Abusing freebiesA friend of mine recently attended a 'Champaign Lunch', where he was compelled drink as much fizzy stuff as he could between the first and last courses. In an ideal world we'd ask restaurant staff to tell us stories about fatties stuffing themselves at All You Can Eat places, but we recognise that our members don't all work in the catering trade, so for the rest of you - tell us something about abusing freebies. BTW: Bee puns = you fail.
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lizard, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 14:16)
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Not me, my dad.He's a dermatologist.
He's also tight-fisted to an alarming degree- for a time there he was proud of the fact that he could eat more at Wendy's all-you-can-stand salad bar than anyone else there. But I digress...
See, the pharmeceutical companies, like other companies, try to drum up business by giving out freebies with their newest product emblazoned on them. So when I was a child we had (and Dad still has them) refrigerator magnets advertising one thing, pens advertising something else, pads for various zit creams and antibiotics, and so on. He even got (and gave to me) a tee shirt advertising some anti-fungal ointment in big letters on the front, with the details from the insert listed on the back (including the molecular structure of the active ingredient).
It always annoyed and embarrassed me as a child that everything in our house had some medical product's name printed on it- even the dish towels, for gods sake.
But the crowning touch was the pair of golf socks he wore advertising a medicine for athlete's foot...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 9 Nov 2007, 12:55,
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Your dads a dermatologist!Do you think he can have a look at this nasty rash I've got.
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girlinthehole, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 13:01,
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Nasty rash ey?I wonder where you got that...
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My dad's a doctor tooI have loads of stuff with med ads on them. USB sticks, T-shirts, laptop bag, jacket, a neat pinchy surgical tool (its for poking in an eye with). Yay for free crap!
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