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Re: Groupon Kidz Club

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a ridiculous amount of potential for episodes about a sentient swarm of bees. How will they reconcile many humans' fear of them with their need to be loved and understood as intellectual equals?

Or trick people into bringing their carriers into zero zero before ganking them.

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Re: Groupon Kidz Club

#43
If they were joking I would imagine each character would be a satirical look at each VC character that bought in on the Groupon disaster.

Come on Groupon amp up the creativity

Re: Groupon Kidz Club

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You don't remember this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_advertising#Kids_Cl... That kid in the wheelchair? His name was Wheelz. Not kidding.

HAHA that brings back memories. I would imagine most of the HN audience was born after those characters were popular.

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Re: Groupon Kidz Club

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Here's some helpful tips from the Kidz Club Games and Tips Page: > HELP elderly folks cross the first part of the street and then encourage them to get across the rest of the way on their own! > DON'T desecrate that statue even though you'd gain tons of street cred! > START a lemonade stand but immediately go "Out of Business" to draw attention to wealth-destroying minimum wage laws! Whether you should copy that flop…

I just talked to a friend at Groupon who helped write it. Apparently they have a "humor team" whose job it is to come up with stuff like this.

Re: Groupon Kidz Club

#49

On the subject of kids pages, if you haven't seen the NSA's CryptoKids ( http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ ), CIA's ( https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/ ) or the NRO's ( http://www.nro.gov/kidspages.html ) kids pages, I'd recommend a quick look.

I didn't look at the URL before clicking, so I was totally disappointed that it wasn't for National Review Online. Podhoretz for kids is just an awesome, awesome idea.

Re: Groupon Kidz Club

#50

On the subject of kids pages, if you haven't seen the NSA's CryptoKids ( http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ ), CIA's ( https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/ ) or the NRO's ( http://www.nro.gov/kidspages.html ) kids pages, I'd recommend a quick look.

Wow, the NSA trademark everything.

> Crypto Cat®, Decipher Dog®, Rosetta Stone®, Slate®, Joules™, T.Top®, CyberTwins™ Cy and Cyndi, and, of course, our leader CSS Sam®.

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