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Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the strange-promotions dept.

indiejade writes "It was 10 years ago today that Yahoo was born in a trailer outside Stanford University. Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream in honor of the day Yahoo began climbing the ranks from its humble beginning. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo joined CEO Terry Semel to kick off the stock market opening bell this morning. The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."

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  1. Yahoo for Yahoo! by carninja · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see if we can slashdot baskin-robins!

  2. New phrase for handouts! by qwertphobia · · Score: 5, Funny

    free as in ice cream!

    you heard it here first

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  3. ice cream by suougibma · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ice cream?!?! It's like 4 degrees outside!! How about some hot chocolate Baskin Robbins?!

  4. Nooooo by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny

    You people have killed the web page!
    Now I'll never find out how to get free ice cream. :(

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  5. No regrets, HAH! by Parallax+Blue · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure Yahoo must have SOME regrets after seeing how successful Google has become, and it's definitely taking traffic away from their own search engine. Anyone worth their salt on the internet has used Google at least once or uses it daily. Yahoo can't be happy about that. But they're moving in the right direction with free ice cream, can't beat that.

  6. Big Spenders by pmike_bauer · · Score: 4, Funny
    Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream

    One scoop?

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  7. word by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ice cream is only free if the time it takes you to get to the store is worth nothing.

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  8. Re:Baskin Robins! by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Baskin Robbins,
    Since I am too fat and lazy from eating your product to go get some down at the local store and my friend malus doesn't have one where he lives, could you drop a few free scoops into envelopes and mail them to us please? Thanks.

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  9. Re:Assertion not supported by article by gkuz · · Score: 3, Funny
    I emailed the on-duty editor about this

    And you actually expected something to happen?

    Save the e-mail and send it again after they post a dupe of this story tomorrow.

  10. Damn, that sucks! by bezuwork's+friend · · Score: 4, Funny

    The coupon printed out in a full page of color. Having just bought an HP color cartridge, I'm wondering if it just isn't cheaper to buy the ice cream directly.

  11. here you go by tuxette · · Score: 3, Funny
    Show us your tits.

    (.)(.)

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  12. Re:In Alaska... by __aajfby9338 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but they call it "milk" there.