# 15 minutes could save you 15% or more...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-minutes-could-save-you-15-or-more/491537>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 1, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-minutes-could-save-you-15-or-more/491537 "2009-04-01T03:09:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-minutes-could-save-you-15-or-more/491537/41 "2009-04-03T15:23:55Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> Now, I’ve always hated the use of this word in advertising. IMO, if you say that something is free, then hand it over. If I have to take any steps to get what you say is “free”, then it is no longer free.

That got me dangerously close to ranting about grocery store loyalty cards. I need to go punch puppies until I calm down.

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**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-minutes-could-save-you-15-or-more/491537/42 "2009-04-04T03:43:17Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> So, they’d come up to the register with a bottle of “Tide Free” and I would get to explain to some nice little old woman who spoke pretty much no English that “free” didn’t mean “free”.
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> -Joe

Wasn’t that a joke in _Back To the Future_ with the Pepsi Free?

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