This AP photo is funny:
“Hey, Mr. What have you got for a couple bucks?”
Or maybe it’s “Got anything for some doe?”
Category Archives: Food
Dominos Bailout
Someone figured out that Dominos Pizza had a coupon for free food. I say figured it out because it was enabled on their website, but it was not publicized…until this past Monday, when stories like this one appeared on The Cheapskate – CNET News:
Domino’s is offering a free medium one-topping pizza.
The catch, if you can call it that, is that you’ll have to hop in the car; it’s carry-out only. Here’s how to get the deal:
1. Head to the Domino’s Pizza site.
2. Click Order, then type in your address to find stores near you.
3. Choose the store you want, then create your order for a medium one-topping pizza.
4. Use coupon code BAILOUT. Presto: free, free, free!
It seems the promotion worked. Dominos gave away a lot of pizza, true, but they are now a top story. Something tells me the cost of those pizzas was nominal compared to the airtime they are getting right now.
It is possible someone is scratching their head and wondering why or how a hidden coupon was disclosed, but as far as breaches go this is a fairly harmless one. I mean what percentage of people also bought drinks when they picked up their free pizza, for example, since it was carry-out only…
History of Medicine
Some people think I could not carrot all about nutrition, but while researching types to plant in my garden I came across this amusing history of medicine
Patient “I am sick”.
Physicians responses:
3500 years ago – “Here eat this root”
2500 year ago – “That root is heathen – say this prayer”
150 years ago – “That is superstition – drink this potion”
50 years ago – “That potion is snake oil – take this pill”
15 years ago – “That pill is no good, take this antibiotic”
Today – “that is not natures way – here eat this root”
Deer Season
My sister and her friend, Johnny Morley,
used to go on Saturdays to the Bancroft Hotel
to visit his grandfather.One autumn, the beginning of deer season,
the old man told them,“Used to hunt when I was a boy,
woods all around here then,
but I never went again after that time…the men went out, took me with them,
and I shot my first buck.
It was wounded, lying in the leaves,so they told me,
take the pistol, shoot it in the head.
I went straight up to it,
looked right into its eyes.Just before I pulled the trigger,
it licked my hand.”