Any guess as to what they are giving away?

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Any guess as to what they are giving away?

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http://www.filtretepromo.com/main/rules.aspx

3M/Filtrete air filters has a promo where they are giving away 50 bamboo a week for 23 weeks. Only description I can find is:

A Bamboo Plant. ARV of Grand Prize: $15.00




So if anyone wants more spam e-mail you have to sign up for their newsletter to be entered into the bamboo sweepstakes. :x
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bet its lucky bamboo.
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Flashburn wrote:bet its lucky bamboo.
Probably, but interestingly the ads for the contest feature a mixture of lucky bamboo and real bamboo pictures. :?

I went ahead and signed up for the contest just so I could grouse at them when they send me Lucky Bamboo instead of the real stuff. :D

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I would say it will be lucky bamboo... if you look at the ad on the left, it says
"bamboo houseplant"
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Mr. Obvious guesses the obvious. If they were giving away real bamboo, then I think they would know enough that they would also give the species name. And if that were the case, then I would sign up to so they could send me their SPAM. :lol:
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hey, I follow the rule of only opening my mouth when im sure.... most of the time.

well, some of the time....


okay, I occasionally follow the rule of only opening my mouth when Im sure of the answer :lol:
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ghmerrill wrote:hey, I follow the rule of only opening my mouth when im sure.... most of the time.

well, some of the time....


okay, I occasionally follow the rule of only opening my mouth when Im sure of the answer :lol:
Well, sometimes if the strategy is to get some responses, just throw out an answer that is totally incorrect an you will get a lot of feedback about how your answer is incorrect, but you also get more opinions about the other possibilities. Just a little different strategy.
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Hell Roy you could say. "Timber bamboo grows deeper in the ground then above it" and I would be all "really???"
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Flashburn wrote:Hell Roy you could say. "Timber bamboo grows deeper in the ground then above it" and I would be all "really???"
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought I did read an article, with a picture or 2, of some research where all the rhizomes, (a temperate bamboo in this case) in so many square feet, where dug up and weighed, and all the culms, branches, leaves above ground cut up and weighed, and the outcome was the mass the bamboo above ground equaled the total weight of the rhizomes below ground. And I don't think I dreamed this, but it's definitely been a long time ago I saw this.
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