I was recently watching an episode of Fat Albert (remember that) on Netflix. The episode was about those ads you use to find in the back of kids magazines and comic books that got you to sell a bunch of overpriced crap that no one wanted in order to earn prizes.
It took me back to my youth, when I became a salesman for the Olympic Sales Club after finding their ad in the back of Boys Life Magazine. I remember getting a prize catalog with tons of cool stuff I could earn like microscopes and rafts and radios. All I had to do was sell a bunch of stationary and wrapping paper, that is if I could find any suckers to buy them. Of course, none of my friends had money to buy the crap. And, bless my mom's heart for taking the product catalogue to work.
So, you're probably asking, "Did you sell anything? Did you earn any prizes?" Well, you'll be glad to know that I did sell enough to earn a calculator watch, which, by the way, broke a week later.
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I'm still waiting for the Snoopy wrapping paper I bought from you in 1977.
Jim, I think that wrapping paper ended up in the same place that I put that watch.
Love that calculator. I remember a kid back at primary school that had one just like that. :)
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