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'Jackass Number Two' - Featuring Kum & Go T-shirt - Now on DVD.


Movie and T-Shirt Combo Available Online

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents.  -- Kum & Go, one of the nation's leading convenience store chains, is having its own DVD-release party for one of this year's top grossing movies.

"Jackass jackass: see ass.  Number Two," which is a sequel to the 2002 movie, "Jackass" that spawned from the hit MTV MTV
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 show, opened nationwide on Sept. 22, 2006, and immediately rose to the top of the box-office charts. The movie grossed $11.4 million its opening night and outpaced all movies over its first weekend of release, bringing in $28.1 million. The movie remained no. 1 for its first week, and by the end of November the movie had grossed $72.6 million.

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 is wearing a black Kum & Go T-shirt. In the scene Knoxville is testing Embassy security machines that shoot high-speed projectiles at suspected offenders.

This small amount of exposure has had a significant impact on Kum & Go's online merchandise sales. Since the movie premiered, hundreds of shirts, ball caps and mugs have been purchased on the company's web site, with the most popular item being the aforementioned black Kum & Go T-shirt.

Now the c-store chain is taking the promotional concept a step further by offering a DVD-shirt combination for sale on its web site for $30. Demand is expected to be high for this exclusive online offer.

To learn more visit www.kumandgo.com and click on the "Jackass Number Two" movie poster.

About Kum & Go, L.C.

In 1959 in Hampton, Iowa Hampton is a city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,218 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Franklin CountyGR6.

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 to showcase the ease and convenience they instilled in a shopping experience. Thus Kum & Go was born. Since then the convenience store chain has grown to more than 445 stores in 13 states (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). , Oklahoma, South Dakota, Colorado, Arkansas, Wyoming and Wisconsin).
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