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
This thread is bullshit.
says the fairy princess. Lighten up.
This should be OT at best.
Your gonna bitch about trying to help out a high school in need?
How about you actually read the post?
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.
I'm sorry, I was just doing it for charity. Does that make it better for you?
Probably the first beer of his life.
I remember my first beer....but not the ensuing pointless cyber-ranting. Strange.
Andy Markovits is an awful professor.
BOLIVIA!!! Andy Markovits is an amazing professor.
I know. I had him for German politics. Amazing guy and professor.
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.
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.
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.
I live in Detroit. Trust me.. Muskegon is not a high school "in need."
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.
Uh yeah if you think Muskegon is a high school in need you are either ignorant or legitimately retarded.
Far from it.
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."
Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them...
Please don't.
Welllll...for Bennie.
So this guy wants a "great story" because his wife works at Muskegon high, and yet you are buying it as some legitimate effort to help out a high school in need? Give me a break.
I voted..good luck. Truly isn't a big deal. (GhostofYost)
I know it isn't a big deal, and I voted too, but I have to take out my need to be a colossal asshole on someone.
wtf are you talking about?
I like how you responded to yourself. It makes it seem like you actually grasp the inanity of your comments on this thread.
fuck that speed trap
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.
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!
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.
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.
I went to MHS. True story.
I voted for Muskegon in 2012.
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.
I'd rather vote in an internet poll of favorite farm animals. At least the rankings in the top 10 matter, unlike this.
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 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?
but that would make my vote meaningful rather than an e-peen contest!
but then I saw all those trolling posts from that asshole TheGhostofYost and decided I would. Just to spite him. GL, Muskegon High.
...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.
Voted. Good luck.
Sucks when the first comment is what the first comment was, huh? Kinda sets the tone.
...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.