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What's New at TopPun.com |
A Lot is Happening With TopPun.com
Check out the section below for some of the latest Top Pun happenings, site updates, new designs, new products, specials,
free 100 buttons drawing winners, and more! |
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December |
Read Top Pun's epic poem,
"CHRISTMAS on WALL STREET - Occupying Humanity" |
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June |
Top Pun updates cool links section. Check out
Peace links,
Anti-War links,
Political links,
Gay-Lesbian links,
Martin Luther King, Jr.
links, Public Health links,
or ALL COOL LINKS.
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December |
Top Pun launches additional cool blogs to showcase
designs by theme or product. Check out:
Funny Political Stuff,
Funny Political T-shirt
Sayings.
Gay Lesbian Pride Day EVERY Day,
and
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day EVERY Day.
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November 16-18 |
Top Pun travels from Toledo, Ohio, to the
U.S. Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, and sells thousands
of buttons to thousands protesters.
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August 28 |
It was bound to happen -- Top Pun is on YouTube!
Top Pun's peace signs have gone multimedia! THANKS to Adrian du Plessis of Allison Crowe Music Management who created a
video montage with dozens of peace signs from my peace sign collection, and John Lennon's "Imagine" sung by Allison
Crowe. You can check it out on You Tube here:
Imagine Peace Signs or
download or listen to it here:
Peace Sign Song.
The file is big, about 12 MB, so be patient!
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April 1 |
 No
joke -- Top Pun is a proud member of the
Peace
Merchants Association! The Peace Merchants Association
is a non-profit organization, however,
it takes expenses to keep their website up and running. You can donate through
their site, and even help feed a hungry college arts major!
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March 31 |
Top
Pun launches the fully stocked CafePress store,
GayPrideDay2Day,
featuring over 340 of Top Pun's gay pride designs. This CafePress store
makes Top Pun's gay pride designs available on many more products, particularly
apparel in many different styles and colors. Top Pun will eventually offer
most designs through CafePress - stay tuned!
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March 17 |
Top
Pun marches on Washington to demand peace in Iraq. A busload of
Toledoans joined tens of thousands of other Americans to end the war in Iraq.
This is also the 4th year anniversary of Top Pun and two dozen other protesters
in Toledo getting arrested for "disturbing the peace" when merely trying to
"disturb the war."
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March 10 |
Top Pun adds 168 new designs to his Gay-Lesbian Pride
collection. Yes, this huge collection gives pause to even the creative
genius of Top Pun himself...ENJOY!
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January 27 |
Top
Pun marches on Washington to demand peace in Iraq. Two busloads of
Toledoans joined hundreds of thousands of other Americans to end the war in
Iraq. The Toledo City Paper provides excellent coverage of the event,
featuring Top Pun, in an article entitled, "Boys
Just Wanna Have Pun: Dan Rutt spreads peace through buttons at TopPun.com"
(see
Peace Through Buttons).
Peace buttons, featuring commemorative "Peace Surge" buttons, were sold, and
given away freely when necessary, through Top Pun's "pockets of resistance," a
walking vest with pockets. In full regalia, Top Pun can carry over 600
peace buttons! See
Top Pun in full
regalia with pockets of resistance and self-supporting three-sided sign as the
only overhead.
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2006 |
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December 21 |
Top
Pun adds "Google Checkout" as another online payment option. Of course,
you can still pay using Visa or MasterCard, PayPal, mail in your payment; or if
a non-profit or governmental organization, by purchase order (for orders $100).
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November 16-21 |
Top Pun travels from Toledo, Ohio, to the
U.S. Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, and sells thousands
of buttons to a record number of 22,000 protesters.
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October 17 |
Top
Pun adds the feature, "Product Reviews" (found at the bottom of every product
page), allowing customers, or just aficionados, to add their comments and
reviews on designs and products.
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August 18 |
Top Pun launches his official "Puns
Not Guns" Peace Blog. To further support human
writes, and in response to errorism, Top Pun declares a permanent play on wars,
a piece without end! Top Pun will make light of wars (whose light is worse than
its dark), declaring that the pun is mightier than the sword and justice is no
yoke. The “Puns Not Guns” Peace Blog expands the TopPun.com tradition of
quipping peacemakers with buttons, T-shirts, bumper stickers and a dozen other
products with their choice of hundreds of serious, funny, and seriously funny
sayings, slogans, and quotes.
