New blog up and running!
Posted in The £1 blog on November 13, 2007 by the1poundblogPlease visit http://the1poundblog.blogspot.com/ for future updates! I shall no longer be using this site!
Week 4 - Going no where fast. Balance - *still* £4.00
Posted in The £1 blog on November 12, 2007 by the1poundblogOnce again its time for a blog update! this weeks update shall be pretty short as, believe it or not iv pretty much done naff all this week and i have not even received one donation!
Lately I have been asked by a few people: “why should i give you a pound?” and my reply is hell, you don’t have to give me any thing! This isn’t any sort of scam and your not going to get ripped off, the only thing I’m asking for is your generosity in giving me, a one off donation, of an insignificant sum of money. If i could get another million people to also be generous and donate that same small amount, it change my life forever! yet the only you’d be missing is £1, and is that £1 really that important to you? your £1 is more important to me, or rather ALL you peoples £1’s are important to me! And hey, if do make a million, i could pay you back your £1 off the interest i earn from it, if you sent me an email id be happy to!.
So once again people, this isn’t a scam, or con, or anything like that, I’m not asking you for your bank details, or to donate me £1 with a £100 hidden charge, or anything of the sort! All I’m doing is asking you to change one poor post student teenagers life by donating your spare change, that extra £1 stuck in your bank account you cant withdraw, or thous couple of coppers and 10 or 5ps sitting in a jar or in bottom of your wallet gathering dust, it could all go towards something meaningful if you, and a million people just like you, just generously donated it to a complete stranger!
Or as my long time buddy Lewis Phillips puts it in a comment on my blog post a few weeks back:
“fikerty fik fac giv me a tic tac murfayyyyyy!!!!! feee feee feeee fiiii foooo fummmmm is a kind fellow , he needs his money 2 drink on his own day in day out hiding from work and others who r better that him …..JOKE thats not murf , just pay the man or il crush ur head in a vice n brake ur wind pipe wiv an axxxx!”
So to avoid your eyes suddenly being brought closer together and your windpipe being violated with an “axxxx” Donate a pound via paypal today
Wow, well that went on longer then i was expecting so without further-a-doo heres:
Mr.Murphy’s Weekly link round up
The 8 most needlessly detailed wikipedia articles
UK chooses ‘most ludicrous laws’
5 Awesome Sci-Fi inventions (that would actually suck)
My next idea for a money making scheme is inspired by this!
The 9 most Manliest names in the world
See you all next week!
Week 3 - Better late then never.Balance-£4.00
Posted in The £1 blog on November 6, 2007 by the1poundblogYes, I know its a Tuesday and I’m late updating the blog! So, sorry to all of you.
The Balance the week has been upped to a grand total of £4.00! so thanks to my girlfriend for the extra 27p paypal charged me, and Mr.Mike Davies for giving me a pound last night, and don’t forget you can also Donate a pound via paypal!
Eventful week
Its been a pretty eventful week with a wedding, haloween, and bonfire night yesterday (the reasons why i didn’t update.) so ill try and keep this weeks round up as short as sweet as possible.
Last Tuesday i attended a ‘ Horror Film night’ at a student bar in Cardiff with my student girlfriend and her student buddys where i enjoyed beer and free popcorn:
(looking very happy with my beer and popcorn)
Sadly as it turns out we where only aloud to watch one film as the barmaid was only being paid till 11 o’clock after which the bar needed to close. Despite this the night was still good laugh as we watched Bad Taste a low budget cult classic from 1987, highly recommended if you haven’t seen it and love cheap gory B movies.
During the rest of the week nothing really worth typing about happened even on Halloween it was pretty quiet night with more police on the beat then trick or treaters. Friday I attended Rob and Elizabeth Walkers wedding! Which was a ruddy good old time. So congratulations to Rob and Elizabeth
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And then, bonfire night! The only time of the year you can set of large amounts of explosives without causing a major terror alert. After watching the displays from the local sea side resort of Barry Island me and several of my mates where to go and let of our own fireworks, however Lewis Phillips neglected to fill up his car with petrol, and most the night was spent sat at the side of the road drinking the stash of beer i brought along whiles we awaited rescue from some one with a petrol can.
Checking out the competition
Now into the 3rd week of my scheme to become a millionaire and still perhaps unsurprisingly no where near a million, iv decided to go and check out what other people, organizations,websites etc.. do to get the public to donate to them, and how it could help me make a million.
Wikipeida is a site i use pretty often when searching for quick information and as some of you might of notice, iv linked to it pretty often whiles writing blogs. Only 15,572 people have donated to wikipedia, which diminishes my optimism a bit that such a large popular site that is used by millions a day only had 15,572 donations and here i am trying to get a million people to give me a pound! Although by looking at this page it looks like I’m on the right track with using a tag line (one million people, one pound, one man) as well as quote on my page title!
Yes, Oxfam. These guys get people to give them money so they can fight poverty and hunger and all the other nasty stuff around the world. They also seem to like tapping on peoples sympathy nerve by showing lots of pictures of children being all poor and stuff. So perhaps i could use the same tactic to get people to donate to me!
(Yes that is me, back in more innocent times)
These guys help animals, and they don’t recieve any funding from the government so donations is what there really after to cover the £95million a year running costs! Similar the Oxfam dudes they litter there site with not starving children, but fluffy kittens and puppy’s. Inspired by this i have come up with a new slogan:
Murphs Weekly link round up
Got a wide selection for you lucky people this week! to make up for the late update.
5 *scientific* reasons why a zombie out brake could happen - Any one who knows me knows i love zombies! and theres 5 ways zombies could happen!
Cow attacks man - im linking this just for the great photo of the guy. just look at his facial expression! you can see the terror in his eyes.
