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- davesawyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23The more accurate link is http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/2006/06/offers-for-one-movie-role.html
But cool story anyway. I hadn't heard about this until now. - Shawn1141, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23You are sooooooo right. But you spelled it sooooooooo wrong.
- MacLeod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17OMG I remember when this started out, like a year ago, I thought it would die out. Fairplay, lets hope the digging gets him more attention and offers.
- LeegleechN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"You have started a real phenomena."
Hmmm, he might want to hold out for a town where the Mayor is more literate. - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Bah, you guys suck, hes just having a good time, if you are bored with it then stop paying attention.
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Omg. I hate people that have good ideas like this because it makes me mad that I didn't think of them.... I mean, I feel happy for them, but still....
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wow. Fun things happen in Sasatchewan
:/ - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1214:57...
14:58...
14:59... - RomieZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Dan..Is that you?!
- iheartbeer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8No shiat. I liked the idea at first, but now...
Can't somebody just buy this guy a house and be done with it already? The only way this could get any better is if someone buys Dustin Diamond's house out from under him and gives it to the red paper clip guy, effectively killing two internet birds with one stone. - phoenixdig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just looking through their clubs in the town.
http://www.townofkipling.ca/clubs.htm
Kipling has an Alcoholics Anonymous. With a population of 1,140 people I don't think it would be very anonymous.. - donsherio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hey! i live in regina too! LOL!
Wow, and i just so happen to have a good friend also named Kyle MacDonald, so when i read this article iw as like... WTF?! Kyle got onto the front page of Digg?! SASKATCHEWAN is on the front cover of digg?! HAS THE WORLD GONE INSANE?! - Tkkt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You guys trying to give a pronunciation for Regina obviously aren't Canadians. It rhymes with vagina!
- bkorte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Regina? Might as well call it Runt... or Russy.
Saskatchewan on digg? Who'da thunk it...... from a Saskatoon guy... - Kobalt13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man, I've followed this from the beginning and its really cool and original. Let's just hope it does turn out spawning a million knockoffs or imitators like that million dollarhomepage.com (or whatever it was called)
- teh_techie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Woot!! I'm from Regina, Saskatchewan. You learn how to pronounce it (suhs-catch-uh-wuhn) and spell it only once you've lived here.
Also note, the title is misleading. He's not been offered a town, just a LOT in the town, and the "key to the town", which.. it's just an honorary thing. Not the town.
Hope he chooses Kipling, SK! GO FOR IT RED PAPERCLIP MAN!! - RomieZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Holy crap! I live an hour away from Kipling ( Regina, Sk, Canada) . I have just got to say, Kipling is a small town full of ugly women and drunks with pickup trucks.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man, this has turned into such a sham. Most of the people trading with him now, are doing so for publicity. That kind of ruins the philosophy behind the whole project.
- Ir0n_mE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg purely because I live near Kipling.
We aren't really all backwards rednecks :D - briangig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4he has some crazy offers there...weird people out there.
This guy is cool though..this reminds me of the old days or bartering between two old guys.... - skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some of the other offers really suck:
"For your movie role, we can offer you 1 (one) free conversion of text to audio for any content up to 25,000 words."
"I would be happy to trade a week's worth of Chauffer service in the LA area for a one line role in a movie. "
"I can offer you a scenic helicopter flight in the South Island, of NEW ZEALAND."
Hahaha - good luck with that - dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I would absolutly take this offer:
Kyle, I'd like to make an offer on the movie role for my wife, Jennifer who I always thought looked too much like a movie star to be with me. For this movie role I am offering to part with my cherished beer bottle collection. This is not your normal stick a bottle on the shelf beer bottle collection. This collection is comprised of roughly 700 bottles of limited production craft and micro brews. These bottles come from all over the world and several of these bottles are likely the only ones in existance as some of them were not for retail Symposium beers brewed for special brewing conferences. Currently the bottles live in the in-laws sweet where they are safe from small children and scampering pets. I LOVE these bottles. I love watching peoples jaws drop when they see them and especially when it is a fellow beer geek that recognizes the rarity of some of them. So understand that I do not make this offer lightly. I will also throw in my bottle cap collection which currently stands at 4 liter sized mugs full of bottle caps. I will pay to ship these bottles and caps (it will cost me hundreds in shipping at a minimum) to anywhere in the contiguous United States. I will continue to send all the NEW beer bottles and caps I collect, once a month, for the course of one year. This will be a minimum of 300 bottles and likely more. And finally I will hand deliver the last batch of bottles and bring along a minimum of 12 unopened rare beers and specialty beer glasses to sample with the winner. To recap my offer: My bottle and bottle cap collection delivered, free of charge, anywhere in the US 12 Months of receiveing ALL new beer bottles I acquire. Delivered monthly. A minimum of 12 rare beers and specialty beer glasses personally delivered for a beer tasting at the winner's location of choice. I imagine that someone with a pub or bar or even a home bar might like these for decoration. I do know that a few of these bottles are next to unatainable so the bottles themselves have value and would fetch big bucks on e-bay not to mention the raw cost of shipping. Thanks for reading my offer, Kyle. Cheers, Joe p.s. Here are some older pics of the bottles. There are 3X as many now. I am guessing conservatively that there are 700. My gut says there are more like 900.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ratebeer1000/detail?.dir=cf64&.dnm=7f43.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ratebeer1000/detail?.dir=cf64&.dnm=3e66.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ratebeer1000/detail?.dir=cf64&.dnm=68e8.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ratebeer1000/detail?.dir=cf64&.dnm=d98b.jpg&.src=ph - bkorte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What?! You live in Regina and you say kipling is full of ugly women!?!
