What are the rules?

Jay had some info on the Community note thing in the site feedback and such topic. I like multiple entries.

There will be NO favoritism based on how many times you update your profile, only that the update happened between April 25, 2005 and May 31, 2005, and that it contains all four required elements: Avatar, Professional Biography, Interests, and Technologies Implemented.

That said, your chances are better EARLY, because we'll be drawing on a weekly basis, but always from the entire pool of entrants. In other words, the sooner you update, the more drawings you'll be eligible for. Moreover, the earlier drawings will have a smaller pool of entrants, so your chances within those drawings will be better.

However, win once and you're done. You can't win two TR-iPods. You can't win a TR-iPod and other merchandise. You can't even win two mugs. Participation in other TR contests or giveaways does not disqualify you, so don't be afraid to join other celebrations on our site. You can win twice for doing two different things.

Hope that clears it up.

--Jay

have a thing for being encumbered with enough wire to wire a small house. Most people I know who have tried the Mini have gone back to regualar iPods.

Dawg

They should do it now. I win!

nothing is truely free. but I do like discounts.

In the words of the great Robert A. Heinlein, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

And we may very well debate the meaning of the word FREE... but then, jck, that's our prerogative, and it's YOUR prerogative to do one of three things... 1) type out a full explanation (and improve your typing skills) ;) b) tell us all very succinctly to "F" off. or III) not respond to our otherwise harmless but most likely sarcastic attempts at internet banter.

to match your posting.

You sound like a dog that had just been kicked!

lol!

Lighten up. Haven't had your dick stepped on THAT many times! And I even gave you a compliment last week. Don't worry, be happy!

of the brave warriors to Valhalda if memory serves me correctly.

I figured you did it on purpose but had to poke at you anyways. Every boys needs a hobby.

We both know what I am talking about....

... knowing that I'm pregnant with my 4th, hubby's and my 5th child, that you'd figure I've been "poked at" enough and leave me alone?!?!?! Can't a girl get a day off around here? ;)

A Valkyrie

pissed off odin and was banished.

also a major character in the Defenders comic many a moon ago.

Hot babe with a sword. did it for me!

Can ANYONE ever be poked at too much?

Feel the love. Feel the love.

Since our daughter's name is Valkyrie, hubby thought it would be TOTALLY COOL to name our youngest son "Claymore" because he thought it'd be awesome to have a Valkyrie holding a Claymore... yep... he's a geek.

funny, I don't care who you are...

Quote, Larry the cable guy.

(it just fit, ya know?)

in "Tater Salad".

But I still find it funny. He has the attitude to go with it.

I crack up every time I hear him say, "I wasn't drunk in PUBLIC, I was drunk in a bar. They threw me out into PUBLIC."

I love that line.

hehehe... the whole dog and the vet/artificial insemination bit gets me everytime... :D

It's Larry. Show some respect to the one real comedian in the group.

...you might be a redneck.

Ron's set was very funny the first time I heard it, but he's been surpassed by the guys in the group who actually work on their act, and come up with new stuff.

Larry the Cable Guy was in my town a few weeks ago, and he did a short promo on the radio... KILLED Me with his "My dad was a preacher. He was the only person I knew that could make a Jehovah's Witness say, "Um, man we gotta go. We got this thing we need to get to.""

But I'm already pretty bent. Thanks for the offer though. :D

at least not from here. hehehe.
What do you people want from me?!?
How much more can I give?!?
Just like a man to be unappreciative.

its called Blue Collar TV and is sketch comedy stuff - the two sketchs I saw were not a fraction as funny as the worst jokes from the Tour movie. They were embarassingly bad.

James

have you seen the commercial?

a man eat anything that wasn't meat and potatoes. ;)

have heard the dirty stuff before...after all, they're around us all the time on TR! :D

Most of the ladies on here have ALREADY DONE most of the things you boys can only daydream about!

the almighty women...

they had babies.

wooohooo!!! *clap clap clap*

I produced sperm...do that! :D

I can produce a BABY that produces SPERM! DO THAT! :D

without at least *one* man, you could never do that.

We can do so without you males. There was a report put out by I think the AMA when invitro and test tube babies were big in the news. It can be done. You are surperfluous (sp?)

But the point of my reply had less to do with technology and more to do with manners/being grateful.

When someone gives you a gift (what a prize essentially is) do you also say something like "Oh my god you gave me one of THESE/THOSE?!, sorry I'll pass". lol.

no format restrictions or issues, no 3rd party dictating use, better cost, better storage, and great ease of use, for my money there is better out there than the Ipod. And sleeping' dawg had it right, this is Tech Republic, what genius in marketing though it would be good PR to give away a whole 6 mini pods? Really now, can't they do better than that? Just because it's free, doesn't mean it's worth more than you paid for it.

I'll take one, thank you very much.

I'd be happy with a turd on a stick if I had won it though. :)

When I was shopping for mine. I ended up oing for a 256MB Samsung (still has full soft touch display panel).

I figure it only takes a minute to throw a couple of 320 CD's on it or nearly 50 128 mp3's. The sound is intense with my Sennheiser headphones and the bass boost really drives well.

But it is good for a day out, there's always the radio, but the battery life has been an easy 17-20 hours. I got NiHm rechargeables (X4) for less than $50.00. Good for 2000 charges and it takes 2XAAA's so I have a good rotation with 4.

That's exactly why I didn't fork out another $200.00 for the i-Pod. If they made it less proprietary, it would be much better.

You could produce a sperm producing boy, or you could also produce yet another whining, bitching, hag of a woman that thinks God has t*ts and she has a free pass to be a rat bag for the next 60 years.

She could whine and bitch for 17 years until you finally tell her to move to her own trailer and sell herself for crack, for all you care. She sells her body for crack, ripping people off and puking her way to her next fix until finally she dies of an overdose in some dank, urine-drenched stairwell behind the XXX Toy shop. Other crack heads and scavengers, molesting her dead puke stained body for days (demonstrating for all, their male superiority of sperm secretion), while she rots in the silence of those who have been deemed lost lives for many years. Weeks later she is found and never identified, another nameless, abused sex worker from the depths of nowhere. A true undesireable victim of of society.

(So it's gonna be a boy you say?!) :D

That was great! Did you think it up yourself? I would have never expected something that well written from you. I have seen your political debates after all.

It is a matter of politeness, but perhaps that is part of the problem today. People Skills have just gone the way of the "dodo" birds and the dinosaurs (sp?).

The point is that it is a contest for people to join or not as they see fit. If someone doesn't want the prize don't compete. It is very nice of TR to hold contests and award prizes to participants. Getting nasy is uncalled for and a shame that someone felt it necessary.

Now if someone asked for information on the product, then stating experiences with that product is another story. At least that is my opinion.

Very well done I must say. I think living near Vancouver has givin' OZ some inspiration into that last one... I think more people in the employment of the flesh trade are murdered there than off themselves tho.

They did have a major problem with vanishing hookers for several years but this has surfaced over the last few years and they are still compiling heaps of evidence against the suspected, known, offender now.

As for the post, yes it was typed on the fly. I am sales rep after all, I write copy and marketing/advertising/press release work for the music industry, public companies etc. I actually have creative writing abilities that are sought after by many companies, bands, promoters around the world, so I am not completely brain dead when it comes to writing.

BUT....I am not a politician, and nor am I a great typist, that's not part of my life though.