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Hatman
Member Since: Thu Jan 01, 1970
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Subject: My thorough command of useless information was actually useful!
Posted Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 04:09:05 pm EDT (Viewed 391 times) |
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I inadvertantly won 2 free movie passes to a movie premiere in a few weeks from a radio station. The station has an on-line Bonus Rewards system; part of it is 4 Bonus Code Words that are given out 4 times a day. You hear the word, enter it on-line, and you get points that can be used for raffles and Buy it Now items. Since I have the radio on in my office every day (I work alone, I need some company!) I play along.
So the other day I missed the first word, but I caught the 2nd, "slag". I remember thinking that's pretty easy to remember, it's a Dinobot. Then the next word was "swoop". It didn't hit me until the last word, "sludge", that these were all names of the Dinobots!
Just for fun, I e-mailed in to say "That can't be a coincidence that all of the Bonus Words are Dinobots!". I got an e-mail back stating that it was Transformers week and since I called them on it I won the movie passes. They don't even advertise that as a component of the Bonus Words, so it was neat to find out that way.
Today (new week) I missed the first word, but the 2nd one was "Commander". On a hunch I tried to input "Cobra", and what do you know, I was right. I e-mailed in and even though I was right that it's GI Joe week I didn't get more prizes though.
And who says watching cartoons will rot your brain? 
~Hat~
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HH says congratulations
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Subject: By definition if it was useful it isn't useless knowledge [Re: Hatman]
Posted Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 04:39:48 pm EDT |
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> I inadvertantly won 2 free movie passes to a movie premiere in a few weeks from a radio station. The station has an on-line Bonus Rewards system; part of it is 4 Bonus Code Words that are given out 4 times a day. You hear the word, enter it on-line, and you get points that can be used for raffles and Buy it Now items. Since I have the radio on in my office every day (I work alone, I need some company!) I play along.
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> So the other day I missed the first word, but I caught the 2nd, "slag". I remember thinking that's pretty easy to remember, it's a Dinobot. Then the next word was "swoop". It didn't hit me until the last word, "sludge", that these were all names of the Dinobots!
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> Just for fun, I e-mailed in to say "That can't be a coincidence that all of the Bonus Words are Dinobots!". I got an e-mail back stating that it was Transformers week and since I called them on it I won the movie passes. They don't even advertise that as a component of the Bonus Words, so it was neat to find out that way.
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> Today (new week) I missed the first word, but the 2nd one was "Commander". On a hunch I tried to input "Cobra", and what do you know, I was right. I e-mailed in and even though I was right that it's GI Joe week I didn't get more prizes though.
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> And who says watching cartoons will rot your brain?
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> ~Hat~
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killer shrike
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Subject: Congrats [Re: Hatman]
Posted Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 04:46:57 pm EDT |
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Posted with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista
> I inadvertantly won 2 free movie passes to a movie premiere in a few weeks from a radio station. The station has an on-line Bonus Rewards system; part of it is 4 Bonus Code Words that are given out 4 times a day. You hear the word, enter it on-line, and you get points that can be used for raffles and Buy it Now items. Since I have the radio on in my office every day (I work alone, I need some company!) I play along.
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> So the other day I missed the first word, but I caught the 2nd, "slag". I remember thinking that's pretty easy to remember, it's a Dinobot. Then the next word was "swoop". It didn't hit me until the last word, "sludge", that these were all names of the Dinobots!
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> Just for fun, I e-mailed in to say "That can't be a coincidence that all of the Bonus Words are Dinobots!". I got an e-mail back stating that it was Transformers week and since I called them on it I won the movie passes. They don't even advertise that as a component of the Bonus Words, so it was neat to find out that way.
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> Today (new week) I missed the first word, but the 2nd one was "Commander". On a hunch I tried to input "Cobra", and what do you know, I was right. I e-mailed in and even though I was right that it's GI Joe week I didn't get more prizes though.
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> And who says watching cartoons will rot your brain?
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> ~Hat~
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Visionary is, um... impressed. Yeah. Let's go with that. ;-)
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Subject: Congrats! And.... Really? You know all the names of the *spoilers*? [Re: Hatman]
Posted Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 06:16:43 pm EDT |
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Posted with Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP
> I inadvertantly won 2 free movie passes to a movie premiere in a few weeks from a radio station. The station has an on-line Bonus Rewards system; part of it is 4 Bonus Code Words that are given out 4 times a day. You hear the word, enter it on-line, and you get points that can be used for raffles and Buy it Now items. Since I have the radio on in my office every day (I work alone, I need some company!) I play along.
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> So the other day I missed the first word, but I caught the 2nd, "slag". I remember thinking that's pretty easy to remember, it's a Dinobot. Then the next word was "swoop". It didn't hit me until the last word, "sludge", that these were all names of the Dinobots!
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> Just for fun, I e-mailed in to say "That can't be a coincidence that all of the Bonus Words are Dinobots!". I got an e-mail back stating that it was Transformers week and since I called them on it I won the movie passes. They don't even advertise that as a component of the Bonus Words, so it was neat to find out that way.
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> Today (new week) I missed the first word, but the 2nd one was "Commander". On a hunch I tried to input "Cobra", and what do you know, I was right. I e-mailed in and even though I was right that it's GI Joe week I didn't get more prizes though.
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> And who says watching cartoons will rot your brain?
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> ~Hat~
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CrazySugarFreakBoy!
Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004
Posts: 1,235
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Subject: Good for you! Now I just need to find a radio station which will reward my Jenna Jameson knowledge. [Re: Hatman]
Posted Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 08:58:18 pm EDT (Viewed 337 times) |
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HH
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Subject: Alas for CSFB!, she has never had her own Saturday morning cartoon show. [Re: CrazySugarFreakBoy!]
Posted Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 07:22:58 pm EDT |
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Scott
Location: Southwest US
Member Since: Sun Sep 02, 2007
Posts: 326
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Subject: Re: By definition if it was useful it isn't useless knowledge [Re: HH says congratulations]
Posted Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 07:23:29 pm EDT (Viewed 434 times) |
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Scott
NIGHT CHILDREN: THE BLOG.
Come see!
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Scott
Location: Southwest US
Member Since: Sun Sep 02, 2007
Posts: 326
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Subject: Re: By definition if it was useful it isn't useless knowledge [Re: Scott]
Posted Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 07:26:34 pm EDT (Viewed 412 times) |
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Posted with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP
Scott
NIGHT CHILDREN: THE BLOG.
Come see!
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