Posted on 11/27/2016 12:40:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Cards Against Humanity, the maker of the game of the same name, announced last week it would be celebrating Black Friday by digging a giant, pointless hole in the ground. The company named it the Holiday Hole, and said it would dig the hole for as long as people were willing to pay for it. The plan was announced on Friday, Nov. 18., and began a week later. It ended Sunday.
Before the dig was stopped, donations began to dwindle, but for more than a week the money piled up, as has all the displaced dirt next to the hole — the location of which Cards Against Humanity has not disclosed. According to the website, the initiative has brought in $100,573.
This has raised a lot of questions in NPR's newsroom, some of which Cards Against Humanity endeavored to answer on its site:
"What's happening here?
Cards Against Humanity is digging a holiday hole.
Is this real?
Unfortunately it is.
Where is the hole?
America. And in our hearts.
Is there some sort of deeper meaning or purpose to the hole?
No.
What do I get for contributing money to the hole?
A deeper hole. What else are you going to buy, an iPod?
Why aren't you giving all this money to charity?
Why aren't YOU giving all this money to charity? It's your money.
Is the hole bad for the environment?
No, this was just a bunch of empty land. Now there's a hole there. That's life.
How am I supposed to feel about this?
You're supposed to think it's funny. You might not get it for a while, but some time next year you'll chuckle quietly to yourself and remember all this business about the hole.
How deep can you make this sucker?
Great question. As long as you keep spending, we'll keep digging. We'll find out together how deep this thing goes.
What if you dig so deep you hit hot magma?
At least then we'd feel something."
This isn't the first holiday stunt pulled by the company. Last year on Black Friday, the company made $71,145 after it asked people to send $5 each — to receive absolutely nothing in return. Two years ago, it sold literal bull feces to 30,000 people, bringing in $180,000. As the rate of donations decreased, so too did the amount of time each dollar would buy for the dig. As Business Insider reported on Friday, "each dollar donated extends the dig time by about another 1.8 seconds." By Sunday morning that number had dropped to 0.4 seconds. By early Sunday afternoon, 0.3 seconds.
Cards Against Humanity told NPR it was not trying to disincentive people from donating in order to end the hole digging. Claire Friedman, Cards Against Humanity employee and self-described "hole mom," said Sunday: "It's set so time gets more expensive the longer we dig. The first dollar paid for 5.5 seconds, now it'll only get .3. Basically just reflecting the longer we need to hold crew and equipment here, the more expensive it gets."
We emailed Cards Against Humanity with further questions, and will update this post if we hear back.
Well, on the bright site the donors got more for their money than the liberals who gave money to Jill Stein for the recount.
Cards against humanity is a funny game. And you can make your own cards too. For adults only. Bawdy to say the least.
/I remember Pet Rocks.
How funny.
Just a few minutes ago, my son told me that the hole countdown timer was showing 90 seconds left. So, together, we watched the last minute of hole digging and then the excavator and dump truck operators parked and left their vehicles.
No, we did not donate. Most of the donations were less than $5.
Symbolic of the CGI.
Saying Cards Against Humanity is bawdy is like saying Helen Thomas fell a bit short on the attractive scale.
I’ll be nice and not post a picture or a vile Card quote.
They still got more for their money than Hillary’s donors.
LOL, best animated gif ever.
Feelings.....
There’s dirt in that hole. It’s not getting out by itself.
The EPA allowed this?
i need these guys to help me get the money i need to build my retirement home
There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea;
There's a hole ...
There's a hole ...
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.
There's a branch on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea ...
The more complicated version of "99 bottles of beer on the wall" ...
How many drinks do you have to take before you get to the end of that song?
Well, it depends on how knowledgeable you are in particle physics. Let's see, going down: hole, log, branch, twig, frog, wart, hair, amoeba, molecule, atom, proton, quark ... etc, etc, etc ...
It's not so much that it's longer, but, by the time you get down to the atom, after all of the drinks that you have taken, it's kind of hard to remember the pattern ... and then, again, you really don't care ...
College band tour found us singing, Hole in the Bottom of the Sea. Thanks for the memory.
Strange, but that's the last time I actually remember singing the whole thing as well ...
I’ve played this game twice.
The first time was with a group of upscale millenials in professional jobs. I won the game easily- my years of
additional living and reading had honed my sense of sarcasm and bitter humor.
The second time was with a younger, less sophisticated group. Their humor was juvenile at best, and I was disgusted enough that I left the game after a few rounds.
I probably won’t play again.
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