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What is your deal-hunting origin story?
January 2, 2014 at
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Hello, I hope you are doing well.
What is your origin story? Sure, we may not have superpowers or are superheroes or supervillains, but what many of us do here is pretty super.
Were there events in your childhood that led you to your life of deal-hunting? Did you perhaps come from certain circumstances that changed you into a person who hates retail prices? Or perhaps this is all a new development and you're just doing it for fun, or out of necessity. (Oh, you may also be a person who does deal-hunting on the side and is mainly in these forums for The Lounge.)
Curious,
Tofu Vic, Price Slasher
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In comic book terminology, an origin story is an account or back-story revealing how a character or team gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains.
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Were there events in your childhood that led you to your life of deal-hunting? Did you perhaps come from certain circumstances that changed you into a person who hates retail prices? Or perhaps this is all a new development and you're just doing it for fun, or out of necessity. (Oh, you may also be a person who does deal-hunting on the side and is mainly in these forums for The Lounge.)
Curious,
Tofu Vic, Price Slasher
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However, here's a very recent case locally where it did result in an arrest:
http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/sh...-20131224/
It was this part of the OP that made me think of it:
Save me a glass and a slice, please,
Tofu Vic
You . . . . . . are a horrible hint giver.
Are there more males than females on SD? If so, you can narrow it down to less than 50%. Also, we can narrow it down a bit more: marg_fan joined SD in June of 2008, so we can safely assume that the female who referred him has been registered prior to that month (unless she was or is still a lurker, though that probability is low).
So with our detective skills based on a unhelpful hint, we just have to sort through several thousand members. Go chewspam, I believe in you. Figure it out and I'll buy you some spam.
Update: I created a computer program to run through all of marg_fan's posts over the last half a decade and the results state that there is a good chance it may be one of the following four people:
Zoe Moon
Princess Crunch
ForeverDecember
AggieMom
(No, I did not actually create any computer programs.)
Tofu Vic
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[FADE IN on a woman standing in a grocery store aisle with her cart. She pulls a can of corn from the shelf, looks at the price tag on top in dismay, and then puts the can back.]
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[Just after she holds out her hands in resignation, a yellow Stamp Gun with a long roll of paper magically appears in her right hand. Sprightly, happy strings start playing in the background, like an old promotional film. She looks down at the Stamp Gun with wonder.]
Announcer: Simply snap in a K-Put price tag roll, adjust the fingertip control price dial, aim your Price-Is-Rite stamp gun over the regular marking, pull the trigger, and presto! Look at this! A whole watermelon for only 3 cents!
[The woman is seen setting up the Stamp Gun, then aiming it at a watermelon. CUT to an old-fashioned cash register ringing up $000.03. CUT to the woman cradling her bargain watermelon and smiling slyly.]
Announcer: A 12-pound turkey for just 4 cents!
[The woman aims the stamp gun at an unwrapped frozen turkey, and the register rings up $000.04. The woman cradles her turkey and smiles in exactly the same way, then CUT to her grabbing cans and tossing them into her cart, as if on a free shopping spree.]
Announcer: Save thousands of dollars! Feed your entire family for just pennies a day! Shop for your friends--it's fun and easy!
[FADE to the lady standing in the checkout lane getting two coins in change from a cashier. The cashier then yanks a three-foot-long receipt out of the register and drops it in her hand.]
Announcer: One trip to the store, and your K-Put Stamp Gun will pay for itself!
[CUT to the happy shopper displaying the Stamp Gun in one hand and two coins in the other. She smiles and winks at the camera.]
Announcer: Buy everything you've ever wanted! There's no better way to stretch your shopping dollars!
[CUT to graphic of the Stamp Gun with the price flashing next to it.]
Announcer: K-Put's Price-Is-Rite Stamp Gun. A steal at only $49.95 while they last. That's $49.95...
But as a kid I loved video games so at gatherings id dig and search for cans and spend afternoons at the arcade centipede anyone? We did get an Atari and Commodore 64 eventually!
I'm kidding. I'm officially labeling this as a cold case,
Tofu Vic
But as a kid I loved video games so at gatherings id dig and search for cans and spend afternoons at the arcade centipede anyone? We did get an Atari and Commodore 64 eventually!
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