by HB on Tue May 23, 2006 9:32 pm 
"Coffee Driven People, People Driven Coffee"
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UPDATED 05/31: Congratulations jesawdy, you've won a Summer of Coffee from Counter Culture! But there's something for everyone else!
MarkO wrote:All of us here have had so much fun reading the contest thread. Many thanks to H-B for hosting, and to everyone who participated. In appreciation for the enthusiastic membership of H-B, we'd like to offer a coupon for $5 off any online coffee purchase. To use the coupon, simply type 'hbmillion' (without quotation marks) at the coupon prompt.
The offer is valid through Sunday June 4th.
All the best,
Mark
Thanks to all who entered and shared their pithy comments, it was fun.
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How do I enter? This contest thread is "special" -- your reply to this thread will automatically include the current view count from the forum index page (i.e., "These messages has been seen 974K times" near the bottom). Reply with one or more excerpted sentences from http://www.counterculturecoffee.com and you're in the countdown contest. See the example post that follows.
How do I win? The member whose post is (a) closest to a milestone without going over and (b) the entrant's excerpted sentence has not been previously posted.
What can I win? The grand prize is a summer of coffee with winners at each 5,000 message views milestone:
- 980,000 views = one bag of Counter Culture Coffee
985,000 views = one bag of Counter Culture Coffee
990,000 views = one bag of Counter Culture Coffee
995,000 views = one bag of Counter Culture Coffee
1,000,000 views = summer of coffee from Counter Culture Coffee (one bag of coffee per week for 12 weeks)
Questions about the rules? Reply to this thread. Questions about the contest will not be considered entries. An entry must include an excerpt from Counter Culture Coffee's website to be considered valid (any phrase will do as long as it's unique).
Reminder: Replies to this thread cannot be modified or deleted. You can enter as many times as you wish by replying, but each excerpted phrase from http://www.counterculturecoffee.com must be unique and spammish replies will be disqualified. Limited to residents of the lower 48 United States. Offer void where prohibited. Keep in mind that the site performance degrades noticeably when there's near simultaneous posts; those submitting last-second entries ("snipers") risk missing the milestone.
