Using the internet for free food? 242
GreyOrange writes "With all the offers for free food on the internet how can a hungry person differitiate between the bogus ones and the ones that fill the tummy? One legitimate offer I've found so far is from www.jellybelly.com were they give you a free sample. But theres a tremendous amount of websites that are missleading and offering food in exchange for credit application and other horrible things like spam and never living up to their end of the deal. Got any good websites for free edibles, how about other things that might be of equal value that are not bogus. How about some methods you have picked up for all you veterans out there. Is there a directery out there that is true to its word, how about a wikipedia page?"
Yum! (Score:4, Funny)
Wiki (Score:3, Funny)
Foo (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder if they have red herring flavor yet
That makes me sad (Score:4, Funny)
god help.. (Score:5, Funny)
Buying a Car (Score:5, Funny)
Step 1) Ruin Credit Horribly.
Step 2) Go around town applying for car loans.
Step 3) Rake in the free dough!
Let me get this straight... (Score:2, Funny)
Sure, it's not a steak, but com'on, it's free? What did you expect?
Okay. I'm going to the pub. (Score:5, Funny)
Free Fast Food (Score:2, Funny)
My mom used to do this. Of course, she's an evil being who is currently serving 25 years for a hire-to-kill for insurance money, so I'll let you decide whether to emulate her or not...
Pull my filter... (Score:3, Funny)
Free food MAKES UP the internet (Score:3, Funny)
Public Use workstations. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:0, Funny)
BEGIN THE HECKLING!
freshmeat. (Score:4, Funny)
Come on...every slashdotter should know that site.
My vote for best food. (Score:5, Funny)
free dinner? (Score:3, Funny)
And no, I've never done this. Ever. Not even when I was a poor student. Really!
Re:Free Fast Food (Score:3, Funny)
Free sample (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations, we may have
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:3, Funny)
In one of the oddest moves yet, Guillaume Desnoix (head of the JDistro [jdistro.com] project) has ported the open source Kaffe [kaffe.org] Java Virtual Machine to his Apple ][c. When asked why he did it, he said, "The main reason was to fasten my programming daily work. I felt a little limited by the 6502 instructions and wanted to enjoy the highlevel bytecode of Java." Read the full scoop over at JavaLobby [javalobby.org].
Free food, the ugly truth (Score:5, Funny)
She logged onto a web site, expecting to find some innocent pop-up p0rn and dialer windows. Instead, she got a popup reading "Click here and get a free pizza!" Like a fool, she clicked on the popup. A few minutes and a registration page later, she got an email titled "Read this, activate your free pizza delivery!".
You know what she should have done. Delete the email. Just delete it and forget about it. But no, what did she do? She opened it and read it. The email read: "Thank you for opening this email. Through the magic of Outlook Security we have run a software agent that has activated your PC's modem and dialed our central computer. Using called-id we have identified your telephone number and we now know your name, street number, and postal code. The pizza you have ordered is SPICY BEEF and will be delivered to your door in TEN MINUTES".
You could tell from the capitals that SOMETHING TERRIBLE was going on.
The pizza arrived. Inexorably, like a hangover on Sunday morning, a small white van drove up to the house and a man stepped out, dressed in white and carrying a flat pizza tray.
What could she do? "Run!" I hear you scream. "Hide", perhaps? "Release the hounds?" No, she calmly opened the door and accepted the pizza box.
Open... the... box...
Open... the... box...
The smell of warm pizza did a BDSM on her conscious mind and she found herself opening the pizza box...
What did she find?
( ) A Hot'n spicy Beef pizza for four
( ) A CD-ROM labelled "Do Not Play"
( ) A mercedes, a portable phone, and a laughing Dutchman
( ) CowboyNeal
( ) Yes
( ) I'm a vegetarian, you insensitive clod!
Well, the answer is stranger than any of these. She found a small piece of paper. Printed on it were the words: "Missing field! Please click back and enter full name!"
Re:Okay. I'm going to the pub. (Score:3, Funny)
P2P food sharing program. (Score:5, Funny)
Go online, fire up "Snackster" and check what's out there. Oh look, via Snackster's geographic IP address location logic you see that a guy two blocks away has three two day old tamales and a six ounces of chips. With the click of a button you make your offer, yesterday's curry for Tuesdays's mexican food. A quick link from Snackster to mapquest get's you directions and twenty minutes you're eating something you'd like.
You avoid tossing out stuff that's perfectly good but not appealing, plus you can take advantage of the huge portions most restaurants serve by saving half for your Snackster catalog.
-dameron
My Free Jelly Bellys are Slashdotted! (Score:5, Funny)
Get your SCO loving hands off MY Jelly Bellys!!
Re:Public Use workstations. (Score:2, Funny)
I was changing a user's keyboard and it was FULL of crackers, chips, whatever else she had been eating over her keyboard for who knows how long.
I was appalled and said this was the most disgusting keyboard I have ever seen.
Her: You should see my floors at home, you could eat off of them.
Me: I could eat off of your keyboard, there's a whole damn meal in it!!!
Re:Public Use workstations. (Score:2, Funny)
They're people!
Keyboard crumbs are made from people!
OT - True story (Score:3, Funny)
When I was 19, I landed a job working as a waiter on Amtrak (America's nationalized passenger railroad, in case you're overseas) as a Summer job. It was a good job with more money and benefits than anything I'd done before. Since railroad work has a history of being somewhat dangerous, the job came with automatic life insurance. Something like $10K from the railroad and $75K from the union. This was at a time when my family's home in suburban Los Angeles was assessed at about $80K (1988).
One day between trips, I had a bunch of buddies come over to the house and help me fix a fence. They got to joking with my Mom about her being the beneficiary of the policy and how horrible it would be if I had an "accident." Did my mother, the woman who brought into this world, defend me from these homicidal overtures of my so called "friends"?
No. She started to take bids to see which one of them could do it cheaper.
Re:This year is higher quality, MAYBE (Score:3, Funny)
Your post is at +5 - you succeeded again!
Re:Dude, already been done (Score:3, Funny)
they come over, and viola
He was using it as a verb. One of them distracts you by playing a musical instrument very badly while the others disappear your food, beer, and perhaps other things as well.