laundry would change that much even if I get one of these Slashdot T-shirts...
Of course, this also makes me wonder something... CmdrTaco either has a lot of underwares or doesn't change his underware very often... I hope the truth is the second one...

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @03:46PM (#7671529)

$which girlfriend
/dev/hand

Re:Sure... (Score:5, Funny)

by magarity ( 164372 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @03:48PM (#7671563)

and prepare a well thought out response

Cool, so when can we expect to start seeing these?

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:3, Funny)

by ted_nugent ( 226799 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @03:54PM (#7671649) Homepage Journal

Which means you can't get a girlfriend and you never have sex.

Re:subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:3, Funny)

by aardvarkjoe ( 156801 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @04:00PM (#7671739)

If you thought that Michael comment didn't belong, you just haven't been reading the stories he posts.

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)

by Requiem ( 12551 ) writes: on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @04:22PM (#7671987) Journal

I have both, and my UID is logarithmically smaller than yours, kemosabe.

Booyeah?

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Sure... (Score:4, Funny)

gifts (Score:4, Funny)

subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:-1, Funny)

If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:5, Funny)

Giving Slashdot Access (Score:5, Funny)

Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

mysterious future (Score:2, Funny)

The gift of Slashd? (Score:5, Funny)

Laundry! (Score:5, Funny)

Obviously... (Score:2, Funny)

Of T-Shirts and Laundry (Score:5, Funny)

Cool! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:just to keep plugging... (Score:5, Funny)

Slashdot Subscription (Score:4, Funny)

Do you take e-gold? (Score:5, Funny)

A CHEAPER WAY TO SUBSCRIBE (Score:3, Funny)

Ironic! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

Make your /. Gift Open Source! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:just to keep plugging... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

How much do you want to bet (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

t-shirts bah (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Of T-Shirts and Laundry (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Girlfriends (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Anonymous? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Laundry! (Score:5, Funny)

Who wants to be my slashdot sugar daddy? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:give a man a fish (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Girlfriends (Score:2, Funny)

11) (Score:2, Funny)

Re:subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... (Score:3, Funny)

less laundry?? Maybe not! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Sure... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:subscribe.pl already slow; full text if /.'ed (Score:3, Funny)

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