Some of these news reports are hilarious! Haven't read them all -- the list is long -- but here's a little excerpt from A Diary of All Things Stupid.
Somewhere buried in all of this is supposed to be the lyrics of a song I used to hear while living in SoCal on KLOS' Mark & Brian show that I was trying to find, "Oriental Drivers." Very politically incorrect but it was still funny as all get out. I'm still lookin'.
Joseph Begley saved 2,000 cigarette coupons and mailed them in to a British cigarette company in order to get a watch. When the watch didn't arrive he wrote and asked why. Back came three watches. Mr. Begley only wanted one so he mailed back the other two. The next day 10 parcels arrived from the cigarette company. The following day 18 parcels arrived. The day after that 10 more parcels came. All were trade-in gifts given by the cigarette company in exchange for coupons Mr. Begley never had. Among the gifts were three tape recorders, a doll, a golf bag, two electric blankets, a cot, saucepans, a pressure cooker, and long-playing records. Mr. Begley wrote a long, pleading letter to the company asking them to stop. In the return mail came a reply saying: "It was a computer error." The company gave Mr. Begley 10,000 coupons in compensation for his troubles. With these Mr. Begley ordered some tools and a beadspread. He received a plant stand and two stepladders.Read on if you dare ... http://www.liquidice.co.uk/joke/diar...pidthings.html
Somewhere buried in all of this is supposed to be the lyrics of a song I used to hear while living in SoCal on KLOS' Mark & Brian show that I was trying to find, "Oriental Drivers." Very politically incorrect but it was still funny as all get out. I'm still lookin'.
