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(Some Guy)   1. While teaching yourself HTML, put up a fake Web site that sells tumbleweeds for $25 each. 2. When idiots start submitting orders on your fake site, shrug and fulfill them. 3. Profit: $40,000 a year and counting   (potw.news.yahoo.com) divider line
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fernandez
2007-11-26 8:37:32 PM  
there is one born every minute
 
Ow My Balls
2007-11-26 8:39:33 PM  
2. When idiots start submitting orders on yoru fake site, shrug and fulfill them.

Is Yoru some sort of Japanese tumbleweed?
 
phertis
2007-11-26 8:39:38 PM  
fernandez
What, tumbleweeds?
 
sirgrim [OhFark]
2007-11-26 8:39:41 PM  
Already have mine. I collect them with the car.
 
janks369
2007-11-26 8:39:51 PM  
i need to get me some tumbleweeds
 
Omnivorous [BareFark]
2007-11-26 8:39:53 PM  
When idiots start submitting orders on yoru fake site, shrug and fulfill them.

Yoru -- isn't that a Nigerian tribe?
 
mdfitzsimmons
2007-11-26 8:40:09 PM  
13 years later, still has the same HTML. Now thats funny.
 
fernandez
2007-11-26 8:40:49 PM  
phertis

What, tumbleweeds?

What did you think I meant?

/thought that was just common knowledge
 
PooFlingingCHIMP
2007-11-26 8:41:07 PM  
Pure genious!

I feel like an idiot for going to work all these years...
 
Frank N Stein
2007-11-26 8:42:12 PM  
Haha. Good for her.
 
Ed Finnerty
2007-11-26 8:42:45 PM  
mdfitzsimmons: 13 years later, still has the same HTML. Now thats funny.

Don't tempt her to learn new tags...like

/Please!
 
drharmful
2007-11-26 8:43:25 PM  
who knows 20 years from now people will be kicking themselves for not buying stock in this company. this is the next big thing!
 
studebaker hoch
2007-11-26 8:43:45 PM  
Awesome.

I want to write a website where I sell ads, but the content is all user-provided. Some users could even pay to submit their content first.

Whatdyathink?
 
I Said
2007-11-26 8:43:46 PM  
fernandez: phertis

What, tumbleweeds?

What did you think I meant?

/thought that was just common knowledge

HTML sites. I got it. They're everywhere.
 
Raw_fishFood
2007-11-26 8:44:18 PM  
I really need to start something like this.
 
Hannahman
2007-11-26 8:44:18 PM  
15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.
 
NutWrench
2007-11-26 8:45:31 PM  
I wouldn't mind having a tumbleweed.
 
studebaker hoch
2007-11-26 8:45:50 PM  
We buried her site under tumbling tumblefarks.
 
studebaker hoch
2007-11-26 8:46:34 PM  
Snake killed tumbleweed.
 
Frank N Stein
2007-11-26 8:47:02 PM  
But her site is decidedly outdated.

Perhaps she should do a redesign. Maybe with multi-color tabs, a modern logo, and move everything from the middle, to the left side.
 
ingenuus
2007-11-26 8:47:04 PM  
When idiots start submitting orders ...

And not just any idiots... the US government (NASA) and Hollywood.
 
RDMA
2007-11-26 8:47:07 PM  
Hannahman: 15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

All orders are for only one item. It would be inconceivable to purchase more then one item at a time. It would lead to chaos.
 
mdfitzsimmons
2007-11-26 8:47:12 PM  
Hannahman: 15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

Don't ruin this post with math.
 
akachibi
2007-11-26 8:47:17 PM  
yoru = "night"

"Yoruba" is that Nigerian tribe
 
klymen
2007-11-26 8:47:19 PM  
can you smoke it?
 
nosajghoul
2007-11-26 8:47:39 PM  
NutWrench: I wouldn't mind having a tumbleweed.

I can send you some, up to 4 feet across.
 
Saruman_W
2007-11-26 8:48:16 PM  
This proves it. People will buy anything. I wonder what kind of useless shiat I could sell online. Hrmm...
 
speedk0re
2007-11-26 8:48:19 PM  
mdfitzsimmons: 13 years later, still has the same HTML. Now thats funny.

Link (new window)
BWAAHAH
all that's missing is a MIDI of ace of base
 
iwearblackchucks
2007-11-26 8:48:21 PM  
Hannahman: 15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

What makes you think that one order = one tumbleweed? It IS possible to order more than one at a time you know.
 
