tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post4904212620054598577..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: The Four Settees ChallengeKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-91386755270357670282009-03-07T16:15:00.000+00:002009-03-07T16:15:00.000+00:00Just sitting around for charity sounds like a miss...Just sitting around for charity sounds like a missed Father Ted plot.<BR/><BR/>I think there would need to be pie or cake (I don't like apple pie) and a lot of talking involved though.Catherine @ Sharp Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988193118089559894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-6858428443308997702009-03-07T13:06:00.000+00:002009-03-07T13:06:00.000+00:00Tam: Hope all is well with you mate!Cellobella: ...Tam: Hope all is well with you mate!<BR/><BR/>Cellobella: It would have to be a really tough going film so people would pay for us to watch it. :)<BR/><BR/>Catherine: Four on my settee would be a squeeze. Would we just sit or could there be talking and eating apple pie involved?<BR/><BR/>Susan: I've only climbed The Reek once myself, to my shame - it's a great experience.<BR/><BR/>Hope: moving the couch sounds as bit hard. :(<BR/><BR/>Reese: There's a movie like that called (I think) 'They Shoot Horses, Don't they?'<BR/><BR/>Jon: Wow! Some man for one man.<BR/><BR/>Gregorio: Telly surfing... I could do that. :)<BR/><BR/>Max: watching mountain climbing, perhaps? :)Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-31979317236292227042009-03-07T08:51:00.000+00:002009-03-07T08:51:00.000+00:00I just realized how right you are. Every event for...I just realized how right you are. Every event for charity seems to be a 5k run or something. I don't know about your idea of sitting for dollars or whatever, but there must be some alternative to mountain climbing.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-32739635797600027722009-03-07T03:04:00.000+00:002009-03-07T03:04:00.000+00:00How about a strenuous tele surfing event to,I don'...How about a strenuous tele surfing event to,I don't know,save the Guinness Pint HA HA HA.Gregoriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00896966732505764220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-69297624852607663232009-03-06T19:53:00.000+00:002009-03-06T19:53:00.000+00:00I once took part and completed the four peaks chal...I once took part and completed the four peaks challenge. But nowadays, however, I have to agree four setees<BR/>does sound a lot more attractive.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629046815891618029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-53403518162459581322009-03-06T13:01:00.000+00:002009-03-06T13:01:00.000+00:00I agree! I went to college at Penn State (Go Lion...I agree! I went to college at Penn State (Go Lions!), home of the largest dance marathon in the country, perhaps the world. The dancers raise money for the 4 diamonds, which benefits kids with cancer. The event is grueling. Dancers dance for 48 hours straight. I think the longest break is 15 minutes! Even so, they have to turn people away every year!Reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673945616719205743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-29412435120096147852009-03-05T23:34:00.000+00:002009-03-05T23:34:00.000+00:00While sitting on the settee [or crouching on the c...While sitting on the settee [or crouching on the couch], perhaps we could makes lists of how charities could responsibly spend the money. Or at least request to see their plan.<BR/><BR/>Move the sofa to their office and let us answer the phones. Stuff envelopes on an overstuffed lounge.<BR/><BR/>I know...enough already. But thank you for pointing out that helping doesn't mean running shoes and total exhaustion. Well, unless we're moving the couch into the movie lobby. ;)hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-91756028757296619832009-03-05T23:04:00.000+00:002009-03-05T23:04:00.000+00:00Hey, you're reminding me of MST3K--that would actu...Hey, you're reminding me of MST3K--that would actually be fun as a group, forced to sit through endless b-movies or all 10,000 Last of the Summer Wine episodes, or whatever. When people donate to charities, it's the charity that counts, not the activity I think: look at people getting their heads shaved, for instance.<BR/><BR/>One year I did NaNoWriMo for an autism charity, and asked people to donate whatever-cents they could for each page I finished. <BR/><BR/>I climbed Croagh Patrick once...it was ENOUGH. I was scared to death at that last bit.Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-70513731071541445222009-03-05T22:48:00.000+00:002009-03-05T22:48:00.000+00:00How about the Sit on Someone Else's Settees Challe...How about the Sit on Someone Else's Settees Challenge?<BR/>Pick three friends, and take it in turns to visit one another and sit on the settee - although most settees are only comfortably three-seaters, so it could be a bit of a squash.<BR/>I'm in!Catherine @ Sharp Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988193118089559894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-71970573851024880052008-05-29T09:57:00.000+01:002008-05-29T09:57:00.000+01:00oh you are funny.I'm up for a film challenge... :)...oh you are funny.<BR/>I'm up for a film challenge... :)CelloBellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668256283636794322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-74505924847908012082008-04-11T16:27:00.000+01:002008-04-11T16:27:00.000+01:00When someone puts a sponsor form in front of my no...When someone puts a sponsor form in front of my nose, I'm not too bothered at to the physicality of the feat being attempted.<BR/><BR/>I only want to know to where the money is going, and how much of it will actually get there.<BR/><BR/>Had one the other day, of the <I>jumping out of a plane</I> kind of idea.<BR/>There's a fine line between giving money to charity, and paying for someone's day out. The company that fly you up there and train you how to pull the rip cord of your parachute make a dent worth a couple of hundred bucks in the sponsor money.<BR/><BR/>Even worse is the <I>pay for my adventure holiday</I> kind of charitable initatives, where it's a couple of grand worth of people's donations that pay for the flights and all the equipment you need to cycle up Mount Fiji or whatever else it is.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, my point is, I'm always happier to donate to something like "sponsored sit on my arse all day" as I know all the money is going to charidee.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16096057521160935889noreply@blogger.com