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August 2 |
Top Pun modifies the
Free gift of
ten buttons with every web order, now for product orders of $10.00 or more.
You can either select a theme of the button assortment, or let Top Pun
personally select them for you, inspired by the designs that you order (and
maybe a surprise or two). This free gift is automatically added to your
shopping cart when you place $1.00 or more worth of Top Pun items in your
shopping cart. You can select from the following themes:
peace/anti-war, peace signs, anti-Bush, gay pride, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
anti-SOA (School of the Americas), public health, or Top Pun's choice.
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June |
During gay pride month, Top Pun supplies thousands
of pride-filled gay Americans with the best gay pride designs on buttons,
T-shirts, bumper stickers, stickers, coffee mugs, magnets, and more!
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April 29 |
Top Pun joins 350,000 peace protesters in New York
City for the march to end the Iraq war and bring our troops home.
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February 28 |
Top Pun adds PayPal as another payment option
(TopPun@TopPun.com). Top Pun also accepts Visa, MasterCard, checks, money
orders, purchase orders on orders $100+ from non-profit or governmental
organizations, and even cash, if you are lucky enough to meet Top Pun
face-to-face, or reckless enough to send cash through the mail.
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February 23 |
Grand opening of the greatest peace,
anti-George W. Bush and gay pride eBay store in the world, offering a select
collection of Top Pun designs and products. There will be great deals in
the store and even better deals in special auction listings -- eBay buffs and
bargain hunters will love it!
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February 13 |
Top Pun adds a
Free gift of
ten buttons with every web order of $5.00 or more.
You can either select a theme of the button assortment, or let Top Pun
personally select them for you, inspired by the designs that you order (and
maybe a surprise or two). This free gift is automatically added to your
shopping cart when you place $5.00 or more worth of Top Pun items in your
shopping cart. You can select from the following themes:
peace/anti-war, peace signs, anti-Bush, gay pride, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
anti-SOA (School of the Americas), public health, or Top Pun's choice.
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February 1 |
Top Pun lowers bulk pricing on coffee mugs for
quantities of 50 or more. Get bulk coffee mugs for as low as $4.49 each.
You can choose up to ten cool designs and still get Top Pun's great bulk
prices See new lower bulk coffee
mugs prices. |
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January 17 |
Top Pun expands SUPER SIZING to include
Buttons,
Magnets,
Key Chains,
and
Pocket Mirrors.
SUPER SIZING moves the product from the standard size 2-3/8 inch diameter to a
huge 3-INCHES diameter. Of course, with Top Pun, as in the rest of
America, there are only two sizes: big and bigger! SUPER SIZE any
button, magnet, key chain, or pocket mirror for only 99 cents (or less with
bulk quantity discounts). |
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January 16 |
Congratulations to Sarah Caflisch, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, who won the December drawing to win 100 free
buttons. Sarah didn't even know that she was eligible for the
drawing every month as a TopPun.com newsletter subscriber! |
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November 29 |
Congratulations to Diana Vallarta, Woodstock,
Illinois, who won the November drawing to win 100 free
buttons. Diana was a protester who visited Top Pun's table at the
vigil to close the U.S. Army's School of the America's. |
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November 19-20 |
Top Pun travels from Toledo, Ohio, to the U.S. Army
School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, and sells thousands
of buttons to the record number 20,000 protesters. Top Pun donates
hundreds of anti-SOA buttons to SOA Watch, the national organizing group. |
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Sept. 30 |
Top
Pun adds a monthly drawing to win 100 free
buttons! Enter by signing up for Top Pun's free monthly e-mail
newsletter (sign-up available through any product or category page on the web
site); then you are automatically entered for the free drawing EVERY month
for 100 buttons. |
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Sept. 24-25 |
Top
Pun marches on Washington, D.C. with hundreds of thousands of other protesters
to end the war in Iraq. Thousands of Top Pun buttons and bumper stickers
made it into the hands of protesters from around the country.
Congratulations to protester Meryl Schultz of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, who
won the drawing for 100 free Top Pun buttons! Top Pun commits 10% of
anti-Bush, anti-war, peace and
peace sign product web sales (thru 10/31/05) to
benefit
United for Peace and Justice, the organizers of the March on Washington. |
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August 18 |
Top
Pun launches another set of 10 free
posters and 10 free computer wallpapers
from Top Pun's recently launched world's largest peace sign/peace
symbol collection.
