Interesting address

[Tedx]

https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

What a brilliant bit of marketing. I mean, who in their right mind is not going to fork out thirty quid for a "Lifetime Member of the Muff Diving Club" certificate / tee shirt, which they can proudly hang on their wall or other appendage for all to see?

Reminds me of a famous story - probably apocryphal but who cares - of what I consider the best money-making, yet totally legal scam ever to be invented, or if it IS apocryphal, why hasn't someone put it into practice? This was in the days of cheques, so actually probably wouldn't work today.

Just in case there are some who have not heard of it, it involves the purchase of an intimate sex toy, advertised wherever sex toys are advertised (personally I wouldn't know...)

Advert says something like "send in your cheque for £19.99 and your purchase will be dispatched immediately"

So in go the cheques, and a couple of weeks later, a letter arrives back from the company apologising that the particular item ordered is regrettably out of stock / discontinued, and is accompanied by a cheque for £19.99, the full purchase price, which the buyer is of course at liberty to pay into the bank at their earliest convenience.

And across the top of the cheque, in large bold capital letters, visible from space, is the name of the company:

THE ANAL SEX TOY COMPANY

I suspect not too many of the cheques were cashed.

I give you 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'

https://youtu.be/pV-4HH6BxY0

[simsqu]

I give you 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'

https://youtu.be/pV-4HH6BxY0

THAT's where I heard it!

M'bliged to you

[WickedLester]

When I first left school I worked for a while for a local high street bank. This was in the days that cheques were sent back to the branch and stored in the vault and had to be manually reconciled.

Anyway one day while going through the cheques I noticed one payable to "Colour Climax" drawn on a Mr Bates.

And that really is a true story!