The following is a short and rather amusing BUT VERY TRUE story, as seen
recently by millions of viewers on a Spanish TV channel.

The parents of a teenage girl decided to put their daughter's name
forward for a popular Surprise Game Show. She idolised teeny-bopper
pop star Ricky Martin, and it was arranged for TV cameras to be discreetly
placed throughout the house.

The house was then left empty with Ricky Martin hidden in the wardrobe
in the girls bedroom - all set to give the daughter a wonderful surprise
when she returned home from school. Meanwhile, the parents were in the
show's studio, in front of a live studio audience. Upon returning home from
school, the daughter didn't go straight to her room and open the
wardrobe as expected. Instead she began to investigate the house,calling
out the names of her family to establish who was at home.

Having established that she was on her own, the daughter made her way
down to the kitchen where she opened the fridge and removed a large tin
of pate - at this stage the live TV audience is wondering what the hell is
going on. She then went back upstairs to her bedroom where she proceeded to
quickly remove all her clothes and spread the pate all over her naughty
bits (remember Ricky Martin is still hidden inside the wardrobe, and
half of Spain is seeing a nubile young girl, stark naked on the bed with
pate all over her crotch).

As if the parents were not shocked enough by this, the daughter then
calls the family dog, who obediently trots up the stairs to settle down to his
favourite meal of "pate on a bed of seaweed." The broadcast is abruptly
cut. A set of acutely embarrassed parents are left in front of a deadly
quiet studio audience, while a few million Spaniards sit in front of
their TVs and piss themselves with laughter.

Consequently, sales of tinned pate have rocketed.

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