Mofo_Jones
2007-11-26 8:49:22 PM  
From TFPTF:

Our Prairie Tumbleweeds are 100% Y2K compliant

Good to know - I'd hate to have a non-compliant bush mucking up the works!
 
Samsaran
2007-11-26 8:49:37 PM  
img214.imageshack.usView Full Size


Theres one born every minute ...
 
Noam Chimpsky
2007-11-26 8:49:52 PM  
They could be marketed as "Christmas Trees for a 'Greener Tomorrow'". You see, tree hugger types could decorate them and save a living tree. I'm just thinking out loud here.
 
breed
2007-11-26 8:50:05 PM  
When someone posts something interesting in Fark, wait one week then submit the same thing again...
 
supaxi
2007-11-26 8:50:23 PM  
Copyright © 1994, ya, that's what the web looked like back then, lol

Thank God she never learned flash

mailing 30 of those a week wouldn't be too much work, proabably take you a couple of hours on the weekend to go collect them and throw them into some box with a label on it, I suppose it would be a nice second income and better for you than sitting around watching TV
 
hooknslice_okc
2007-11-26 8:50:25 PM  
Hannahman: 15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

TFA says that she averages 15 ORDERS a week - it doesn't say how many tumbleweeds per order... or do you know about her business than you're leading us to believe?
 
Szech
2007-11-26 8:50:40 PM  
She's lucky someone found a scientific use for them, in addition to a stupid one.


I'm going to start selling bottles of California sunshine. Jealous, colder regions of the country?
 
JasperVal
2007-11-26 8:51:38 PM  
Hannahman
15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

To be fair, the article says an average of 15 orders a week, not 15 tumbleweeds. I'm sure NASA (and others) buys more than one tumbleweed with each order.

I wonder what the shipping is on these things....
 
LukeA
2007-11-26 8:55:10 PM  
Tumbleweeds?!?! How can I lose?
 
Spreadhead
2007-11-26 8:56:34 PM  
So has anyone pointed out that Hannahman's math is wrong yet?
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2007-11-26 8:56:48 PM  
i4.tinypic.com
She should that off her site if she wants to taken serious
 
inkling79
2007-11-26 8:56:49 PM  
The article says the site averages 15 orders a week. I wonder if people are buying only one tumbleweed per order, or multiple tumbleweeds per order?

I think maybe we should discuss the possibilities in this thread.
 
Melgania
2007-11-26 8:57:24 PM  
JasperVal:
I wonder what the shipping is on these things....

I'm surprised noone has brought it up yet. That's the first thing I thought of. I can't imagine they can be "compressed" much without crushing or distorting them. I'm picturing some massive-arse boxes with "fragile" written all over them.

Seems like a massive Volume:Weight ratio.
 
ZoeNekros
2007-11-26 8:58:46 PM  
What a broken site... Take a look at the the Japanese version.
 
UN_SPACEY
2007-11-26 9:01:47 PM  
they have tumbleweeds back east?

/learning from the farc
 
Jaggers
2007-11-26 9:02:39 PM  
her site design is atrocious, but it looks like her 50+ meta-tags are working well.

my favorite part: "our tumbleweeds are Y2K compliant"


...lol
 
RadioAaron
2007-11-26 9:03:44 PM  
GIS for "yoru":

i72.photobucket.comView Full Size


I hope one of these is born every minute.

/Would you?
//Dude... I would.
///TOTALLY would...
 
UN_SPACEY
2007-11-26 9:06:04 PM  
I'm glad they are quality tested . . . probably the only thing of quality from Kans'ass
 
aardvarkage
2007-11-26 9:07:00 PM  
Yoru =


img527.imageshack.usView Full Size
 
fanbladesaresharp
2007-11-26 9:11:14 PM  
mdfitzsimmons: 13 years later, still has the same HTML. Now thats funny.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

FTFA: NASA purchased tumbleweeds when they were designing their Mars Tumbleweed rover. "And if you go to their site on the NASA site to the tumbleweed rover,

OK who the hell got the grant money approved? I need to have a chat with that guy. Ideaz. i haz them.
 
WaltzingMathilda
2007-11-26 9:12:30 PM  
RDMA: Hannahman: 15 a week times 52 weeks times 25 dollars does not equal 40,000 dollars. Thanks for the crack journalism.

All orders are for only one item. It would be inconceivable to purchase more then one item at a time. It would lead to chaos.

how can you have such solid logic and be so bad at grammar?
 
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