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Annual Child's Play Charity Drive Begins

Posted by Zonk on from the from-one-geek-to-another dept.

Many, many thanks to the gentlemen at Penny Arcade for the kickoff of their now annual Child's Play Charity Drive. The drive is intended to hook up willing people in our community with children's hospitals across the country, to spread some geeky christmas love to young folks that need it. This year the drive extends across the country, and you can donate toys to hospitals in Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Houston, and D.C.. Tycho has a little startup post on Penny Arcade, as well.

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  1. Penny Arcade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Penny Arcade"? Funny name for a catholic school?

    1. Re:Penny Arcade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      actually, this was not offtopic.

      CTFL (click the fucking link) before moderating.

  2. Re:Uh... by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they want to implement TCP/IP over bongo drums ?

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  3. Whoa. by NaugaHunter · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first, I thought maybe the new Child's Play movie already needed financial help.

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    1. Re:Whoa. by fireboy1919 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, they're raising money to create Chuckie dolls. It's a way to generate revenue: Chuckie dolls cause injuries, and hospitals fix 'em.

      It's kind of like how programmers sometimes support Microsoft...

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  4. Re:Children's hospitals--too easy. by CVaneg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you ever played The Game Of Life? The best part was selling off your kids and moving into the millionaire's estate.

  5. I know this is a response to an OT dingleberry by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it's not an issue of metric spark plugs. It's an issue of nonstandard spark plugs. 99% of spark plugs everywhere, including those installed on just about every Japanese conveyance made since the 1960s, have had SAE wrench flats on them. For instance my 1989 Nissan 240SX has NGK plugs made in Japan (the car was made in Japan too) but the plugs have the same thread and flats that the plugs for my 1960 Dodge Dart had - in fact they've got the same size threaded area, they both use an aluminum washer to seat, and they both have the same length center electrode and ceramic insulator.

    If you have nonstandard plugs you have only yourself to blame for buying a strange vehicle. Even my lawn mower and weed whacker use standard type spark plugs.

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