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Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 1301

Hey I have won the "Nokia Mobile Promotion" - lucky me eh? What I found amusing was the following:-

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I wish to on behalf of all members and staff of NOKIA congratulate you on your win and wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Thank you for being part of our commemorative 142nd Anniversary Draws.
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142nd Anniversary Draw for a mobile phone company - that is some going!

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:44 pm

Have you looked at the date of the email?

Maybe it was sent from the future too. Wink

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:45 pm

Nokia started out making rubber wellington boots, but not that long ago.

I was reading somewhere that the founder left a load of shares in the original company with his local village. Now the shares are (or were until recently) worth millions, now they are agruing over who gets the money...

Congrats on your lottery win anyway, I hope nothing goes wrong....

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:48 pm

Well... he didn't make his research...
And I am late with it too.

Nokia was founded 1865!

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 1301

RoyCropper - what could possibly go wrong? (Open to suggestions).

For a starter, I guess I'd quite like a list of the previous 141 winners of the draw for verification of authenticity - I'm sure Nokia would be pleased to supply this. Since Nokia was founded in 1865 I guess their early draws were carried out by carrier pigeon rather than email ballot.

I have every confidence this is a genuine draw and I am putting the poor spelling and grammar (you should see the rest of the email) down to the fact that Nokia are a Scandanavian company.

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:16 pm

140 years ago the first mobile phone was 2 coconut halves tied by vines

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:20 pm

All of you guys need to go and take a history class.

EVERYONE knows that Nokia was the only reason the Union won the Civil War. Laughing

Not quite a Newb Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 55

Everyone knows Nokia started out as the worlds leading carrier pidgeons company

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:52 pm

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140 years ago the first mobile phone was 2 coconut halves tied by vines

SOLDIER #1:
Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR:
What do you mean?
SOLDIER #1:
Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR:
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
SOLDIER #1:
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR:
Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER #1:
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR:
It could grip it by the husk!
SOLDIER #1:
It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:53 pm

^^Totally off topic, but I thought I'd mention...Roy, you got a new avatar! And that guy is my Dr. W@yn3 Dw0ps character! Smile

@Congratulations on your recent win, pete515. Very Happy

You'll see my name on the list for last year, but I blew all the money already. I'm hoping for another win, so I can do it right this time. Smile

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