**joke of the day** =)
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Ok here is the real joke of the day
From the Dallas Morning News:
David Phillips, an Engineering student at UT-Arlington, has become a cult
hero in the obsessive subculture of people who collect frequent-flyer
miles
by converting $3,150 worth of pudding into over 1.2 million air miles.
Oh
yeah, and he's also going to claim a $815 tax write-off.
Last May, Phillips was pushing his shopping cart down the frozen food
aisle
of his local supermarket when a promotion on a Healthy Choice frozen
entree
caught his eye: He could earn 500 miles for every 10 Universal Product
Codes (UPC bar codes) from Healthy Choice products he sent to the company
by
Dec. 31. Even better: Any Healthy Choice bar codes mailed to the
company
by the end of the month would rack up double the mileage, or 1,000 miles
for
every 10 labels. "I started doing the math, and realized that this was a
great deal, he said. "I wanted to take my family to Europe this summer,
and
this could be the way."
Frozen entrees were about $2 a piece, but a few aisles away, Phillips
found
cans of Healthy Choice soups at 90 cents each. He filled his cart with
them, and then headed to the checkout. He then headed to his local Sam's
Club, a warehouse-style discount store to find more soup. And there it
was
that he hit the mother lode. "They had individual servings of chocolate
pudding for 25 cents a piece," Phillips says, "and each serving had a bar
code on it. I did some more math and decided to escalate my plans."
Phillips cleaned out the store - bought every last cup of pudding in the
warehouse. He then asked the manager for the addresses of all the other
Sam's Clubs in the greater Dallas area, and with his mother-in-law riding
shotgun in his sport-ute, spent a weekend scouring the shelves of every
Sam's Club store from Denton to Hillsboro. There were 10 stores in all,"
he
said, "and luckily, most of them were right off the freeway."
He filled his garage to the rafters with chocolate pudding and stacked
additional cases in his living room and dining room. But Phillips wasn't
finished yet - he had the manger of his local Sam's Club order him 60
more
cases of the pudding. "A few days later I went out behind the store," he
said, "and there were two whole pallets of chocolate pudding with my name
on
them."
All in all, he'd purchased 12,150 individual servings of pudding. Around
this time, Phillips began to reveal his scheme to fellow members of the
Webflyer Web site where he posted an account under the name "Puddin'
Guy."
Phillips' tale was met with skepticism, if not outright disbelief, until
he
uploaded photos of his haul.
But then Puddin' Guy discovered he had a problem on his hands: The
deadline
for earning double miles was quickly approaching, and there was simply no
way that Phillips and his wife could tear off all those bar codes in
time.
"I had to come up with something to do with all that pudding, and fast!"
he
said. Phillips trucked the pudding to two local food banks and the
Salvation Army, which agreed to tear off the bar codes in exchange for
the
food donation. "We'd never seem anything like it," said Larry Hostetler,
community relations director for the Dallas Salvation Army. "We've
gotten
some large donations in the past, but always from companies and
institutions, not individual people. We really can't keep all the
pudding,
but this was such a novel idea, that we agreed to help David out."
Phillips got his bar codes in the mail in time to meet the deadline, and
then held his breath. "The promotion specifically said I could get the
miles for any Healthy Choice product," he said, "but still, it seemed
like
there was a good chance they'd get me on some technicality." But then
packages - large packages - began arriving in the mail from Healthy
Choice.
In all, they contained 2,506 certificates, each good for 500 miles.
That's
1,253,000 miles in all! Under the terms of the promotion, Phillips could
have the mileage posted in any airline account. He split 216,000 between
his Delta, United, and Northwest accounts, and posted the rest -
1,037,000
miles - to his American Airlines account. By surpassing the million mile
mark with DFW-based American, Puddin' Guy now has AAdvantage Gold status
for
life, entitling him to a special reservations number, priority boarding,
upgrades, bonus miles, and more on every American flight he takes.
While we talked on the phone, Puddin' Guy did a little math - as you
might
have noticed by now, he's very good at math - and figured out that the
scheme netted him enough miles for 31 round-trip coach tickets to London,
or
42 tickets to Hawaii, or 21 tickets to Australia, or 50 tickets to
anywhere
in the U.S.
"Wow - 31 trips to Europe for a little over $3,000," I said. "That's
less
than $100 a ticket!"
"Oh, it's better than that," Phillips said. "Since I gave the pudding to
charity, I can take a tax write-off of $815. So that brings the cost of
a
ticket to Europe down to about $75. I also charged all the pudding to my
Visa card that gets me American miles for purchases, but so far, Citibank
has not credited my account. By my calculations, the final cost of the
tickets should be around $55 each when I get all the credits."
As it turns out, Puddin' Guy didn't donate all his stash to the food
banks.
He kept about 100 servings for himself, and he's just about finished
them.
"Actually," he said, "I really like the stuff."
Healthy Choice has since cancelled the promotion.
From the Dallas Morning News:
David Phillips, an Engineering student at UT-Arlington, has become a cult
hero in the obsessive subculture of people who collect frequent-flyer
miles
by converting $3,150 worth of pudding into over 1.2 million air miles.
Oh
yeah, and he's also going to claim a $815 tax write-off.
Last May, Phillips was pushing his shopping cart down the frozen food
aisle
of his local supermarket when a promotion on a Healthy Choice frozen
entree
caught his eye: He could earn 500 miles for every 10 Universal Product
Codes (UPC bar codes) from Healthy Choice products he sent to the company
by
Dec. 31. Even better: Any Healthy Choice bar codes mailed to the
company
by the end of the month would rack up double the mileage, or 1,000 miles
for
every 10 labels. "I started doing the math, and realized that this was a
great deal, he said. "I wanted to take my family to Europe this summer,
and
this could be the way."
