"Jobsy the Elephant haz a sad"-or My Adventures With the RNC Donation Survey!!

[Starry Messenger]

The RNC decided to send around a donation beg-notice in the form of an "Official Survey!!11" to my house. This thing was monstrously huge and must have cost a fortune to print and bulk mail. You'll notice later on that they grovel for a $15 "Survey tabulating" donation--classy. They also asked on the mail return envelope that you stick a stamp over the bulk mail return postage to save them money. Naturally, I declined.

Instead they will get some new artwork, courtesy of Starry Messenger from my empire here in Revolutionary Silicon Valley. I thought I'd share:

[nc4bo]

1. ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL - should be Duzy!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent SM!!

[Starry Messenger]

5. Thank you my friend. :D

DUers inspire me.

[dballance]

2. Thanks for the laugh. Too funny /eom

[southernyankeebelle]

3. It is so wonderful. Especially the part about the republican platform.

[sharp_stick]

4. Well done

poor jobsy the elephant.

[doohnibor]

6. Jobsy is cute and needs more exposure

Like everywhere they try to rally their deluded ones.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Feel free to use wherever you like! nt.

[nolabear]

29. + a bunch. Jobsy needs a comic strip!

The Little Elephant that Hid His Head in Shame.

[Lifelong Protester]

7. I love it and do the same thing

I wrote something smart-alecky about the $15 to tabulate it. Something to the effect that 'no, I will not send $15 to help tabulate this propaganda, and hope they got their $15 worth out of what I wrote". If they are dumb enough to send a pre-paid mailer, I toss in a bunch of useless paper...or some wood paneling scrap or some such.

Love your Jobsy the Elephant.

And I am crazy about writing on the outside of envelopes like you did. I often write back to Repubs "Is fear-mongerning all you have?"

[Starry Messenger]

11. I can't believe they have the cheek to demand a "tabulating fee"!

Damn, I wish I'd thought to put something heavy in there. I have tons of scrap paper around!

[mac56]

37. When my uncle got a pre-paid mailer

He would duct tape it to a brick and drop it in the mailbox.

[Lifelong Protester]

60. Are you a Macalester alum?

I am!

[mac56]

77. Nope. Auggie Tech, Ag, and Bible School.

Augsburg College, Where You Get All The Knowledge.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

94. Wow!!!! that sure beats the gravel I put in them.

I can't wait to try it!

[LeftofObama]

9. Brilliant!

I love it!

[catbyte]

10. "I can haz jobs"

ROFLMAO. The whole thing rocks. Funniest thing I've seen in a while. Thanks!









You are the:



Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[rurallib]

12. Please share their response

I am sure it is on its way.

great job!

[tallahasseedem]

13. K&R...

for sheer awesomeness!

[LaurenG]

14. Awesome!

Great to read.

[mulsh]

15. excellent.let's hope the folk at the overseas processing site read &

understand English.

[azurnoir]

16. That's great

I'm almost sad they don't even bother with my area too many of the 'wrong' kind of people for them I guess

[Wetzelbill]

17. kick

[WilliamPitt]

18. You win the Internets today.

[Starry Messenger]

21. High praise, sir!

Thank you!

[Raven]

19. Wonderful! You made my day! :-)

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. I'm so proud of Jobsy

[maynard]

22. Just received my survey

Thanks for the ideas!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Hilarious and spot on!

[bayareaboy]

24. Every time I get something that if it has a return envelope that is already franked ...

I leave my sediments, words.

Then I place a few small round stones in the envelope, like maybe they will get the idea and have to pay extra as well. I don't use sand or anything that looks like flour or sugar, so the mail folks don't get upset.

[riverbendviewgal]

25. Awesome

This is priceless....I love the last picture.....

Good Job!!!!

[valerief]

26. Great response! I've got a Jobsy pic here, too.

[Starry Messenger]

28. Oh beautiful!

Yes!!!!

[lady lib]

45. Ohhh, nice!! n/t

[DaveJ]

67. Funny is it were SO true

That hits the nail on the Republican party's head.

I'm surprised people haven't come up with this analogy sooner. Pic is worth spreading.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. :) :) :)

[Starry Messenger]

31. Nice to see you, friend.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

84. Always a joy, dear lady.

Always.

[mrs_p]

30. This made me chuckle

out loud in a coffee shop. Bravo.

[LooseWilly]

32. k&r

[geardaddy]

33. Excellent!

[obamanut2012]

34. Well done, Starry -- brava!!!!!

[Starry Messenger]

38. I'm so pleased you guys like Jobsy!

[obamanut2012]

40. Mitt's new mascot!!!

[RockaFowler]

35. So funny!!

[JoePhilly]

36. "has a sad" ... some one is a Stephanie Miller fan.

[RagAss]

39. Outstanding !!

[hifiguy]

41. The Guinness Guys toast you!

and so do I.

[Starry Messenger]

44. Ooh! Love Guinness!

Cheers, hifiguy!

[longship]

42. Whoa! Nice work!

Well worthy of an R&

[HarveyDarkey]

43. Nothing to say

[malaise]

46. Freaking brilliant

I'm choking with laughter

[Starry Messenger]

48. Aw, thank you!

I'm glad to share them with DUers. If we didn't have each other, we'd all lose it!

[DeSwiss]

47. Thank you!

- I needed a laugh!

K&R

[Jamastiene]

49. K&R

[Lex]

50. "Jobsy"

I love it! Very clever.

[Starry Messenger]

52. Thank you!

I'm very touched!

