WB show to offer shot at $1B prize

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'd humiliate myself for $1,000,000,000.

yup. i'd be on national tv wearing banana colonge saying "come on monkey! who's a good money? who wants $1,000,000 worth of bananas?"

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'd humiliate myself for $1,000,000,000.

But the $1 Billion isn't a sure bet. Would you degrade yourself on national TV for only a 1:1000 chance of winning the billion?

[rah]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
I'm mostly concerned about the poor losers that will end up paying for this. Yeah, you got it, the consumers that gets idiotic entertainment instead of cheaper soda.

Not really, the odds of them giving out the billion is 1000 to 1 and they will have insurance for that. So it will only be a million + the cost of the insurance. That's just a SMALL portion of the normal advertising budget. If they passed the million back to their customers it would be less than 1 tenth of a penny per bottle/can sold.

[Alex]

Ming and rah could not be contestants in the same show, the monkey would be confused...

[Sava]

After lawyer fees and taxes, the total prize comes to $1.98.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Alexnm
Ming and rah could not be contestants in the same show, the monkey would be confused...

The fact that they are twins doesn't mean they look the same. I thought they were lying for a while.

[JohnT]

No, no, Che, that's not what he meant. The monkey would become confused as to who was to pull the numbers: Ming, Rah, or the monkey.

[ColdWizard]

[Kramerman]

like they will ever fork over a billion bucks if someone wins... I remember there was some promotion thatif you collected enought tops or somethn like that, the grand prise was a Harrier Jet! The company never thought somebody would accumulate the amount needed, but someone did, and demanded their jet. They went to court, adn the company was arguing some legal detail, i dont know the outcome. i might have even made this whole thing up in a dream or somethn too...

[chequita guevara]

It was a harrier jet or some amount of money. They never figured someone would ask for the harrier jet instead of the money.

[Alex]

Well, I liked JohnT's interpretation better than the one I had thought myself.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It was a harrier jet or some amount of money. They never figured someone would ask for the harrier jet instead of the money.

Actually, it was the Pepsi points campaign, and Pepsi never listed the Harrier Jet as an official prize. They ran a commercial that, as a joke, showed some kid landing at school in a Harrier, and then text popped up claiming it was worth "7,000,000 Pepsi points."

The thing was that you could simply buy the Pepsi points directly from the company for 10 cents each. So some guy out in Seattle raised $700,000 from several rich people, sent it into Pepsi to purchase the points and try to claim the prize.

Pepsi's refusal wasn't so underhanded, as it had never meant the Harrier to be seriously considered as a prize. Indeed, it couldn't be, since the Pentagon wouldn't exactly be inclined to just let Pepsi buy one (for $27 million, no less), considering they are modern military equipment. Also, maintenance cost of the jet alone would have made it completely unpractical for the winner to keep it, not to mention the enormous fuel costs.

So the judge threw out the guy's lawsuit, and rightly so. And I wouldn't villify Pepsi for the campaign, as that's the fault of whatever boneheaded advertising agency they were using. Those morons should have known that since the Harrier was a fictional prize, a disclaimer was needed saying it was such. Part of Advertising 101...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
' "What could be more random than that?" Leshem said. '

Well, a lot of things actually. Monkeys can be trained, you know.

A banana will win you a billion. All hail the Great Banana!