Comments on: Operation Christmas Goat

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NBC Dumps iTunes at Addison Road — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:39:12 +0000

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By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:02:08 +0000

“This Christmas, somebody is getting your goat” is a bloody brilliant tagline. Have you ever wondered, Michael, if you perhaps missed your calling? I hear copywriting is very rewarding.

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for sale at Addison Road — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:48:54 +0000

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By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:41:06 +0000

I can see a headline:

“SOMEONE WILL GET YOUR GOAT THIS CHRISTMAS….”

couldn’t resist

By: Pi

Pi — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:28:28 +0000

Brilliant idea, both on your part and World Vision. If the average family spends around $900 on Christmas gifts, and two-thirds of that is online, just 45 families could generate enough through Amazon’s referral fee to buy an entire stock of farm animals for David Rojas Laus and his community.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:16:33 +0000

The three of us should never be allowed to hang out anywhere near an apple store together. Or an internet connect, if one of us has a credit card.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:02:05 +0000

Oooh! Oooh! Two iPhones means one goat! Do it for baby Jesus!

By: Daniel Semsen

Daniel Semsen — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:45:18 +0000

If anyone wants to buy me an iPhone, that’s like, almost half a goat.
Do it for the starving children…they need you…

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:04:46 +0000

This is a great idea. Thanks for thinking of us. I’m the Director of World Vision’s Gift Catalog and I love to see this kind of creativity. Personally, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Christmas. Of course, if you want to donate directly, you can visit our site at http://www.worldvisiongifts.org.

Thanks!
- Devin Hermanson

By: JC

JC — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:27:41 +0000

Great idea Michael! You can count on us.

By: June

June — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:43:37 +0000

Awesome. I’ve been wishing for years that my extended family would ditch the Christmas gift custom and instead we could all buy Christmas goats (and chickens, cows, etc.) for people in need. So far it hasn’t happened (but I haven’t given up hope) so I’m glad to see that the Addison Road family is having a part in it.

And for the record, My extended family members are incredibly generous folks…my parents buy more gifts for World Vision kids, Compassion kids, children of prisoners, random people they know are in need, missionaries, etc. etc. than they do for us unneedy relatives and on Brian’s side, we have relatives who fund entire villages, orphanages, schools, etc.