Comments on: Banner Ads I Don’t Understand, Pt. 8

By: moogsyqueefbone

moogsyqueefbone — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:36:17 +0000

i won a colouring in competition once.
i think i was 15.
haha. stupid kids. i colour better than them!
AND i won a sesame street tape!

By: jsp

jsp — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:16:38 +0000

Welcome, Phil!

Also, may I just say you guys are pissing all over my illusions about contests?

By: The Boy Saunders

The Boy Saunders — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:39:04 +0000

Along the same lines, I recently won an all-expenses paid trip to Nashville (which is more impressive when you consider I was flying in from the UK). After getting drunk with the competition organiser he revealed my ‘win’ was purely down to the fact that I live five minutes from Gatwick Airport and thus the organisers wouldn’t need to pay to put me up for the evening before the flights.

He also told me that a lot of the other tickets went variously to his friends and ‘girls who sounded as if they may be hot’. Dammit, I want a job like that.

By: jsp

jsp — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:21:52 +0000

Tricky bastards! The folks at Y! don’t seem to care where you go, though, according to the rules:
“4. Prize: Ten prize winners will each receive round trip coach class air transportation for the winner ONLY, valued at up to $2,500, from a major U.S. airport close to each winner’s home (carrier and airport to be selected by Sponsor) to any major international airport around the world. Approximate retail value of each Prize: not to exceed $2,500 (Prize value may vary depending upon the actual cost of air transportation between winner’s points of departure and arrival at time of reservation).”

Key distinction: I wonder how you define “major”? Also, they don’t cover any taxes or fees, such as “taxes…passenger facility charges (PFCs), departure taxes.” Those can add up, so if you somehow are able to find something that maxes out the flight portion at $2,500, you’re going to take a big hit on the associated fees, I would guess.

Not a bad problem to have, though.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:07:38 +0000

Actually thats a common thing for companies to do. I know several people that work for companies who pick winners according to what will cost them the least.

I also know a company, who I may or may not have worked with very recently, that picked its winners according to how much business they were likely to get from the recipients company.

Whoever said that life was fair was in fact blissfully ignorant.

By: moogsyqueefbone

moogsyqueefbone — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:52:58 +0000

maybe they’ll be like another company i know and screen the entries so that they can get away with the cheapest ticket possible…
i’m sure the flights to ‘demoines’ are packed full.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:33:10 +0000

It’s actually a really good movie. Although of course it lacks the draw of it’s Spagetti Western spin off The Magnificent Seven, namely the shining bald pate of Yul Brynner!

By: jsp

jsp — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:00:54 +0000

Re: The Samurai, god I know. I rented it like 5 times but just could never muster the energy to get started, knowing more than 3 straight hours awaited me… At last my shame has ended.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:28:59 +0000

PS You’re just now seeing The Seven Samurai? Christ, maybe you should rent Casablanca or Dr. Strangelove. I’ve heard those are good.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:24:17 +0000

What an unexpected honor! Demoines has joined the prestigious list of the Top 5 Most Important Cities of North America. Who would have thought it would have edged out the entire Eastern Seaboard? Even our proud megacities were snubbed. Indeed, maybe the Miami bullseye is obscuring it, but it looks like New Orleans has been utterly wiped off the map.

So huzzah for Demoines (contractual name change to be shortly passed by the City Council); it could use the increased tourism.