$500 Gift Certificate Contest For “Most Friendly Twitter” From Cartoonist Rick London

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TOP GOOGLE OFFBEAT CARTOONIST AND  E-GIFT SHOP OWNER OF LONDONS TIMES CARTOONS & GIFTS  OFFERING $500 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO LUCKY TWITTER WHO CAN PUT HIM AT THE VERY TOP (OF TWITTER)  (If he doesn’t go to “The Twitter Top” he’s still giving a $250 gift certificate to the one who retweets him most)

Dateline: Hot Springs,Ar. March 11, 2009:   Cartoonist E-entreneur Rick London announced today his firm, Rick London Group, LLC., is offering a $500 gift certificate to his award-wining top-ranked offbeat cartoon funny gift stores, if Twitters will put him at the top of Twitter. Making it “to the top” simply means having the most followers. (His user name is “ricklondon”) on Twitter.

London is the founder of Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon, Londons Times.

London’s six award-winning Internet stores feature over 165,000 gift items such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, gourmet coffee gift baskets (his own line of farm-fresh coffee beans with cartoon mugs and coasters, teddy bears, maternity wear, magnets, buttons, jogging suits, caps, aprons, hoodies, shoes, wall and desk clocks, and much more more.

London is also the designer of (Shoes That Amuse) women’s casual sneakers with famous love quotations and graphics of the famous person who penned them, featured recently in USA Today and AP Wire which will also be included in the contest. London adds, “But not to worry, even if I don’t make it to the top, (Obama is there now), so we are also giving a $100 certificate for the most ‘retweets’.

So I really don’t have to be at the top for other Twitters to win. Simply following me and retweeting, and one can still win a $250 gift certificate, easily, without even a drawing. Second most retweets #50 gift certificate.

We simply count the retweets of each Twitter member at the end of the contest. A re-tweet is when another blogger at Twitter copies and pastes your tweet with an “RT” in front of it which stands for “retweet”,  giving the original blogger credit for the post, and, sharing it with , often a whole separate network of followers.

London will allow 120 days for the contest to end, and a name to be drawn at random on his birthday which is July 16th, when the winner will be announced, and paid on August 1 via Paypal or check (winners choice). London plans to print his page of followers, cut the names into squares, place them in a box, and draw one.

London adds, “In addition, we plan to issue a press release, if the winner wishes, including his/her name and web address to the wire services for yet more value to the prizes. Londons says, “There also will be a second prize winner, of a $250 gift certificate. In addition, a $50 second prize for the second most “retweets”.

The gift certificates will be good at all of London’s stores. He founded Londons Times on March 22, 1997, and it has grown to be one of the most visible sites on the Internet, and Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon and gifts since 2005.

He will also add an extra $25 bonus gift certificate if the winner has visited his main superstore site and signs up for his monthly newsletter. His stores include Rick London Special Editions Top-selling funny gifts Rick

LondonWear rare line of funny rock star memorabilia and other novelty gifts

Rick London Collection Huge variety of best-selling funny gift ideas

Londons Times Superstore Londons largest funny gift store and exclusively sells world’s only gourmet coffee cartoon gift basket (Londons Own Line).

Rick London Organics (organic cotton tees) bearing his top-selling cartoon images. Shoes That Amuse (World’s Only Famous Love Quotation Shoes) These are not cartoon products but women’s casual shoes he designs. For more information: contact: info@londonstimes.us

A Londons Times Cartoon

A Londons Times Cartoon

Rosie O. Vs. Barbara W. Can America Survive This Tragedy?

Rosy Hates Barbara….Can America Survive Such A Blow?

By Rick London c2007

www.londonstimes.us

While the Iraqi War continues to rage, Americans buy duct tape to wage war on terrorism, and our leaders are often misunderestimated, yet another tragedy hit. Anyone watching the news or having read Yahoo! Headlines yesterday now knows the real story right from the pages of herNew York Times best-seller, Rosie O’Donnell does not think well of Barbara Walters.

We are a young country but we are obviously a strong country. We have survived wars, attacks on our homeland, The Ricky Lake Show, The Spice Girls, the Hindenberg and Titanic, andnow, possibly the most horrid and confusing news of our lifetime the ramblings of possibly one of thegreatest talents of our (sic) lifetime, Rosy O’Donnell’s feelings toward an elderly kind journalist who continues to work hard named Barbara Walters.

     The first question of course that comes to most American’s minds is “who cares what Rosie ‘Donnell thinks about Barbara Walters, and come to think of it, who cares what Rosie thinks about very much.”

     In her book, Ms. O’Donnell explains her bumpy road and non existing relationships as the result of an “unhappy childhood”. Excuse me. Might I and millions of Americans who have never attackedBarbara Walters have our say of surviving dysfunction? Have we lashed out?

Now, if Ms. O’Donnell happens to read my essay, and thinks I am another dumb Mississippi hick who simply is a bigot and hates gays, that is her issue. I am not a wealthy man but when I do have extra money, I give it to causes that involve children, animals, and yes gay issues when I see one that makes good sense. I consider gays to be persecuted often, and I don’t think Rosy and I have a difference on that topic. I am a straight man, but I feel for their cause and movement. I do hope they receive equal rights one day. Many of us (straights) have come a long way in America. We do not care if you are gay, straight, or a Trappist monk. That is your business.

Which brings us back to, can America ever survive the horrors, and even more importantly will Ms. Walters be able to sleep without a sedative knowing that this queen of comedy, princess of talent, a woman with amazing cognitive abilities and a wit that could destroy a four year old child (that is if the child was home-schooled by bad parents; my feeling knowing most kids is they could outwit her by a landslide.

 But will America survive the outcome of the dynamics of this oh-so-important relationship? You know as well as I do that all of us, good bad, black or white, Christian, Moslem, Jew, or Atheist, all are thinking the same thing. If Rosie does not like Barbara Walters, then what does she think of me.

And if she does not think well of me, is life truly worth living?

This is bound to happen to many and please know that therapy is just a phone call away. Don’t besurprised, however, if the therapist you contact is shedding a tear as well. This is a tough day forAmerica, even for therapists. What if Rosie does not like that therapist? Can that therapist provide adequate medical care for you. I doubt it, and of course so do you.

But keep searching if the first therapist is in an obvious deep depression. There are surely many out there who only watch Nickelodeon and don’t even know how to read. They are usually the best.

   As the dust settles, and America tries to recover from this horrible tragedy, it will be like so many of the others we have endured and we remained united and stronger.

     Ten, twenty, even thirty years from now, you know like I do, people will be asking each other worldwide, “Do you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing, the moment you heard that Rosie O’Donnell didn’t like Barbara Walters?”

     You will pause, wax nostalgic, and finally answer with a deep pain in your gut. But you, like me, will survive. America, carry on.