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Subway sandwich contest: Homeschoolers not wanted
World Net Daily ^ | May 24, 2008 | Jay Baggett

Posted on 05/25/2008 4:43:09 AM PDT by ovrtaxt


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Subway sandwich contest: Homeschoolers not wanted

Spelling-challenged promotion offers gift 'bastket' to winners


Posted: May 24, 2008
7:00 pm Eastern

By Jay Baggett

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Subway, the sandwich restaurant, wants to hear your child's story – unless he or she is homeschooled.

The national chain's "Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest" offers prizes and a chance to be published on the Subway website and in Scholastic's "Parent & Child" magazine but specifically excludes homeschoolers:

Subway contest

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied (sic) States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.

Subway's website promotion not only misspells "United" States, but offers the grand prize winner a "Scholastic Gift Bastket (sic) for your home."

The 2007 winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee was Evan O'Dorney, a 13-year old homeschool student from Danville, Calif.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: badsepllign; governmenteducation; homeschool; publiceducation; subway
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To: rawhide
I have time to prepare my own food, but know many others do not..I was taught by my mother how to cook so I have raised my children on home made food..Now that my children are older they eat out a lot..I tried to start them out right...LOL!
41 posted on 05/25/2008 5:41:38 AM PDT by PLD
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To: neodad
LOL! that is perfekt!

Homeschool BTTT

42 posted on 05/25/2008 5:41:39 AM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: Squantos
grrr! I sent a copy of this to Sweetie and the "kids". She will forward it onto the various associations that we're affiliated with.

...bunch-a-maroons!
43 posted on 05/25/2008 5:42:07 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: neodad
Hap us jarod. wee r stuk in a hom skul in da untied stayts.....

that's very good....thank heavens, for FR's Spell Checker

44 posted on 05/25/2008 5:45:28 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: hiredhand

Subway is one of the few ‘restaurants’ you will see catering to the troops in Iraq.

I will gladly continue to give them my money, because not only do they support the troops, but they also make delicious food.


45 posted on 05/25/2008 5:46:37 AM PDT by mrhansen
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To: Mark was here

far too


46 posted on 05/25/2008 5:46:58 AM PDT by stayathomemom
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To: ovrtaxt

” Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied (sic) States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.”

It sounds as though they think home schooling is illegal. Ignoramuses! GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE ILLEGAL!

And Quizno’s subs are ten times better, anyway.


47 posted on 05/25/2008 5:48:19 AM PDT by RoadTest ("- - Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols - - " Ezekiel 14:6)
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To: mrhansen
"but they also make delicious food."

LOL!!

48 posted on 05/25/2008 5:48:35 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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To: mrhansen

Good for you. :-) I don’t matter enough to tell where you’re spending your money. Thanks for letting me know all the same. :-)


49 posted on 05/25/2008 5:53:47 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Sam's Army

You don’t like the Italian BMT or their Chicken Club?

Delicious.


50 posted on 05/25/2008 5:54:19 AM PDT by mrhansen
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To: ovrtaxt
Subway...One piece of processed cheese food cut in half diagonally..now it's two pieces! Piled 3/16 of an inch high with your favorite chicken bologna! All for eight bucks!

Yuck!!

51 posted on 05/25/2008 5:54:48 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (I miss Ronnie!!!!!)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Shouldn’t that say-

“I thank there nuts?”

(I’m gubmit educated)


52 posted on 05/25/2008 5:56:39 AM PDT by a real Sheila (Just say NObama!)
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To: mrhansen
Dude...you've got "issues" to resolve. Your past postings reveal that you're pro-government schools and pro-homosexual. These aren't exactly things we hold in high regards around here. There are other forums where you'd get along a lot better than FR with a posting history such as yours.

I'm just trying to save you a little grief before everybody else finds out. :-)
53 posted on 05/25/2008 5:57:36 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: PeaRidge

Ed Zachary.


54 posted on 05/25/2008 6:00:57 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: hiredhand

I’m pro letting people live their lives with as little interference as possible, be it from the government or from other people.

What’s so wrong about that?


55 posted on 05/25/2008 6:01:53 AM PDT by mrhansen
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To: mrhansen

You deal with your “demons”. We’ll deal with ours.


56 posted on 05/25/2008 6:04:07 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: ZinGirl
Contest is open only to legal residents

Oh, boy. There goes the Mexican vote.

57 posted on 05/25/2008 6:05:00 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: ovrtaxt
Unless they change this ASAP, they're not getting another dime of my business...EVER AGAIN.

Is Subway worried that educated American children are a threat to its possible labor pool?

58 posted on 05/25/2008 6:08:56 AM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: hiredhand

Here we are talking about processed meats on white bread, and you then start talking about personal demons. I am not following you.

Subway, like every other company on the planet, is far from perfect. However, they are doing their part by giving the troops, who are several thousand miles away and in a turd world nation, a small taste of home.

That earns some brownie points in my book.

As to why they are excluding homeschoolers from some lame contest is beyond me. So, why not call and find out before flipping out, sending angry letters, and calling for a boycott of Subway.


59 posted on 05/25/2008 6:10:29 AM PDT by mrhansen
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To: ovrtaxt
I decided to write one for the home schoolers. I picked one of their story lines:

Nothing Better: The smell of fresh baked bread coming from the store was so good that...

immediately went in to buy a turkey sub. Then for some damn reason, this so-called "fresh bread" I found to be rather was hard and bland. Now if I was fed this in the gulag ran mystery meat emporiums laughingly known as 'public school cafeterias', I probably wouldn't have known the difference. After all these are the same people that take toast, put ketchup on it with some Velveeta and try to pass it off as pizza. Problem was is that I'm home schooled, and was raised not only to be smarter than the average underwear showing pubic school slacker, but raised not to be a sucker and pay $5 for a processed meat on a stale chunk of french bread. I decided to play it smart and just get a tuna salad in a plastic bowl.

I presented the high school graduate a $20 bill for my $5 sub. He rang it up and then stopped staring deep into his cash register.

"Do you have anything smaller?" the slacked-jawed yutz asked.

"No I'm afraid not." I replied.

"Oh great! Well I can't make change. See I only have a $10 and 4 $1 bills!"

"Well do you have a $5's" I inquired.

"Well yes I do. But I only have 4 $1's" he said.

"So instead of $1's, give me a $10 and a $5 and you get the same thing!"
"Wait a second." He dodged into the back room and started counting on his fingers. 3 mins later he came back. "Damn! You're right!"

He gave me my change, and I walked out, never to see him again, because I found a Quiznos down the street. "

60 posted on 05/25/2008 6:14:48 AM PDT by Bommer (There's an (R) next to his name! I must trash my principles & beliefs and vote for the (R)!)
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