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• In the early 1990s, sales of Hoover vacuum cleaners and washing machines were flagging in Great Britain. The company decided to boost sales by offering a promotion: If you spent at least £100 on a Hoover product, they would give you a coupon for two free round-trip air flights to Europe. The company anticipated that people who received those coupons would fail to redeem them. • The public flocked to buy products. The promotion was so successful that Hoover added two round-trip flights to the U.S. This was before cheap seats were readily available, and it didn’t take folks long to figure out that it was worth buying a £100 vacuum in order to collect £600 worth of plane tickets. • Hoover had to bring in extra workers who toiled round the clock to keep up with the sudden demand. Newlyweds getting married would receive half a dozen vacuums as wedding gifts from people who just wanted the tickets. • But after buying the appliances, participants were not receiving the vouchers for the airfare. A prominent newspaper ran an article about it, giving the promotion more publicity. Sales of Hoover appliances jumped by tenfold. • Hoover now realized they could never fulfill their promise, and that their expectation that consumers would forget to redeem their free plane tickets was unfounded. They weaseled, squirmed and invoked the fine print. A lawyer called for a class action suit and 80,000 responded. Over half a million people signed up for the free flights, but only a third of them ever received tickets. Even so, the fiasco ended up costing the company over £45 million ($100 million in today’s U.S. dollars). • The damage to their reputation was so great that their entire European division was sold to a competitor shortly afterwards, and the Hoover factories in Britain closed down. (keep reading on next page)

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PAW’S CORNER By Sam Mazzotta WHAT’S THE LAW WHEN DRIVING WITH PETS DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My husband and I are planning to travel cross-country with our two dogs and are wondering which states require that they be restrained, and what the penalties are? -- Rita and Jim, via email DEAR RITA: I misreported this in an earlier column. Actually, no state in the U.S. has yet passed a law specifically requiring pets to wear restraints or be in a carrier when riding in a car. Most legislation in place today considers unrestrained pets a form of distracted driving. Earlier this year, a proposed bill in Maine to require pets to be restrained in cars was withdrawn after public outcry. And amendments proposed in Illinois and California were defeated and vetoed, respectively. Hawaii explicitly prohibits owners from driving with a pet on their laps. Other states that may ticket drivers with pets on their laps include Rhode Island, Arizona, Connecticut, Maine and Oregon. New Jersey allows police officers to stop vehicles in which animals are being improperly transported. While it was written to stop improper transportation of livestock, police can make a stop if they feel safety is an issue. So at the moment, it’s unlikely that you’ll be stopped simply for having an unrestrained pet in the car. However, if the pet is distracting you or obstructing your view of the road, that’s not safe no matter how legal (or illegal) it may be. Regardless of the law, it’s just good sense to restrain pets in the car. There are a number of restraint systems on the market that will keep your pet comfortable and prevent it from moving around too much, which in turn keeps you from getting distracted. Send your questions, tips or comments to ask pawscorner.com. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• In 1984, McDonalds had a new promotion: for every event the USA won in the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, customers could get free food. If your scratch-off game piece showed the U.S. winning gold in a specific event, you won a Big Mac; silver got you fries; and bronze was worth a soft drink. • McDonald’s was using as its estimate the medals won during the last Summer Olympics in which the U.S. had participated, in 1976. In that year, the U.S. won 94 medals, and 34 were gold. The Soviets dominated with 125 medals. McDonalds expected the same thing in 1984. However, in 1984, Russia boycotted the Olympics, in a tit-for-tat maneuver since the U.S. had boycotted the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow. • America dominated the games, winning 174 gold medals, with 83 of them being gold. McDonalds gave away a lot of free food and lost a great deal of money.

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Special Christmas Mass Schedule Saturday Dec. 23rd — 4th Sunday of Advent (Vigil) 5:00 PM

Sunday Dec. 24th — 4th Sunday of Advent (Vigil) 7:00 AM, 8:30 AM & 10:00 AM — NO MASS AT NOON

Dec. 24th — Christmas Eve 4:00 PM — in Church 4:10 PM — in Church Hall 6:30 PM PM (continued): — THE “X” 10:00 FACTOR Mass in the Holy Night (NO MIDNIGHT) • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies to you! Dec. 25th — Christmas Day • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on 7:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 10:00 the Mediterranean Sea sailed a AM small three& 12:00 NOON masted vessel with square and triangular sails that enabled them to sail faster than their prospective victims. Depending on the size of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 Saturday Dec.on30th — guns might be mounted the vessel. Holy Family (Vigil) 5:00 PM • The word xenia has a variety of meanings. To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far Dec. from 31st home. the Family botanist, it’s Sunday — To Holy the effect pollen onAM, a seed. And to those in 7:00ofAM, 8:30 10:00 AM Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, & 12:00 NOON — a community about 21 miles (34 km) from NO EVENING VIGIL FOR Dayton. SOLEMNITY OF MARY • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes Mondayexercise Jan. 1stduring — Solemnity of Mary would inclement weather. Holy Day of Obligation 8:30 AM — To the Romans, the xystus was the garden AM NOON where they walkway 10:00 in front of 12:00 the porticoes, NO MASS AT 7:00 AM planted flower beds. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

• William H. Boring was born in Illinois in 1841. After serving as a Union soldier in the U.S. Civil War, he travelled to the pioneer country of Oregon with his wife. There they bought 160 acres near his brother who had settled outside Portland. Boring and his wife raised a son, and donated land for a schoolhouse. By the time William Boring died at the age of 91 in 1931, the town was a thriving logging community that now bears his name: Boring, Oregon. The town has 13,000 residents who enjoy having a Boring beer at the Not-SoBoring Bar, or shopping at the Boring Thrift Store. The town slogan is, “The Most Exciting Place to Live.” • The Gaelic word “dul” means “meadow” and that is probably how the town of Dull, Scotland, got its name. Dull consists of a single street of houses on the north side of the valley of the River Tay. Though the area has been inhabited since the Middle Ages, the population of Dull has been in decline in recent times. In 1951, Dull had a population of 2,055. As of 2012, the population of Dull was approximately 84, with about 20 homes. The economy is centered around agriculture. The town is north of Glasgow. • William Bland was a ship’s surgeon who 3rd Quarter killed a man in 2016 a duel in Bombay in 1813. He was punished for his crime by being shipped Week 34 off to the penal colony in Tasmania for seven August 14was -August 20 in 1815, but was subyears. He pardoned sequently sentenced to serve a year in prison Page 8 in New South Wales, Australia, after writing a treatise making fun of the governor of New South Wales. Once released, he became instrumental in the development of Australia. The town of Bland, New South Wales, Australia, is named for him. Bland is a town of 6,400 and the economy is centered on agriculture and a gold mine. (cont’d on the next page)

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