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Oct. 7th, 2005 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
One of the foodstuffs in my freezer (a microwave curry, I'm afraid - I'm a single bloke living on his own, so I do have certain standards to keep down) has a competition on it, whose tagline is:
"IS THERE A REAL £5 NOTE IN THIS PACK?"
I had a sudden thought of the ultimate in cruel promotions by unscrupulous big business. Each pack contians a fiver, of which 1 in 20 are genuine, and the others will be carried by hapless losers until presented at a shop or bank, at which point a meaty hand will descend onto their shoudlers, and they will be frogmarched off to face forgery charges...
"IS THERE A REAL £5 NOTE IN THIS PACK?"
I had a sudden thought of the ultimate in cruel promotions by unscrupulous big business. Each pack contians a fiver, of which 1 in 20 are genuine, and the others will be carried by hapless losers until presented at a shop or bank, at which point a meaty hand will descend onto their shoudlers, and they will be frogmarched off to face forgery charges...