[Wednesday morning edit: A winner has been picked, but not yet contacted! Waiting for a guest post to go up before I link. Winner should be up by noon!]
BLOG GIVEAWAY!!!
Get psyched get psyched get psyched! You guys, since the dawn of this little blog, I’ve wanted to be one of those fancy bloggers who bribes her readers to delurk celebrates her badass readership by strewing them with prizes galore. Then I remembered, of course, that a) am kind of the antithesis of fancy girly bloggy giveaway-ness; and b) am funding this out of my own wallet, in which generations of moths are happily breeding. Thus, this giveaway is going to be weird, as you have come to expect from TKOG.
Um, can we talk about SOME PRIZES?!
We can, guys. We can. Because it is my ambition to be universally pleasing, I’ve selected a variety of three prizes from which you can choose:
PG Wodehouse novel. Chosen by TKOG. Probably something out of print. If you haven’t read Wodehouse, let me tell you that if my absurd wordplay brings ever the faintest glimmer of a smile to your face, then Wodehouse will change yo’ dang life.
OR
Yummy Lush goodies. Something floral or sweet or citrusy or masculine — whatever pleases you. If it’s not obvious, I’m totally obsessed with Lush, and would be happy to spread their gospel. We can talk about your preferences and I’ll send either a massage bar (good for sexytimes!) or some yummy soap (good for all the times.)
OR
Something fun from Good Vibrations. I still have a coupon there from the blowjob class I took a while back, and could use it to pick up something vanilla, suitable for solo play or couples, of either gender.
Do none of these prize ideas work for you? Well, if you don’t like reading, bathing or fornicating, I think you might be at the wrong blog. Apologies, loves.
Okay, what do I do to get my hands on some of this magic?
Good question, guys. Sad to admit that aside from giving one of you guys something COMPLETELY AWESOME, this, like every other blog giveaway, is a bit of a promotions game. I’m sorry! That makes me feel like a jerk! I assure you it’s uncharacteristic of me even to engage in! Buuuuut:
Participants can earn up to five entries; one each for the following tasks:
- Leave a comment on this blog entry. It can just say “hi” or “dude” or you can leave it blank — I’m not picky!
- Follow me on an RSS reader (or already have been following me.) and let me know in a comment here. Honor system.
- Tweet about this giveaway. Be sure to include my twitter handle — @WhatKindOfGirl — and a link to this entry so I can verify it.
- Mention this giveaway on your own blog. With a link, please! No need for anything elaborate — just a mention, and possibly a link, and, ooh, maybe you could Photoshop a picture of Hugh Laurie gazing soulfully at me, or — wait. What were we talking about?
- Suggest something I’m Not The Kind of Girl to do. Have any ideas for NTKOGs that might be funny/embarrassing for me to do, and utterly delightful for you to read about? My only specifications: nothing too $$$, and not karaoke. I’m already the karaoke queen. Leave suggestions in a comment here, email ‘em, tweet ‘em, mash ‘em, fry ‘em — whatever.
But TKOG! I don’t have a blog/what is RSS/Tweeting is a Web 2.0 tool for the sexting generation!
That’s cool, kittens. You can go ahead and get UP TO FIVE ENTRIES for suggesting NTKOGs, even if you don’t do any of the other options. Sound fair?
Deadline is noon, Tuesday, December 15! At which point, I’ll shoot all the entries into a randomizer and pick a winner.
You guys are you JUST TOO EXCITED?! I for one am just too excited.
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Hiiii!
Here’s an idea for you if you’re not the type to jump into freezing water in the middle of the winter. Are you familiar with the Polar Bears? (No, not those polar bears.) Could be, um, fun?
I blogged you (I’ve been thinking of creating this specific blog for awhile now, and your post compelled me to just go ahead and freaking do it).
http://jenntheblogwhore.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-that-kind-of-girl-giveaway.html
Hiya!
I have a suggestion. My dad is a Marine and would go to random weird countries, and often when he wanted to buy something, he would pretend he didn’t speak english and make up a language. The sellers eventually would give it to him for cheap. Anywho, I’m not sure where you could use this at; buying coffee, trying to get a good seat on the…train? metro? line? I can’t remember what you use/call it haha.
OMG all of those prizes sound amazing. Pickmepickmepickme!
ooh good vibrations, fun!
oh, and i follow you on my google reader!
I must say that this has been the best blog i’ve followed.
You’ve been on my rss feed for quite sometime.
Sadly, I have no blog of my own.
But TKOG should definitely become the kind of girl who hits shamelessly on men with massive amounts of money, if only to end up with a picture of their corvette on their phone and a cautionary tale to tell their friends of the man who was married.
.. that was not at all based on personal experience.
does this and my twitter (@claireashley31) count as four!? that’s exciting.
Wow. Just… Wow. I came across your blog last night, and of course creepily read the entirety of your archive up to the present. I am impressed, and inspired, and just maybe slightly envious. Cheers.
Also, commenting to enter your giveaway is not something I’d ever do, left to my own.
Ever been camping in the snow? It’s great.
