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Offline Fumble

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winning a contest??
« on: March 13, 2006, 03:17:01 pm »
Hi, i was curious if anyone else on BPO had posted a picture on the website "cutest pets around the world".  i did it just on a whim one day, and i guess fumble is a semi-finalist or something.  but in the mail, it said that they also wanted to include him in their cutest pets book that they are putting out in the spring, but i have to send $25 for his biography to be included.  but i'm not sure how i feel about this.. just wondering if anyone else came across this site or anything? 
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2006, 03:28:09 pm »
I got something similar when I posted a poem in a contest online.  They wanted something like $50 to put the poem in a book and then another $25 for a copy of the book.  I think its just a money making scam...
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2006, 03:44:41 pm »
 ???sounds suspicious to me, I would look into it.
I am kind of a big deal!

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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2006, 03:47:07 pm »
Fumble is so cute, they should be sending YOU the $25.00 :o

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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2006, 04:09:07 pm »
hahaha! i don't trust any of them either!  i emailed them and the response said that i don't have to pay anything to still be included.  i just need to sign a permission slip saying that i was the one who took the picture. 
"My newfoundlands live my life as passionately as i live theirs"
"I slip the hater of what i've become.  they slip the halter of what they've been, and we live together, passionately, changed"
-Both from "in the company of newfies"

WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD!!!

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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2006, 07:16:40 pm »
well.. i just looked it up, the book that we are going to be in is going to be sold at Barnes and Noble in June 2006.  :)
"My newfoundlands live my life as passionately as i live theirs"
"I slip the hater of what i've become.  they slip the halter of what they've been, and we live together, passionately, changed"
-Both from "in the company of newfies"

WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD!!!

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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2006, 07:19:14 pm »
I did the same thing with Farley. I signed the form but didn't buy the book. Then I forgot the title of the book to see if they actually printed it.... ;) I didn't do the bio part
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Re: winning a contest??
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2006, 07:19:21 pm »
We'll all have to check it out when it comes out.  Fumble is such a cutie.  Which picture of him is going in it?
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2006, 07:25:29 pm »
i know i'm soo exciteD!!
"My newfoundlands live my life as passionately as i live theirs"
"I slip the hater of what i've become.  they slip the halter of what they've been, and we live together, passionately, changed"
-Both from "in the company of newfies"

WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD!!!

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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2006, 07:34:56 pm »
I did the same thing with Farley. I signed the form but didn't buy the book. Then I forgot the title of the book to see if they actually printed it.... ;) I didn't do the bio part

aww which picture did you enter for farley???
"My newfoundlands live my life as passionately as i live theirs"
"I slip the hater of what i've become.  they slip the halter of what they've been, and we live together, passionately, changed"
-Both from "in the company of newfies"

WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD!!!

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« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2006, 07:38:33 pm »
This one...

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« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2006, 03:00:19 pm »
omg! he could be a dog model!  :P what a pretty facE!
"My newfoundlands live my life as passionately as i live theirs"
"I slip the hater of what i've become.  they slip the halter of what they've been, and we live together, passionately, changed"
-Both from "in the company of newfies"

WE REPRESENT THE LOLLIPOP GUILD!!!

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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2006, 10:11:43 pm »
What they don't like dolphins? :D That pic will always be a winner to me!...lol! :D :D