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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Tone,<BR>
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Good idea. Of course, you realize Gary is from the planet Zoltron and that’s the Zoltronian way. Long live the Zoltronian revolution!<BR>
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Glorko (King in exile)<BR>
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on 3/9/07 5:43 PM, Tone at Tone@moon-shine.net wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000098">> Gary just wrote about sending some of his extra copies of<BR>
> the Dark Horse Insider with its included Groo promo poster insert to a<BR>
> few of the members of the Groop. I think I may have started something<BR>
> here because originally both Yodazone and I had been looking for that<BR>
> poster and both saw the outrageous overpriced poster on eBay, which got<BR>
> the two of us talking. Yodazone needed to find out some info in regards<BR>
> to it, and I did not have an answer myself, so I simply asked our<BR>
> resident expert. GARY of course. :-)<BR>
> One thing led to another and without me even asking, Gary in<BR>
> fact offered to send me a copy of one of his extra Dark Horse Insiders,<BR>
> to which I had the joking nerve to ask if he had an additional extra one<BR>
> for me to send-on to Yodazone. Sure enough Gary does has a second extra<BR>
> one for Yodazone, so from my understanding thus far, Gary will be<BR>
> mailing me both of them, then I will keep one of them and use the<BR>
> packaging to send the second one off to Yodazone.<BR>
> Right about now in the story is where I noticed Gary posting<BR>
> to the Groop and offering to send yet even more of his extra copies to<BR>
> some other Groopies. By now many of you know how generous Gary is, so<BR>
> WITH RISK of putting Gary on an even higher pedestal, you probably will<BR>
> not be surprised when I tell you Gary rejected offers from me to pay for<BR>
> the Dark Horse Insider (even though I was willing) as well as offers<BR>
> from me to at least pay for shipping.<BR>
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> Seeing as how Gary is OBVIOUSLY WAY TOO nice, I think the<BR>
> rest of us should band together at least a little and try to subvert<BR>
> Gary's over-generosity. Knowing Gary, I think he will never accept<BR>
> payment for the Dark Horse Insiders, considering he originally got them<BR>
> for free. Who knows, maybe he even feels a bit guilty for possibly<BR>
> hoarding them! ;) Although we all know his original intent was to<BR>
> literally save them from just going to waste. possibly for future<BR>
> generations. :-)<BR>
> Anyway, this is what I propose as my plot to subvert Gary<BR>
> and his NICE ways. :-) Since Gary has agreed to send two of his extra<BR>
> copies to me, which I initially proposed so as to at least save him<BR>
> extra postage as well as save waste in packaging (I try to be a serious<BR>
> recycler myself), the plan is for me to then send-on the second Dark<BR>
> Horse Insider to Yodazone. BUT what if we as a Groop just gather a list<BR>
> of Groop members, who want one of Gary's extra copies (as long as Gary's<BR>
> excess inventory allows of course). From there Gary can send me all of<BR>
> them, then I will take one and send the rest on to Yodazone. and from<BR>
> then on each person down the list can take one and send-off the rest to<BR>
> the next Groopie down the list. This way there is no where near as much<BR>
> packaging waste (because we would each simply reuse the original stuff),<BR>
> and Gary would not have to shell out as much on postage and thus avoid<BR>
> all the extra hassles of shipping stuff at his expense to numerous<BR>
> people.<BR>
> In the end Gary would still be his super generous self,<BR>
> everyone who can get a wanted copy of the Dark Horse Insider would get<BR>
> one, and all of us (I would think and hope) would feel a lot more united<BR>
> as a GROOP rather than perhaps feeling so distant due to using this<BR>
> box-interface we each have called a computer. :-)<BR>
> Oh. and I promise not to hoard all the Dark Horse Insider's<BR>
> once I get them! ;) I think if I even tried Yodazone and Gary would hunt<BR>
> me down anyway. However I can not vouch for Yodazone. ;) heh<BR>
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> Here's the first and probably the biggest question though.<BR>
> Uhm Gary, just how many extra Dark Horse Insiders with the included Groo<BR>
> promo insert poster do you actually have???? LOL :-)<BR>
> _TONE_<BR>
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