;-) - bryant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's nice that you can see them from Manitoba too.
As long as they're standing on chairs, that is... - spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sorry Saskatchewan - I'm from Alberta, I should know better.
Might as well throw in a go oilers!!! while I'm here :) - Cryptopsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3HAha. Ive been to kipling. Not much going on there. Heh. Techie, Im also from Regina.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4whaaa?
- fisheyeguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thanks.
the above link probably makes more sense for right now. his offers tend to pile up pretty fast, so i wasn't sure which to post to. - RomieZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On the contrary, its full of beautiful women, although I'm only a teenager, and I guess my generation has got the looks..although I bet thats what every generation says.
- donsherio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh but it is! Lol im from sask, WOW ! we made it onto DIGG! and i happen to have a friend with the exact same name :p
- Galaeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I go for the beer bottle collection
- KilgoreCarp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2agreed. you can hardly call the movie role for a kiss snowglobe a 'trade' - it's a charitible contribution. still fun to watch, but I'll be really put off by this guy if he does any more trading down *****.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So how d you pronounce 'Regina'? Because I know how *I* pronounce it.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Haha, this is incredible, he's been offered two lots of land and countless cars this time around..
.... I just /knew/ he shouldn't have gone with the firetruck! - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@zephc
reh gee nuh? - Azap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is SO cool, did you guys read about the idea for a snow globe army. Does anyone know what that game is where you basically do this with a couple groups of friends at a party?
At my friends b-day we ended up with a Volkswagen chrome bumper, a small plot of land in South America, and a case of Absolute Vodka... you can guess what was deemed more valuable. - LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, thats a great offer.
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The plot of land in South America, of course!
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow...they have computers and electricity in Saskatchewan? Cool!
(I'm allowed to joke about it, 'cause I'm half Canadienne, eh?) - pooper, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6cool idea, until i realized they were just giving him stuff...
- bkorte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apparently there's more reginonians than saskatonians....
- Toupee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This guy is a friggin' genius.
- keithj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm another Saskatchewanian... Moose Jaw. Tho I lived in Regina for a while too, before I got the hell out of that god forsaken province. Strange to see a bunch of us on here.
- bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looking back at it again - this all started with the Coleman stove. The guy who chose to take a doorknob for a camping stove is the one that made this possible - before then, everything was worthless.
The Coleman guy was cool, and helped out Paperclip man. Paperclip man owes him...bigtime. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im from Saskatoon here. come to saskatchewan he must yes.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am trying to trade one red paperclip for a house."
The whole premise of the thing is to get a house. That's why the city is offering him permanent residence on a plot of land in their downtown or whatever. If he takes it, he's completed his quest, which not only contradicts everything I thought the first second I saw it, but makes me want to smack myself in the head for not thinking of such a simple but ingenious way to get something for nothing. - maverick_swl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.answers.com/Kipling%2C%20Saskatchewan
This would be a definate trade down. And I was optimistic about the KISS Globe... - Anoobis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1he started with one red paper clip and swapped it for a fish pen which he then swapped for a door knob and now he's being offered a town (not exactly but you can read the article) he's going to keep on going till he gets a house.
- badave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So if he accepts this trade for the lot and the red paper clip, and then he trades that for something else, do the Canadians still build a big red paper clip?
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's turned into a game of what individual or organization can explot his publicity for their own personal gain the most...so it's really in both parties' interests to stretch this thing on as long as possible.
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