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auntie matter
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One Cent by auntie matter

September 17th, 2008 7:43 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Mail a penny to another player.

I wasn't originally planning on doing the cent task, but i found myself in possesion of a particularly SPECIAL penny. It had served me well by providing a useful temporary fix for my broken TOILET.



Once i FIXED the broken toilet, i realized i just HAD to share the utilitarian charms of this magical penny with another sf0 player. But which sf0 players would i consider so exemplary as to be WORTHY of a cent which had the power to repair a TOILET? Naturally, my mind first turned to the MAYOR of claycord, so i looked up the adress of the Claycord City Hall on the interweb ONLY to REALIZE that there was, in fact, no actual town of claycord and that the mayor of claycord was merely a personality on a webpage. I found a CORD road in CLAY county IN, but even Clay, IN had no mayor that i could tell. Back to the drawing board. "OF COURSE", I realized IMMEDIATELY, "The gummi bears! As hard working as they are, they certainly need a magic and utilitarian penny!" So I googled the US HEADQUARTERS for the gummies, and i was ready to get to work.




Although i edited out my adress for the benefit of interweb lurkers, i did in fact include it on the envelope. I will let you know if any of the gummies or their representatives at HARIBO of AMERICA get back to me!

look at proof photos for slightly more detail!

*Note: it's really sad i didn't have the foresight to document the actual fixing of the toilet for the "make it work" task. I mean, the pictures of Auntie Matter sprawled on her bathroom floor with the removed toilet tank on her lap sawing off rusted toilet tank bolts with a hacksaw, hands smeared with degraded black toilet flapper rubber, mouth spewing every cussword known to man, would have made for some awesome looking proofs. But, oh well, you will just have to be content with the cheapie old cent task. *


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cent as tool

cent as tool

Not too long ago a piece on the flapper mechanism of my toilet broke off. If I wedged a cent in the right place, it worked to keep the levels correct and therefore fixed the problem temporarily.


cent as tool illustrated.jpg

cent as tool illustrated.jpg

Before i fixed the flapper mechanism for real i kept the penny wedged, as illustrated, to prevent water wastage.


ficus.jpg

ficus.jpg

I dug up an old Monster Card.


ficus adorned

ficus adorned

affixed the magical, once very useful, penny to the monster card with tape.


fan letter

fan letter

wrote an appropriate note on the back of the penny-adorned monster card


into the envelope

into the envelope

put it in an envelope


06.26.2008.22.48envelope 2.jpg

06.26.2008.22.48envelope 2.jpg

adressed it to the sf0 players in question


mailing

mailing

and dropped it in the mailbox.



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posted by Evil Sugar on June 27th, 2008 8:23 AM

The gummies are pleased to see that Auntie Matter wishes for them to have a penny. Please know that while headquarters is often quite busy, and may not respond, the gummies are grateful for your support.

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posted by Sparrows Fall on June 27th, 2008 8:27 AM

THAT is a special penny. Cent as tool!

Can I ask what your Netflix was?

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posted by auntie matter on June 27th, 2008 8:41 AM

The Wire: season 3, Disk 1.

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posted by Sparrows Fall on June 27th, 2008 8:54 AM

Oooo! I've only seen the first episode of season 1. I should fix that.

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posted by Lincøln on June 27th, 2008 6:28 PM

Yes you should. I just finished Season One last night. Holy crapballs is that a good show. It reminds me of Homicide: Life on the Street. It is also without question the slowest structured show I have ever seen. And it's beautiful. It's as if P.T. Anderson wrote a TV show.

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posted by meredithian on June 30th, 2008 8:09 AM

ha! hahahahahahahaa....

sparrows, do you even *remember* any of the first episode of season one? because i can barely recall what that show was about.

vixen.

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posted by auntie matter on July 1st, 2008 9:20 AM

season 2 brings it up a notch too.

Vote for Ficus!
posted by Flitworth on June 27th, 2008 4:55 PM

Nice:)

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posted by meredithian on June 30th, 2008 8:10 AM

i think that was my card! from auntie's birthday party with parlour games! aw, memories.

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posted by SF0 Daemon on July 30th, 2008 12:17 AM

This proof was un-submitted - any comments before this one are from before the un-submit.