Ice Bucket Challenge - But I Got Terms!!! · 2:07am Sep 4th, 2014
I've been nominated for the Ice Bucket Challenge link. Unfortunately, I must decline due to events at work. I had made my employees a deal; if they could meet a simple goal then I would do the Challenge. It was a modest thing, all they really had to do was... well... their jobs. The fail was epic. I would frankly prefer a bucket of ice water over my head to that really, really awful day at work. But a deal is a deal. They failed, I don't have to do the Challenge. It would be wrong to turn around and do it anyway.
Quizzical Greystone: JMac, might I courteously interrupt here?
Quiz? What do you want?
QG: It is just that, as I have nothing to do with your work commitments, and in fact no one who works for you ever reads anything you write, I believe I could honorably accept the Challenge on your behalf.
But, Quiz, you're fictional.
QG: That is true. To accept the Challenge I would need a real-world proxy. As my creator, you are the obvious choice.
That's stunningly convoluted, Quiz.
QG: I am willing to endure ridiculous amounts of convoluted logic to see you with ice water over your head, JMac.
I love you,too, Quiz.
QG:I know, though it confuses me. Oh, and it is possible to, um, what is the term? Sweeten the deal?
Oh, this is intriguing. What's your action, Quiz?
QG:Please do not call it action. However, my fan site could use a boost. Offer add an additional dollar to the donation to the ALS Association, and an additional scoop of ice, for every new member of the site.
Additional Scoops? That scooper came with our commercial ice maker! It holds half a pound of ice!
QG: Oh,yes. But you would have nothing to worry about. The ice bin holds 100 pounds. At any rate, the Challenge has been criticized for being all about self promotion. You would be on that band wagon. On the other hoof, the Challenge has also been criticized for not being truly about charity, and you would counter this by translating promotion directly into charity. You would simultaneously be following a trend and countering an impression that is negative. It will all be positive.
Again, that is really convoluted, Quiz.
QG: Agreed. I could not come to such reasoning on my own, but Miss Pinkie has been coaching me. It is quite ridiculous, but the results are surprisingly compelling.
Have you really just talked me into having a commercial bin of ice dumped over my head, and sending a dollar a member on expanding your fan group?
QG:I certainly hope I just did, yes.
Fine. But I'll get you for this. If you think you're miserable in "Basements of Doom" just you wait for the Nightmare Night adventure we start this October.
QG: Oh, dear.
So, I guess I'm taking the Ice Bucket Challenge. It will be October 2, with extra scoops of ice for every new fan Quiz gets. link
You can suppliment my donation here The ALS Association.
Noooo don't do it! At the risk of stating the obvious, it's like, really really cold
Alas, I am already in the group.
Does it count if I leave and then join again?
Also, be on the lookout. I need to get myself a bucket as well...
My kindle is very stupid sometimes...
Oh dear. Pinkie is training Quiz in the ways of fluffy logic*. The universe may not survive...
*Like fuzzy logic, but pinker.