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	<title>Comments on: Comments on 21556</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:32:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Post number 21556</title>
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		<description>&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/11/11/save.karyn.ap/index.html"&gt;Karyn has been saved.&lt;/a&gt; Her $20k debit has been paid off thanks to her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.savekaryn.com&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;. 18 months of buying crap at department stores with credit cards were paid off even though her web site wasn&apos;t fancy, her story wasn&apos;t all that tragic, and many found it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/18310&quot;&gt;hard to sympathize&lt;/a&gt; with her . 

so what have we learned? is this a success story? is this another fine example of the web wielding it&apos;s magic? or will this open a can of worms for the next jackass who overspends and hopes the society will pay for their ills?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:26:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tsarfan</dc:creator>		<category>karyn</category>		<category>websites</category>
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		<title>By: oflinkey</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385979</link>	
		<description>Every once in a while (and more often these days, it seems), the idea of becoming an ex-pat appeals to me in ways I cannot fully explain.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:32:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: devbrain</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385981</link>	
		<description>So, Karyn, whatcha going to buy now?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:36:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: crunchland</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385982</link>	
		<description>excuse me. I need to puke.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:36:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: dig_duggler</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385983</link>	
		<description>I still can&apos;t believe people gave her money.  
I&apos;m sure this has been beat to death in other threads on this very subject, but I wonder if she was a he or didn&apos;t have a hint of hotness to her if she would have made it.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:37:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Stan Chin</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385985</link>	
		<description>Never underestimate a damsel in distress, and the deep yearning for some people to be the knight in shining armor.

I dare say this would have been a complete failure if it was savekyle.com.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:37:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mathowie</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385987</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;so what have we learned?&lt;/i&gt;

Pretty simple really: the first person that comes up with a novel idea and executes it properly is often financially successful.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:39:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: moonbiter</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385990</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;so what have we learned?&lt;/i&gt;

I&apos;m going to set up a web site for my girlfriend so that she can beg for donations to build a better barn for her goats.

The poor things, Babette and Cleo, are &lt;em&gt;miserable&lt;/em&gt; in their current shelter, a half-shed made of wood and aluminum scrap.

The fact that she has $40,000 in outstanding vet school loans bears no relation the the $45,000 price tag of the barn we want to build them.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:41:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: dolface</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385991</link>	
		<description>what mathowie said.
when i was a kid there was some guy who got ann landers or dear abby to print his story in a column. (i think he wanted everybody to send him one penny so he could pay for college) and it worked like a charm.
so who&apos;s got the next big idea?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:42:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: konolia</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385993</link>	
		<description>Well, for sheer amusement value, was this really so bad?
Gave me a laugh, anyway. I didn&apos;t send her a dime either.

What I want to know is what financial shape will she be in a year from now?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:43:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: gsteff</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385994</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Karyn has been saved.&lt;/i&gt;

Thank god.  Now I can sleep at night.

&lt;i&gt;the first person that comes up with a novel idea and executes it properly is often financially successful&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kozmo.com&quot;&gt;Not always.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:44:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: OneSmartMonkey</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#385995</link>	
		<description>CNN covers this web marvel but not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.modestneeds.org/&quot;&gt;Modest Needs&lt;/a&gt;? Depressing.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:46:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cjoh</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386000</link>	
		<description>$10 says next May we&apos;ll be sending her more money because she has problems with the IRS.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:57:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Gilbert</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386004</link>	
		<description>Though I never gave her any money, I have to admit I checked up on Karyn from time to time. There were usually pretty funny little bits in &quot;The Daily Buck,&quot; and the letters section was likewise entertaining. What have we learned? That content will get you traffic, I think.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:03:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: GaelFC</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386007</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;when i was a kid there was some guy who got ann landers or dear abby to print his story in a column. (i think he wanted everybody to send him one penny so he could pay for college) and it worked like a charm.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Yep. That was my friend Jack Hayes&apos; brother, Mike Hayes, and Bob Greene (recently disgraced for having a fling with a 18 year old reader years ago) was the columnist who wrote about it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/cent.htm&quot;&gt;Details here.&lt;/a&gt;

