General Mills starts a Win One, Give One OLPC promo

Posted by dowdle on Jan 5, 2010 6:37 PM EDT
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When I got home from work last night, my 17 year old son (Bryan) demanded I watch something on TV he had found. Welding the TiVo remote he played for me a commercial aired during SpongeBob SquarePants. In the commercial I kid got a package in the mail that contained two OLPCs one of which the kid picks up and walks out of his house with, journeying until he is in a village in Africa where he gives a village kid the OLPC. At the very end it is revealed that it is a contest being run by General Mills with chances to win provided with some of their products.

When I got home from work last night, my 17 year old son (Bryan) demanded I watch something on TV he had found. Welding the TiVo remote he played for me a commercial aired during SpongeBob SquarePants. In the commercial I kid got a package in the mail that contained two OLPCs one of which the kid picks up and walks out of his house with, journeying until he is in a village in Africa where he gives a village kid the OLPC. At the very end it is revealed that it is a contest being run by General Mills with chances to win provided with some of their products.

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