Is it weird that I’d totally take a Wodehouse novel over a sex toy? Should I be worried about this? And you are already in my RSS Reader, but I can delete you and then re-add you if that will increase my odds.
Funniest giveaway I’ve seen yet. I’m game.
1. I have you posted on my blog roll.
2. I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/FlipFlopForward
3. I am new to your blog, so I’ve only read what you’ve written in the past month. Here’s my suggestion (sorry if you’ve already done it. I need to read your past posts still): Pick up some extra cash by being one of those annoying dog walkers with at lest 5 dogs.
NTOKG suggestion – solicit signatures on the street for a random cause. Personally, I like Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/).
79 comments…how DO i
compete with that?!
Hello! I don’t have blog, nor twitter and haven’t got a clue what RSS is so I’ll just leave you a suggestion instead.
As you’re such a fan of PG Wodehouse, I think you should stop saying “Dude” for a day, and speak entirely in the style of an English toff instead.
If you need a bit of help with the accent, here’s Hugh Laurie to help you out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqvddpX1uYA&feature=related
What ho!
Love this! (and yay Boston)
Also on the RSS feed of course: I practically live on there.
Also, suggestion: there might be something interesting on Craigslist you could do? That place is like, the mecca for the weird and crazy.
Ooooh, Craigslist. I tried to do an NTKOG based on an ad I saw on Craigslist once, but it ended — as, perhaps, all Craigslist encounters inevitably do — with me calling him “rapey” and him comparing me unfavorably to Nancy Drew. Ah, Craigslist! Ah, humanity!
The funny thing is, I follow your blog because my friend has kind of a girl crush on you, but I don’t see her comment here. Brenda, where are you?
Now that I’ve publicly embarrassed her, I think you’re a great writer. I’ll try to think of an excuse to link to you from my blog.
Here I am! Your blog is a favorite (near) daily read. I’ve been following you on my rss reader for awhile now and I’ll tweet soon, even though I intensely dislike it. Because my love for lush products and literary finds (I majored in English literature and never read any PG Wodehouse. I know!) outweighs my dislike for trying to be entertaining in 140 characters or less.
A few NTKOG ideas:
1. The kind of a girl who keeps a penpal. Maybe one that’s also a convicted felon? There are websites for this kind of thing, so you don’t actually have to go to prison or anything. Which brings me too the next one.
2. The kind of girl who gets arrested. I think a night in jail is, like, a requirement for writers. I’ve been wanting to experience this for awhile, but I’m in law school and need to pass the character and fitness portion of the bar soon, so maybe I can live vicariously through you.
3. The kind of girl who resides on a higher plane. I don’t know if you’re religious, but maybe you want to hang out with some church-going folk, or meditate, or look for spiritual enlightenment in a less conventional manner.
And I just realized that three suggestions means I don’t have to tweet. It’s a win for both of us!
Totally entering.. I do follow you through Blogger/the Google reader thing on my phone. Is that RSS? I don’t even know. I’m not that cool when it comes to blogging. But I shall promote on my blog.. even if practically no one reads my blog! :P
Another NTKOG suggestion – heely or roller skate/blade every where for a day. To make it even more fun, you could wear all the protective gear possible.
Hi, I like your blog. I really like the entry from today (12/14) and it makes me want to squee with happiness for you.
So…you notify us if we win? That’d be awesome?
Yup! Winner gets emailed. But you could also come back and check (and if you’re reading this comment reply, chances are you did in fact come back and check, so … redundant, I guess.)
I LOVE LUSH….who doesn’t.
I’m also happy to learn you don’t like Dan Brown novels – I thought I was the only person out there who didn’t. (picked this up from another post of yours).
Did I mention I love Lush?
I follow you.
So did you pick a winner? Or wiener?
TKOG, you’re my herooooooo.
1) Go to something really touristy in Boston and act like a tourist (be really loud, keep having people take pictures of you in front of things, etc. etc.)
2) Go to confession!
3) Catcall a guy on the street or buy a guy a drink at a bar (or both?).
4) Spend a day running errands with absolutely no makeup on.
5) Paint/draw something really awful and submit it to the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham. (http://www.museumofbadart.org/about/donate.php)
6) Send a message in a bottle.
7) Crash an MIT party… there’s bound to be a TON of physicists there!
8) Go to an acupuncturist.
9) Get your fortune told.
10) Visit a nudist colony.
11) Adopt an accent for an entire day and see if you can fool people.
12) Give a flower to a stranger.
13) Send a fan letter to five famous people (your favorite authors/singers/actors) and see if you get any responses.
14) Be one of those really picky people at Peet’s and send back your drink three times. (I’d just love to read how the barista reacted!)
15) On a Friday afternoon, go to the train station with a suitcase and let the ticket person decide where you should go on a weekend trip.
oh my gosh, these are amazing suggestions! you are awesome! i just totally love all of them! welllll, with the possible exception of number four, if only because i like to call that one: “every day of my dang life.” i’m already too transplendently divine, dude. if i put make-up on this situation to boot?! i mean, there’d be riots on the street.
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