It&apos;s the only &quot;sounds like an urban legend&quot; issue where I can honestly say: &quot;That was a friend of a friend&quot; and am able to cite names and stats.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:10:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: matteo</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386010</link>	
		<description>What if

What if the debt thing wasn&apos;t true to begin with
What if she wasn&apos;t in debt but simply craved the kind of People magazine, Today show fame she actually got
What if it simply was a self-promoting publicity stunt 
What if people actually gave her only a few bucks, or anyway not the 13,000+ bucks she claims they gave her

To me, this is all more believable than the alternative, i.e. that people actually sent her good money only because she bought stuff she couldn&apos;t afford -- and she didn&apos;t even raffle off sexual favors to get that kind of money

&lt;i&gt;Never underestimate a damsel in distress&lt;/i&gt;

I&apos;m actually a fan of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.damselmusic.net/&quot;&gt;Damsel in this Dress&lt;/a&gt;, check out&lt;a href=&quot;http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Damsel_In_This_Dress/&quot;&gt; the mp3&apos;s&lt;/a&gt;
Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/218/damsel_in_this_dress.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:18:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: amberglow</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386012</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m announcing the formation of &quot;send a quarter to amberglow&quot;
(inflation)  A healthy glow is important, and requires maintenance. Anyone wanna donate?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:21:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: WolfDaddy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386015</link>	
		<description>amberglow, only if you show us your tits.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:23:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: amberglow</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386017</link>	
		<description>the pierced one or the other one?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:24:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: WolfDaddy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386018</link>	
		<description>Neither of those.  We want nubbins.  We know you got &apos;em.  Stop being so coy.  Otherwise, you&apos;re Karyn.  And we learned with her.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: asok</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386019</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;&apos;the first person that comes up with a novel idea and executes it properly is often financially successful&apos;&lt;/i&gt;

sometimes they have so &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/timexsin.html&quot;&gt;many &lt;/a&gt;novel ideas that it&apos;s hard to believe they are not successful.
&apos;1972 company formed...his inventions were a pocket-sized calculator with advanced mathematical functions, an inexpensive digital wristwatch, and a tiny television with a 2-inch screen.&apos;
can you guess who it is yet?

matteo, you old cynic! (either way it&apos;s all pretty loopy).</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:25:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Stan Chin</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386022</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;sometimes they have so many novel ideas that it&apos;s hard to believe they are not successful.&lt;/i&gt;

You mean this &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.ronco.com/&quot;&gt;guy&lt;/a&gt;? He invented an &lt;i&gt;inside the shell&lt;/i&gt; scrambler for christ sakes! Milestones people.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:31:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Beholder</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386026</link>	
		<description>Well all the people that linked to her web site, while giving her both barrels, were doing her a huge favor. If her critics had just ignored her, it&apos;s doubtful her web site could have generated the buzz it did.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:02:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Degaz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386027</link>	
		<description>Did she say something in that article about a movie??  wtf&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On a related note:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/bosnak1.html&quot;&gt;we&apos;d hit it&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:04:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: XQUZYPHYR</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386033</link>	
		<description>Look, no one would have given a damn about the welfare of some little Cuban boy if he was fat, crippled, and missing an eye.  The corollary to Matt&apos;s observation is this: you can be successful at something with the method he mentioned if you&apos;re the first to try, but always if you&apos;re photogenic, and thusly capable of having an entire media culture eat bullshit out of the palm of your hand.  Oh look, young little white girl doesn&apos;t know how credit cards work... she&apos;s like Rachel on &lt;i&gt;Friends!&lt;/i&gt;  Aaaawwwwwwwwww.  I want to be part of it!

And just like any new fad, any repeat or imitation will be met with lackluster interest... our own karma hopes that the next person to try this will be, in fact, Karyn again, and fall flat on her face like a modern-day Boy who Cried Debt.

