EDSBS TELETHON, DAY THREE: UPDATE

OK – now you are just tugging at heart strings AND purse strings with the ND stuff.
Consider my donation on the way.
Keep up the great work, boys.

If it’s a marketing ploy – it’s pretty smart – cause I’m sitting here thinking – I must give more – do not let nd “win” anything… there goes my outdoor dance floor fund.

Well, hell, I Paypaled you a few bucks yesterday, and I expect to to receive what I got from the Notre Dame ticket office for sending them my hard-earned cash for football tickets: absolutely f***ing nothing.

Much thanks, y’all. And unlike the Notre Dame ticket office, we’ll give you something: beer at the tailgates.

You make fun of our tailgates, our women, and our revered Coach Holtz.

You allow Stacey Kiebler Luvs Me to post his own special brand of rambling, incoherent idiocy without censure.

And in a painfully transparent—albeit shrewd—last ditch effort to curry favor, you throw up a picture of the Pope and pull some Latin out of your ass.

Yet, in a textbook case of Stockholm syndrome, we ND folk still give til it hurts. Feel the love.

Actually, it doesn’t hurt.—we all make shitloads of cash.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Scott,

do you work at Abott Laboratories??
If so,
I’ve heard of your ND football exploits…

I’ll be damned if I don’t throw in like other ND fans. Seriously, I’ll be damned.

But I wanted to wati until the last day to give what I have. If there is additional money needed to book Lordi at the tailgate, just ask, and you shall receive. Just prepare some jorts and I’ll be there with fists pumping and ronnie james dio on my back.

God bless EDSBS.

You’ve got my money. If you can scare up some Magic Hat #9 on 9/2/06, I’ll be in total awe. But Pabst works just fine as well. Goes with the jorts.

PSUGirl,
Now you understand NBC’s strategy.
Love ’em or hate ’em – just watch ’em.

Pabst it is.

“Threading passes through tight zone coverage, Brady Quinn showed he has honeydew-sized balls–almost as big as Coach Weis’ gargantuan pair.”

Remember that and use it often, please.

PSUGirl,

If by “outdoor dance floor” fund you mean “the $1000 I’m laying down to watch brady quinn dancing untouched in the pocket all day long” fund, then you are correct, ma’am

It’s not that we ND folk have more money, just that none of us were able to get tickets through the alumni lottery this year so we have this extra money we don’t quite know what to do with yet. ’tis the double-edged sword of becoming “relevant” again…

It is a pleasure to come here umpteen times a day and I look forward to the gains of our now shared investment in your improved infrastructure. (and some good shots from tailgaters too!)

yea but would charlie weiss give playing time to the immortal rudy ruttiger(that fag from ‘the goonies’)

A.G.-

I don’t know what about my post lead you to believe that I may work at Abott Laboratories—or allowed you to draw any conclusion at all, really.

But, no, I don’t work at Abott Labs. Why? Do you have an in? Because I’m always looking for someone to pay me more than I’m worth.

Rest assured, though, my ND football exploits are legendary in their own right, undoubtedly putting your Scott to head-hanging shame.

I donated to you guys because I’m a fan of yours, not because I’m a fan of Notre Dame. You did get some pub over at NDN, which helped your cause.

Keep up the great work.

I gladly donated to the cause. I look at your site nearly every day.

Keep up the good work.

From a Sooner fan who can’t stand Notre Dame!

Hey Bradley, if you’d like to be reimbursed for your donation, I know of someone who came into $18K this summer. The name is Romar, or Boman, or something like that. Not really sure, but I think I saw a news report about him.

“Shake, I think you need to go to the hospital”
“Nonsense!”

Sorry, that show’s just been killing me lately

As an ND grad/fan, I guess now that the goal has been surpassed you won’t be needing my $250. I’ll just use it for “GamePlan” and beer. But, seriously, really enjoy your “work”. Thanks

As an ND fan, I gave because you helped us improve our gene pool by further shaming the MBA tailgaters. Me giving you money to rid the world of such problems should be considered a public service. Especially when you help us remove the plank from our collective eye…

That, and I got shut out of the lottery as well.

yes Master, maybe I should talk to him! Although I suspect he might need that money now. He probably won’t find too many jobs that pay $70 / hr for a while.

Well I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit back and let the other fans keep a Florida blog going- keep up the good work and I’ll be looking for a cold beer after the flight down from Boston to Gainesville.

I hate to be a downer (especially as it is likely that I will partake of some of the beer these funds pay for), but remember that the IRS is going to take at least a 20% bite of the total. So don’t start searching Auto Trader for a Thing just yet.

Thanks, Debbie.

Chalk up another donation from a fabulously wealthy ND grad (though I’m not sure if our proclivity to donate to a website run by a bunch of Florida fans is indicative of our intelligence). As for PSUGirl…is that you I saw on the Michigan blogsite? You know, the one with the football? If so, well done and congratulations.

http://wolfpacks.com/images/thing.jpg

I was wondering why it was capitalized- good double entendre.

It’s not surprising. The Irish are a funny people. And drunk. And violent. And poor dancers. This site appeals to all those traits. (So does the Vatican website, but that is a different story).

If you mean “dance” as in bq twitching on the turf like michael flatterly after a posluszny hit, then yeah. look, I never make predictions and I never wager on college football, but a girl can dream.

but see I meant outdoor dance floor in the grand tradition of the nd mba program. I’ve been working on my poetry all summer – and oh, just wait until you hear the mix tape.

re24:
not a tax guy but i believe if they claim the website as a hobby, they can deduct expenses related to it from any money that comes in from it.

