[DeTomaso] Merry Christmas

[michael at michaelshortt.com]

as Paul Harvey would say,

Here's the Rest of the story............


The Human Fund

Due to his unconscionable cheapness, George Constanza found yet another way
to save money after receiving a gift donation certificate from Tim Watley.
Instead of exchanging Christmas gifts (per normal custom) with his
co-workers, when George was given a gift he in turn gave his co-worker a
card stating that a donation had been made in their name to a charity called
"The Human Fund" (with the slogan "Money For People"), when in fact this
organization didn't exist. George had fabricated The Human Fund to get out
of having to spend money on gifts. Kruger (played by Daniel von
Bargen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_von_Bargen>),
is told by his accounting department that his company needed to donate some
money (for tax purposes). Kruger subsequently gives George a company check
for $20,000 and tells him to give it to The Human Fund. The accounting
department, after doing some research, later learns that The Human Fund
indeed does not exist. Kruger—who is more angry at the fact that George gave
him a fake Christmas present and less concerned with the possibility that
George could have been
embezzling<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement>money from the
company—calls George on this. When he does so, George becomes
flustered and begins to babble on about how he made it up because he didn't
celebrate Christmas and was embarrassed to tell anyone. He insists that his
family instead celebrates 'Festivus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus>'
("They drove my family out of Bayside!"). Unconvinced, Kruger accepts
George's invitation to the Festivus celebration at George's house to see if
his story adds up.

This is not to be confused with The Human Fund<http://www.the-human-fund.org/>,
a legitimate organization based in Cleveland,
Ohio<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio>.
The organization began in 2005. From their mission
statement<http://www.the-human-fund.org/mission.php>
 :

The Human Fund effectively supports arts education programs for the
under-served youth of the city of Cleveland, providing ongoing involvement
and a commitment to funding several arts programs annually. We are a
non-traditional foundation taking a fresh approach to fund-raising. Our
foundation takes arts education seriously and as a friend of the arts, The
Human Fund is committed to long-term relationships and financial support for
youth arts programming.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com
> wrote:

>
> I made a donation to the human fund...(unless you watched Seinfeld, you
> won't get that!)
>
>
>
> > From: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
> > To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:40:17 -0500
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] Merry Christmas
>  >
> > I would like to say a warm Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the
> De
> > Tomaso family.
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> > In lewd of sending out presents this year, I have made a deposit in each
> and
> > everyone's name at the Purple Arrow Sperm Bank.
> >
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> >
> > Larry (I need a smoke) - Cleveland
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