Big Brown Button

satellitedriver · 06-08-2008, 09:29 PM

Sorry to change the subject, but my wife brought home a UPS boomerang the other day. She controls shipping for an internet company and a sales rep gave it to her.
The program is to advertise UPS Returns Worldwide.
I could not believe the waste of money by UPS.
It is very well made, stenciled and painted with the logo.
Whoever thought of this gimmick should have it thrown at them.
It does fly nice.

sx2700 · 06-08-2008, 09:37 PM

When I first saw the title for this thread I had something else in mind than an actual button. Should have been titled "Big Brown Eye" as in that is where their Big Brown Button should go.

outamyway · 06-08-2008, 09:40 PM

Do you think they'd work anything like the three sea shells? They might not be a bad investment after all.

06-08-2008, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by satellitedriver

Sorry to change the subject, but my wife brought home a UPS boomerang the other day. She controls shipping for an internet company and a sales rep gave it to her.
The program is to advertise UPS Returns Worldwide.
I could not believe the waste of money by UPS.
It is very well made, stenciled and painted with the logo.
Whoever thought of this gimmick should have it thrown at them.
It does fly nice.

You mean thrown away from them!!!

disneyworld · 06-09-2008, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by New Englander

It was absolutely the stupidest thing I've seen UPS do in quite sometime.

Hand them out to shippers the first day, then receive ours the following day.

Then we are instructed that we ARE NOT to wear them on our uniform. Yeah.....

Let's give these stupid buttons out to our shippers and then tell them that UPS will not even let us wear this same UPS button on our uniform for one lousy day, would have made sense for us to on the day we were actually supposed to give them out.

My god UPS.....do you think we would wear this button with "pride" on our day off? Lol! It was too cheesy even for corporate.

We ship all mail them to Atlanta!!!!!!!!!!

UPSBOI · 06-09-2008, 10:19 AM

I had a customer try to corner me up today about the race. He said one of the persons there lost over $7k on Big Brown. I had to fight my way out with a an old fire extinguisher!

toonertoo · 06-09-2008, 05:11 PM

OK Moreluck, How much did you lose?????

moreluck · 06-09-2008, 05:44 PM

I didn't bet on the race at all. When I heard the trainer guarantee a winner, I knew it was over.

The only time I ever went to the track, I sought out the big odds....so if I had bet on Belmont I would've found that 38 to 1 shot really attractive.

brownmonster · 06-09-2008, 07:29 PM

Found a button on Ebay but it's not the same one we handed out.

Big Babooba · 06-09-2008, 07:37 PM

Well it seems that Big Brown turned out to be a Big Black eye to the marketing dept

Cementups · 06-09-2008, 07:51 PM

I have a dozen buttons left. Who wants to buy some?

Storm723 · 06-10-2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Babooba

Well it seems that Big Brown turned out to be a Big Black eye to the marketing dept

Just an FYI..... A LOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW THIS....

For the Belmont Stakes, Big Brown wore a second set of stainless steel sutures on the inside of his hoof. Hoof specialist Ian McKinlay changed the sutures a week before the race and attached an acrylic and fiberglass adhesive patch to the hoof. Although he missed three days of training prior to the race, his gait and attitude seemed unaffected. After the crack was patched, Brown was exercised by rider Michelle Nevin. Ian McKinlay said, prior to the Belmont, that Big Brown "does not need a patch on the quarter crack on his left front hoof until the morning of the Belmont Stakes. So Dutrow will give Big Brown his final hard workout Tuesday to breeze 5 furlongs without it and gallop him into the race confident the colt’s tender hoof is healed."
Big Brown went off as the 3-10 favorite in the Belmont, but Da' Tara won the race while he finished in 9th, becoming the first Triple Crown hopeful to finish in last place at Belmont. Jockey Kent Desormeaux eased the horse in the home stretch after sensing something was amiss, saying immediately after the race, "I had no horse." His failure to win has led many people to believe that his loss is one of the biggest flops in horse racing history.

over9five · 06-10-2008, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Baba gounj

Did everyone get their Big Brown Button today ?

You know, it's funny....

I was walking out of the building Friday night (ok, Sat morning), and I walked past a table with an open bag of these buttons on it. I started to pick one up, but stopped.

No one had offered me one, and I thought I would be accused of pilfering. Sad, but something you have to be careful of at UPS.....

trickpony1 · 06-10-2008, 09:33 AM

It appears Jockey Kent D. had some compassion and love for BB.
It appears the people who bet on BB didn't.
Once again, human greed almost killed a beautiful creature. Jockey Kent D stopped that process. The horse that was put down at the kentucky derby wasn't so lucky.
I hope you all slowly suffocate on your greed.

go ahead and negative rep me....I don't care.

Storm723 · 06-10-2008, 09:39 AM

trick,
I agree with you....I watched the race and as I was watching I saw the moment when the jockey pulled back. Thinking that was odd... we watched it again... then someone said... "BB was injured going into this race" and I thought... "they raced him anyway??" what for the money??

If he won injured...they would have collected their money and recognition and you would have read about him being put down later...

wannabeups · 06-10-2008, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Storm723

trick,
I agree with you....I watched the race and as I was watching I saw the moment when the jockey pulled back. Thinking that was odd... we watched it again... then someone said... "BB was injured going into this race" and I thought... "they raced him anyway??" what for the money??

If he won injured...they would have collected their money and recognition and you would have read about him being put down later...

He shouldn't have even been in the race. I think I heard somewhere on the news that he had a split hoof and they had to wire it and get him fitted with a special horse shoe. Talk about being greedy.

Storm723 · 06-10-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by wannabeups

The shouldn't have even been in the race. I think I heard somewhere on the news that he had a split hoof and they had to wire it and get him fitted with a special horse shoe. Talk about being greedy.

Yeah I posted exactly (see below) what they did to the poor thing...before he raced...below...

wannabeups · 06-10-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Storm723

Yeah I posted exactly (see below) what they did to the poor thing...before he raced...below...

wow didn't know they were inside his hoof.

covemaster · 06-11-2008, 06:58 AM

Big Brown they shouldah called in Curt Schilling's Dr. can we bloody sock!! sorry I mean bloody horse shoe !!!!!!
GO SOX

covemaster · 06-11-2008, 07:01 AM

BIG BROWN last seen pulling a bulk train in World Port last nite, Hell they will make money on him some how !!! Some one said they think Dale Jarret was loading up the cart!