And I disagree with this whole &quot;just ignore it&quot; concept.  The internet has already proven that it&apos;s the kind of genre that refuses to be ignored.  New paradigms on the internet are never just ignored; they either succeed, fail, or are exposed as a hoax or fraud and eliminated as a result.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:16:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: yhbc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386044</link>	
		<description>Matt nailed it - many things only work the first time someone tries the idea. Dancing hamsters. Jennicam. Ummmm, what else - a community weblog that filters web content?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:46:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: stbalbach</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386060</link>	
		<description>Jennicam spawned a very profitable industry home reality webcams for pay there are thousands. I suspect this type of thing will continue to take off. People get a thrill out of donateing money, they get to choose. Have you ever seen a street person and given money? And than someone else and not? Some people liked Karen, some didnt. What if there was a directory of 100 websites of creative people vieing for you attention and money. It would be fun to donate to those who seem worthy, $1 each doesnt matter.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:49:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: joedan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386063</link>	
		<description>Oh wow, it only took her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.savekaryn.com.futuresite.register.com/_wsn/page4.html&quot;&gt;twenty weeks &lt;/a&gt; to pay off her debt.  Thats like, (summoning my insanely powerful mathematical abilities) a thousand dollars a week.

&lt;i&gt;Never in a million years did I actually think this would work. But I thought it was worth a shot, and look what happened. Yippie! So what to do next... well, I&apos;m writing a book that is scheduled to come out in Fall 2003. It&apos;ll be the funny story of what happened, sort like &quot;Confessions of a Shopoholic&quot; meets &quot;Bridget Jones.&quot; Welcome to my wacky world! So look for it then! Buy it up!&lt;/i&gt;


Urge to kill...rising...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:01:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mathowie</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386064</link>	
		<description>Jennicam stumbled upon something special, but something that never goes out of style: sex. I doubt there will be other save karyns meeting any of the success she did. 

Just like I don&apos;t think we&apos;ll ever see another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/5022&quot;&gt;dotcomguy&lt;/a&gt;.

Just like I don&apos;t think you&apos;ll see another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9141&quot;&gt;Chris &apos;n Luke, the &quot;sponsor us to college&quot; guys&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:02:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Electrin</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386070</link>	
		<description>So I&apos;m on my way to the local Blockbuster and this guy comes to me asking for change...

At least he doesn&apos;t seem so happy and content about his financial situation, making it easier for me to empathise.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:34:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: XQUZYPHYR</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386071</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Have you ever seen a street person and given money?&lt;/i&gt;

Of course not.  Like I said, we see the homeless on the street and think dirty, scary, will buy booze and/or drugs.  Karyn was the online equivalent of feeding the pigeons in the park while ignoring the guy on the bench asking for bread.  Save the dolphins, to hell with the tuna.

And joedan, don&apos;t be too upset about the book deal.  &quot;I&apos;m writing a book&quot; means &quot;I was paid a few grand to let someone else make a moderate sum of money writing about my alleged &quot;adventure.&quot;  I mean, really.  How long, or good, is a book about updating a website for five months going to be?</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:34:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: lucien</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386076</link>	
		<description>Probably not that long, she will likely want to hurry up and sell those film rights.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:50:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Neale</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386077</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt; How long, or good, is a book about updating a website for five months going to be?&lt;/em&gt;

Incidently, &lt;em&gt;Metafilter: The Telemovie&lt;/em&gt; is set to start pre-screening in February. Fascinating stuff!</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:54:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: skryche</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386083</link>	
		<description>I can&apos;t believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://savekarynagain.com&quot;&gt;this domain name&lt;/a&gt; is still free.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:58:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>skryche</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: rushmc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386089</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;What if there was a directory of 100 websites of creative people vieing for you attention and money.&lt;/i&gt;

