[DeTomaso] Merry Christmas

Wed Dec 24 12:14:37 EST 2008

<< just didn't watch Seinfeld in Cleveland...>>

Why watch it when we live it every day.

Larry (a day about nothing) - Cleveland

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From: Christopher Kimball [mailto:chrisvkimball at msn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:08 PM
To: michael at michaelshortt.com
Cc: larry at ohiotimecorp.com; Pantera List Serve; Vicki Kimball
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Merry Christmas

That is hilarious!  I had no idea there actually was a Human Fund!  I wonder
if they just didn't watch Seinfeld in Cleveland...

Thanks for the info!

Sincerely,

Chris

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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:49:39 -0500
From: michael at michaelshortt.com
To: chrisvkimball at msn.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Merry Christmas
CC: larry at ohiotimecorp.com; detomaso at realbig.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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_von_Bargen>  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

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