the_elyan ([personal profile] the_elyan) wrote2005-10-07 06:22 pm

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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...