Frozen entrees were about $2 a piece, but a few aisles away, Phillips
found
cans of Healthy Choice soups at 90 cents each. He filled his cart with
them, and then headed to the checkout. He then headed to his local Sam's
Club, a warehouse-style discount store to find more soup. And there it
was
that he hit the mother lode. "They had individual servings of chocolate
pudding for 25 cents a piece," Phillips says, "and each serving had a bar
code on it. I did some more math and decided to escalate my plans."
Phillips cleaned out the store - bought every last cup of pudding in the
warehouse. He then asked the manager for the addresses of all the other
Sam's Clubs in the greater Dallas area, and with his mother-in-law riding
shotgun in his sport-ute, spent a weekend scouring the shelves of every
Sam's Club store from Denton to Hillsboro. There were 10 stores in all,"
he
said, "and luckily, most of them were right off the freeway."
He filled his garage to the rafters with chocolate pudding and stacked
additional cases in his living room and dining room. But Phillips wasn't
finished yet - he had the manger of his local Sam's Club order him 60
more
cases of the pudding. "A few days later I went out behind the store," he
said, "and there were two whole pallets of chocolate pudding with my name
on
them."
All in all, he'd purchased 12,150 individual servings of pudding. Around
this time, Phillips began to reveal his scheme to fellow members of the
Webflyer Web site where he posted an account under the name "Puddin'
Guy."
Phillips' tale was met with skepticism, if not outright disbelief, until
he
uploaded photos of his haul.
But then Puddin' Guy discovered he had a problem on his hands: The
deadline
for earning double miles was quickly approaching, and there was simply no
way that Phillips and his wife could tear off all those bar codes in
time.
"I had to come up with something to do with all that pudding, and fast!"
he
said. Phillips trucked the pudding to two local food banks and the
Salvation Army, which agreed to tear off the bar codes in exchange for
the
food donation. "We'd never seem anything like it," said Larry Hostetler,
community relations director for the Dallas Salvation Army. "We've
gotten
some large donations in the past, but always from companies and
institutions, not individual people. We really can't keep all the
pudding,
but this was such a novel idea, that we agreed to help David out."
Phillips got his bar codes in the mail in time to meet the deadline, and
then held his breath. "The promotion specifically said I could get the
miles for any Healthy Choice product," he said, "but still, it seemed
like
there was a good chance they'd get me on some technicality." But then
packages - large packages - began arriving in the mail from Healthy
Choice.
In all, they contained 2,506 certificates, each good for 500 miles.
That's
1,253,000 miles in all! Under the terms of the promotion, Phillips could
have the mileage posted in any airline account. He split 216,000 between
his Delta, United, and Northwest accounts, and posted the rest -
1,037,000
miles - to his American Airlines account. By surpassing the million mile
mark with DFW-based American, Puddin' Guy now has AAdvantage Gold status
for
life, entitling him to a special reservations number, priority boarding,
upgrades, bonus miles, and more on every American flight he takes.
While we talked on the phone, Puddin' Guy did a little math - as you
might
have noticed by now, he's very good at math - and figured out that the
scheme netted him enough miles for 31 round-trip coach tickets to London,
or
42 tickets to Hawaii, or 21 tickets to Australia, or 50 tickets to
anywhere
in the U.S.
"Wow - 31 trips to Europe for a little over $3,000," I said. "That's
less
than $100 a ticket!"
"Oh, it's better than that," Phillips said. "Since I gave the pudding to
charity, I can take a tax write-off of $815. So that brings the cost of
a
ticket to Europe down to about $75. I also charged all the pudding to my
Visa card that gets me American miles for purchases, but so far, Citibank
has not credited my account. By my calculations, the final cost of the
tickets should be around $55 each when I get all the credits."
As it turns out, Puddin' Guy didn't donate all his stash to the food
banks.
He kept about 100 servings for himself, and he's just about finished
them.
"Actually," he said, "I really like the stuff."
Healthy Choice has since cancelled the promotion.
it is real.
this is ingenious - but it he's just taking advantage of a stupid company - just like we frequentally do
this is ingenious - but it he's just taking advantage of a stupid company - just like we frequentally do
how about this one......
There were two guys walking by a river, when they notice a sign that reads: "Whoever saves a person drowning in the water will receive a $500 reward." So the two guys talk about it, the man says to the other that he should jump in the water, and he will rescue him. Once he pulls him out, they will split the reward, so each will get $250. The other man agrees to do it, so he jumps into the river. As he is drowning in the river, he calls out to the other man "HELP ME, HELP ME, come and PLEASE SAVE ME. WHY AREN'T YOU SAVING ME????" To that, the man replies that there is another sign there which reads: "Whoever pulls a dead body out of the water will receive $1000."
There were two guys walking by a river, when they notice a sign that reads: "Whoever saves a person drowning in the water will receive a $500 reward." So the two guys talk about it, the man says to the other that he should jump in the water, and he will rescue him. Once he pulls him out, they will split the reward, so each will get $250. The other man agrees to do it, so he jumps into the river. As he is drowning in the river, he calls out to the other man "HELP ME, HELP ME, come and PLEASE SAVE ME. WHY AREN'T YOU SAVING ME????" To that, the man replies that there is another sign there which reads: "Whoever pulls a dead body out of the water will receive $1000."
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