QUESTION # 599: SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
Dear Useless Men,
Do you know how many hours I slave over this keyboard just coming up with slightly less than useless questions for you? Well, not all that many really. But still. When is the next contest? I want to win something just as useless as this question.
Keep on Trekking,
Laura... ummm... I mean, Anonymous Non-Stalking Fan.
Dear Laura,
Yeah, we knew it was you. Again. And that’s okay, because with this question, we have unofficially run out of questions. I say unofficially because by the time we get around to posting this answer, I would hope that someone, somewhere would need some useless advice.
But truth be told, after 2+ years of Useless Advice, it’s possible our dear readers may have figured out that we really ARE useless.
For example, during Spam week, we answered a question that we labeled as spam sent to us on behalf of Mister Wong. It didn’t seem to be a Useless question, and for the most part, those companies that send us mail don’t realize that our email address is for question submission. You send us an email, you’re going to get a response (eventually).
The kind company representative with a really cool name attributed to the original “spam” even responded to our post. If there is a responder, then maybe this “spam” wasn’t “spam” at all!
Turns out, we REALLY WERE invited to participate in an ultra-secret covert beta test on this world wide web (our description, not theirs), and we completely missed the boat on it. If we were secret agents, we’d be more “Go, Go Gadget” than “Shaken, not stirred.”
The good people at Mister Wong must know a good thing when they see one. They were more than happy to step up and sponsor us for another question contest! Just in time really.
So while the prize is not yet secured (negotiations are over but shipping is still pending), we at Useless Men happily move forward in good faith that my namesake at Mister Wong is good on her word.
When I receive the prize package, I’ll post details here. In the meantime, we will sit back and wait for the question(s) to pour in! If questions start arriving in a few minutes, we can get them sent out to our Useless Men, who can then spend five days figuring out what to do. Then I can harass them to send in their answers. Which means, first contest question should be posted next Wednesday.
Until then, you send in your questions. If you’re a stickler for legalese or rules, this post is the closest that we have to those. Feel free to sign up for the best bookmarking site to ever sponsor a Useless contest as well.
We should also add that the contest will close in one month, on October 17th at midnight, whatever time zone you’re in.
Stay Useless!
Sincerely,
One Useless Man
CONTEST IS NOW OPEN! Send your questions to Useless Advice from Useless Men! Click here.
Subscribe to Useless email updates. Click here.
Do you know how many hours I slave over this keyboard just coming up with slightly less than useless questions for you? Well, not all that many really. But still. When is the next contest? I want to win something just as useless as this question.
Keep on Trekking,
Laura... ummm... I mean, Anonymous Non-Stalking Fan.
Dear Laura,
Yeah, we knew it was you. Again. And that’s okay, because with this question, we have unofficially run out of questions. I say unofficially because by the time we get around to posting this answer, I would hope that someone, somewhere would need some useless advice.
But truth be told, after 2+ years of Useless Advice, it’s possible our dear readers may have figured out that we really ARE useless.
For example, during Spam week, we answered a question that we labeled as spam sent to us on behalf of Mister Wong. It didn’t seem to be a Useless question, and for the most part, those companies that send us mail don’t realize that our email address is for question submission. You send us an email, you’re going to get a response (eventually).
The kind company representative with a really cool name attributed to the original “spam” even responded to our post. If there is a responder, then maybe this “spam” wasn’t “spam” at all! Turns out, we REALLY WERE invited to participate in an ultra-secret covert beta test on this world wide web (our description, not theirs), and we completely missed the boat on it. If we were secret agents, we’d be more “Go, Go Gadget” than “Shaken, not stirred.”
The good people at Mister Wong must know a good thing when they see one. They were more than happy to step up and sponsor us for another question contest! Just in time really.
So while the prize is not yet secured (negotiations are over but shipping is still pending), we at Useless Men happily move forward in good faith that my namesake at Mister Wong is good on her word.
When I receive the prize package, I’ll post details here. In the meantime, we will sit back and wait for the question(s) to pour in! If questions start arriving in a few minutes, we can get them sent out to our Useless Men, who can then spend five days figuring out what to do. Then I can harass them to send in their answers. Which means, first contest question should be posted next Wednesday.
Until then, you send in your questions. If you’re a stickler for legalese or rules, this post is the closest that we have to those. Feel free to sign up for the best bookmarking site to ever sponsor a Useless contest as well.
We should also add that the contest will close in one month, on October 17th at midnight, whatever time zone you’re in.
Stay Useless!
Sincerely,
One Useless Man
CONTEST IS NOW OPEN! Send your questions to Useless Advice from Useless Men! Click here.
Subscribe to Useless email updates. Click here.
Labels: contest, One Useless Man, spam
Advice given at
3:29 PM
4 Comments:
Did you say contest?
By
Laura, at 5:28 AM
The great thing about being Useless is just that, no gadgets, no gimmicks, great concept that works. "Throw bread on water and it will be returned to you centifold", as journalist Scott Young paraphrased someone in his very Canadian book, adding "It's true, it does not just yield wet bread *crosses digital fingers for y'all*
By
ann marie, at 7:30 PM
i noticed they are having a logo-design contest? are you going to design one for them? are you creative?
By
Anonymous, at 2:21 PM
Centifold? I had visions of a naked bread spread then.
By
anonymous jones, at 5:21 AM
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