Expect to see such a site posted here on Metafilter within the next 60 days....</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:06:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: gummi</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386094</link>	
		<description>Well now. pleasepayformytriptoamsterdam.com. C&apos;mon folks, I&apos;ve never been.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:16:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: stbalbach</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386096</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;we see the homeless on the street and think dirty, scary, will buy booze &lt;/i&gt;

I always think of &lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/B/Bukowski,_Charles/?il=1&quot;&gt;Charles Bukowski&lt;/a&gt;...&quot;you have to have stamina to be a real drunk&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301008901/102-3433425-4992144&quot;&gt;Barfly&lt;/a&gt;)</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:22:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ynoxas</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386099</link>	
		<description>Stan sez: &lt;i&gt;Never underestimate a damsel in distress, and the deep yearning for some people to be the knight in shining armor.&lt;/i&gt;

I think you hit the nail on the head there old boy.

I do not have the wherewithal to parse her &quot;thank you&quot; page, but I would be very interested to know the breakdown by sex of her contributors.  Particularly, I would like to know the sex and amount of her largest 10 contributors, and the totals by sex.

And, what xqhasenfeffer said.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:26:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: luckyclone</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386105</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;the first person that comes up with a novel idea and executes it properly is often financially successful&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexchiu.com&quot;&gt;Not always&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:41:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: luckyclone</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386106</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;the first person that comes up with a novel idea and executes it properly is often financially successful&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timecube.com&quot;&gt;Not always&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:42:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: NewBornHippy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386114</link>	
		<description>&amp;gt; Other anti-Karyn sites asked people to donate money to charity
&amp;gt; rather than finance her &quot;bikini wax binge and Prada party.

Well, I was wondering why people would be giving directly to a person
rather than giving to a charity. It might have worked for her
(although, for each dollar contributed to her endeavor, how many more
contributed to charities? Do people giving to her also giving to
charities anyways or did she really struck a chord?)

It certainly doesn&apos;t work as dramatically well for your &apos;round the
corner.

It all depends on how to do it. I wonder if one could pull the stunt
of exclusively living off people&apos;s charity -- you can imagine the
site (I haven&apos;t searched.)</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:03:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: dhartung</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386122</link>	
		<description>There should have been a backlash site: &lt;b&gt;karynsave.com&lt;/b&gt;.

&lt;small&gt;Comma and bang implied, naturally.&lt;/small&gt;

And as for something that is simultaneously lamer and more self-sustaining, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tampatantrum.com/boobies.html&quot;&gt;Boobies to Florida&lt;/a&gt; {NSFW! NSFW!} -- where nipplage is the come-on for underwriting a plane ticket, and excess donations at least go to charity.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:33:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: nix</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386123</link>	
		<description>What&apos;s next you ask? The multi-level marketing scheme to get everyone out of debt. 

We just saw it in action: Karyn now has 10,000+ people in her downline. She will teach those 10,000 how to relieve their debt by putting friends and family in their own downlines. Wow. I can&apos;t wait to be approached at the local bookstore by that guy in the tie who asks me if I &quot;want to be freed from the burden of debt?&quot; rather than the usual &quot;would you like to make more money?&quot;. It will be such a refreshing change.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:35:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: chaz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386129</link>	
		<description>the whole thing pisses me off, especially the news media who trumpeted her story and never once ridiculed her. Pathetic.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:15:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaz</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: sebas</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386141</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;I wonder if one could pull the stunt
of exclusively living off people&apos;s charity &lt;/i&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.letmestayforaday.com&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a site that tries to do that, and so far he&apos;s been quite successful!</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:32:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dick Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386150</link>	
		<description>Do luckyclone posts always come in pairs? /off topic

$45,000 for a two goat barn? Sounds no different from the reality check needed during Karyn&apos;s spending spree. /still off topic</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:33:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: carfilhiot</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386162</link>	
		<description>i love Karen, she so coool.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:09:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sgt.serenity</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386167</link>	
		<description>i like karyn too, good on her,
sorry to digress but please folks ...
learn the power of the &lt;a  _top href=&quot;http://www.timecube.com/&quot;&gt;time cube&lt;/a&gt;, huh?