As for the IRS taking a chunk of this money, count this site as a business expense under a 1099 form. I don’t know which one off the top of my head, but you can count the upkeep of this site as a business loss or expense, and the income received from donations as income. Should “expenses” exceed donations, you don’t pay for the income received I’m pretty sure. If donations exceed expenses, then you pay taxes on the difference. If you include the mileage on your automobile and cost of dinner with Bruce Feldman for podcast as a business expense. Same with the cell phone for using it for interviews. Three ways to go about it. Consult a tax attorney or CPA about it, which might cost more than paying the taxes anyways, which could be your second choice. Or ask for more pro bono tax advice. But I’m pretty sure as long as you log expenses and deduct accordingly, you don’t take as large a hit as 20% on the income.

Any luck with the P.O. box yet? I just got my most recent paycheck, and want to cancel out any monies that PSUgirl might fling at you.

Sure part of me didn’t want the ND fans getting all the credit but after reading that you had met your goal I was going to let the thought of my donation slide but putting that screen shot of the Appalachian St video just made my day again so I had to send a donation as well.

Keep up the good work.

I cannot believe I just donated money to two guys that went to both UF and GT. I swear I will never hear the end of this…… wait looking on the bright side I get two opportunities for free beer, I probably should’ve donated more…

I was gonna donate $317 dollars to match the number of yards that brady quinn will throw against my helpless jackets, but then i realized i didn’t actually graduate from the University of Turkmenistan and had to settle for the difference in the number of SEC championships between GT (5)and the Aubarners(6)…my one dollar is on the way….

Scott:

“…You allow Stacey Kiebler Luvs Me to post his own special brand of rambling, incoherent idiocy without censure…”

I think there is a compliment somewhere in that slam of yours and here it is:

“SKLM an American Original”.

Thanks a lot.

The contribution to EDSBS is money that I got back from missing GA Tech tickets. We’re going to Atlanta anyway and will try to buy tickets on the street before the game.

If not, then we’ll head to the Spring Street Ballet and watch the game on the big screens.

I’ll tell the girls that their first dance went to EDSBS.

The info on the 1099 form is right on. The way I would know how to deal with this is treat it like freelance journalism (which I have experience with). You can claim literally everything, including mileage, computer paper, a brand spankin’ new computer if you’d like, and anything that allows you write gooder. I did it with H&R Block, the ghetto way, I didn’t have lots of receipts, they charged me under $100 and instead of owing $300, I made $450. So, you know, look into it.

So I’m no income tax guru (my boss is) – ask me about estate and trust taxes -
but, it would appear that donations to blogs will most likely be treated like tips – this is still a very unclear area. Therefore, if we can conclude that the nd folks are making these donations with the expectation of preferential treatment, then that’s compensation, and taxable – for those of you expecting beer, that too might be considered “services” – for adoring fans like myself (as is with unsolicited gifts to Steve Spurrier with no expectation or realization of something in return), it’s a gift.

It’s a great question, one, interestingly I posed (and was ignored) in the first solicitation post.

I’m surprised OU fans are worried about what ND fans give to a web site. Seems like they should be planning their “2006 We got last place in the Big-12 South Party” now…

PSUGirl, we didn’t mean to ignore—we just couldn’t believe people would actually give money. We were muy, muy wrong.

that sure is a pretty pic of Charlie.
are you guys pretty too?

I thought you might be interested in a database I have been compiling. I teach a rocket design class to NASA co-ops all around the agency. We talk a lot of college football in between the compressible flow theory and orbital mechanics.

Based on the last five years worth of students’ traits, I have established a trend among the students from various schools around the country and their relative characteristics.

Smartest – GT, UM
Hottest Chicks – UF, NC State
Most Obnoxious – tOSU, Stanford
Most Football Illiterate – Purdue, UM
Most Jealous of Having No Football Program – MIT, Tennessee (this year)
Most Proud of Least Accomplishments – Auburn
Most Prone to Fabricate Erroneous Stats – Alabama
Most in Need of Remediation – FSU

PS – Glad to donate to the cause, keep up the good work, would hate to see you guys having to go fold sweaters at the Gap to keep the site alive. Go Irish.

Here’s more from another nd guy – not one of the dancers – you have improved the quality of my web surfing immeasurably!

Perhaps this image fits your mood right now, Orson?
http://i330.nopdesign.com/skins/phone/Wonderful_Life.jpg

Pretty close. And just like George Bailey, someone punched us in the mouth in a bar and bloodied our mouth tonight.

But that’s part of the deal, man.

ND providing the finacial support for a SEC based blog. Finally the damn yankees kick in on reconstruction.

Just hit you guys for the cost of a pint at the Mishawaka Brewing Co. If you make South Bend for a game, you drop me a line, and I’ll buy the first two pitchers.

BTW – Nice call on the Michigan ad from last season. I hate that song, but you made me laugh.

I can’t get PayPal to accept 2 for 1 sandwich coupons from Subway

Damned sorry fellas…

OK,
Here is my cash. Didn’t go out tonight, so I don’t need to raise bail money. (Buckeye Fan) And yes, I do have a buckstache)

I’d love to donate Orson but my funds are limited. I’m saving up to get my 84 Camaro off the blocks. I will be sendin you a sack of maders I grew in the dog pen.

Enjoy