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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 09:57 PM
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Sooooo...for a kidney I could:
....Pay off my Student Loan that's been in default for five years?


honestly....didn't Jon Stewart just do a piece on the irony of that?
...and then there's a story today about a man who gave up a kidney for $20k?

cool! where do I sign up? can I donate anything else...!!??!

:rofl:

:hide:

and, just in case :sarcasm:
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 10:02 PM
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1. You can sell your kidney. It really doesn't take that long to find and get connected

with the buyers.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 10:02 PM
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2. Add some fava beans, a nice Chianti, then you're talking good money... n/t
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 10:51 PM
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4. With a kidney? Don't be gauche.
With liver, perhaps. But with kidneys?

You disgust me.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 09:55 AM
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6. No, no, it can work!
you just need to boil the piss out of the kidneys first.
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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 10:50 PM
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3. HERE's the video...John Hodgman on TDS..

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/239876/thu-july-30-2009-judd-apatow

start:4:33

"prescription: pay for health care by letting people sell their organs...."
at: 6:40 or so...

this was so freaking funny, but so unfortunately true!

"you just killed a hobo!"
:rofl:


You GOTTA see this...
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obliviously Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 11:42 PM
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5. Ahh payed mah way threw skool weth giblets! nt
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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 10:49 AM
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7. Kick for the morning crew...
so if you could pawn off a couple organs... what would YOU buy?

:rofl:
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