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GeekRunner081
118 posts since
Jan 6, 2006

Nov 20, 2007 8:16 AM

What was the strangest thing you got at an expo?

What's your favorite race marketing rubbish? I got a ladies vibrating battery-powered disposable razor in the bag along with my number and the usual ads a couple weeks ago. The same race gave me some of the manliest smelling soap imaginable a few years ago.
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Julie478
169 posts since
Aug 8, 2007
1. Nov 20, 2007 11:20 AM in response to: GeekRunner081
Squeezable stress toy shaped like a head of lettuce.

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"Only those who risk going too
far can possibly find out how far
one can go." - T.S. Eliot
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horsemom2b
63 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
2. Nov 20, 2007 3:25 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
My last race goodie bag included, among other things, a flashlight (?) and a Little Debbie snack cake (??) and a rubber jar opener (???)

(I have to admit I wolfed down that snack cake in the car on the way home.)
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MrPHinNJ
139 posts since
Oct 10, 2007
3. Nov 20, 2007 8:26 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
I received a sample of a feminine hygiene product. Being a guy, that would be considered strange. Maybe they need pink and blue colored goodie bags?
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juki090
45 posts since
Nov 6, 2005
4. Nov 21, 2007 2:42 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
A tiny bag of Carolina brown rice.
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Blisters
38 posts since
Oct 23, 2007
5. Nov 21, 2007 5:52 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
I've also got the bags of Carolina brown rice. What is that all about?
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tithers
1,409 posts since
Nov 26, 2007
6. Nov 21, 2007 6:12 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
yah, it IMFL I got the vibrating razor and axe body spray. Oh, and moisturizing liquid dove soap.

I woulda much rather gotten a tube of butt lube. That's more useful!
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javaangel25
71 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
7. Nov 21, 2007 8:27 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
Zicam- the zinc medicine
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jansd
418 posts since
Jun 8, 2003
8. Nov 21, 2007 8:41 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
A loaf of walmart brand white bread.
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slimfastshady
66 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
9. Nov 22, 2007 7:49 AM in response to: GeekRunner081
a jar of Dijon mustard !
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10. Nov 22, 2007 12:53 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
crabs
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BGirl
15 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
11. Nov 22, 2007 2:48 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
I've got nothing to add - just wanted to say that some of these are hilarious!
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huskydon
316 posts since
Oct 19, 2007
12. Nov 22, 2007 4:50 PM in response to: GeekRunner081
I got the bag of brown rice too!
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Jarhead0351
52 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
13. Nov 23, 2007 10:16 AM in response to: GeekRunner081
One of those little rubber coin purses that grannies use. (Although it did have the Hammer Gel logo).
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juki090
45 posts since
Nov 6, 2005
14. Nov 23, 2007 10:37 AM in response to: GeekRunner081
I think there was probably a tiny 18-wheeler filled filled with tiny bags of Carolina rice that tipped over somewhere. Or maybe a tiny freighter that ran aground...
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