Don Fleece Prank Huge Success!
ByI was proud to have played the part of Don Fleece via donfleece.com and on the Warrior Forum (damn those bastards are anal!).
Here’s the message Frank Kern sent out to his Shenanigans Team on Facebook:
Subject: Don Fleece Update
The Don Fleece prank was a massive success. For the first time since 1983 or something, John Reese was away from his computer for like 10 straight hours while he was out Christmas shopping. (Probably buying really nice stuff for me.)
And that just happened to be the time when we launched Operation Winter Storm.
Anyway – HOLY SHIT!
Apparently some people actually thought Don Fleece was *real* and called John’s office. One person even asked if they should return Traffic Secrets because they heard John ripped off some other guy,
There were apparently two threads on the Warrior Forum for a while.
I think two or three people there thought this was a marketing ploy to re-launch Traffic Secrets or something …or perhaps those posts were just made by team members. Hard to tell.
Ol’ Johnny was flipping out for about 30 minutes or so until I fessed up. Then we (naturally) had a laugh. Or 50.
What really amazes me is how big this got and how fast it all grew.
We were only “live” for about 10 hours and in that time it seems like lots of people were hearing about this new Don Fleece guy.
That was a surprise to me. I figured we’d just get John’s attention and have a little joke on him.
I’m amazed at how fast the Traffic Secrets buzz left our little group and went “main stream”.
And this brings me to a point I hate to admit:
ED DALE TOLD ME SO.
God I want to vomit from saying that.
A few years ago told me this whole social media thing was gonna be huge. I scoffed.
Crow never tasted so good.
Anyway – we have an official TRUCE with John.
And the rule is that whoever gets Punked last gets to pick the next …umm …well …victim.
So we’ll see who (xxxx) John picks (xxxx).
There’s someone (xxxx) I’d nominate but it’s ultimately up to John.
xxxx.
Talk soon,
Frank
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