Do you recall the Alien Space Ship invasion from April 20th? In the name of cVillain, I offered myself to the aliens and have recently returned to earth. While they couldn’t probe me because of my thunder and lightning powers, we did sit down to plan the next party.
I explained that cVillains and 106.1 The Corner had OFFICIALLY raised over $2,100 for the HIV/AIDS Services Group! They decided they wanted to be involved in our next party. While the ideas for an “Illegal Alien” party on Cinco de Maio were quickly shot down due to fears of the Feds and their fallen Area 51 comrades (and some earthly, political correctness issues), we decided we wanted to throw a party in which all aliens were invited.
The details require top secret government clearance, but will soon be released to the public. We are leaking the date of the party: May 25th! Trust us, the party is going to be amazing.
This time, we will let YOU pick the charity and will give all event proceeds to that charity! Initial submissions start now and end on Saturday, May 3rd at Noon. We hope to raise more than $2,100 for the charity of choice.
Rules…
- Submit an entry by adding it to the poll or voting on one that has already been added.
- Entries must be submitted no later than May 3rd at Noon.
- We will choose a final list of 3 to 10 non-profits based on the number of submissions.
- The final charity will be chosen before the party on May 25th.
- If we detect any cheating, we have the right to disqualify any entrant.
- Charities must be approved 501(c) 3 organizations.
- All proceeds will go to the charity that you choose!
- We can change the rules.
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Tagged as: charity, Charlottesville, event, fundraiser, Non-Profit, Parties
Please please please vote for the SPCA! Pleeeeeeease. I will buy you a drink at Oxo.
I was the first vote for SPCA, shen! Me wuvs the wittle kitties and puppies. Although, they’re all worthy causes. Can’t go wrong, on this list.
I will buy you a drink at Oxo
Why not take that money and give it directly?
/I know you already give more than your fair share…
may 25th? but that’s my brother’s college graduation!
/he doesn’t want me there anyway.
You owe me a drink
@3: That’s bar code for “I will give you a free drink”. Thanks for trying to bust me in front of the Ay Bee See.
/more than you know!
Does anyone else here remember the epic space parties on Wertland in the late 90s?
/nostalgia
I don’t seem to have the functionality to add a choice (or a vote), but I’d like to see Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville added. I haven’t seen Indie Dork around these parts recently, but I recall him (or her?) having a Cvillain hammer-swinging (no, Thor, not that hammer) time at one of their job sites.
SPCA!
Okay. Who added the Belmont Dilapidated Porch Foundation? B’Yo, we’re not replacing your porch.
/unless you ask nicely
//and provide drinks
Er. I was, um, just as surprised as anyone that that, well, um… showed up there. So its not real?
/I have drinks!
Hey Hey! Three votes! Take that homeless puppies!
.j-o-k-e, shen. for the love of god, it was just a joke.
B’Yo, maybe you could team up with some of the other recipients and work out a deal. Habitat for Humanity could send supplies, while the Girls and Boys Club and Camp Holiday Trails each send labor. Just tell the kids it’s a field trip!
/still bitter about serving as slave labor as a child
Awesome idea… and we could harness the shelter animals to move the heavy stuff! And pass out condoms!
5 votes - oh god, not another uncus
It begins.
Im sensing that I will be getting no
freepaid for drinks from Shen anytime soon.Condoms what?!!!
For ASG.
I still have like a billion condoms from when Planned Parenthood crashed escafe one night. Since I am in the velvet closet, I have very little need of them.
@16 Particularly if you’re making the animals do heavy lifting.
Poor animals in jail.
They can live under the porch! Everyone’s a winnar!
Some of the cats are so frightened, they hide in their litterboxes all day, laying in their own feces. The $ we raise could buy them little cat beds.
There are skeletons of postal workers in the crawl spaces under holes in rotting porches in belmont. Those postal workers had families. Little kids go to sleep at night wondering why daddy’s route never ends.
/check your email shen.
Just so everyone knows, the porch is gonna get axed.
The SPCA needs $ for blankets to wrap around sick little puppies, people.
Just so everyone knows, the porch is gonna get
axedfixed.I will only vote SPCA if I can come out dressed like a guinea pig. It’s all the rage on the catwalks in Milan right now.
/eek..eek
@ 24 Who axed you?
@ 27 You should see what they are wearing on porches in Belmont. Rowr!
@25: Gud. Way to waste your votes y’all. Did you vote for Nader too?
@27: Totally.
Shen- Raise big bucks for SPCA & they might neuter Yo for free!
God forbid we have any fun. Silliness? Right. Out.
Like I’d take money from homeless kitties. Like SPCA is not insurmountably up in the voting, anyway. Like I didn’t send out disclaimers to everyone I could, just in case. Like this little internet thingy is a now like a national election? Like you know what? Fuck it.
