QUESTION # 400: WE HAVE A WINNER

Dear Useless Men,

Did you ever award a winner for your question contest? Did you win the furniture? Really, I only want to know if I won the furniture from you.

Glad to be Greedy

Dear Mr. Greedy,

You actually think we remember that Useless Contest we launched in June? Actually, we do. And WE HAVE A WINNER!

Let's recap: Everyone that sent in a question to Useless Advice From Useless Men between June 30th and August 31st was entered. Some of our contestants entered more than once. In the end, we had 25 entries during the contest period, each email assigned a number starting at 1, increasing in order of receipt of the emails.

To determine the winner, One Useless Man and The Useless Wonder worked together to be sure we kept the contest honest. Integrity first, folks. Thus began the task of asking random strangers to pick a number between 1 and 25.

Using the number received, the corresponding email would be highlighted in RED. We continued to ask random strangers to pick a number between 1 and 25. If a previously selected number, now highlighted in RED, was selected a second time, we upgraded the highlighter to YELLOW.

Finally, the first email to be selected a third time, by another random stranger, still selecting between 1 and 25, the YELLOW would turn to GREEN, indicating our winner. You wouldn’t believe how long this process took…

Without any further ado, our winner is


17


Congratulations to our runners up: 7, 13, 15, 18, and 23. Also receiving honourable mentions are the numbers 5, 21, and 22.

Thank you to our sponsor, Wholesale Furniture Brokers, who kindly rewarded us with a $100 Gift Certificate, albeit not for participating but because we won some sort of consolation prize. Either way, we promised to pass on the prize to our winner. We are also including an autographed 8X10 of some of your favourite Useless Men, a toque from the Toronto International Auto Show and an Earmuff from the Van Gogh collection.

Not to be outdone, plans are now under way for the ALL NEW Useless Contest. Well, the prize is new, the contest is the same. Send in a question, we’ll add you to the draw.

Contest closes November 30th. The prize fits in a shiny metal canister. What will it be?

It’s sure to be useless …

Sincerely,
One Useless Man


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