McDonald’s new prize

A couple years back, McDonald’s and its marketing agency were successfully sued for rigging the Monopoly sweepstakes game. This broke my heart because my college time was spend like this:

5% Academic Studies
45% Girls
50% Collecting McDonald’s Monopoly board pieces in the hopes of winning a Dodge Viper, the Grand Prize, and driving it with Weed across the country.

So last week, McDonald’s announced that as a stipulation of settling the class action lawsuit (I know I wrote that McDs was successfully sued but everyone knows they were guilty regardless of whether they settled or received a verdict) they are holding a new Instant Prize Giveaway to reconcile with the unhappy people who were cheated before. This new game gets rid of board pieces. The new Giveaway says that we could be one of 15 lucky winners to receive $1M. All we have to do is show up and be standing in a McDs between 3/5-3/7. That’s it. No board pieces.

A couple years back, McDonald’s and its marketing agency were successfully sued for rigging the Monopoly sweepstakes game. This broke my heart because my college time was spend like this:

5% Academic Studies 45% Girls 50% Collecting McDonald’s Monopoly board pieces in the hopes of winning a Dodge Viper, the Grand Prize, and driving it with Weed across the country.

So last week, McDonald’s announced that as a stipulation of settling the class action lawsuit (I know I wrote that McDs was successfully sued but everyone knows they were guilty regardless of whether they settled or received a verdict) they are holding a new Instant Prize Giveaway to reconcile with the unhappy people who were cheated before. This new game gets rid of board pieces. The new Giveaway says that we could be one of 15 lucky winners to receive $1M. All we have to do is show up and be standing in a McDs between 3/5-3/7. That’s it. No board pieces.

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11 thoughts on “McDonald’s new prize”

  1. McDonald’s stinks

    I have to totally agree that McDonald’s food stinks. The only food of theirs I like is their McRib sandwich which comes out, if I’m lucky, one month of the year, typically March. I think the only thing that attracts people to eat their horrible food, is their play place so the kids can run wild for awhile since all the playgrounds in town are snowed over or muddy.–

    Christy

    1. 1/4 Pounder

      The girls dragged me to McD’s Saturday. My 1/4 lb’er was friggen raw! Man, I like pie.

  2. Fast Food???

    The funny thing was, of the 50% of our time in college spent at McDonald, 95% of that was spent waiting for the food. And we didn’t get special order items, it was the basic Big Mac/Hamburger orders. You know, since they’re getting sued for selling food that may make you *gasp* FAT, they should put exercise equipment in their stores. Then, while you wait 5 minutes for your #1 meal, you can pedal on the bike or step on the stepper.

    I personally believe the CEO of McDs had a handful of BoardWalk pieces in his pocket, and he’s go around and give them to pretty girls to try and get some. No one ever won those things. Employees would be finding them and giving them to their friends.

    McDs may be bad, Sam, but at least it’s not the Box of Death from Hardees.

    My $.02 Weed

  3. Percentages

    5% Academic Studies 45% Girls 50% Collecting McDonald’s Monopoly board pieces in the hopes of winning a Dodge Viper, the Grand Prize, and driving it with Weed across the country.

    *scratches chin* Now, these percentages don’t account for all the time you spent watching quasi-dirty movies on late-night HBO, playing Robotron 2054 on my old Atari 7800, or skipping class to watch Full Metal Jacket for the 10th time.

    — Ben Schuman Mad, Mad Tenor

    1. ROBOTRON!

      If there was a college degree for Robotron 2054, Sam & I would be giving out the doctorates!

      How many times did Sam watch “The Chase” and the Bond movie with that Spanish girl? Or “I Married An Axe Murderer”.

      Don’t forget when your roommate gets attacked by his girlfriend…

      Weed

    2. Google-iscious

      I just did a search on Robotron 2054, and this post is the top link.

      That’s soooo cool

      My $.02 Weed

      1. D’oh!

        Maybe that’s because the games was Robotron: 2084…

        Oh well, 30 years early, I guess…

        My $.02 Weed

        1. HEY REMEMBER…

          When they took the Robotron playing style and adapted it into the funnest game ever!!

          SMASH TV!! One day, I got the Arcade guy at Montgomery mall to put in like unlimited Credits for Matt and I (Matt was at masters tuxedo, I was working at the movie theatre) And we played for like 2 hours. BIG MONEY BIG PRIZES!! I LOVE IT!!

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          1. Wow, the memories

            Holy cow, I’d totally forgotten about the marathon Smash TV game. I suspect that if we went back and played it now, we’d find it much lamer than we remember 🙂

            Maybe we could buy this one?

            —
            Matthew P. Barnson

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