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  • #1

    Free Used paper....

    I just read bubble's post about people killing one another over free stuff and reminded me of a day many years ago

    I used to work at a theme park and some days as people left the park we would hand out survey packets asking how the park was. you got nothing in return for said survey and actually had to pay for your own postage to mail it back! No one ever wanted to take one. we were told to ask people

    "would you mind filling out a quick survey on your experience in the park today"

    which usually ended up with a hand wave and a curt "no thank you" halfway through the sentance.

    One day a friend and I got so fed up with trying to say the line we decided to try another tactic

    "FREE SURVEY!"

    and the people came, oh how they came. they tore them from our hands.. Pushed children out of the way for one, grab handfulls out of the baskets behind us. hid them in their pockets and ask for more.... people actually coming back to the exit gate and asking why they didnt get THEIR free survey.

    That was the day I truely learned the power of the word FREE
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    I truly believe that you could put crap in a paper bag - and by crap, I mean actual, real excrement - label it 'FREE' and people would knock each other senseless to get at it.
    Just to cut off any helpful suggestions: This woman was not blind, nor disabled. She was just a bitch. - Boozy

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    • #3
      Quoth MiddleofNowhere View Post
      I truly believe that you could put crap in a paper bag - and by crap, I mean actual, real excrement - label it 'FREE' and people would knock each other senseless to get at it.
      This is the basic principle behind 99.5% of the offers on Freecycle. :lol

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      • #4
        Would you like to take a survey?
        To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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        • #5
          FREE TIBET!!!

          ... Get it while it's hot.
          SC: "Are you new or something?"
          Me: "Yes. Your planet is very backwards I hope you realize."

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          • #6
            Quoth MiddleofNowhere View Post
            I truly believe that you could put crap in a paper bag - and by crap, I mean actual, real excrement - label it 'FREE' and people would knock each other senseless to get at it.
            Better yet, label it FREE CRAP --- That way, anyone who complains can be answered with, "What, are you accusing us of false advertising or something?"
            "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
            "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
            "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
            "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
            "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
            "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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            • #7
              Quoth Mr Hero View Post
              Would you like to take a survey?
              Do you like beans?
              Do you like George Wendt?

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              • #8
                Why yes, I would like to see George Wendt eating beans in a new movie! Although I don't think I would eat George Wendt's beans.
                Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                • #9
                  Quoth ShadowTiger View Post
                  FREE TIBET!!!
                  I'll take it!

                  Hello, China? I have something you might want, but it'll cost you. Yes, that's right. ALL the tea!
                  Sometimes life is altered.
                  Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
                  Uneasy with confrontation.
                  Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                    Why yes, I would like to see George Wendt eating beans in a new movie! Although I don't think I would eat George Wendt's beans.
                    Yeah, I didn't think that would really be to your taste, Irv.

                    Oh Sheldon.... do you like beans?
                    What colour is the sky in your world and how high of a dosage do you need before it turns back to blue? --Gravekeeper

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                    • #11
                      Quoth SteveZim1017 View Post
                      That was the day I truely learned the power of the word FREE
                      And the day you truly understood what marketing was all about.

                      Quoth MiddleofNowhere View Post
                      I truly believe that you could put crap in a paper bag - and by crap, I mean actual, real excrement - label it 'FREE' and people would knock each other senseless to get at it.
                      Hey, one man's turd is another man's treasure. After all, crap is highly valued by both farmers and terrorist bombers.

                      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is                       Still A Customer."

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Mr Hero View Post
                        Would you like to take a survey?
                        Do you like Beans?
                        I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
                        Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
                        Chivalry is not dead. It's just direly underappreciated. -Samaliel 9/15/09

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                        • #13
                          Even when the signs say FREE, I still get people not seeing said sign. Or biting.

                          Oddly enough, you slap on a Percentage sticker, and they go gaga over it.

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                          • #14
                            We had an old garden tractor that we wanted to get rid of. It didn't run and was mostly in pieces, but it did have a snow blade to go along with it. I out it out by our rural road, but with no sign, and figured it would be gone within hours.

                            After a couple of days it was still there.

                            My wife said that if I put a price on it people would assume that it had value. I did so, and sold it for $45. Sometimes free equates to worthless, and putting a price on it can impute value to a piece of crap.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth MadMike View Post
                              I'll take it!

                              Hello, China? I have something you might want, but it'll cost you. Yes, that's right. ALL the tea!
                              I was waiting for the Family Guy quote

                              High five!

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