Have fun saving the world, y’all. Just make sure you don’t smile while your doing it, otherwise people won’t take you seriously. I’ll leave the rest of the lemonheads on the coffee table. Im sick of sour.
omfg, I voted!
I’m a sick kitten supporter just like anyone, but gotta thank you, Thor, for including the Boys and Girls Club!! The summer is quickly approaching, during which the Club is open 9 hours each day, offering kids in our community a safe place to have fun while school is out and their parents are working. Sure, this list is full of great causes, but I couldn’t resist plugging the one that tugs at my heart-strings the hardest. VOTE BGC!!
re:33… excellent point Hoodatbe. I personally am saving my vote until the last minute and then I will sell it on Craigslist.
so, how ’bout them mets ?
I dunno. Never met them.
/ba-doom psssh
we should invest in our future, and give the money to AA!
American Airlines?
Charlottesville Tomorrow! Charlottesville Tomorrow! Rah rah rah!
Wow, Boys & Girls club came out of no where. Did they hit the turbo button?
We need no Turbo, we got support. Who ever 33 is, You’re my hero. BGC ALL THE WAY!
Hey Melissa and Hood, how abouts you support the event by coming to the party !
No! I’m going to be out of town for the party!
/Going to be in Vegas. Should probably stop complaining.
puppies are so much better than boys and girls.
can’t wait for the party deets!
@44 Is that because puppies can’t tell?
Trying to add MACAA Head Start as an entry but I am unable to do so..
This party’s on a Sunday?
Is that a typo? This party’s on a Sunday?
That’s going to cut into my backyard badminton-ing while drinking, but I’ll make that sacrifice. For the puppies. Or the children. Or whomever, actually.
How about an anybody-but-Habitat option? I’m still bitter about the loss of the ravine out back.
Maybe I should just start a charity called Habitat for Pileated Woodpeckers. We’ll knock down houses and plant tall trees with bodies stuffed in the cavities.
Oh. Wicked double post. I blame Wordpress, which told me I had “already posted” my comment, but it didn’t appear (even upon refreshing; I swear!). So I changed it, and then resubmitted, and then both versions appeared.
/and then I got a pony
and the pony was– was a unicorn! and then….
that sunday is the sunday of mem. day weekend, braaaaaaaaahhhhh.
that sunday is the sunday of mem. day weekend, braaaaaaaaahhhhh.
Oh. Well, in that case, broseph: word ‘em up. (Though I may still have to work Monday.)
SPCA was just awarded $400,000.00 today. I just watched it on the news! I think we should give it to the B&GC Kids. Maybe if we do the kids will gain a sense of Belonging, Usefullness, Influence, & Competence, thus they will adopt the puppies and kittens!
I’d love to go. Been waiting for another ‘villain party, but will be out of town.
How did the Boys and Girls Club get 80 votes since this afternoon? Something fishy is going on.
Perhaps all the boys and girls are exercising their right to vote, which they are encouraged to do.
@ 55. Its called mass communication! Email and TXT. msgs. work
@ 56. AMEN!
When is the voting over?
Melissa, the voting ends Saturday, May 3rd at Noon.
Initial submissions start now and end on Saturday, May 3rd at Noon.
Thor - you better believe I’ll be at this party, with some of our voting block in tow, too! I know the game ain’t over yet, but regardless of who wins the game - Hooray for the internet - HOORAY FOR CVILLAINS!!
CRUD - I will be begining a long drive back to the ville from Little Rock on the 25th and therefore cannot go - alas - will make sure to get some peeps to the party to whoop it up for the cause - thanks again, Thor!
@57: So getting a bunch of your non-Villain friends to come on here and sway what is supposed to be the Villains’ choice…seems fair. Not. And it’s obvious you’re “M” as well in #53. You probably even work at the B&GC so this would really help you out I bet.
Can you feel the love that charity inspires?
We are all villains, its just that some of us don’t know it yet.
don’t see a clear way to vote - but put me down for the Boys n Girls Club.
@ 63. Actually, I am “M”’s long time friend! Same passion! Thanks for the multipule persons though! Maybe I can get all this work done by lunch with two of me!!!! All of us are Villain’s. Hurry for the kids vote!
Thor- I too will be out of town, but I will encourage my peeps to attend the shindig!
@Shen… please be nice to our new visitors. All non-profits need money and we are throwing a party for a good cause. Sure, people have different ideas of what the best cause is, but is that any reason to rip on BGC for having a lot of loyal members?
I’m sure a lot of them will come to the party to help support things. SPCA has an email list too. We wanted to make this a little competitive and someone’s gotta be second place. Anyway, this is the first round, so if SPCA makes it to the final round, then you can rally your troops and go for the gold.
joster… probably because someone from your office already voted
Also, and this is a presumption, this will not be the last villain charity party. If whomever’s charity does not win, then perhaps next time. I imagine the BDPF will be getting hooked up around September of 2010…
/geezer villains.
