The Couchathon

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Archive for November, 2008

We’ve been “Sweeded”!

We’ve had a very good day here at Couchathon HQ as press is starting to really pick up. How good a day? We had more web traffic today by noon than the entire history of couchathon.com. Combined.
The best part of lots of traffic is seeing all the great blogs and websites that have taken [...]

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Meet the Ass-tranauts Part V: Matt and I

We conclude our thrilling introductory phone calls with Matt and I (on behalf of the rest of the RocketAce crew) ruminating on what the heck we’re getting into.
Now hopefully you have a better idea of the subtle dread and quiet panic that has been creeping into all our phone conversations for the last week! [...]

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Meet the Ass-tranauts Part IV: Tony

Part four (of five), the penultimate introductory “Couchathon” phone call combines the most heart-pounding elements of Sunday telemarketing phone calls, with Tony’s views on his Italian heritage. (Note: Tony’s views on his Italian heritage are not necessarily those of Couchathon.com, our sponsors, employees, or assigns… capice?)

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Meet the Ass-tranauts Part III: Eric

We continue with the third thrilling introductory phone call profiling our Couchathon ass-tranauts (no I’m not sick of that pun yet, thank you very much). In this one we combine the most heart-pounding elements of Sunday telemarketing phone calls, with speed-googling information about “Destiny’s Child”.

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Meet the Ass-tranauts Part II: Jon

As promised, the second of five thrilling introductory phone calls which combine the most heart-pounding elements of Sunday telemarketing phone calls, and my heavy mouth-breathing into a headset microphone.
In this episode: Jon demonstrates a (disconcerting) knowledge of the psychology of the rest of the group.

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Couchathon Live on 102.1 The Edge

Couchathon fans in the Greater Toronto Area (or anywhere blanketed by the radiation from Toronto’s mind controlling tower) will want to tune in to the Edge (102.1 FM) morning show tomorrow (Tuesday Nov. 4) to catch some of the Couchathon team talking about how this horrible, horrible, idea has taken on a life of [...]

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Meet the Ass-tranauts Part I: Dave

As promised we have five thrilling introductory phone calls which combine the most heart-pounding elements of Sunday telemarketing phone calls, and heavy mouth-breathing into a microphone.
In this episode: Dave kicks things off!

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