&quot;&lt;i&gt;I plan to sue academic institutions for multi- 
millions of dollars for their endangering the 
lives of children through brainwashing and 
indoctrination stupidity. I am seeking sharp 
attorney interested in a case that transcends 
the excitement of the Scopes Monkey Trial. &lt;/i&gt;&quot;

now theres an original way to make money!
(he could make money supplying fall lyrics)

whats your best idea for making money?
so far, mine is praying before buying a lottery ticket.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:34:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: XQUZYPHYR</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386170</link>	
		<description>luckyclone- you call that Time Cube site executing a novel idea properly?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:46:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: CoolHandPuke</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386176</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Karyn has been saved.&lt;/i&gt; - You should have titled it: Karyn has been &lt;b&gt;ENABLED&lt;/b&gt;

She had just taken a job as a producer for King World Productions on a short-lived reality courtroom program called &quot;Curtis Court.&quot; &lt;b&gt;Earning &quot;well over $100,000 a year&lt;/b&gt;,&quot; 

In April, she finally got a job on the Animal Planet show &quot;Dog Days,&quot; but took more than &lt;b&gt;a 50 percent pay cut&lt;/b&gt;.

So lets say she&apos;s making at least $50,000 a year (thats less than half of the &quot;well over $100,000&quot; she was earning) and do fast math:

50K divided by 52 weeks of the year = 961.54 a week times 4 = 3846.15 a month. Subtract 30% (I doubt she&apos;s paying that much) for taxes = &lt;b&gt;2692.31 per month.&lt;/b&gt;

I didn&apos;t think it would be that much, and now I am sickened all the more by this.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:18:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: CoolHandPuke</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386179</link>	
		<description>A few of my responses the the statement:

&lt;i&gt;On a related note: we&apos;d hit it&lt;/i&gt;

Stink of failure...still on me...won&apos;t wash off...

&lt;i&gt;On a related note: we&apos;d hit it&lt;/i&gt;

I wouldn&apos;t touch her with &lt;b&gt;YOUR&lt;/b&gt; wee-wee, let alone my own.

&lt;i&gt;On a related note: we&apos;d hit it&lt;/i&gt;

Yeah with a 2x4 upside the head. 

&lt;i&gt;On a related note: we&apos;d hit it&lt;/i&gt;

Only if she took me on a shopping spree first.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:25:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: briank</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386184</link>	
		<description>For every dollar you send me, I will not post in MetaFilter for one day.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:57:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Fabulon7</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386185</link>	
		<description>Dudes, there is this awesome wicked car that I&apos;m totally into buying. It&apos;s only like $20,000 USD. I don&apos;t have that kind of money right now, but I figured if like, each of you could send in like a dollar or two, I&apos;d be set, you know?

Whattya think? Will you help a guy out?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:58:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: i_cola</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386194</link>	
		<description>I enjoyed Karyn&apos;s site. It was some fluffy fun. I also enjoyed reading people having vein-rupturing rants about how ev-ul she was.

Ha! People really get their knickers in a twist over the strangest things these days...as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/18310&quot;&gt;riviera asked&lt;/a&gt; in the original MeFi thread, &apos;&lt;i&gt;Though isn&apos;t the difference between her site and the entire advertising industry -- &apos;I deserve this, and someone else should pay for it&apos; -- just a matter of degree?&lt;/i&gt;

Save your ire for the real ev-ul kids...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:15:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mkultra</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386205</link>	
		<description>I think the demographic data of who gave her money would be pretty interesting.

Is this that much different from all those young girls with Amazon wish lists on their blogs? Well, at least if you buy into the whole &quot;this only works if you&apos;re cute and female&quot; angle.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:50:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: twine42</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386210</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;I&apos;m writing a book&lt;/i&gt;

Anyone spot a possible &quot;It was all done for the publicity&quot; thing going on here?

