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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:32 PM
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My wife and I are WINNERS!!!!!!!
Edited on Thu Oct-23-03 03:32 PM by underpants
Apparently there is this great resort where you don't have to actually buy a house or condo you just use it when you want. So I get a call from someone who had gotten our names from her parents (they go to these presentations all the time) and we are going to win one of THREE GREAT PRIZES!!!

$30,000 towards a car
$500 in cash
Or a yearlong pass to a golf and ski resort..............

Now the odds of when the $30K are 1 in 20,000
the odds of winning $500 are 10 in 20,000
but the odds of winning the pass to the resort are 11,989 in 20,000

Wow! We can't lose.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:34 PM
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1. Usually it's something like...
$30,000 towards a car
$500 in cash
Or a yearlong pass to a golf and ski resort..............
or a set of platic steak knives.
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Salviati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:36 PM
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2. First prize: a new car!
Second prize: a box of steak knives.
Third prize: You're fired!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:37 PM
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4. The pass thing is what kills me
We got the flier last night and it is a pass....but no room is included, you have to buy that from them. I have never sat through one of these but like I said her parents go all the time.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:36 PM
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3. Yaaa!!! Congratulations!
By Jove...I think I have won today also!
A screen popped up on my computer that said:

YOU'RE THE 8,647,264,786 person to visit this site with the words..
WInner! Winner! Winner!

Aren't we Lucky Duckies!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:37 PM
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5. WOW you too?
Yes we seem to be on a roll.

:eyes:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:43 PM
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8. Damn! Me too!
Wait a minute.
How can we all be #8,647,264,786?
I think there's something fishy here.
;-)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:44 PM
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11. Maybe you both clicked on it at EXACTLY the same time
Maybe
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:50 PM
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13. BOY! What are the chances of THAT happening?
'mazin'
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:40 PM
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6. Don't waste your time
A scam.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:43 PM
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9. Ya think?
Gosh it sure did look nice in the flat green envelope it came in.

No kidding and it was hand addressed. I don't know if they think that is charming or if they are that cheap.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:50 PM
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12. beat me to it by ONE minute
I gotta work on my keyboard skills.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:51 PM
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14. Mee to
I would like the admin to just go ahead and but an "Last edited..." line on my posts because you wouldn't beleive the number of times I have to eidt.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:52 PM
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15. Okay, here's what we won
We entered to win an Explorer. Then about every couple months we got phone calls and mail that said that we made it to the next round. Finally, we were told that we were one of 10 couples to sin either the car, a vacation, or one of several prizes. All we had to do was go to Windsor, Ontario (just across the river) for a free dinner and find out what our prize was. We were quite excited at first. Then we started talking to people and did a search on the web. The deal is it's either a time share or a cruise that you have to pay for. They take you into a room and do a real sell job. So we resigned ourselves to the fact that we were taken. Well, almost. As they say, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:05 PM
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20. I always ask them if I can get fries with that.
They never let you.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:44 PM
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10. ya think?
;-)
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:42 PM
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7. yeah, I got that call, too... it's a timeshare
I would advise you to beware, but that's just me. ;-)
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:52 PM
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16. does your wifey golf?
i only ask cause i KNOW there ain't much skiing in VA :P

see if they will trade the *free* pass for a Monkey!

:bounce:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:00 PM
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17. She hits every club 150 yards
Driver or 9-iron it goes 150 yards doesn't matter. No there is skiing in Virginia, Wintergreen and Massanutten. A monkey you say?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:01 PM
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18. THAT isn't REAL skiing!
been to both :P

anyhoo, why not try to trade up for JASPER!!

:bounce:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:05 PM
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19. I'm not starting now
I used to date a girl form Vermont and an old friend of hers had never been skiing. When he fell 15 feet from the start-- the thing hitting him in the head was his ski boot. $35,000 in doctor bills later......
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:09 PM
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21. DANG!
Yippeeeeeeeeeee!!
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