Erik Wolpaw's Adrenaline Vault. Who's with me?
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Also, on a related note, I found this eBay auction for "My Personal Hatred" really hilarious
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1434614536
In case it gets deleted by the time you visit this link, I'll quote it here.
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Highest Bidder recieves the utmost of contempt from the seller. From the date of its reception, I will require your name and address. From the time I recieve this information, I will consider you with disgust, hate, and malice. I will not assist you in any way, shape, or form. I will consider you with bitterness and resentment. When I am faced with the acceptance of any failure in my life- be it in my career or my personal life, I will consider you to blame. It will be a safe, comfortable hatred from a distance, the kind of hatred that has no physical manifestation. From this, you may live in safety without fear of danger coming to you through this purchase. My hatred will not be the result of religion, color, race, or gender, nor will it stem from disabilities. It will grow out of the essence of your being. It will rise from the day you were born. [Include your birthday and I will place a black box over the date when it appears in calendars.] It will be aimed at your core, at the essence of who you are as a person. You will exist solely as a name on which I may transfer my own inability to accept failure and disappointment. You will become a myth, a legend, a kind of devil on which I may blame all that is wrong with the world. In a sense, you may consider this purchase the purchase of blame for my fate and therefore you become fate itself for just one human being, which one does not very often get to do these days. There will not be any flaming excrement on your door, or death threats, or scary emails or late night phone calls. Instead, you will recieve my hatred in the form of forced apathy. I will deliberately assail the thought of your existence in my mind as if it is a lie, but I will know it is true. Shipping charges negligible. Zeppelins are a dirigible.
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Not quite as funny as the auction for a phone call of monkey noises (you had to read it to understand), but in the same league, surely.
wumpus http://www.gamebasement.com
By Mark Asher on Friday, June 1, 2001 - 07:09 pm:
"Erik Wolpaw's Adrenaline Vault. Who's with me?"
I don't get the reference. Has Erik posted something new about Avault?
By wumpus on Friday, June 1, 2001 - 07:25 pm:
No; I'm thinking of a subversive, disturbing Andy Kaufman type wrestling career sorta thing for Erik. I think he could pull it off, and AVault is the logical venue.
By Aszurom on Friday, June 1, 2001 - 08:13 pm:
Currently that ebay auction is at $50,300.00
By Alan Au (Itsatrap) on Saturday, June 2, 2001 - 12:21 am:
Speaking of scams, I'm offering level 1 Alan certifications for the low low price of $999.95.
Actually, I'm holding out for "Erik Wolpaw's RPG adventure-type game thing". Either that or "Sid Meier's John Romero" where you get to run a simulated game development studio.
Quote:Erik Wolpaw's Adrenaline Vault. Who's with me?
50 grand? Geez! I'll offer up my personal contempt for free!
By wumpus on Saturday, June 2, 2001 - 02:49 pm:
I love Erik Wolpaw. Even more than Bruce Geryk does.
Speaking of which, I found an archive of the monkey phone call eBay auction!
http://members.attcanada.ca/~zoltan/cookdocs/monkey.html
One of the very few things on the web that really did get me to Laugh Out Loud. Recommended.
wumpus http://www.gamebasement.com
By Rob_Merritt on Sunday, June 3, 2001 - 04:17 pm:
Hmmmm..
By Land Murphy (Lando) on Monday, June 4, 2001 - 08:38 am:
I just don't get it.
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
(I do too, I just don't advertise it)