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Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - LP - 10-16-2020
(10-16-2020, 06:08 AM)cookie2 date Wrote:Cheers mate, no worries. Just academic interest.;D [member=36]cookie2[/member], I worked for News Ltd for a decade, and the HWT before it became News Ltd, I suspect they have more ways to bury the dead than any politician!
When I was there there were some sub-editors who would even make it hard to find the published winners of a promotional quiz, so that few if any would claim minor prizes! They knew very few readers would go looking for the supplementary stuff. The magazine editors had facilities they kept prizes locked up in, and each promo had a cut-off date, after the cut-off date they would divvy up the left-overs or have an office party on the "waste" like Christmas in July. Some managers/editors were more ethical, donating the spoils to charity, but not all! btw., This is for prizes below a certain value, above a certain value unclaimed prizes had to be surrendered to the state. For example, they give away a car and some other major prizes, with a stack of trivial products, vouchers and gifts for dozens or hundreds of runner-up types. But a stack of lower prizes are never claimed and never see the light of day before the cut-off date, but I'll guarantee you every winner's name was published on-time and as required by the law!
In fairness, I suppose organisations like McDonald's do the very same, they promote multi-million dollar games like McNopoly, but what portion of McNopoly is never claimed? But I doubt the managers and staff load up on unclaimed French Fries!
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Mav - 10-16-2020
There was a doco called McMillions which was all about the fact that for a decade there were almost no genuine winners of McDonald’s 1 million dollar prizes in the US.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Mav - 10-16-2020
The Atlantic doesn’t think George Dubya will endorse Biden: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/george-w-bush-trump-2020/616713/.
On the plus side, I can continue to think he was totally useless without putting a “but ...” in those thoughts.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 10-16-2020
[member=153]LP[/member]
Getting a bit off topic now but a mate of mine a few years ago paid hundreds of dollars for a ticket in a raffle in support of under privileged youth, first prize a new Porsche. Next thing he knew he was dragged into an investigation into the whole thing. Long story short, it was a massive scam that had pocketed most of the cash over many years and the prize was always won by the same person connected to the scam.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - madbluboy - 10-16-2020
I along with 2000 other people have spent a couple of hundred dollars on a raffle ticket for a football club that I support to only to see the prize be won by a director and donated back to the club where they auctioned/sold it for market price.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Mav - 10-16-2020
Cookie, your dream has come true! There WILL be an investigation after all: FBI Probing If Russia Involved In Hunter Biden Email Story.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 10-16-2020
(10-16-2020, 10:32 PM)Mav link Wrote:Cookie, your dream has come true! There WILL be an investigation after all: FBI Probing If Russia Involved In Hunter Biden Email Story.
Yes I saw that Mav, there were murmurings about it Fri (US time). I await further developments, if any, with interest.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Mav - 10-16-2020
Depends on who wins the election I guess (and if Biden wins, whether he decides to brush all of the Trump stuff under the carpet).
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 10-16-2020
(10-16-2020, 11:39 PM)Mav link Wrote:Depends on who wins the election I guess (and if Biden wins, whether he decides to brush all of the Trump stuff under the carpet).
Yep. Bets being hedged at the moment I think.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Mav - 10-17-2020
I really hope if Biden wins he doesn’t choose to sweep all of Trump’s corruption under the carpet in the naive hope he’ll be rewarded by bipartisanship. He should instead have something like the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to expose the extent of it as well as allowing the FBI to prosecute cases against Trump once he loses his presidential immunity. Only then will there be the necessary groundswell to change the system to eradicate the vulnerabilities Trump has exploited.