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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Loser for Sale

Oh, how clever and original...

A musician fed up with his life was today barred from selling his soul to the highest bidder. Dante Knoxx, 24, offered the "used" item for a starting bid of £25,000.50 or a buy it now price of £700,000 on the internet auction site eBay. But eBay pulled the listing today with about two hours to go and no bids because it breached one of the firm's policies.

"You cannot sell anything that is not physical," said Mr Knoxx. "That includes ghosts, souls and spirits which is funny."

Yes. Funny. AhHAHAHAHAHA. Wow, that's a real knee-slapper, Dante...

The Arts Institute graduate decided to try to sell his soul after a lack of creative jobs in his home town of Bournemouth, Dorset.

"Unfortunately where I live there are hardly any jobs to keep a creative person like myself employed in anything other than boring, mundane office jobs."

The implication being that those of us working in "boring, mundane office jobs" are bunch of un-creative dolts who pick our noses while watching Wheel of Fortune and swilling MD 20/20 from a plastic cup.

Mr Knoxx was planning to use the money to get his experimental music group, Paradigm, which he created with his friend Zakk Altair, up and running.

He quit his "shoddy job" as a laptop repair technician and said: "I leave it to you, the denizens of Earth, to purchase my actual soul and in return allow me to acquire some tasty capital."

Is it a lack of jobs, or perhaps you just suck. If your music is as pathetic as your sense of humor, you should just go back to fixing laptops.

I'm "highly creative" as well, Mr Knoxx. I write, oil paint, design and build. But I also make a good living in a "boring, mundane office job." I started at the bottom and busted my ass for fifteen years with the same company to get where I am today. That's because, like you, I enjoy steak more than ground chuck. Unlike you, however, I'm not a whiny, Me-generation pinhead with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. You want 'tasty capital'? Then get off your lazy, socialist, over-fed ass and WORK for it like the rest of us do, you simpering little snot. If you worked for me, it would not have been necessary to quit your "shoddy job"; I'd long since have fired you.

(For the record, starving artist souls are currently trading at 24p on the Infernal Exchange Index. You were way out of your market; the souls of captains of industry start at £25,000.)

1 Comments:

Blogger davis14633 said...

I think you under-valued him. People are paying 10-20 dollars for carbon offsets. I would gladly pony up a fiver for him to stop breathing, thus reducing the carbon emmisions and fight global warming. You know me, always willing to do my part for the planet.

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