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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: MTV CD Contest, list of videos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.214258.6443@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Sender: news@bradley.bradley.edu
- Organization: The Smelly Ditch
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 21:42:58 GMT
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- MTV is running a contest where they have ten `special' videos. These
- videos are identified by showing a small circular logo in the lower right of the
- screen for a few seconds during the video. If you write down all ten videos
- and mail it to mtv you get in a drawing for 10,000 cds (I think) and $10,000
- and an unspecified stereo. Entries must be received by January 28th.
-
- Rather than stay glued to a boob-channel on the boob-toob,
- I thought it would pretty cool if people on the net who have seen one or
- two of the `special' videos could contribute to a public list of them.
-
- I realize there are some flaws in this approach:
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- 1) Why would I want to tell everyone else the videos I know about?
- Won't that just make my chances of winning the drawing less?
-
- Answer: You can't enter the drawing unless you have all ten videos.
- So unless you are prepared to dedicate day and night to watching mtv,
- you probably wouldn't be able to enter the contest anyway.
-
- 2) If someone lies by saying a video is `special' when it really isn't,
- that will screw up everyone who uses the list.
-
- Answer: People can always double-check for themselves. One can
- probably get an mtv playlist and watch at specific times to verify
- a video's `specialness.' Additionally, if more than ten videos
- show up on the list, we know someone is lying.
-
- Either post as a follow-up or reply to me directly if you want to
- contribute to the list. I will take care of posting any e-mail
- replies I get.
-
- So, to start things off, here is the only `special' video I know of:
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- ``Yesterdays'' Guns 'N Roses
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