One Dare, A Million Giraffes – Help Ola Kick Jorgen’s Ass

A-Christmas-Story Dare (verb): the act of challenging or provoking someone to do something bold, reckless or impulsive. Like Ralphie’s older brother, Flick, in A Christmas Story … a kid  dared him to stick his tongue on a frozen pole. At first Flick declined the challenge, but then the ultimate of dares was delivered … one that you cannot refuse … the infamous TRIPLE-Dog-Dare. Flick had no choice but to carry out the dare … resulting in his tongue being frozen stuck to the pole and having to be rescued by the Fire Department.

Not all dares are this epic, but still pretty classic are … licking a toilet seat – picking your nose and eating it – shaving off your eyebrows. Office dares are pretty cool too … at the end of a meeting, suggest that it concludes with the singing of the national anthem. Or how about next time you’re at a gas station, use the window washer to wash your entire car.

Challenging the epic “tongue on frozen pole” dare in A Christmas Story is the tale of Ola, Jorgen and a bunch of giraffe images. Poor Ola was TRIPLE-Dog-Dared by his friend Jorgen to collected one million giraffes by 2011. Ola could obtain these giraffes through any format, but the actual giraffe images could not be computer generated or store purchased objects … think drawings, paintings, sculptures, lego’s, etc.

So Ola dedicated his whole life to the million giraffes dare (it helps not to have a life). He’s created a web site … OneMillionGiraffes.com … which displays every giraffe collected, a blog and leverages Facebook and Twitter to beg for giraffes. Ola has become so obsessed that his site contains a worldwide map of user contributions and a statistics page which details daily giraffe receipts (total geek). He’s 147 days into the project, collected 337,812 giraffes … and with 421 days left, needs 662,188 to kick Jorgen’s ass.

Can he do it? Yes he can! Ola has recently launched a secret weapon. His very own giraffe collecting app … Giraffes!

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With the Giraffes! app, users can conveniently help Ola reach the one million mark by submitting their contributions from directly within the app. Giraffes! can also be used to browse Ola’s ever increasing giraffe collection (and we’re happy to report, no giraffe porn was found). Oh sure, creating an iPhone app solely based on completing a dare might seem a bit extreme (moronic) … but you gotta understand the nature of a TRIPLE-Dog-Dare, it’s very serious shit and something that is taken lightly.

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So help out this poor bastard. Download the FREE Giraffes! app [iTunes] … make a giraffe … and upload your image to his collection. Trust us, this quick and simple task will make Ola very happy. We know because we uploaded the KRAPPS Giraffe (complete with a KRAPPS.com tattoo on the giraffe’s leg) and Ola told us it made him happy.

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November 5, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment 

Comments

  • Kane Gruber

    Flick isn't Ralphie's brother. He's his best friend.

  • Ah yes, Ralphie had a YOUNGER brother … The kid in the over-sized
    snow suit. Thanks for the correction!

  • Ehouse

    Three (I've given Ola over 680 giraffes in various media, yes, I too, have no life) of my giraffes (one was leaves on my lawn while I was mowing, one is a cut out of cat food can carton, and the candy wrappers were left over from Halloween) are before yours in the bottom image. It's very sad how amused I am by their fleeting fame here.

  • Ehouse

    Three (I've given Ola over 680 giraffes in various media, yes, I too, have no life) of my giraffes (one was leaves on my lawn while I was mowing, one is a cut out of cat food can carton, and the candy wrappers were left over from Halloween) are before yours in the bottom image. It's very sad how amused I am by their fleeting fame here.