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Using the internet for free food?
GreyOrange writes "With all the offers for free food on the internet how can a hungry person differitiate between the bogus ones and the ones that fill the tummy? One legitimate offer I've found so far is from www.jellybelly.com were they give you a free sample. But theres a tremendous amount of websites that are missleading and offering food in exchange for credit application and other horrible things like spam and never living up to their end of the deal. Got any good websites for free edibles, how about other things that might be of equal value that are not bogus. How about some methods you have picked up for all you veterans out there. Is there a directery out there that is true to its word, how about a wikipedia page?"
I already get lots of delicious spam in my inbox every single day! What more can one ask for?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I wonder if they have red herring flavor yet
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
What makes me even sadder is that we can look forward to a duplicate of this story tomorrow.
God help the poor slob that first discovers slashdot on today of all days!
Nothing to do with food, but there are several car dealers that have ads like "If you don't get approved, we'll pay you $100!"
Step 1) Ruin Credit Horribly.
Step 2) Go around town applying for car loans.
Step 3) Rake in the free dough!
Sure, it's not a steak, but com'on, it's free? What did you expect?
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
Someone fetch me when it is April 2nd.
Not exactly what you're asking about, but one way to scam free food out of a fast food joint is to order a small quantity of something, then come back in an hour claiming they left out some of a larger quantity. For example, order the 6 pack of tacos, then come back claiming to have ordered the 10 pack, and they left out four. Usually if they remember you were there at all, they turn over the grub.
My mom used to do this. Of course, she's an evil being who is currently serving 25 years for a hire-to-kill for insurance money, so I'll let you decide whether to emulate her or not...
:::The Spear in the heart of the Other is the Spear in the heart of You; You are He - Surak of Vulcan:::
Jokes about http://Eat<any vulgarity that will trip an obscinity filter>.com in 3, 2, 1...
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Ethernet Cable is quite tasty. I'm currently chewing on some right now.
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
I often get free food from computers by inverting the keyboards on public use terminals and shaking them. Usually there is a great variety of crumbs from many different kinds of cookies and crackers.
I metamoderate, therefore I am
The last series of stories have been a trainwreck, and I'm going to guess that Michael's response is to mod 'offtopic' every thread that heckles him, so:
BEGIN THE HECKLING!
You can't forget FreshMeat.net
Come on...every slashdotter should know that site.
The anti-salmon
I cast my vote for Fruit Rollups. Best thing about them is you don't have to order them, you can just print them. Taste about the same, too!
And no, I've never done this. Ever. Not even when I was a poor student. Really!
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
The offer's genuine at www.jellybelly.com. However, clicking on the link for the free sample gives a page about there being no free slots.
/.'ed the jelly bean supply :)
Congratulations, we may have
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
You know what's even worse? Slashdot rejects funny submissions. Here's the text of my submission that got rejected twice(!):
In one of the oddest moves yet, Guillaume Desnoix (head of the JDistro project) has ported the open source Kaffe Java Virtual Machine to his Apple ][c. When asked why he did it, he said, "The main reason was to fasten my programming daily work. I felt a little limited by the 6502 instructions and wanted to enjoy the highlevel bytecode of Java." Read the full scoop over at JavaLobby.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Please don't laugh. This is a true story. It happened to the sister of a friend of a colleague of someone I know.
She logged onto a web site, expecting to find some innocent pop-up p0rn and dialer windows. Instead, she got a popup reading "Click here and get a free pizza!" Like a fool, she clicked on the popup. A few minutes and a registration page later, she got an email titled "Read this, activate your free pizza delivery!".
You know what she should have done. Delete the email. Just delete it and forget about it. But no, what did she do? She opened it and read it. The email read: "Thank you for opening this email. Through the magic of Outlook Security we have run a software agent that has activated your PC's modem and dialed our central computer. Using called-id we have identified your telephone number and we now know your name, street number, and postal code. The pizza you have ordered is SPICY BEEF and will be delivered to your door in TEN MINUTES".
You could tell from the capitals that SOMETHING TERRIBLE was going on.
The pizza arrived. Inexorably, like a hangover on Sunday morning, a small white van drove up to the house and a man stepped out, dressed in white and carrying a flat pizza tray.
What could she do? "Run!" I hear you scream. "Hide", perhaps? "Release the hounds?" No, she calmly opened the door and accepted the pizza box.
Open... the... box...
Open... the... box...
The smell of warm pizza did a BDSM on her conscious mind and she found herself opening the pizza box...
What did she find?
( ) A Hot'n spicy Beef pizza for four
( ) A CD-ROM labelled "Do Not Play"
( ) A mercedes, a portable phone, and a laughing Dutchman
( ) CowboyNeal
( ) Yes
( ) I'm a vegetarian, you insensitive clod!
Well, the answer is stranger than any of these. She found a small piece of paper. Printed on it were the words: "Missing field! Please click back and enter full name!"
Ceci n'est pas une signature
I once proposed a P2P food sharing program. Imagine the possibilities. You're standing in front of your fridg and there's nothing that interests you. Sure, you've got half a carton of last night's curry chicken but that's not what you're looking for.
Go online, fire up "Snackster" and check what's out there. Oh look, via Snackster's geographic IP address location logic you see that a guy two blocks away has three two day old tamales and a six ounces of chips. With the click of a button you make your offer, yesterday's curry for Tuesdays's mexican food. A quick link from Snackster to mapquest get's you directions and twenty minutes you're eating something you'd like.
You avoid tossing out stuff that's perfectly good but not appealing, plus you can take advantage of the huge portions most restaurants serve by saving half for your Snackster catalog.
-dameron
I can almost here the servers melting as every fat-ass slashdotter tries to get his share of the free Jelly Belly Promotion.
....and yes it really is slashdotted.
Get your SCO loving hands off MY Jelly Bellys!!
When I was 19, I landed a job working as a waiter on Amtrak (America's nationalized passenger railroad, in case you're overseas) as a Summer job. It was a good job with more money and benefits than anything I'd done before. Since railroad work has a history of being somewhat dangerous, the job came with automatic life insurance. Something like $10K from the railroad and $75K from the union. This was at a time when my family's home in suburban Los Angeles was assessed at about $80K (1988).
One day between trips, I had a bunch of buddies come over to the house and help me fix a fence. They got to joking with my Mom about her being the beneficiary of the policy and how horrible it would be if I had an "accident." Did my mother, the woman who brought into this world, defend me from these homicidal overtures of my so called "friends"?
No. She started to take bids to see which one of them could do it cheaper.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
I usually am a troll (I try to get upmoderated
Your post is at +5 - you succeeded again!
it's in my head
they come over, and viola
He was using it as a verb. One of them distracts you by playing a musical instrument very badly while the others disappear your food, beer, and perhaps other things as well.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.