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Post by Dante on May 8, 2009 3:59:36 GMT -5
I have an update on the auction story. For those of you who weren't there at the time, there was a charitable auction a few years back in which several authors offered the chance for bidders to have a name appear in their next book. Daniel Handler participated, providing an opportunity for someone's name to appear in The End. 667 had a stab, but we were out of our depth; the winning bid was around double what we theoretically raised. Some time after the publication of The End, we learnt that the winner was Joey Shoji, and we assumed that Sunny's utterance of "Jojishoji" was a mangled version of this, but I've dug up a series of LiveJournal postings and a newspaper article that reveal a bigger picture: Newspaper announcementThe winning bidder's announcementConfirmation and conclusionHow did we not notice this stuff three years ago, seriously. We can't have been looking very hard. |
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Post by Mijahu on May 8, 2009 4:52:30 GMT -5
Wow, $6,350 isn't so bad. I think I would pay for that if I had the money.
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Post by Hermes on May 8, 2009 10:00:47 GMT -5
Ultimately, we learnt that the winning name was "Joey Shoji" ("Jojishoji," as uttered by Sunny) If I understand the links correctly, Joey Shoji was the actual winner, but Joji Shoji, the name he chose to have spoken, is in fact the name of his father. |
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Post by Dante on May 8, 2009 12:10:32 GMT -5
Good point, I've misconstrued it in the opening post. Let me edit that.
Edit: Okay, rewrote the opening post; thanks, Hermes.
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Post by cwm on May 8, 2009 12:12:17 GMT -5
What was the definition? I've misplaced my copy...
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Post by Dante on May 8, 2009 12:14:52 GMT -5
It's quoted in the third link. ""Jojishoji," Sunny said, which meant something like, "I don't believe that abridging the freedom of expression and the free exercise thereof is the proper way to run a community.""
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Post by rebecca on Oct 4, 2009 12:46:48 GMT -5
Wait, so sorry for my unintelligence, but what's your point? I don't see a bigger picture...
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Post by Dante on Oct 4, 2009 12:55:23 GMT -5
The bigger picture is that we were wrong in our assumptions of what the name was and didn't know the background explaining why that name was chosen. There was a bigger story than we were aware of.
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Post by Jessica Snicket on Oct 5, 2009 20:25:57 GMT -5
That's really cool. Too bad I don't have the money to pay for things like that :P
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