Bennie Oosterbaan's other Alma Mater needs your help.

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May 3rd, 2012 at 11:28 PM
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Bennie Oosterbaan's other Alma Mater needs your help.

This almost certainly deserves the OT tag..... but the title wouldn't have been as effective.

Bennie Oosterbaan graduated from Muskegon High.  Muskegon is involved in an online voting contest that will benefit the theater programs of the winning schools.  As I am a Muskegon alum and, more importantly, as my wife teaches art at Muskegon High, I'm soliciting the voting influence of the MGoBlog Community.

It is prudent to mention that Muskegon has enough votes to finish in the top 10 (they are #2 and voting ends tomorrow) and it is indicated that all schools in the top 10 get the same prize.  So, at this point, voting for Muskegon is apparently pointless.

Never the less, I would like to see Muskegon finish #1.  The school that is in first is a privileged L.A. high school where Muskegon is an underserved inner city school.  I think it weould be a great story for Muskegon to finish first in voting.  Therefore, I'm calling on you for your help. 

If you prefer, consider this a challenge.  Muskegon is down approximately 500 points and the voting ends tomorrow.   Would the MGoBlog influence be enough?

This is a simple contest.  You click the link below and then you click the green circle with the check mark.   No sign up or registration required.  Two clicks.  Do it.  Ooosterbaan would want you to.

http://www.juniortheaterproject.org/portfolio/muskegon-high-school-muskegon-mi

 

All right Lemmings. Bring the heat.

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May 3rd, 2012 at 11:32 PM | This thread is bullshit. (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 9:23 AM | says (Score:1)
MadtownMaize
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says the fairy princess. Lighten up.

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:37 PM | This should be OT at best. (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:44 PM | Really? (Score:4 Normal)
Idaho Wolverine
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Your gonna bitch about trying to help out a high school in need?

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 PM | How about you actually read (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:54 PM | If it pisses you off so much, (Score:4 Normal)
justingoblue
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If it pisses you off so much, why take the time to comment twice, then check back here again to see if someone replied?

If you don't like it, just move on, or at least try to say something constructive instead of trying to be an asshole.

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May 4th, 2012 at 12:02 AM | I'm sorry, I was just doing (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 12:06 AM | Sooooooo (Score:2 Normal)
Markovits is Great
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What are ya drinkin tonight?

Except for the other thing. That hurts the most. But the lack of respect hurts the second most.

May 4th, 2012 at 12:18 AM | I remember my first (Score:2 Normal)
Markovits is Great
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I remember my first beer....but not the ensuing pointless cyber-ranting.  Strange.

Except for the other thing. That hurts the most. But the lack of respect hurts the second most.

May 4th, 2012 at 12:25 AM | Andy Markovits is an awful (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 1:15 AM | OK now you deserve... (Score:5 Normal)
SamGoBlue2
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BOLIVIA!!! Andy Markovits is an amazing professor.

Believe

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May 4th, 2012 at 1:45 AM | I know.  I had him for German (Score:1 Normal)
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I know.  I had him for German politics.  Amazing guy and professor.

May 4th, 2012 at 2:04 AM | I had him for 20th Century (Score:3 Normal)
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I had him for 20th Century German History. It was a lower division class I took my senior year as an easy (but interesting) A. Turns out a lot of stuff happened in Germany in the 20th century. The class was more work than I expected, but was awesome. Markovits had plenty of eccentricities (he loved to joke about East German glasses, for one), but he was a fancinating prof, absolutely.

I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.

May 4th, 2012 at 12:10 AM | Are you raising funds by (Score:2 Normal)
justingoblue
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Are you raising funds by trolling threads that don't meet your impeccable standards and being as annoying as possible? If so, congratulations, you must be raising a ton of cash.

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May 3rd, 2012 at 11:59 PM | Yeah I know (Score:3 Normal)
HeadAsplode
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My high school won't make the top 10 either but I'm not throwing my hands in the air and taking it out on the OP.

May 4th, 2012 at 12:05 AM | I live in Detroit. Trust me.. (Score:5 Normal)
bluebones
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I live in Detroit. Trust me.. Muskegon is not a high school "in need."

May 4th, 2012 at 12:14 AM | That is an uninformed opinion. (Score:5 Normal)
Keith
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And no, I will not "trust you" just because you live in Detroit.  You are dead wrong about Muskegon High School not being a high school in need.  Besides, just because Detroit schools are desperately in need does not mean that no other schools in the state can be in need.

I compulsively downvote any usage of "lol".

May 4th, 2012 at 12:18 AM | Uh yeah if you think Muskegon (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 12:14 AM | Far from it.  (Score:0 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 9:46 AM | While I think he could have (Score:2)
snarling wolverine
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While I think he could have been more diplomatic about it, he is correct that since all the top 10 schools get the same prize, voting here isn't really "helping a school in need."

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:43 PM | Who you gonna call? (Score:4 Normal)
GoBlueInNYC
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Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them...

I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 PM | Please don't. (Score:5 Normal)
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Please don't.

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:51 PM | I regret what I have done... (Score:5 Normal)
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I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 PM | Welllll...for Bennie. (Score:2 Normal)
Belisarius
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Welllll...for Bennie.

