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Keyes' sweaty napkin gets own website
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | August 13, 2004

Posted on 8/14/2004, 6:59:27 AM by JohnHuang2

After trying to auction on eBay a napkin used to wipe the sweaty brow of Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes but getting kicked off the site twice, the fan who started it all has set up his own website for the now-famous item.

It all started Monday when WND reported that "The Napkin Man," aka Jerry McGlothlin, had daubed sweat from Keyes' brow immediately following the candidate's announcement that he would replace Republican Jack Ryan to face Democrat Barack Obama in a long-shot bid for the Senate.

McGlothlin then placed the item on eBay for auction. By Wednesday, however, after the napkin page had received 15,000 visitors and 100 bids, eBay unceremoniously took the item down, saying "bodily fluids" were not allowed to be auctioned. The bidding had reached about $700 before eBay stepped in. McGlothlin planned to give the proceeds to the Keyes campaign.


The Keyes napkin

Not easily defeated, McGlothlin reposted the item at eBay without mentioning Keyes' sweat. In the meantime, eBay admitted sweat was not on the list of prohibited body fluids, giving its blessing to the second posting.

By yesterday, however, the online auction company had again taken down the napkin post, this time saying that if a seller is raising funds for a charity, the charity must be an eBay-approved 501c3 or 501c4 organization; Keyes' campaign is neither.

That's when McGlothlin decided to create for the napkin its own website.

Says the Keyes fan on the new site:

Just as the despondent napkin man was crying in his beer (which tear-ladened beer is not allowable on eBay either), during a radio talk-show interview, one of the callers (or was it the host?) suggested the obvious: "Why don't you launch your own sweaty napkin webite?"

No duh. ...

After a pregnant pause (embryonic fluids weren't on the forbidden list, either. Hum...) …

In an instant, the napkin man saw the light! He realized he must have had sweat on the brain not to have thought of that himself! And from there ...

The SweatyNapkin.com site was born! Do you know someone who can find a good home for Alan Keyes' sweaty napkin? Know a talk show host who wants an interview?

McGlothlin has done several radio and other national media interviews since WND broke the story Monday and still hopes to raise a healthy chunk of cash for Keyes' Senate effort.


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1 posted on 8/14/2004, 6:59:27 AM by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

Someone is truly insane. Maybe he get one from Bush and other politicians and start a collection?


2 posted on 8/14/2004, 7:07:02 AM by GeronL (KERRY: "I went to Cambodia with the CIA and all I got was a hat")
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To: mhking; martin_fierro; The Scourge of Yazid; cyborg; NYC GOP Chick

I can't wait for the IPO.


3 posted on 8/14/2004, 7:08:47 AM by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Neither can I, think it will do as well as Sycamore did in its first trading day?


4 posted on 8/14/2004, 7:27:48 AM by psjones
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To: JohnHuang2; psjones; Slings and Arrows; GeronL; cyborg
Archetypal extreme computer geek/political junkie:

Hey pal, I ain't extreme! If I had known dat doze skid-marked panties from Ann Coulter were a forgery, I woulda nevah woulda paid $9,000 for dem. I swear! It's da trooth!

5 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:25:30 AM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

I'm curious as to whether or not this guy is a FReeper. During the primaries in 2000, we had some rabid Keyesters around here.


6 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:30:49 AM by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("I'm just a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know I'm lyin' about 'Nam".....)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore); KeyesFaninIL
Perhaps.

Heh, heh, heh.

7 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:33:12 AM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

What defines a "rabid Keyester"?

Or is it just another one of those self-righteous labels thrown out by liberal Republicans.


8 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:36:22 AM by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: JohnHuang2
JERRY: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!! ALL YOUR SWEATY NAPKIN ARE BELONG TO US.
9 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:36:23 AM by RichInOC (MOVE 'RAG'. FOR GREAT JUSTICE.)
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To: k2blader

Well since you weren't even around back then, you wouldn't know how fanatic his supporters were. Hell, back then, I was on the Keyes for Veep bandwagon along with about half the people on this site.

And BTW: before you go calling me a liberal Republican, I'll have you know that if McCain had won the nomination, I would have voted for Pat Buchanan.


10 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:42:24 AM by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("I'm just a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know I'm lyin' about 'Nam".....)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

I'm sorry if I offended you. That term just made my hackles raise a bit.

Yep, I wasn't on FR back in 2000 but wish I could've been.

Hopefully the GOP will never run McCain again...


11 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:52:15 AM by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: RichInOC; Conspiracy Guy; King Prout; bad company; Jet Jaguar; Watery Tart; Fedora; Darksheare; ...
Sounds like you're trying to start an RKBA thread.

From California?!

Do we have any Beeber killers in Cali?

12 posted on 8/14/2004, 9:56:59 AM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
WHAT YOU SAY!!
13 posted on 8/14/2004, 10:11:27 AM by RichInOC (IN A.D. 2004...CRAZINESS WAS BEGINNING.)
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To: RichInOC; k2blader
Sorry.

My bad.

14 posted on 8/14/2004, 10:12:55 AM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Seriously, I'm just waiting for the sweatynapkindance.com web site.


15 posted on 8/14/2004, 10:14:27 AM by RichInOC (When the going gets weird, the weird register domain names.)
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To: RichInOC; Cacique
Sorry, but I think that "Cacique" owns the domain name for sweatynapkindance.com.

What can I say?

The guy's got connections!

16 posted on 8/14/2004, 10:19:36 AM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid; SandyInSeattle

We have a landscaper/florist from Seattle, WA.


17 posted on 8/14/2004, 12:36:33 PM by Conspiracy Guy (Conspiracy Guy, Secretary of Humor and Tomfoolery)
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To: JohnHuang2

Imagine what a certain blue dress would bring on eBay!


18 posted on 8/14/2004, 12:46:02 PM by Fresh Wind (Uday is DU in Pig Latin)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; JohnHuang2; King Prout; PBRSTREETGANG
Yeah, but what about John Huang?

You know, I think we can forgive that whole "Commerce-Lippogate" scandal, can't we?

I mean, that was way back in '95.

I think that we can give him dispensation.

RKBA RULES

New MTV "Reality" Program?

19 posted on 8/14/2004, 12:49:38 PM by The Scourge of Yazid (Blessed is the man who wears a cap.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ewwww! Thanks for sharing that with us!


20 posted on 8/14/2004, 2:34:09 PM by NYC GOP Chick (Which FReeper likes to threaten to beat up women?)
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