Feel free as part of Top Pun's "Free for All" to share your free
peace sign posters and free
peace sign wallpapers with friends and enemies alike!
Peace posters free for all! |
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August 3 |
By popular demand, Top
Pun launches a new product line,
Bumper Stickers,
immediately offering the largest selection of peace and justice
bumper sticker designs from a single source
anywhere on the worldwide web -- for a message that will stick, weather it's
peace sign bumper stickers,
funny anti-Bush bumper stickers, or
political bumper stickers. |
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July 20 |
 Top
Pun launches the world's largest peace sign collection and
peace sign store. Browse 1,490
different
peace signs-peace symbols in a dozen
categories:
Simple Peace Signs
Psychedelic 60s
Peace Hands
Peace Flags
African American
Word Picture Peace Signs
Peace Quotes
Anti-War Quotes
Too Cool
Saying-Slogan
Peace Signs Other Peace Symbols
ALL Peace Signs
Top Pun also launched another 98
new designs in assorted categories.
Don't forget to download your free
peace sign posters and
peace sign wallpapers.
Top Pun pays homage to hundreds
of authors by incorporating hundreds of their
famous peace quotes and not-so-famous
anti-war quotes unto peace sign designs. With your help, Top Pun expects that peace will
break out sometime soon...
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June |
Top Pun storefront makes the internet scene through
MonsterMarketplace shopping portal--Top Pun's Peace Buttons and Peace Products,
just another way for virtually all peacemakers to access Top Pun's unique
peace, peace sign, anti-war, anti-Bush, gay pride, and other great designs and
cool products. |
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April 25 |
Top Pun reports first quarter prophets, exceeding
General Motors by 1.1 billion. Business Weakly Online reports that
"What's good for Top Pun is good for America." |
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April 19 |
Top Pun exterminates hundreds of missing links by
adding hundreds
cool links in 13 link categories:
peace
Links (37 links),
anti-war
Links (15 links),
anti-bush
Links (13 Links),
POLITICAL
Links (16 Links),
gay/lesbian rainbow
pride Links
(18 Links),
Dr. martin luther king,
jr Links
(7 Links),
public health
Links (3 Links),
anti-school of the americas (Anti-soa) Links
(9 Links),
puns
Links (5 Links),
t-shirt guides
Links (3 Links),
buttons Links (9 Links),
Free Stuff
Links (18 Links),
top puns
personal favorites Links (12 Links). |
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April 12 |
Top
Pun rallies with thousands of other Ohioans at the Ohio Statehouse. This
rally was organized by The Campaign to Protect Ohio's Future. Top Pun
participated as part of Jobs with Justice Toledo, which took three buses full of demonstrators
(see
Jobs with Justice pledge). The Campaign to Protect Ohio's
Future is a coalition of over 370 health, human services, primary and secondary
education and higher education organizations, which calls on Ohio Legislators to
protect Ohio's most vulnerable citizens by restoring or adequately funding vital
services through a responsible budget that as its primary priority meets basic
human needs and providing sufficient funds to invest in Ohio's future. Top
Pun took over 80 photos from the April 12th rally. View
protest pictures from this rally. |
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January 26 |
Top Pun launches the Gay Pride Rainbow Store,
with over 180 gay pride designs in 11 categories on 14 different products.
Check out the Rainbow Store Specials on buttons, T-shirts, stickers, and mini-posters.
And if that's not enough, Top Pun has
free gay pride stuff, such as
free gay pride posters, and
free rainbow wallpapers. Make every day
gay pride day! |
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2004 |
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December 14 |
Got MLK? Top Pun launches the world's largest Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. web store, with over 55 designs on 14
different products, featuring 38 MLK quotes. Plus, there are now
Martin Luther King Specials on buttons,
T-shirts,
stickers, and mini-posters.
