You might hand five bucks to the kid that parks your car at the restaurant. Five bucks will buy you the better part of a beer in Tokyo. During happy hour.
If you lost five bucks in the dry cleaning, you probably wouldn’t miss it.
You could spend five bucks on a cup of coffee, if you were so inclined.
In fact:
Five bucks wouldn’t make a decent tip at Starbucks, these days, party of two.
But what could five bucks do for Soldier’s Angels/Valour-IT? The program that’s bringing laptop connectivity solutions to soldiers wounded fighting for our freedoms overseas? That allows them to connect with the world, just like you and me? To send emails, surf the news, even take college courses? All while denied the use of their hands?
Well, based on average traffic of about 400-500 visitors per day here at Neptunus Lex, it would put us right past the goram Army, fer cryin’ out loud. Not to mention the Marines. Who, although they are a part of the naval service, will be entirely unbearable if they win this thing. Which we simply can’t allow them to do.
I mean, we hurl them ashore and then wait around to pick them up after they’ve had their fun and then have to wait in line behind them while they eat all the chow in the mess line (and don’t even get me started on gym equipment) complaining all they way I might add, and reminding us of Guadalcanal at the drop of the hat and now we’re going to let them beat us at this?
Not on my watch.
Five bucks.
Five bucks gets us back in the game.
Five bucks and maybe Mrs. Smash smiles on you. Which is a bargain, I’m here to tell you.
Five bucks or I shoot the dog.
Five bucks and I punk out another Rhythms serial. (Ten bucks and maybe I bring the whole ruttin’ thing to closure – think on it.)
With apologies to Admiral Nelson, “The fleet expects that every man (and woman) will do his (her) duty.”
Five bucks – Do it, Navy.
Might as well. Dick around, and I’ll be dunning you for ten tomorrow.
Update: Well, whoever Bryan is, we thank him kindly. Put us right past the Marine Corps, and withing shooting range of the Army. And Seth, we thank you too. And everyone else who gave it up for the boys (and girls) in blue.
Rest of you get back to work. Five bucks.
Update 2: Whoah! Many thanks to Stephen from AP as well. We’re safely past the Marines (now those are words almost guaranteed to turn to ashes and dust on one’s tongue) and have edged past the senior service as well. Let us all be generous and humble in our advantage, looking down upon their blasted scree kindly from the wine-sweet air our Olympian heights.
And then continue to turn the screws! Five bucks!<
Take at look at the tallies for the other teams and you’ll see that we’re the only one with $1000 donor! Wooo-hooo for Bryan!!!
In all seriousness, thank you so much. You just single-handedly bought us a fully-equipped laptop and a half. Bless you.
I put you over by a penny.
Mail me for the before and after screenshot.
You must be going to some really out of the way bars if you think 5 bucks is going to get you a beer in Tokyo. That will require being able to speak some Japanese and time in an Izikaya.
Since this is a subject I happen to know something about, the median price of a pint in Tokyo is about 800yen or 7.15 approx……..
Or you might at least try taking the Starbucks Challenge?
unfortunately, that wasn’t me, but I will be donating shortly. For the NAvy that is
B
I’d be happy to donate….. just not sure it would work for us strange foreign types…
Sim, PayPal can handle currencies from a variety of countries. Click the Navy donate link above, then click the little question mark next to the currency designation. It should work just fine for you.
Thank you so much for thinking of donating!
For the record, PayPal will accept:
Canadian Dollar
Euro
Pound Sterling
U.S. Dollar
Yen
Australian Dollar
FbL, I’d be tempted to donate just because you managed to resist the temptation to add another i to Australian
I’ll have to fire up some sort of paypal thing and throw some money your way
Hmmm…
Okay, gotta figure out how to put you pirates in your place…
(Good job, guys!)
Wow..I cant believe we met our goal already, but I’ll be darned if we’re going to stop.
I’m rooting for the AF and trying to scare up some AF guys to donate. My bro being AFG.
I don’t believe you would shoot the dog, Lex – but I love the graphic *grin*
I won’t give you $10 to close down the whole Rhythms series, I *LIKE* it, ya silly!
Okay, time to fire up a Paypal account and donate something. Now.. the thing is, I’m not in the military, but dad was Air Force… had an uncle in the Corps… no Army ties… no Navy ties… but Lex is just. so. cool. Hmmmm…
Well I’ll be. Lex has got a fan!
[...] If you want to read the actual details of this project Valour IT, go to Holly Aho’s and sack up. Then, help out Marine Team. See I always wanted to be on the same side as “The Few, The Proud, The Marines”, here’s my chance and I’m takin’ it, now take yours… Eric did, and so did Joe. I’m sure there’s more I don’t know about. We can do it. Let’s win this one for everybody, and let the Marines get some props for doin’ things back here, like they do “over there”. No offense Smash, B5, or Lex… [...]
Speaking of memories…
I was Navy before I was Army. Actually, I was Army Reserve, then Active Navy, then Active Army again.
I held the Signalman Rating. Semaphore was a necessary part of any port call. Flashing light is too slow. I could windmill to any other ship in the harbor and have where the bars were, phone number to a taxi service, and locations of the windows to point the big eyes at before the colors were even switched.
Ahhh, those were the days.
Go Marines,
Great job brothers, what a great competition
Semper Fi