Last week I had blogged about my approval of the new Mother energy drink. The next morning, I received a nice email from the PR rep handling the product.
I replied with a “Hell yeah! Send me some free stuff!” 
A week later, a non-descript box landed on my doorstep. It felt heavy and I could hear the clanking of metallic cans. Awesome.
Inside it were 9 cans of Mother, a letter with a crushed can of the old Mother, and a mysterious looking piece of brown plastic.
What was it? This! Bullsballs.com! Balls to drink Mother? I has them!
Oh and this is how big a 500mL can looks in my hands. Yes I’ve got small hands, but it’s still a big 500mL can of caffeine and sugary, artificial fruit juice goodness! Yeaaaah boyyyyy!
Yeah I know - I’m doing exactly what the PR company had wanted me to do. Send me some free stuff, watch me blog it, and get some cheap publicity and advertising. But hey, I got free merchandise too so it’s a win-win situation. Besides, I wouldn’t say I like drinking the stuff if I didn’t. And yeah, Converse and Adidas? I like your stuff too.
And so, being the good corporate shill that I am, I interrupt this post with some words from our sponsor.
Personally, they should have just sent me some of that old Mother instead of crushing them. But hey, this is the price of progress! Thanks again Stuart!
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25 Responses to “Mother of All Swag”
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Aug 15 2008 / 7:24 pm
Yay! Blogging pays off. Well done.
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Aug 15 2008 / 9:45 pm
That’s awesome!!
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Aug 15 2008 / 10:11 pm
that’s great! it’s better than red bull? this I gotta try! (big red bull fan here)
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Aug 15 2008 / 11:28 pm
I can see that happiness is all written on your face!
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Aug 15 2008 / 11:43 pm
Nice! Btw i heard taurine??? was an ingredient found from bull’s testcs..correct me if im wrong ! I found this out when i asked my Thai friends about the redbxll logo ! No wonder there is a pair of em’ !
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Aug 15 2008 / 11:55 pm
the balls are a classic touch!! woo hoo!!
you think they will send some to me in SINGAPORE?!! -
Aug 16 2008 / 9:16 am
Hahaha, the balls remind me of the new Mike Myers movie “The Love Guru”
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Aug 16 2008 / 11:36 am
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Aug 16 2008 / 1:38 pm
U have to watch it to uderstand.
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Aug 16 2008 / 2:34 pm
Now that is good marketing!
Cost to company in product = $ sweet bugger all
Value of good will = $ Awesome
Thats a good rep team.
I wonder if this will work with car reps 2
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Aug 16 2008 / 4:18 pm
Haha awesome! Now blog about some PopTarts and send some my way, okay?
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Aug 16 2008 / 4:27 pm
The old commercial was creepy (but the voice-over was strangely soothing). Did you mention that to them? I thought the old taste was alright though I only had it once. I`m not an energy drink person. Most Japanese people hated it (but they also hate Sarsi, nooooo)!
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Aug 16 2008 / 8:34 pm
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Aug 16 2008 / 10:07 pm
Woah, you’re influential!
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Aug 17 2008 / 1:35 pm
blur ting: influential in my little circle of friends perhaps? I’ve got a trustworthy face after all. *ahem*
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Aug 18 2008 / 10:51 am
Especially A&W root beer. (T__T)
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Aug 18 2008 / 3:50 pm
I like Root Beer. Though A&W is gone in Singapore, we have the medication bottle kind of root beer to turn too. Hahaha.
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Aug 18 2008 / 10:29 pm
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Aug 19 2008 / 8:43 am
There is one brand that comes in a brown bottle that look like those medication bottle. the same brand also carry ginger beer.
Yes, there are can A$W Root beer, but I feel the former is nicer.
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Aug 19 2008 / 11:09 am
You are making me so hungry. I`m going to pool my money and open a joint.
Lupin: I`ve had those, they taste awesome! We only get the ginger beer here freely though.
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Aug 19 2008 / 8:36 pm
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Aug 22 2008 / 11:52 pm
Great PR job! Sad to say, I was still a bit mesmerised by the bull’s balls. Still looking at them with a slight frown…
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Aug 23 2008 / 2:07 pm
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