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Compare and contrast [[Free Prize At the Bottom]].
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== Comic Books ==
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== Real Life ==
* Burma-Shave once offered a mock promotion that promised a trip to Mars for anyone who collected 900 empty jars. When Arlyss French, a grocery store owner, managed to actually collect them, Burma-Shave responded, "If a trip to Mars you earn/Remember, friend, there's no return." After French collected another 900 jars for the return trip, they decided to go ahead and send him to [
* They still have these. [http://www.labelsforeducation.com/ Labels for Education], Coke Points/Pepsi Points, Camel Cash... A variation is/was [
* In 1999, California engineer [
** This story was used for the movie ''[[Punch Drunk Love]]''.
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