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sebastienneok, this is brilliant. I've been going on for ages about how I'm going to sell my soul on Ebay to pay for my university degree, but it looks like one of my friends has got there first: Gizmo is selling his last shred of dignity.
go on, buy it! then i can tell him that someone i linked to the auction bought it, and guilt him into buying me drinks!
go on, buy it! then i can tell him that someone i linked to the auction bought it, and guilt him into buying me drinks!
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Date: 2005-10-13 11:39 pm (UTC)shame... it would be so cool to own Kiki's last shred of dignity.
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Date: 2005-10-14 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-28 04:32 pm (UTC)http://www.oxfordstudent.com/mt2005wk3/news/oxford_student_sells_last_shred_of_dignity_on_ebay
A Pembroke undergraduate auctioned his ‘last shred of dignity’ on eBay last week, after publicly concluding that he has ‘no use for it anymore’. Kerry Norman, a third year psychologist, resolved to sell his dignity, “while there was still some left to sell,” after making, “a fool of myself again … in a particularly embarrassing episode.
Norman commented that, “People sell something on eBay because they believe it to be worthless, at least to themselves, and in the hope that some stranger will value the product more. It is exactly the same with my dignity.” The extent of his shame was advertised to potential buyers in an accompanying photograph, showing him stuffi ng a beer bottle into his mouth. Bidding started at a mere 50 pence, though this rose to a fi nal sale price of £67.
The winning bidder, named ‘Mykiantares’ on the site, received a certifi cate of ownership for Norman’s last shred of dignity, described by the student as, “a totally unique one-off item”. However, a sub-clause added by Norman notes that: ‘This certifi cate gives you no legal rights over any of my future actions.’ When questioned about the successful bid, Norman responded, “I believe £67 to be a fair price for my dignity. “Any more and I would have been surprised.
Less than this would have offended my dignity, had I any left.” He told this newspaper, “Projects like this are simply part of who I am. I am constantly being hit with new ideas, each of which I have to try out before the curiosity drives me mad. “Previous projects include the bizarrely serious ‘Pat Sharp Mullet Appreciation Society’ meetings, and the somewhat controversial ‘Puppy Power Project’.” The success of Norman, 20, seems to have prompted a wave of copycat sales.
The ‘pride & dignity of a 22 year old lad’ - also from Oxford - was put up for auction on eBay on the 21st October, together with his ‘ability to tell right from wrong’. However, unlike Norman’s dignity, which was advertised as having had ‘one previous owner’, these items ‘have never been used’ and are ‘still in their original box’. Emma Lewis, a second year Wadham PPP student and acquaintance of Norman, also lamented that she had not had the idea fi rst.
“I actually intend to sell my soul on eBay at some point in the near future,” she claimed. This is not the fi rst time Oxford students have used eBay in an imaginative fashion. In February, Brasenose College was put up for auction by a student from Lincoln. Bids reached in excess of £10 million before University proctors intervened, forcing eBay to close the auction.
Items in the sale included the college’s infamous unicorn penis, the Boat Club and all of the College’s students, described by the seller as being ‘generally in quite a worn condition’. David Green, the student who put Brasenose up for sale, was fi ned £50 for the prank and forced to apologise to the Brasenose Provost.
27th Oct 2005