And if that's not enough, Top Pun has
free
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stuff, such as
free MLK posters, and
free MLK
computer desktop wallpapers. Make every day
Martin Luther King Day! |
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November
19-21 |
Top Pun travels to the U.S. Army School of the
Americas at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, and sells thousands of buttons to
the approximately 15,000 protesters. Congratulations to SOA protester Samuel
Tyx of Goshen College, Goshen, IN, for winning the drawing for 100 free Top
Pun buttons. |
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November 2 -ELECTION DAY |
Top Pun, hoping to privatize Bush and get out of
the Bush-bashing business, is sorely disappointed. In the post-election
aftermath, TopPun.com experiences its heaviest traffic as baffled and
frustrated Americans attempt to cope with the apocalyptic future. Of
course, many do this by shopping, which ironically thwarts Bush's job plan by
inadvertently creating a job! |
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October 13 |
Top Pun launches the World's Largest Anti-SOA Web Store
on the planet. Top Pun has teamed up with SOA Watch to close the U.S.
Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. Top Pun
will donate to SOA Watch 10% of anti-SOA product sales through December 31,
2004. Top Pun has over 40
Anti-SOA Designs available in 14 products. There are
anti-SOA specials on buttons, T-shirts, stickers, and mini-posters.
And if that's not enough, Top Pun has
free anti-SOA stuff, such as
mini-posters, and
computer desktop wallpapers Let's shut down the SOA! |
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August 23 |
Since the June 3rd launch under a new web host, Top
Pun has been visited by persons in at least 67 countries, including
Argentina, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cocos Keeling
Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece,
Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia,
South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and
Vietnam.
TopPun.com has also been visited by the United
States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Department of Defense,
Joint Forces Command, Pentagon, Strategic Command, Office of the Secretary of
Defense, and the infamous nipr.mil, the
U.S. military's web portal to the underbelly of the web - - Nipr.mil is not
a single domain a but a hush-hush web proxy that acts as a gateway for
hundreds of U.S. military domains in order to hide their identities. It was
established by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in response to a
memorandum (CM-5 1099, INFOCOM) issued in March 1999 by the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, calling for "actions to be taken to increase the
readiness posture for Information Warfare." "Uncontrolled Internet
connections," the document says, "pose a significant and unacceptable threat
to all Department of Defense information systems and operations." (From
Bhopal.net)
TopPun.com has become the largest of
approximately 4,000 web stores hosted by MonsterCommerce.com - - look out
U.S. military-industrial complex! |
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June 3 |
Top Pun launches web site under new web host with enough capabilities to host the world's largest anti-Bush web store, with over 150 designs in 14 products to dump King George for good! So-called "President" George W. Bush look out! |
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May 5 |
Top Pun crashes his web host by loading too many products! Looks to upgrade web host to host the world's largest anti-Bush web store! |
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May 1 |
May
Day! Top Pun joins the ranks of the uninsured and the George W. Bush
health plan - PRAY THAT YOU DON'T GET SICK or HURT!! Are you a bleeding
heart liberal in need of universal health care? |
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April 9 |
Good Friday! Top Pun quits his "day job" too due TopPun.com full time. Let's maximize some prophets! |
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February 20 |
Top Pun puts one over on Ohioans for Carry Concealed when they accused Top Pun and the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence as being "extremists" for offering of a free "Weapon Free Zone" free poster to declare your Ohio building a weapon free zone. The Ohioans for Carry Concealed web site ended up showing these graphic messages (one & two) on their web site when they made the mistake of linking 'live' to graphics on TopPun.com! Thanks for the link, guys. That's what you get for violating copy right laws... |
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February 1 |
Top Pun launches the Ohio Coalition Against Violence web store and a "Weapon Free Zone" free poster to declare your Ohio building a weapon free zone. |
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Top Pun adds 8 free posters to celebrate National Public Health Week, April 5-11, 2004 |
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January 12 |
Top Pun launches APHA Affiliate fundraising and promotion program as part of Top Pun's Fund Raising programs. |
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2003 |
Nov. 22-23 |
Top Pun is in Columbus, GA, at the protest to close down the SOA (School of Americas or School of Assassins), now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC). Top Pun says "WHISC
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Nov. 16, 2003 |
Newly re-designed web site launched. Over 90 designs
(from
anti-war and
anti-Bush to
peace and
political activism) and a dozen product lines,
such as T-shirts, buttons, stickers,
key chains,
magnets, posters, aprons, beverage can
coolers, and
cool, funny, unique coffee mugs and
caps. Your shopping cart will automatically give you quantity discounts when you check out (may not show up in shopping cart immediately, but will show up before payment).
Get your
peace buttons and
funny political T-shirts today! |
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