[Oilwellian]

51. Love it

Everyone who receives republican campaign crap should send it back w/something clever like this. Let them eat the cost. Great reply Starry Messenger.

[WoodyD]

53. Awwww

Jobsy is adorable. But when he asks the RNC for a job as their mascot, the answer will be "abortion, god, guns and gays and . . . what did you say again? What's this 'job' thing you want?"

[Monk06]

54. The GOP is so painted in the corner by the baggers that they can never change their 'policies'.

If their idealogical thought bubbles can even be called policies.

Half their plank is Obama hate which is going to drive them even
more nuts when he wins a second term.

Then the impeachment train will get rolling and take that to the bank.

[The Wizard]

55. They'll take you off the mailing list

just play along and they keep spending resources to ask for your money. The idea is to make them spend money on something with no possible return.

[flvegan]

56. *bows to the master*

Well done, sir.

[Starry Messenger]

57. Thank you, sir!

[Marie Marie]

58. Starry Messenger, you are a very bad boy (girl?).

Didn't your mother ever tell you that it is not nice to torment the Republicans - even if it is fun.

and yet:

[Starry Messenger]

59. Girl really, flvegan's an old buddy and joshing around!

My mother, no! I think she taught me *to* torment them.

[Marie Marie]

63. Well then, kudos to you and your Mom.

[cyberswede]

61. Outstanding!

K & R

[DCKit]

62. You're going to the fun hell. not that other one..

Too funny for werds.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

64. Well done.

[Hissyspit]

65. It's a LOLephant.

[tanyev]

66. You inspired me to send in a song in my Mitt Romney postage paid envelope.

Oh where, Oh where are Mitt's tax returns
Oh where, Oh where can they be?
With their income so high
And their tax rate so low
Oh where, Oh where can they be?

[Starry Messenger]

69. +1

Brilliant!!

[RC]

68. I would have written something the effect of

"What did you do with our Living Wage Jobs?" or "What are you doing to get our Living Wage Jobs back into THIS country?

[PatSeg]

70. First thread I read today

AND bound to be the best.

"The next thing you guys send out better be Mitt Romney's tax returns!"

[Blanks]

71. Providing block grants for Chick-fil-A

_ Very Important
_ Somewhat Important
_ Not Important

[CatWoman]

72. you are soooooooooo bad!!!

and FUNNY!!!!

[Joe Bacon]

73. When I got one of these...

I included a couple subscription inserts for Hustler in the envelope along with a sticky telling them to give them to Cantor and Boner, since they love to screw us!

[klook]

74. Just. So. Great.

Brilliant riposte, Starry Messenger!

I haven't gotten one of these yet, but if I do, I will give them a taste of Jobsy! Maybe I need to be in a less-Blue zip code, or subscribe to the WSJ or something... Or maybe an insect has to fall into their printer so they send it to Buttle instead of Tuttle.

[Starry Messenger]

79. Thank you klook!

Jobsy thanks you!

[raouldukelives]

75. Great work! nt

[blackspade]

76. Awesome.

[mlevans]

78. Would you mind sending me the URL where these are posted?

All I'm seeing are the little red x's that appear when an image doesn't exist in the location the code specifies. Judging from everybody else's reactions to these, I would not like to miss them. Thanks.

[Starry Messenger]

81. Let's try this.

If I pm the urls, the pictures will try to show up as pictures, because DU's software automatically displays them.

Here are the addresses with a space.

http: //i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/mpkartist/391411_4353336830754_1281952165_n.jpg

http: //i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/mpkartist/557045_4353337190763_521348333_n.jpg

http: //i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/mpkartist/481050_4353337550772_1812669251_n.jpg

http: //i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/mpkartist/406311_4353438913306_1182661407_n.jpg

When you paste the address into your browser, take out the space between the http: and the //. Hopefully that will work! I'll be going out for awhile, so hopefully if this doesn't work, some awesome DUer will see this and have some better ideas.

[Ruby the Liberal]

80. This is hilarious!!

Thanks for scanning it in for us.

[Starry Messenger]

82. I'm really touched that everyone enjoyed this so much!

A cup of coffee, a sharpie marker, and being totally pissed off--priceless.

[Ruby the Liberal]

91. I was scrolling down and literally spit my coffee when I saw

the back of the envelope. Still chuckling over that one.

[PlanetBev]

83. Just peed into my office chair

Thanks a bunch....

[steve2470]

85. k&r nt

[xxqqqzme]

86. I received one of those as well.

Your replies are much more artistic than mine. However, your filled in boxes match mine perfectly. I also declined to donate postage or any money to their cause. I am going to steal your tax return note before I drop it in the mail box today.


It is curious to me to receive this. I recently re-registered because I moved. I registered as a Democrat rather than NP (No Party). The survey was sent to my current address, so the OCRP is trolling the voter lists from the Registrar of Voters. My voting history is included on the list. So they know I have voted (D) in the last 8 election cycles (including any 'special' elections). I wonder how my name turned up on their bulk mailing list?

[NickB79]

87. Please, please, please let there be one of these in my mailbox!

We need to get this viral! Start a Facebook page for Jobzy the Elephant!

[EC]

88. Hope you added some weight

to that envelope, too.

[redwitch]

89. Wonderful!

Jobsy the elephant is really a cutie too.

[redwitch]

90. P.S. Hubby says send them a penny.

They have to process donations, the paperwork will drive them crazy. Of course you should tape the penny to a brick as someone above suggested.

[TxVietVet]

92. Love it!

The conservanazis will be pissed when they see this. If they even look at it.

[TeamPooka]

93. wicked awesome!