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Give a Goat for Christmas
Reuters, via Yahoo ^
| 12.24.2004
Posted on 12/24/2004 5:37:01 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
LONDON (Reuters) - Looking for a last minute Christmas gift? Think goat!
You will pay 24 pounds ($46) for a goat or 10 pounds for a brood of chickens, tell a friend or relative that this is their Christmas present, and it will be sent to a Third World family to provide milk, meat, manure and offspring for trade.
People have bought 31,000 goats and 500,000 chickens under the scheme set up by the international aid agency Oxfam, not to mention 650,000 tree seedlings to provide wood and shade and prevent soil erosion. Other aid agencies have similar projects.
"Not only do people like the idea of giving something so unusual at Christmas, but you can also see how a goat, chicken, bike or midwife will make a difference to a person struggling against poverty," Oxfam manager Douglas Graham said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: christmas
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To: lavrenti; hellinahandcart; sauropod; cyborg; Clemenza; Cacique; Oschisms; NYCVirago; Gabz; ...
I wonder how they keep the animals alive during shipping...
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posted on
12/24/2004 5:37:47 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: NYC GOP Chick
I got a goat a month back. Theyre great animals.
3
posted on
12/24/2004 5:38:33 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
("Kill The Tartars on the night of the 15th of the 8th moon")
To: Bogey78O
Be prepared for all sorts of dirty jokes. ;D
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posted on
12/24/2004 5:39:33 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Somebody got my goat, so I have none.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:05:55 PM PST
by
lavrenti
(Think of who is pithy, yet so attractive to women.)
To: lavrenti; NYC GOP Chick
(Rim shot.)
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:14:31 PM PST
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
(Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Thank you, but I have to goat now.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:15:45 PM PST
by
lavrenti
(Think of who is pithy, yet so attractive to women.)
To: lavrenti
-ZING!
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:18:11 PM PST
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
(Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
To: NYC GOP Chick
I want the one with green eyes.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:18:12 PM PST
by
patton
(Changing culture is like moving a cemetary. You don't get much help from the residents.)
To: patton
We still talkin' goats, here?
(Baffled Smiley.)
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:19:05 PM PST
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
(Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
To: patton
Are you calling me a goat???
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:20:09 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: lavrenti; Do not dub me shapka broham
Keep your day jobs, boys!
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:20:39 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Dunno - do you have red hair?
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:21:38 PM PST
by
patton
(Changing culture is like moving a cemetary. You don't get much help from the residents.)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Beats me.
Lavrenti's earlier witticism threw me for a loop.
Still trying to process the complex comedic dimensions.
(Brain hurting.)
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:21:54 PM PST
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
(Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
To: patton
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:22:12 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Then you are most definately not a goat. LOL.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:23:15 PM PST
by
patton
(Changing culture is like moving a cemetary. You don't get much help from the residents.)
To: patton
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:23:59 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Now my blackberry, that is a goat. It bleats at me in the middle of meetings.
Which is a good thing, actually - most of them are goat-ropes anyway.
But then, a good goat will do that for ya. (wink)
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:26:01 PM PST
by
patton
(Changing culture is like moving a cemetary. You don't get much help from the residents.)
To: Do not dub me shapka broham; lavrenti
Rim Shot
Click the Pic J
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:26:07 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: NYC GOP Chick
What? you don't get to eat the goat? Does not seem fair.
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