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[CajunCenturion]

A restaurant advertisting one of its current specials, closes with the following line:

"Never-ending pop-corn shrimp, but it won't last forever. So hurry on down to ... "


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[Katy44]

asrisk, I agree! If we all assume the chance of winning without a ticket is zero, then the advert is actually playing down the odds of winning! I like it.
Also, the actual increase in chance of winning if you buy a ticket (as opposed to if you don't) is infinite (any chance/zero) - I can't believe they didn't latch on to this fantastic marketing opportunity!

 

[rasETL]

Another one on

http://www.msn.com

AVON free ship & free gift

I could use a ship, but I don't know where I would dock it!

 

[rasETL]

Another one on

http://www.msn.com

12,000 gifts on free ship – Target

Wonder how much 12,000 gifts cost, and whether it is worth a free ship!

 

[Grenage]

You're chance of winning if you do not buy a ticket is 0%
Your chance of winning if you do buy one is 1 in 13,983,816.
If you bought 2 tickets your chances would increase 200%!

 

[jwenting]

I can't believe they didn't latch on to this fantastic marketing opportunity!

Didn't they? Anyone here ever won the lottery?

If you bought 2 tickets your chances would increase 200%!

Not really. There is a chance a certain ticket will draw more than one prize so the chances of winning don't go up in proportion to the number of tickets.
In our national lottery for example you have a guaranteed prize if you buy 10 tickets with consecutive numbers simply because there's a prize for getting the last digit correct.

Of course if you take ONLY the grand prize (of which there's only one usually) into account your chances are doubled (unless tickets winning lower prizes are removed from the draw in which case it's anybody's guess).

 

[ESquared]

Heard on the radio lately:

"you have the right to choose the repair shop of your choice"

"... exasperating the problem ..."

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[ZoomerZ]

I came to US 11 years ago and can't tell you for how many years I belived that "America's Number One" is actually IS.
I was thinking they ran survey and voted this product #1 in country...but then I saw too many and started to doubt it...lol

 

[ESquared]

ZoomerZ,

What's IS? What product did you think was voted #1? What are you talking about?

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[RodKnowlton]

I think ZoomerZ believed that a product that says it's "America's Number One" actually WAS empirically determined to be the number one product in America.

I also think that it's interesting that a capitalized "is" automatically registers to some people, myself included, as "Information Services", or at least as an acronym.

Reminds me of my favorite website tag line: The Register's "Biting the hand that feeds IT".

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
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[ESquared]

I knew what IS meant. But I still have no idea what it is that ZoomerZ is trying to say.

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[Stella740pl]

ESquared,

Well, we were talking about advertisement, right?

So when ZoomerZ just came to USA, he/she (but I think "she" is correct) used to believe that if some company named "Fidgety Widgety Co." advertises their widgets as "America's Number One Widget", some board actually did try out all widgets on the market and voted that one to be the best; or that maybe some survey revealed that customers prefer "Fidgety Widgety Co."'s widgets to all others available.

ZoomerZ, did I explain it correctly?

 

[ESquared]

Oh, now I see it. I was thrown off by "is actually is." Sorry for being so dense, again. He meant "actually is."

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[AnotherHiggins]

It all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

[tt]-John[/tt]
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[ZoomerZ]

... being too dense sometimes is why people think IT people are boring...LOL

I am SHE btw...or should I say HER or Female would be densier or fancier?
You guys are the best!

 

[Stella740pl]

Yes, I thought so. I remeber seeing you saying somewhere in another thread "my husband".

 

[ZoomerZ]

HAHA Stella!
I should change to Zoomera...and I also said I was ESL

 

[Stella740pl]

ZoomerZ,

...I also said I was ESL...

So am I.
But I guess ESquared just genuinely didn't understand. He usually takes ESL into considereation. I remeber him telling us about his Brasilian fiancee.

 

[ESquared]

Never boring, just prone to take things literally and stumble on minor things. But I do well on the major things, and if I had to pick one or the other, well, I'd pick the way I am now.

ZoomerZ,

I honestly didn't understand what was going on. My track record isn't so great for minor misunderstandings like this. I didn't know at first that English wasn't your first language.

I have similar problems sometimes with my Brazilian (Brasilian!) fiancée, when she says something in seemingly perfect English--I may respond to her and only then find out that she meant something completely different. Like the subtle difference between the following two statements:

Would you like to do X? (and variations)
Would you do X? (and variations)

The first seems like trying to manipulate me into doing what she wants. The second seems like politely asking me to do something. But she was just trying to be polite when she said the former... so when I answered honestly, no, I don't have any particular desire to do X, we stumbled around a bit figuring out what was happening.

I'm working on having more flexibility in this area.

When you said 'IS' I didn't know if you meant the verb to be or if you were referring to Information Services. I'm still not 100% sure, but I'm willing to forget about it.

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[ZoomerZ]

ESquared,
Sorry I've made you to go to all this explanations. I didn't mean to, I was merely goofing off at the end of the day when nothing valuable comes to mind anymore after 10 hours of dealing with client. Thanks and Happy Holidays!

 

[Dimandja]

ESL?

Ok, I am dense What is it? I don't want to venture a guess...