Where's my free giant shrimp, dammit?!

[TXlib]

Remember back in January, when Long John Silver's announced it would give everybody free giant shrimp if the Mars Exploration Rovers found evidence of oceans on Mars?

Well, Here you go, LJS!

I want my shrimp!

[mobuto]

1. Giant shrimp?

Long John Silver's cannot provide something that doesn't exist.

[GOPisEvil]

2. I normally don't eat at LJS, but I'll take my free shrimp!

:9 Shrimp is good!

[Streetdoc270]

3. Read the fine print

"Long John Silver's has purchased an insurance policy to cover the anticipated cost of the free Giant Shrimp redemption, should NASA announce the discovery of conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars between now and February 29, 2004. In the event NASA makes an official announcement that conclusive evidence of an ocean has been discovered on Mars prior to that date, every person in the U.S. will have an opportunity to obtain one free Giant Shrimp at participating Long John Silver's restaurants in the United States. Redemption will take place on Monday, March 15, 2004, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Additional information and offer details will be made available to consumers on the Long John Silver's web site and in press materials, should this event occur.

For purposes of Long John Silver's offer, an ocean is defined as a single body of water, the surface area of which equals or exceeds five million square kilometers. See official rules at www.ljsilvers.com for details. "

[TXlib]

5. Yeah, yeah, I know...

The thread was supposed to be funny, but you killed it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. ROFL...

Poor little TXlib
a post to tickle the rib
Someone posted all serious
And now you are furious
You'd be better off telling a fib!

:hi:

:hug: on the death of your thread!

[TXlib]

9. LOL!

:hi:

[Streetdoc270]

8. Oooops....

Sorry... Stand back (charges defibrillator) CLEAR!!!! (zapppp)

There, I brought it back :)

[jsheriff]

4. Offer void on Earth

Sorry, but the fine print says no free giant shrimp. We miss it on two points. First, the ocean had to be discovered by Feb. 29 so we're too late. Second, it had to be an actual ocean, not evidence of a ancient one. So there was never any chance of LJS actually paying off on this. Just free publicity. That makes you an agent of their corporate mind control. :-)

On the other hand, it's still a fantastic discovery, with possibly huge ramifications.

[TXlib]

6. No, it didn't have to be a currently existing ocean.

I assume that's what you meant by 'actual' ocean.

[zbdent]

10. Betcha if the cashier is a Freepuke, you'd be able to con him/her

out of the giant shrimp.

They'd never bother to read the fine print.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Or they'd refuse to give the shrimp on religious grounds

because the Bible says nothing about oceans on Mars, so obviously the pictures are a fake.

Then, when the freep idiot gets fired, he'll go to the courts (after having cried "Tort Reform!" for decades) and claim he was persecuted for his religious convictions, the same convictions held by George Washington, and he's an American, dammit, not an elitist moran who thinks Mars pictures are real because of holding on to an anti-human agenda that just wants to believe so deeply that humans are nothing special and so make up trips to planets, using tax payer money, in order to further their crusade of destroying the American family by offering "evidence" against Genesis.

[Insider]

12. ROFL void on earth

or did they promise a giant, radiologic, meteoric shrimp FROM said ocean?