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06-15-2003, 04:29 PM
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Never trust an M&M - my brush with fortune.
So I went to the store today to purchase a bag of M&M's. It's Father's day, you know, and I wanted to make some M&M cookies for my Dad. I strolled down the candy isle and spotted the M&M's. According to the bag, they were having yet another contest. This time it was "Find The All-Groovy Bag of M&M's and Win $5,000 Each Summer For The Rest of Your Life!"
An All-Groovy bag, for those not in the know, is a bag of M&M's in which each of the pieces of candy is speckled with many different colors. It had pictures of a Groovy M&M right there on the bag. Anyway, I took my bag home and sat it on the table while I proceeded to make the cookie dough. When it was time, I opened the bag. And lo and behold, it was Groovy. I tried not to get too excited, but hey, we could all use an extra $5000 a year. My fingers sticky with cookie dough, I anxiously cut apart the bag to reveal the official game piece. My heart skipped a beat when I read those fateful words: Sorry, This Bag Is Not A Winner. Please Play Again! Upon closer inspection, I noticed that my M&M's were not groovy. It looked like they had many broken pieces of candy shells stuck to them. I guess that doesn't constitute them as being groovy. Bastards. 
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#3
06-15-2003, 05:10 PM
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I want groovy M&Ms.
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#5
06-15-2003, 05:52 PM
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Back in 2000, I think it was, Oreo had a promotion where you had to look for the cookies which had images of cars or dollar signs or whatever on them. My friend and I had to go through the entire bag and inspect each Oreo, for fear her kids would eat the ten-grand cookie or whatever. Needless to say, the promotion didn't last long.
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#7
06-15-2003, 07:20 PM
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Was your bag all groovy? Or just sorta-kinda groovy?
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#8
06-15-2003, 07:28 PM
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Hmmmm.
What's interesting is that on the site it says: Grand Prize $5,000 a Year for Life!* *maximum 50 years Are they telling me I only have 50 years of life left? Are they telling me I'm so disgustingly unhealthy I'll die early? If you don't end up finding the groovy bag, you can always sue them for that.
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#9
06-15-2003, 09:06 PM
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Man, like all this competition stuff is just a downer, you know. Like, M&M's are always groovy because they know they're part of the universe and in tune with what's happenin'. Cool. M&M's are never uptight, you know, like, they are what they are and they never put on some kind mask to play the man's game. Wow, that's a heavy thought, yeah. I'm just saying that like, you know, you shouldn't buy the M&M's because some establishment type tells you they're groovy, you should like be with the M&M's in their space and really experience the cosmic rush of M&M-ness. Become one with the M&M. Like, have you ever really looked at an M&M? Man, like, this is really a trip. The red one's talking to me dude--and he's wearing shoes! I'm freakin', man, I'm freakin'--the brown M&M's are no good, the brown M&M are no good!
Peace, love and freedom, man. Cool.
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06-16-2003, 10:19 AM
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#17
06-16-2003, 10:21 AM
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I wouldn't quit your day job if I were you, Qazzz....according to the Pepsi website the odds of being the grand prize winner are 1 in 1.047 billion. And, then, the odds of the grand prize winner actually scooping the $1 bn are one in 1,000: so the odds of winning that billion are one in 1.047 TRILLION. Makes the Powerball look like a good bet!
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#19
06-16-2003, 11:29 AM
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Are you sure they weren't "Groovy"?
A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with a co-worker when he suddenly stopped and examined the M&Ms he had just opened. They were all "Groovy" It took a few moments to find the weasel words on the package that said something like "If you find groovy M&Ms in your package you may be a winner" Oh well.
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#21
06-16-2003, 01:13 PM
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Just out of curiousity, does anyone know if anyone ever wins any of these candy-contest thingies?
Every time I hear of one of these new contests, I keep having a mental image that the winning bag o' M&Ms is sitting in a federal penitentary somewhere. Or maybe rotting away, completely forgotten, in a small gas station along a dusty stretch of I-10 in Texas...
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#22
06-16-2003, 01:24 PM
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There was a sweepstakes thingy about 20 years ago where pint bottles of Pepsi had letters on the underside of the caps. The goal was to spell out "PEPSI SPIRIT", and in order to limit how many people won, they printed varying numbers of the letters, with one letter being printed least of all. That was the "R".
I thought it was kinda funny that, all across the country, people were spelling out "PEPSI SPIT".
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#23
06-16-2003, 02:05 PM
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Another irritating thing about M&M's was their contest in which you had to enter some sort of code in their website to see if you are a winner.
The catch? You must register before entering the code.  But I can't... stop... eating... them. So my rage is still unvented.
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06-16-2003, 02:39 PM
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#25
06-16-2003, 02:52 PM
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Well, I must say I just bought myself a little baggie of Groovy M&Ms, and I didn't win either.
I noticed in my bag it was only the green and yellow M&Ms that were Groovy. 
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