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"Flick" Your ISP
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On Mintshot, an ISP named Slingshot has an auction titled "Flick your ISP", which gets you a 12 month package. Possibly a bit of an odd name until you see the graphic they use to represent the auction:
Interesting choice of font... :)
Posted November 28, 2007 11:18 PM
Comments
That doesn't surprise me - most of the adverts are for NZ products which wouldn't be available overseas. Plus if a bunch of overseas people signed up, it would mean a lot of overseas postage when they won auctions. Not to mention many of the prizes are vouchers, which you then wouldn't be able to redeem as they're for NZ chains... :)
Posted by: Alden 
| November 30, 2007 8:37 AM
Just like "Flick", "Clint" is another word that should be avoided when the writing's all in caps (as comic book dialogue often is). Such words - and there are a few others I can't recall right now - have a certain notoriety amongst comic strip writers.
Posted by: Paul Scoones | December 1, 2007 7:58 PM
Oh, that's what the post is about! I did wonder.
Guess some minds just go places quicker. ;)
Posted by: Thad Ritchards | December 2, 2007 7:48 AM
Unfortunately, readers outside NZ are barred from accessing mintshot:
The Mintshot website contains brand advertising material that is only licensed for New Zealand.
Our Internet Service Provider does not recognise
your IP address as being from New Zealand.
Please let us know if you are from New Zealand
and would like to join the Mintshot community.
Posted by: ringbark | November 30, 2007 5:19 AM