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Anyone here familiar with Joe Frank's Rent a Family?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 4:42 PM
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I am in my senior year of high school. I am really good at making unattractive and overweight girls feel comfortable. I make a good prom date - I am in a band and have a lot of good stories and most people think I'm pretty funny.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 5:29 PM
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Q. How can I make money from a fake web site?

A. google ads.


Posted by: joe o | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 5:38 PM
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So will Micheal Jackson be contacting these folks to rent a few kids for his post-trial party?


Posted by: TomFreeland | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 6:31 PM
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Your spam blacklist is out of control, yo.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 8:09 PM
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Sorry, checking, checking...


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 8:12 PM
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Haha! The site I linked is in my blacklist! (Because I first saw it when it referrer spammed me. Which means I don't want to take it out.)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 8:13 PM
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I want to rent this kid and make him smoke all day long.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-18-05 8:17 PM
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Rent my son? Ha! This is pretty well done.


Posted by: Tripp | Link to this comment | 04-19-05 6:12 AM
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Can I ask, in a non-snarky and most humble sort of a way, what on earth this web site is about?

Is it just obvious to everybody that this web site is not real, that it's a sham?

I mean, it's too creepy to be real, but it's not obvious to me that it's not real. It's definitely not obvious to me why someone would put up a site like this that wasn't real. What do they get out of it? Just a joke? Can they make money off of it somehow? How?


Posted by: Kent | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:02 AM
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I've seen speculation that: it's a sting operation for pedophiles, it's going to be part of some movie or game that will surface later in the year, it's just there to make dough from the google ads.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:10 AM
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Kent and ben, are you talking about the rentmykid site or unfogged?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:29 AM
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I was talking about rentmyson, but the humorous potential of interpreting the question as being about unfogged had occurred to me.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:31 AM
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w-lfs-n, don't be a glory-hog. Accept that Apo cracked a great joke.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:52 AM
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I've been dispensing Glory right and left today, Tim. I'm no hog. I did have the indicated realization.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:53 AM
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I thought it might be for guys like the one in About a Boy who want to pretend to have kids in order to meet single moms.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:59 AM
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Dude AC, I think you're right! I live in san diego, actually downtown in fact. I went there (by pedicab)! There is a real fucking office. I couldn't get in, they have some gnarly security there, but I there was two glass panels on each side of the door, and I saw at least 3 kids and 4-5 of what looked like employees. The fricken office was plush so I don't think it's a temporary thing even if it is a joke of some sort. I got cell pictures!


Posted by: JJ | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 1:40 PM
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Petition to stop Child Rental Sites: http://www.petitiononline.com/rentmy/


Posted by: brian | Link to this comment | 06- 8-05 4:28 PM
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