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[Mo1]

We're Almost There: First Quarter '03 FReepathon Now Underway .. Thread 7

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The Free Republic first quarter '03 FReepathon is now underway!

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[EdReform]

THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES!!! The Pilsbury Dough Boy VS. Snuggles The Bear

Just how well do you know this bear?!

[Grampa Dave]

We need some graphic artist to replace the dog with pistol being held to its head with a picture of Snuggles.

[Grampa Dave]

This gal had a big GMC SUV that she drove to work and haul her Bass Boat around on the weekends. One of my sons complained that she only had sons and no daughters. He wanted a wife like her. He is still looking.

[mystery-ak]

OMG....Harmless get over here....look what they want to do now......we need a miracle.

[Grampa Dave]

No miracle just a few hundred new monthly donors will save this softy.

[mystery-ak]

Snuggles would never go voluntarily..... he is a good little conservative, he values his freedom and his right to *bear* arms.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No miracle just a few hundred new monthly donors will save this softy.

You are upping the stakes again? First it was $65,000.00 then it was 100 monthly donors and now it is hundreds?

:Sniff: We will never get Snuggles back!

mystery the CTB (Council of Bears) has called an emergency session. We must consider what this is doing to Human and Teddy Bear relations. For over 100 years we have cared for young human cubs, bravely fighting monsters under beds and in closets. No boogieman has ever gotten a child on our watch and we have lost track of how many "things that go bump in the night" we have destroyed. Much stuffing has been shed, button eyes lost and limbs pulled off and yet we have never wavered in our duty.

But never before has a bear been taken and then held after the ransom has been paid.

This is serious. Even Smoky, who was a part of the fundraiser, has said that they have gone too far.

[Grampa Dave]

The longer you cry babies stall, the higher the stakes/ransom will go!

[EdReform]

Ping!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Positive. This top secret communication was intercepted by our agents:

make sure that the guys are all in place before moving Snuggles. I don't want ANY slip-ups this time. And please, STRAP THE STUPID ANIMAL IN the van this time. That last move we made, when it fell out of the van was too risky.

Snuggles obviously tried to make a dash for freedom. I have no doubt he went with them willingly at first; they might have used a small child to lure him. But Snuggles would never have stayed with them so long and not called his mother. He is a very good bear if a bit dim.

[Brad’s Gramma]

It's interesting! that you typed in This is serious. when it's actually series.

Vey series. You have NO IDEA how series this is.

[Brad’s Gramma]

We need some graphic artist to replace the dog with pistol being held to its head with a picture of Snuggles.

Registered????? Do you have time?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We are not stalling. We paid. You are violating the Human/ Teddy Bear pact of 1902.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You have NO IDEA how series this is.

You know I didn't want to bring this up but isn't going back on your word a... sort of... oh, how do I put this... not a conservative thing to do?

[Grampa Dave]

Hey none of us were around in 1902, so that phoney treaty is null and void.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Depending on what the meaning of going back on your word means.

It's all relative, ya know.

[mystery-ak]

You thugs have to call in Registered......shame....you leave us no choice, we'll have to go to the head honcho around here.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Depending on what the meaning of going back on your word means,

Now there is a spin a certain crossfire host (who shall remain nameless) would be proud of.

[Jim Robinson]

Here are the latest donations received:

$20 from Iowa
$5 monthly from Texas
$10 monthly from Pennsylvania
$5 monthly from California
$100 from Louisiana
$3 from California
$10 from Texas

Thank you all very much!!

[Jim Robinson]

Here's a batch of checks that came in last week:

$10 from Texas
$50 from Georgia
$50 from Kentucky
$50 from Washington
$30 from Colorado
$20 from Alabama
$150 from Missouri
$25 from Florida
$10 from New Mexico
$50 from Minnesota
$15 from Maine
$50 from Pennsylvania
$25 from California
$30 from New York
$50 from North Carolina
$36 from New York
$250 from Virginia
$5 from California

Thank you all very much!!