Monday, March 24, 2008

A Contest, Eh?

This weekend, Meredith and I stopped by McDonalds for breakfast before her audition to sing the national anthem at our local minor league baseball team. Pretty normal, uneventful meal, but we sat right by the poster for their current "Disney Princess and Pirate" happy meal promotion.

On the poster, it had all the fine print. Mostly the standard stuff, describing what happens when you find the winning piece in your happy meal. But then we saw this line:

"To win, a Canadian must answer a skill-testing question correctly."

This obviously raises many questions. Would we get to choose our own Canadian? Is one assigned to us? What kind of skill-testing question requires a Canadian in the first place? Our guess was something about hockey.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question

Dave said...

Thanks, anonymous! That makes more sense now.

(I still maintain that they need some better grammar in their fine print. :) )