Yay the mcdonalds monopoly game is here again! But what's this you say? You think mcdonalds food is disgusting?! Well then. Read the offical rules and you'll see how to get 1 free game piece and 1 free chance piece per envalope you send them

http://monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly06/rules.do?page=splashflash.html

The most important part is this though.

Without Purchase. To request a Game Piece without making a purchase at McDonald's, persons in the United States, Guam, Saipan and American Samoa may mail a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope (SASE) with sufficient postage and their return address (name, street address, city, state, country, and zip code) legibly printed thereon to: MONOPOLY® 2006 Game at McDonald's, Game Piece Request, P.O. Box 49434, Strongsville, OH 44149. Vermont residents with a return address located in Vermont may omit return postage. DO NOT SEND POTENTIAL WINNING GAME STAMPS, COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS TO THIS ADDRESS. Each request must be mailed in a separate outer envelope. Requests that are sent in business reply envelopes, that are photocopied, mechanically reproduced or not mailed in separate outer envelopes will NOT be honored. The return address and SASE mailing address must be the same address or the request will NOT be honored. One (1) Game Piece and one (1) Chance Piece will be mailed in response to each request, while supplies last. Mail-in requests must be postmarked no later than October 30, 2006, and received no later than November 6, 2006. If the Game runs long in restaurants, these dates are subject to a corresponding extension.

Muww whahaha, you mail them inside of a regular envalope with that address on it and your return address, another envalope inside with just your address on it and a stamp on both envalopes.

That's only postage and envalopes(which are cheap) and some time spent. And the least expensive thing you can BUY at mcdonalds that comes with a game piece is I think the chicken sandwhich, which costs more than the envalopes and postage will.

EDIT: Oh and on each game/chance piece has a code on it, that you enter at www.playatmcd.com for a chance to win more sutff. I already won 75 prints and free shipping for the prints(pictures) for snapfish.com (i won 25 free prints 3 times just by landing on that treasure chest or the chance question mark thing).

Or you could just eat at McDonald's for two weeks straight and perform your own "SUPER SIZE ME" test.

I'm sure I'd die if I did that, tho. Can you say Coronary Thrombosis?

I've no problem with McD. I'll just swing by and get reacquainted with the Big Mac, I guess, and maybe I'll pass Go and collect $200.

Eugh, never!
For anyone that didn't see my rant on #100 UK McDonalds ring a bell every 30 mins.
The purpose of said bell? To remind them to wash their hands!!!

I've never been to the UK. Actually, my first job was at McDonalds in Missouri. I'm not fiercly loyal to my first employer or anything, it's just my honest observation that that particular McDonalds was the cleanest fast food place I've ever been to. I don't know how it compares to the UK, but McDonalds Corporation has some of the stricktest sanitation standards, but it's up to individual stores to maintain those standards (except when there's an inspection....). I'd actually be glad to hear a bell like that. The bell doesn't necessarily mean they have a problem with washing their hands, just to be extra sure it does happen. Ironically, the worst bathrooms I've ever seen were at the Barnes & Noble I worked at....

It just the idea, that people serving food need to be reminded to wash their hands. There have been a few cases of hygiene problems at McDs over here

My dad told me that when he was younger, in California, there was a Purple Turtle restaurant that got shut down because the manager got caught reserving food, and (hehe) hijacking meat trucks.

at least mcdonalds didnt kill a couple people because of undercooked food like jack in the box did.

I can't remember the details of that story, but condider this:

Jack-in-the-Box didn't kill anybody.
A cook who worked at a franchise of Jack-in-the-Box didn't cook the whatever long enough.

Place the accountability where it belongs.

actually the burgers at jack in the box were undercooked because the company did not follow safe-cooking standards. they believed that the standards of most resturants made the burgers too tough so they undercooked the food even though they knew it was dangerous. employees even said that they were worried about the cooking standards and still did nothing about it and it wasnt just low level employees either.

and by the way i wasnt saying anything bad about jack in the box i just meant it could be worse than employees needing a bell to remind them to wash their hands.

Huh, interesting about Jack-in-the-Box. That would be a serious issue. It's safe to cook steak so it's pink inside, because all the bacteria live on the outisde. But once you grind it up, they're all through it. I like Jack-in-the-Box's chicken sandwich. Actually, that's pretty much what I get at any fast food.... McChicken for $1 is an addiction of mine. :)

I react like that about the accountability thing because it annoys me when people do things like sue McDonalds because they spilled coffee in their lap, or sue McDonalds because they got fat from eating fast food, or sue a gun company because someone shot someone.

actually i found out something not long ago about that mc-donalds coffe spilled lawsuit thing...

unfortunately i cant find the article anymore but it seems that THAT particular McDonalds had been written up something like 12 times in that year by state health inspectors for having a faulty temperature control on thier coffee maker that made the coffee stupid hot, like nearly boiling. Mc-Corporate had been advised and had not done anything about it even though to keep the franchise the resteraunt was required (by the franchise agreement) to obey all state and local regulations.

I agree that the award was rediculous in that case, but there does seem to be more to it than meets the eye. I'll have to see if i can dig up a copy of that article but i dont remember what magazine it was in.