Watching these votes is like a NASCAR race! Computer4kids takes second place and is HOT on the tail of BGC which still has a 4 length lead.
Watching these votes is like a NASCAR race!
I can’t help but wonder which one will crash and burn first?
So, still no idea why I can’t vote. Is it my company’s use of ancient IE 6.0 (yes, and please hold off on the Firefox/Opera/Safari proselytizing, I know already!) that keeps me from voting? Any Villains care to help me out?
Everyone, if you are having problems voting it’s probably because someone from your computer or your same IP address has already voted.
This typically means that you can’t vote from the same household or the same work if someone has already done so. We do that to keep people from voting multiple times on something.
Maybe someone from your office/school/bathtub/IP addy already voted, Stormy.
is like a NASCAR race!
Except it is short roughly 2000 left turns.
So, B’YO you are saying they are racing into a vortex?
How come only one person at a business can vote?
fingers crossed they’ll be no crashing and burning . . what i think is cool is seeing other non-profits that i didn’t even know about - like “ourspace community center” which i now plan to learn more about. thanks villains!
Thanks Thor & Street. Sucks to work in a place with hundreds of other people who are similarly disenfranchised. Now I know how Michigan and Florida feel.
Nope, no vortex. But if I had to venture a guess, I’d say we are racing into the hurt feelings and animosity that only a truly good cause can generate.
/humans are very odd.
Now I know how Michigan and Florida feel
No, that would be more like i you went around installing IE 6 on all the computers against the wishes of the IT department, and then vociferously complained when it didn’t work.
/went there.
@77 elec. There is no perfect way to keep people from voting twice. If we didn’t enable the IP tracker (and at the same time restrict voting to one per workplace), people could clear their cookies and vote a lot of times.
In the future we could do it through unique email addresses. That may be more of a pain, but it would let anyone vote with a working email addy. What do you think about that?
@77 Ourspace community center is located in the basement below the Tea Bazaar. (414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall)
@82: I have 6 email addresses. Couldn’t I vote 6 times?
Email addys matter not. Ip’s are where it’s at. Literally.
If we didn’t enable the IP tracker
*cough cough* proxy servers *cough*
with a working email addy
yahoo, hotmail, gmail work… Im good for at least 8 votes!
Whatever happened to the honor system? Are we not honorable?
UVa can’t even maintain a working honor system. How are we supposed to?
thanks Street! right under my nose and i didn’t know it!
UVa can’t even maintain a working honor system. How are we supposed to?
Well, that’s it, really, you can’t. You can’t maintain anything for anyone else. The only person’s actions you are responsible for are your own. Its that golden rule thing you may have heard word of… its pretty cool actually.
@87 i think it works pretty well, actually.
@83 I think email would be better than IPs. We have 100+ employees, but only one gets a vote? Plus the poor souls who don’t have a connection at home. As far as IP’s, I could take a notebook and vote at every free WI-Fi in the area. I think there is the same possibility for multi votes that way as there is for multi email addresses.
We have 100+ employees,
…but only one computer?
Why not have the people who come and participate vote then and there? Its their money thats being raised…
I’m voting for Relay for Life. Won’t you join us May 10th/11th at The Park (North Grounds UVa adjacent to the JAG School). We’re aiming to raise $300,000 in the fight against cancer. Join up, donate….see what Relay is all about at http://www.cvillerelayforlife.org.
Wow, Whats up with the animosity here. Thor has it right. IP’s. There will ALWAYS be loop holes. There isnt a flawless voting!! Keep it the way it is. The voting has some people going crazy mean.
If you really want to drive around to all the WI-FI spots and waste your gas at this price, then good job to you for being competitive! If you want to utilize your contacts in your contact list, then way to be competitive.
Im not sure if some of these people can handle a little competition. Every one just needs to Chillaxe! Deep breath in… hold it…!… and exhale! and one more time…!….!…!! Good! Congrats to the Comp4kids and BGC people for their lead. Wheres all the Porch people though! Hey, they can still come back. Apparently its NASCAR up in hear!
@92 100+ employees, 100+ computers, NOT 100 unique external IP’s
@67: Um, it’s lame because it’s become no longer about which charity the Villains want to support the most but about which charity knows the most people to come on here and vote. The people who work at the SPCA are too busy helping animals to send out mass emails and text messages to all their friends. They do not have an email list either.
Thor, please make MACAA HeadStart part of the charity line up..
It’s ok Shen, regardless of who wins, I will also send something to the SPCA. I try to to regularly bring them bags of dog food since I need to buy it anyway, but I could probably do more.