Top Gear tiny car review - This is hilarious, i love top gear.
13 amazing jack-o-lanterns - some cool stuff
7 move deaths that be awesome to have on your tombstone
11 stunning photos of the earth
Some nifty Etch-a-Sketch creations!
25 most bizarre jobs - maybe i should look into some of these!
And thats it! See you all next week, hopefully on Monday this time.
Week 2 - Job hunting. Balance - £2.73
Posted in The £1 blog with tags halloween, hunting, job, links, money, pound on October 29, 2007 by the1poundblog*Edit* Yes i am a huge idiot, i have just realized the email for this blog is the1poundblog@hotmail.co.uk, not .com, after trying for half hour trying to sign in, so i have updated accordingly.
Hello once again readers! Although it hasn’t strictly been a week since my last blog update (I started this thing on a Tuesday) I’ve decided for simplicity sake to update this thing every Monday rather then Tuesday as that would make more sense for obvious reasons.
Only £999997.27 to go!
So far I have received a total of £2.73! But donations haven’t exactly come from complete strangers, the first £1 was donated from my student brother down in Portsmouth, and the second generous donation came from my long suffering girlfriend Kat which was a grand total of £2 (pay pal charged me 27p to accept it for some reason). So thank you both for getting the ball rolling and putting your government funded student loans to good use!
I have also been promised £1 from numerous people next time they see me, so hopefully the grand total will rise this time next week, so wish me luck! and if you want to show your support, remember you also can donate your spare change! Donate a pound via paypal!
Also iv noticed a lot of people like to promote them selfs, or there amateur bands etc.. over things like my space and face book, so in attempt to get this blog more traffic for my self, and to expose some of you talented music farts out there, donate a £1 to the cause and send an email at The1poundblog@hotmail.co.uk give some detail about your band, or what ever you want me to promote for you, a link to your site/my space/face book profile, and ill make sure to feature you in my next blog update! I may also be able to put your music up on the blog to play when people visit the site, although I’ll need to naff around with the settings to see if this is possible.
Job Hunting
After failing to make my million in the first week of this blog I have began to relies that i must look for another money making occupation, sadly that means working for a legitimate company on a minimum wage. After leaving my last job in a soul destroying supermarket environment i was determined not to return to such a place ever again. Wednesday I took a trip down town to the job center, where I joined fellow unemployed scum bags looking for job.
After half hour search it suddenly became apparent that the only jobs i where qualified for was part time farther Christmas and more supermarket work.
Unimpressed with my print outs from the job center.
But upon my walk back home devouring my heart disease inducing burger I noticed the local Loydds Pharmacy was looking for ‘Assistance’, guessing this meant they where looking for employees rather then anything sexual i decided to apply! Its now Monday and iv yet to hear of them, perhaps they don’t trust Mohawk sporting teenagers around large amounts of drugs.
Mr.Murphy’s *Weekly links
*might not be weekly
Now time for my weekly interesting/amusing link round up! Where i scour the interweb looking for links that interest me and possibly you too! This week iv decided to go with a slight Halloween theme since its Halloween on Wednesday.
Emergency Zombie defense station!- Some guys made a really cool zombie defense kit.
12 products from hell- some creepy looking and humorous products that are on sale around the world. (LOL @ the rap snacks)
The pumpkin house! - id say thats a rather large fire hazard.
And some not so halloween themed links:
5 drinking stories that put yours to shame
Lego creations - some seriously nifty Lego creations
10 kick Arse facts about Bruce lee
Also here are two links that where what gave me the inspiration for this crazy scheme:
The million dollar home page - A student from London made 1 million by selling pixels to advertisers.
One red paperclip - One man manage to swap his red paper clip for a fish pen, then swap that for something else and so on and so forth in till he managed to get a house!
Happy Halloween
So thats it for this weeks blog, hope you all had fun reading and remember you can Donate a pound via paypal! if you wish to support one mans quest to become a millionaire.
Happy Halloween for Wednesday!
Photo courtesy of long time buddy Lewis Phillips (yes, that is him) - edited by me.
The £1 blog - Week 1, introduction. Balance - 0.00
Posted in The £1 blog on October 23, 2007 by the1poundblogHello and welcome to the £1 Blog, one mans insane attempt to make a million pounds. First off, My name is David Murphy of Barry, South Wales, United Kingdom, I’m 19 years of age. Now, straight to the point -
I have started this blog to catalog week by week my exploration into just how generous complete strangers can be towards another, complete stranger. I’m sure many of you readers have had the same conversation with friends or family:
“Imagine if a million people, all gave you £1. (or $2 if your from across the pond)”
Yeah? imagine that! A million people, who would other wise used that one British Pound Sterling on something mundane like a chocolate bar or arcade machine, instead gave you one almost insignificant amount of currency. Yet all these people who wouldn’t even miss there £1’s would contribute to changing your life completely, especially now the UK population will be hitting 65m by 2016! Thats a lot of£1’s.
We’ll thats what I’m going to find out! I’m going too see if you could really get complete strangers donating there spare change to me, in effort to be the man who really did get 1 million people to donate £1 each.Insane? yes! Never going to work? Most properly not. Worth a try? hell yea!
So follow the link below (this thing doesn’t seem to like me using buttons with fancy graphics) to donate £1 or what ever spare change you have. And if you see me in the street, i accept cash to!
And now a little about me:
Born, but hopefully not bred yet in South Wales, UK. I live a simple existence in the town of Barry where a strive day by day to fill my time with fun teenage antics, and ludicrous schemes. So of course when i got the idea for the blog how could i resist! I am currently unemployed after leaving my last job a few weeks ago for the sake of my own sanity, working in a supermarket can really diminish all hope you have in humanity.