Goodgood...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:00:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sgt.serenity</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386227</link>	
		<description>hmmm dont know about the enabling cause i dont
know the whole story,
i am thinking about the wider issue of so many people
being in debt these days.
if a politician were to run on a debt cancelling platform........</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:53:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: infowar</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386232</link>	
		<description>sgt.serenity asks: 
&lt;blockquote&gt;whats your best idea for making money? so far, mine is praying before buying a lottery ticket.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I came up with rent to own videos in 92. Looks like one of the chains has caught on. I *knew* I&apos;d never see any of the money though.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:18:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dean King</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386240</link>	
		<description>My uninsured girlfriend is in serious need of knee surgery. If you have an extra buck or two, please send it my way. Together, we can banish this ACL injury from her life. Email&apos;s on my profile page -- thanks!</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:41:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: dnash</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386245</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt; So lets say she&apos;s making at least $50,000 a year (thats less than half of the &quot;well over $100,000&quot; she was earning) and do fast math:&lt;/i&gt;

CoolHandPuke, I&apos;m totally with you there. I was just saying to a friend who&apos;d thought the site was &quot;cute&quot; all this time... Say she&apos;s making $50,000 now, minus $20,000 in debt leaves $30,000 which is a little under what I make. So, roughly, if she just lived like I do for a year she&apos;d be debt-free on her own. My friend, after reading the numbers, says he&apos;s no longer as &quot;pro-Karyn&quot; as he was.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:58:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Secret Life of Gravy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386249</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;whats your best idea for making money?&lt;/i&gt;

I go back in time and.....</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:14:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: lometogo</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386252</link>	
		<description>I say &quot;right on, Karyn&quot;. I don&apos;t care if her story&apos;s true or not. Whomever sends her money does it for their own motive. 

And, who am I to tell them it&apos;s right or not. Better, in my opinion, to send it to a scrapper like Karyn than to such a silly cause as taxes for war in iraq or the televangelists, with all due respect to those of you who support those causes. 

And finally to quote a great, dead Irish-American, Tim Leary: Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.</description>
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		<title>By: serafinapekkala</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386274</link>	
		<description>i saw Karyn tittering away to Matt Lauer this morning on the Today Show...in a new blouse...which she was BUYING AT BLOOMINGDALE&apos;S when the show&apos;s producer reached her cellphone to ask for the interview!  Matt mentioned this on the air, obviously, and Karyn laughed and laughed.  she also laughed about the book AND MOVIE deals inked about her escapade.  if she had an ounce of humility she&apos;d go get a masters in non-profit management and put her shilling skills to work to even out her karma...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:18:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: monkeyman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386289</link>	
		<description>Good. I&apos;m glad she was on the Today Show, so all the people who sent her money can feel deceived and used since they were.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:29:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: monkeyman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386293</link>	
		<description>Karyn is a gold-digger who figured out how to get the cash without getting her knees dirty.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:32:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: i_cola</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386298</link>	
		<description>serafinapekkala: If it comes down to evening out karma then most of the western world needs to get ironing...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:36:43 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>i_cola</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: pjgulliver</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386306</link>	
		<description>Just for the record, if Karyn is making $50k in NYC, her taxes are going to be about 35%. Housing is also not cheap and she probably has herself backed into some ludicrous lease arangement from when she had a higher income. Not that I&apos;m saying she couldn&apos;t live comforatbly on her income. But in reality, Karyn was probably living on $32,500 a year (after taxes) which is not a huge amount of money in NYC. I can see why a $20k credit card debt would be crippling. 

