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COMMENTERS THANKED
PinUpsForVets.com calendar angel Gina Elise sends a note of thanks to Spiny Norman, Paco, AlburyShifton, Joe Bagadonuts, The Real JeffS, Yojimbo, SwinishCapitalist, Sean M., Casanova, Wronwright, Andrea Harris, and Ushie ...
Thank you so very much for your wonderful comments about the calendar project. It really means a lot to me.
• “Very worthy” - I hope I am worthy of these wonderful compliments.
• “Hubba Hubba” - I can’t get enough hubba-hubbas. Keep ‘em coming!
• “God Bless America” - thank you for your blessing!
• “Nice Dagmars” - yes, those classic cars are awesome. (I know you were referring to the headlights!)
• “A decent calendar” - I tried to be as decent as possible.
• “Betty Page never looked so good” - wow ... she’s a hard act to follow. Thank you!
• “12 months to consider the question” - You can have another 12 months of considering when I do the 2008 pin-ups.
• “Speechless and comment-less” - I am thrilled that is what the pictures did to you.
• “Hefty pair of boots” you say. Those are real boots, I will have you know!
• “Lacy gloves and baking” - wow, that’s an idea - combine those in one picture for the next calendar. Just gloves and cookies. What more could you want?
• “Rock hard Marine studs” - now that is a good idea for a calendar.
• “I’m a girl and I approve” - thank you, my sister.
• “Drool” - what can I say? I love the compliment!
• “Better Bangs” - It took me 24 years to grow ‘em!
More from Gina:
I just dropped off a big box of my calendars to a Veterans Hospital and the guys loved them. I read the donors’ messages on each calendar - the Vets just lit up, hearing all the nice words from the people who purchased the calendars for them.
Soon I’ll be visiting a hospital in San Diego where 55 young wounded Marines are recovering. I hope that your blog fans will help me purchase these calendars, so I can bring one to each of the guys there.
Further calendar background here. So buy one, already.
Both times I put an order through to Gina I had a personal reply from her almost immediately. Her energy and enthusiasm are outstanding.
She mentioned though that her sales are far outnumbered by the hits on her site, which number around 18,000. Message to freeloaders - enough already of the window shopping! BUY!!!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 14 at 12:11 PM • permalinkWay cool, Gina! Keep up the good work!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 14 at 12:14 PM • permalink#3
Car? What car?
Whoa! There’s a car in that picture!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 14 at 12:17 PM • permalinkAlso: I went to the ADF website hoping that I could send a calendar or two to our people in Iraq, but their policy is not to accept gifts of behalf of staff due to problems in ensuring delivery (or some such reason). If anyone has a son or brother (or daughter - hell, I’m broadminded) who would appreciate one of Gina’s calendars, contact me via the email address which I am about to add to my members info.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 14 at 12:17 PM • permalinkIf our new fangled, jet powered transport planes can carry our new fangled, jet powered, 60+ ton Abrams tanks, surely they can shove a box or two of girly calenders in there.
Sounds to me like you made contact with some low ranking bean counting type Swinish.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2007 01 14 at 01:08 PM • permalink10 - Nope, Wiz, didn’t talk to anyone. Just read the info on the site. ‘Support the troops’ turned out to be an email service, which wasn’t quite what I had in mind.
11 - Ash: lawn mowing? You’re a tough one.
Were you a sergeant-major in a past life?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 14 at 03:48 PM • permalinkGina visits hospitals with wounded GI’s?
Hmmm. paco, can paco jr filch some Marine uniforms? And bandages? Preferably something with the rank of gunnery sergeant or higher. My right knee has been injured (truly, I hit my desk standing up last week on my way to get a coffee and doughnut) and it dearly needs a good massaging.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 14 at 04:32 PM • permalink#13: I dunno, Wronwright. I’d hate for Private Paco to wind up at Levenworth this early in his career. How about this: I’ll send you my Bolivian admiral’s uniform, the one with the 12 bullet holes in the front of the tunic (I think the original owner was executed for dereliction of duty in losing his flag ship - the canoe, “Nuestra Senora de Los Tres Rios” - in a battle with the Paraguayan Navy’s flag ship - the oak log, “General Simon Bolivar”). Anyway, the bullet holes will give your medical claims . . . whaddaya call it? . . . verisimilitude, if that’s the word I want. You can pick up some bandages at CVS pharmacy. Then you’re all set. You sneak into the hospital, pretend that you’re with the allied forces and were injured, oh, say, routing an insurgent attack single-handed, and just lie back and rake in the sympathy. And hope that Nurse Schmidt - the one with the moustache, and the tattoo on her arm of a wolverine devouring a rabbit - doesn’t come by first with that huge syringe full of antibiotics. She uses a square needle, 10 inches long, with a propeller on the end. Very painful.
This reminds me, any of y’all slackers in UK, Canada, Australia decide to finally get off your arses and start up some grassroots “support the troops” efforts, yet?
Or are you content to let your troops continue to feel unloved, unappreciated and unrespected while the US troops get swamped with support from their civvies?
Hmmm.
Funny thing. I offered to do a nude calendar and everybody I know shouted “For God’s sake, NO!”. I’m still trying to figure out why since I look pretty damn hot in polka-dots.
Never figure people out.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 14 at 09:46 PM • permalink18 - That’s what you get for trying to pass chickenpox off as polka-dots.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 15 at 03:53 AM • permalinkHmmm.
Hey! It wasn’t chickenpox!
... Though I must admit the idea of using strategically placed circles of self-adhesive paper wasn’t entirely a good idea.
With an emphasis on “adhesive” if you know what I mean.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 15 at 12:34 PM • permalinkI dunno- she seems to have a kind of timeless beuty to her. You get the feeling the ancient Egyptian aristocrats would be fighting over buying her, the 50’s would use her as a pinup, and she would be a 90’s runway girl. As they say, a babe is a babe is a babe (“beauty is socially constructed” my ass. It’s biological. My very DNA wants her)
Posted by mencken_cynic on 2007 01 16 at 12:55 PM • permalink
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