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A Novel Protest Against The NY Times

June 30, 2006 04:53 AM EDT (Updated: June 30, 2006 05:06 AM EDT)

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Crossposted from LEAVWORLD: GRAFFITI POLITTI , where it appeared under this title:

THE NY TIMES: I WOULDN'T WIPE MY ASS WITH IT!

Let me suggest a novel way to protest the NY Times; something I've been doing for years. Every so often, I come across one of their subscription ads, with the little postage-paid envelopes. I take the form, and write in big, fat marker: "I WOULDN'T WIPE MY ASS WITH THIS RAG!" Then, I put it in the envelope, and mail it off to them.

I'm sure that no-one of consequence reads these, of course, but I bet it gives their mail room, or subscription department workers a big laugh!

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Jeff L. Jun 30, 2006, 7:20am EDT

sometimes i stuff offers from other offers and mail them back to one another.

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Christopher K. Leavitt Jun 30, 2006, 8:44am EDT

That's another good one! HMM, I never thought of that! I just like using their postage. I usually cut up all of the packaging, and put it in the envelope with their forms, writing "do not solicit me again," except for the NYT solicitations, of course. Good feedback!

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John S. (arizona) Jun 30, 2006, 9:57am EDT

Chris- I'm surprised you don't have more imagination. You're supposed to fill out things with the address of someone you have a grudge against, and check the "bill me later" box. ;-)
It used to be an old gag of ours to walk into the market and go to the magazine racks, collect all the subscription cards, and fill them out for someone we didn't like. Mean huh?

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Christopher K. Leavitt Jun 30, 2006, 10:08am EDT

Now wait, John. As a kid,we used to order pizzas and limos to "out of favor" kids' houses, but my favorite name to put on those mail-in things was CHRISTOPHER MOHAMMED GOLDSTIEN, rather than someone else. I had a vision of something, there, amidst my pranking. I wanted to make them say "HUH?"

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