My late wife used to fill out those Publishers Clearinghouse forms with all the stickers. She’d give them to me to stamp and mail when I got to work at the Post Office. I don’t need to say where they ended up’ Now, I kinda feel bad about it’.
G’day Jason, Barb, Dry, Joe, Lonewolf, Bjorn and all Meggsie fans.
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip!
Gotta mention this. Some years ago I did just what Sarah Meggs has done, I sent in for every free competition I could lay my hands on. What did I win? A great big fat nothing! In the end I concluded it was all a waste of time and gave it away.
This was at a rather difficult time in my life and when a delivery van driver raced into my shop with a parcel one day I was really (seriously folks) worried. I put the parcel in the bath with a brick on top of it and covered it with water. After it had soaked for a day I opened the soggy mess only to find that I had won a rather nice radio as a consolation prize. About 6 months earlier I had sent a chewing-gum wrapper in as an entry in a competition to win a car.
Just thought I’d tell ya’.
Oops, cats are meowing for their dinner, back later on.
my mom used to enter a lot of contests too, and she sometimes won some pretty nice things,
once she got a $50 gift card to a grocery store, and back in the late 50’s that was a lot of food.
I worked at a firm where there was a group of chaps who had formed a lottery syndicate. This was in the days when there was no other way to buy a ticket except to go to a newsagency. One of the group who lived just around the corner from a newsagent had the job of buying the weekly ticket for the Saturday draw. Every little while they would win a minor prize and the ticket buyer would divvy out the winnings.
One day they won the big one - the ticket buyer failed to show up at work. The fact was he fled. He had been pocketting the cash each week and paying the minor prizes himself.
Whenever I went to Shows and Exhibitions I would always enter the ‘free’ competitions for window drapes, skylights, aluminium windows, you name it. Gave it away when I twigged that those companies were simply collecting names and addresses of people who did not have those things and every entrant got a prize in the nature of being pestered to death by salesmen.
I once won a car. They called to tell me I won about 2 weeks after I bought a new car. Ever since then, when I need a new car, I put it off a few weeks, just in case.
ottod I once entered a free competition to win a car. I received nothing but pestering salespersons phoning me with super deals. I never wait anymore for anything; that way I can tell the enterprising sales people they are too late.
The Duke 1 over 14 years ago
Morning, all!
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
Do you think maybe this time………………………
G’Day Joe, Jason, Usfellers and ALL Meggsie fans!
Templo S.U.D. over 14 years ago
Are the Meggses going to /pah-ree/?!
By the way, what is the average cost of shipping mail within Australia?
lewisbower over 14 years ago
My late wife used to fill out those Publishers Clearinghouse forms with all the stickers. She’d give them to me to stamp and mail when I got to work at the Post Office. I don’t need to say where they ended up’ Now, I kinda feel bad about it’.
usfellers over 14 years ago
G’day Jason, Barb, Dry, Joe, Lonewolf, Bjorn and all Meggsie fans.
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip!
Gotta mention this. Some years ago I did just what Sarah Meggs has done, I sent in for every free competition I could lay my hands on. What did I win? A great big fat nothing! In the end I concluded it was all a waste of time and gave it away.
This was at a rather difficult time in my life and when a delivery van driver raced into my shop with a parcel one day I was really (seriously folks) worried. I put the parcel in the bath with a brick on top of it and covered it with water. After it had soaked for a day I opened the soggy mess only to find that I had won a rather nice radio as a consolation prize. About 6 months earlier I had sent a chewing-gum wrapper in as an entry in a competition to win a car.
Just thought I’d tell ya’.
Oops, cats are meowing for their dinner, back later on.
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
Hello, Lewreader!
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
Funny story now, Usfellers. LOL
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Oh Lew, you might have won millions, and you threw them out!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Morning JFri, Jsaon, Joe, usfellers and all Meggsie Fans.
bald over 14 years ago
my mom used to enter a lot of contests too, and she sometimes won some pretty nice things, once she got a $50 gift card to a grocery store, and back in the late 50’s that was a lot of food.
usfellers over 14 years ago
I worked at a firm where there was a group of chaps who had formed a lottery syndicate. This was in the days when there was no other way to buy a ticket except to go to a newsagency. One of the group who lived just around the corner from a newsagent had the job of buying the weekly ticket for the Saturday draw. Every little while they would win a minor prize and the ticket buyer would divvy out the winnings.
One day they won the big one - the ticket buyer failed to show up at work. The fact was he fled. He had been pocketting the cash each week and paying the minor prizes himself.
Whenever I went to Shows and Exhibitions I would always enter the ‘free’ competitions for window drapes, skylights, aluminium windows, you name it. Gave it away when I twigged that those companies were simply collecting names and addresses of people who did not have those things and every entrant got a prize in the nature of being pestered to death by salesmen.
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
Vile inn.
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
I once won a car. They called to tell me I won about 2 weeks after I bought a new car. Ever since then, when I need a new car, I put it off a few weeks, just in case.
usfellers over 14 years ago
Hi Chikuku and Joe
Shucks mates, maybe if a disgusting hotel could be called a fiddle hotel because it was a vile inn, then all would be seen.
Great stuff Meggsie’s pals, great stuff!
usfellers over 14 years ago
ottod I once entered a free competition to win a car. I received nothing but pestering salespersons phoning me with super deals. I never wait anymore for anything; that way I can tell the enterprising sales people they are too late.
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
I don’t enter contests any more either. I just don’t like to spend money, and I figure, “If it happened once…”
usfellers over 14 years ago
ottood What happened once? Somethings never happened at all for me! OH, let’s hear it fo usfellers, all together now - OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!