Topic: Lyme Disease Race Car- A HUGE Success Thanks To YOU!
Tincup
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Here is wording that can be shared with others by email, face book or twitter.
THANKS!
The contest site just posted the race cars by top votes, which means that the many many thousands of people who are visiting that site will see our Race Lyme Disease Awareness Car! That is so huge! That is the kind of visibility that has been the goal all along!
Currently we are in the 24th position, out of over 74,500 cars!
We have 3 days left to try to make the Top 10 List and need several thousand more votes to do it.
You can vote once a day, so please share this email with everyone you know and encourage them to vote to help us Race Lyme Disease Awareness!
To see our car go to this link and click at the bottom where it says "View The Gallery".
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5566! And on the top row, in 20th position!
Lyme is now chasing cancer...
This page is a disease showcase - lol
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sometimesdilly
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robin-
yep, i hear ya. even worse, i really hate the idea of beating Mom, but....hey, ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.. Posts: 2507 | From lost in the maze | Registered: Aug 2006
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Great Job!!!! I voted and sent the link to everyone I could think of.
Hope I can remember to vote tomorrow!
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Hey - it just happened - we just passed 6000, with a 6002 count!!!
And I even get to follow another of Bill's reports!
Ok, let's see - I reported 3000 on Sat afternoon, so it took 3 and 1/2 days to double.
So, closing in on cancer now (we salute Linda too) and we ain't scared to pass Ain't Scared and be within vicinity of Remembering Mom (Lymetoo - the car on the left of our row, for breast cancer)
How far this goes depends on what two days left means - we could possibly end up on the 2nd page, if it means some time still -
So how about this idea: we list all the diseases on one car next year which can then finish first??!! Everyone can have a car panel on the All-Star diseases car - there might be a fight over the hood spot - I know - this is sick humor -
[ 03-17-2010, 04:18 AM: Message edited by: Robin123 ]
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Tincup
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Yo Robin937595..
I just checked and we passed 6,000! Came to say we now had 6,005, but you beat me to it.
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Hey there - you're up - I have an excuse - not too late here - but you? You don't sleep? I know, too exciting here -
Did you know that the site is still accepting car designs? Voting is closed, but they are allowing the public to design cars!
I know, because I designed three, and one went on! Won't tell you which one, since it was my practice car! If the others "make it out of the garage," then I'll say, 'cause I got more used to working with the graphic options.
But can I say this - it's fun - so I encourage more of us here just to play with it - Posts: 13116 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
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sometimesdilly
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1. 68,403- Super Kids--closed
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kam
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sometimesdilly
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TC- what time of the day did the car officially enter the race?
Whenever hour it was is the cut-off time for votes tomorrow, so would be good to know. Thanks.
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kam
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I will miss hearing the sound of the car's engine driving up when I go to the site to vote.
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6703! 700 more votes than last time I was here!
Going to pass Ain't Scared very soon!
RE OUR REMAINING TIME TO VOTE: TC put a message on page 2 - the Lyme car was approved on March 3 at 1:33:38pm EST. That's our ending time on Thursday, I believe, so get those votes in before that time, in your time zone!!
Report on a couple others: Lo and Izzy are going to pass top cars. They have just passed kids with heart disease. They will be the top-voted disease car - fight type #1 diabetes.
Leadfoot indeed has a leadfoot and has made it into the top ten. It is now gunning for the first page cars - watch out!
I just took another look at leadfoot's climb - every couple seconds its count goes up - almost seems like it's a bot -
And another look - every 20 seconds, leadfoot is up 6 votes. Now I'm going to hazard a guess - that this car is on automatic vote-gathering, to be qualified for the final car pick. My guess at this point. I wish they would keep the contest fair...
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Looking at some more cars: someone has honored TC with another "Lyme Awareness" car -
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I think we can do it - if everyone gets their vote in early enough tomorrow -
happy st pat's day - nice to be voting for a green car on this day!
(that last one's for the too-much-green-beer syndrome later on today. And SF is a st pat's party town, that's fer shure)
Haha again - you're right - we had our own little racing here at the end -
and Bill and I have been so polite - reporting in every time there's been a leeeetle vote change...
And hurry back, Dilly - we need another update Posts: 13116 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
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kam
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I think we need to at least get ahead of bite me!
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Alright - leadfoot has just made it to the first page. My question at this point: is this contest rigged? No car can go up 18 votes a minute steadily like this one is doing.
Still, this has been a total blast, and we're so proud of everyone's efforts - it's been a good feeling to not feel alone with this condition - that everyone is working together to bring attention to the cause - Posts: 13116 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
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RE OUR REMAINING TIME TO VOTE: TC put a message on page 2 - the Lyme car was approved on March 3 at 1:33:38pm EST. That's our ending time on Thursday, I believe, so get those votes in before that time, in your time zone!!
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Vote tomorrow morning!!!!
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Tincup
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Hey Robin 59837589...
I just checked out your two cars... Keyboard and Thanx... they are great!
I was going to vote on the blue color (so nice!).. till I saw the purple one. I like them both!
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Beat you to the punch - over 7000! Ees now 7066 - looking good for passing a couple more -
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Tincup
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You got me! I see....
7,109 votes showing right now!
I hope those voting vote early. Wish I knew for sure when the last day ended.
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Hi - we're guessing 1:33:38pm EST Thursday - if we get anymore, twill be a pleasant surprise -
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Bill, March 15 was the last day to qualify a car. Any car approved on March 15 is open for two weeks voting time.
That means we can still vote for cars we like - but only if they have lower counts than ours -
In the meantime, it is possible for anyone to design a car - it goes in the garage as "pending", and if we have behaved ourself in designing it, then they put it out, but there's no voting.
Looks like people are still going to town with the fun of the whole thing. So any of us can play with designs...
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sometimesdilly
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Woke up early and had to see what was happening here - wooo hooo!! Thanks for letting everyone know what's happenin', Dilly!
That car really looks good on page two - amazing to think that everyone moved it over a whole page. This collective vote experience should be written up!
For me, it broke the isolation of the experience, to visibly see each person's vote coming in from wherever, for everyone - it feels good!
Now that we've flexed our collective muscle, what's next?
I know - we send TC to the NASCAR races in May as a thank you -
One more comment - flicking back and forth a couple times, I can see the vote is coming in strong now - we have enough people voting daily now to potentially get enough votes in to pass some more cars -
Anyway, whatever happens, it's all good - Posts: 13116 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
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sometimesdilly
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In a few more hours the final chapter to this amazing show of unity and group effort will be written.
To review how we got this far this fast:
March 2- TinCup mentioned the race here on LymeNet and the few people reading her post got in a few teases.
March 3: The Lyme race car is officially entered into the race.
March 4: total of 140 votes
March 6: 262 votes total
March 7: 500 votes total
March 8: 838 votes total
March 9: 1015 in the morning, 1358 by midnight
March 10: 1542 votes
March 12: 2737 votes
March 13: 3131 votes
March 14: 3792
March 15: 4533
March 16: 5739
March 18th at 1AM: 7,000
March 18th, right now: 7,409
What a story, what an effort!!!
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