Was she an idiot who abused credit? Yes. Was the situation she was in difficult? Yes. Did she come up with a clever way to get out of it? Yes. Come on, let&apos;s not hold Karyn to some high moral standard. She was honest and upfront and people willingly helped her. End of story.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: monkeyman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386311</link>	
		<description>Just for the record I don&apos;t think Karyn did anything evil or immoral, but it is certainly nothing to be proud of either. The best spin you can put on her plan is that it was creative begging along the lines of those guys with the signs that say, &quot;why lie? I need the money for beer.&quot; Her website was charming and she seemed sincere, but that fact is she was sincerely begging when she could have paid her debt herself.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:58:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: blue_beetle</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386328</link>	
		<description>Metafilter: On a related note: we&apos;d hit it
Metafilter: What&apos;s your best idea for making money?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:27:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cell divide</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386345</link>	
		<description>I have no problem with Karyn, it is the media who never put her under the microcscope, and didn&apos;t examine her claims or ask her any tough questions that gets me. The fact that people sent her money when there are so many more deserving causes that the media never mentions is very annoying.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:54:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: pjgulliver</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386351</link>	
		<description>It would be interesting to know the socio-economic break down of those who contributed to Karyn. Was it other young urban professionals? Was it people her own age but from different walks of life? Suburban/rural denizens who, in a way, wished the led her lifestyle? Was it people of her parents generation who felt a parental bond? Was it elderly grandmothers, the classic people who get ripped off?

Cell divide, agreed. It&apos;s a shame that worthwhile charities languish while this woman gets her money in record time.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:08:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: thomcatspike</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386378</link>	
		<description>Wasn&apos;t she also selling all the stuff she bought. I figure she did not get back the equal amount she spent for them. But the sale from those things would be the big chuck of change in hand now, no?

With a book deal that may have been omitted.
&lt;i&gt;Bosnak has received more than $13,300 from hundreds of donors worldwide. Coupled with the online auction of the high-ticket items that drove her into debt, plus earnings from a new job, she&apos;s finally broken even. &lt;/i&gt; 
Or is this her new job, the book deal? A job is not a donation, too.

I feel the journalism makes it seem more of a success when talking about the $20,000.00 debt.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:55:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: thomcatspike</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386382</link>	
		<description>Whoops, last sentence please add: when it seems donations were the contributing factor.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:02:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: thomcatspike</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386396</link>	
		<description>I bet we will see her failure again. It&apos;s a guess but after reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/21556#386274&quot;&gt;serafinapekkala&apos;s &lt;/a&gt;comment of her actions today, her past will equel her future.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:25:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: moonvine</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386402</link>	
		<description>I have never understood all the animosity towards Karyn.  I think it is a much better thing to pay off your debt than to declare bankruptcy.  This way, only those people who chose to finance her did so, whereas if she had declared bankruptcy we all would have paid. 

Lots of people don&apos;t bother to pay at all.    People chose to give her money.  I don&apos;t understand why some people would be so angry about this.  I doubt that anyone who has a set charitable contribution - i.e. gives $10 a month to the World Wildlife Fund, or whatever - sent her a dollar and then deducted that dollar from their regular charitable contribution.  I guess it is possible, but it seems unlikely.  The way some people are acting, you&apos;d think that dollar was taken out of your pocket directly.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: spacewaitress</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386408</link>	
		<description>What&apos;s so frustrating is that she asked others to bail her out when she was perfectly capable of paying off her debts herself.  Being (relatively) well-off but expecting a free ride anyway is pretty despicable.  At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it seems like a mentality of entitlement by the privileged, the same kind of mentality that led to the debacles at WorldCom and Enron.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:28:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sgt.serenity</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#386503</link>	
		<description>Please shag me , no i mean send me some money...
no, i mean send me some money and then shag me..
or maybe you can shag me and then send me some money..
why dont you send me some money and then if youre a nice person and witty and everything i might be willing 
to shag you.
my best idea for making money was going out with a millionare&apos;s daughter. 
Can you imagine my joy at breaking off all contact with her
entirely as i stare at my unemployment cheque, split (make that rent)asunder in one lousy pissy day?
At least i dont have strange russian fathers checking my surname on the web to see if im part of the international jewish conspiracy any more.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: {savg*pncl}</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/21556/#387391</link>	
		<description>Gee, I have $66,000 in credit card debt. Better hone those HTML skills quickly!!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:57:47 -0800</pubDate>
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