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May 3rd, 2012 at 11:56 PM | So this guy wants a "great (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 12:04 AM | I voted..good luck. Truly (Score:3 Normal)
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I voted..good luck. Truly isn't a big deal. (GhostofYost) 

May 4th, 2012 at 12:05 AM | I know it isn't a big deal, (Score:-1 Trolling)
May 4th, 2012 at 12:09 AM | Maybe you should yell at the (Score:4 Normal)
trueblueintexas
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Maybe you should yell at the mirror. Just sayin.

"Anyone who isn't confused, really doesn't understand the situation." - Edward R. Murrow

May 4th, 2012 at 12:21 AM | wtf are you talking about? (Score:0 Normal)
May 4th, 2012 at 1:30 AM | I like how you responded to (Score:5 Normal)
a2_electricboogaloo
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I like how you responded to yourself.  It makes it seem like you actually grasp the inanity of your comments on this thread.

USING GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF CAPS LOCK SINCE APRIL 2011

May 4th, 2012 at 12:10 AM | Got my vote (Score:1 Normal)
MaizeRage89
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Hopefully you can catch up and win

May 4th, 2012 at 12:12 AM | While you are there throw a (Score:3 Normal)
trueblueintexas
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While you are there throw a vote to the school in Jackson, MI also.

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May 4th, 2012 at 12:17 AM | no way (Score:5 Normal)
Jon06
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fuck that speed trap

RIP my avatar, June 14, 1998 - October 26, 2012.

May 4th, 2012 at 1:05 AM | University High (Score:5 Normal)
jimmyting
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The school that's in the lead right now is my old alma matter, and for God sakes do not let them win. That school is full of privileged assholes, and the kids are all a bunch of spoiled brats, as you can see by the worst car in the parking lot being a BMW. So for the love of God, help this OP win this bull shit

May 4th, 2012 at 6:20 AM | Not sure why some people are (Score:2)
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Not sure why some people are getting so uppity about this. Detroit doesn't have a monopoly on being underprivleged and Muskegon could use the help.

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May 4th, 2012 at 7:02 AM | Voted! (Score:3 Normal)
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As an old theatre kid myself, I voted most enthusiastically, and the Oosterbaan connection makes it even more special somehow. Hopefully, they can win this - best of luck to MHS!

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May 4th, 2012 at 8:09 AM | I'm in (Score:1)
WhoopinStick
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If a simple click on my mouse can help a high school in Michigan - then I'm all in.  Best of luck to Muskegon and Jackson.

May 4th, 2012 at 8:56 AM | Flint Northwestern! (Score:2)
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No disrespect to Muskegon and Jackson, but Glen Rice's alma mater is also in the mix. If one really wants to make a difference (and by 'one' I mean 'the MGoCommunity'), one should put one's efforts into propelling FNW into e money.

Think of it as a way to thank the star of our last basketball national championshiip.

May 4th, 2012 at 8:22 AM | I suppose... (Score:2)
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Have to admit though, I was voting for Reeths-Puffer if it was on that list. Then I saw it wasn't a state of Michigan thing, so I was okay voting for Muskegon.

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May 4th, 2012 at 8:45 AM | I went to MHS. True story. (Score:1)
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I went to MHS. True story.

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May 4th, 2012 at 8:52 AM | I voted for Muskegon in 2012. (Score:4 Normal)
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I voted for Muskegon in 2012.

May 4th, 2012 at 8:55 AM | Only 300 votes behind when I voted a bit ago (Score:1)
docraider
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Looks like the gap is closing.  300 votes or so behind.  Should be able to over take that school out west.  Like they say vote early and vote often.

docraider

May 4th, 2012 at 8:57 AM | I'd rather vote in an (Score:2)
singler makes b...
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I'd rather vote in an internet poll of favorite farm animals. At least  the rankings in the top 10 matter, unlike this.

May 4th, 2012 at 9:14 AM | Glen Rice's other Alma Mater needs your help (Score:2)
Number 7
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Kind of a repeat from a post I made above, but now with an actual link to help you out.

Namely, if you click here:

http://www.juniortheaterproject.org/portfolio/flint-northwestern-high-school-flint-michigan/you 

you can vote for Flint Northwestern in the same contest.  They are currently a good 5000+ votes out of the top ten -- but who knows what a concerted effort could accomplish?

 

May 4th, 2012 at 9:22 AM | but that would make my vote (Score:2)
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but that would make my vote meaningful rather than an e-peen contest!

May 4th, 2012 at 9:18 AM | I wasn't going to vote (Score:4 Normal)
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but then I saw all those trolling posts from that asshole TheGhostofYost and decided I would. Just to spite him. GL, Muskegon High.

@beenplumb

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May 4th, 2012 at 9:27 AM | Oh wow... (Score:1)
French West Indian
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...there's a school named after Johnnycakes? 

http://www.juniortheaterproject.org/portfolio/johnnycake-elementary-school-baltimore-md/

And yeah, Oosterbaan's alma mater got my vote.

May 4th, 2012 at 9:30 AM | Voted.  Good luck.   Sucks (Score:2 Normal)
aMAIZEing_BLUE132
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Voted.  Good luck.

 

Sucks when the first comment is what the first comment was, huh?  Kinda sets the tone.

Always reaching for the banner.

May 4th, 2012 at 10:38 AM | To vote... (Score:1)
MaizeMN
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...or not to vote, that is the question.

You got mine.

EDIT: Looks like Muskeegon is only a couple hundred votes behind, so it's do-able.

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