This is a pearoast but it fits in JUST FINE here
Whilst at college 6 odd years ago...

A friend and I conducted a test to see how much change we could gather just by asking,

"Can we have some money please?"

No pleading, no explanations, and if someone said 'no' we moved on straight away.

We asked everybody in the entire college over the course of a day. Most people bemusedly doled out a few coppers and occasionally the odd 10p, 20p, much appreciated. Some people even doled out pounds and I think we got a fiver from a stupid teacher.

We got about £40 and then announced our thanks to the common room and that we were off to get pissed. Some were angry, some were still bemused.

It was kind of pointless but we did make a lot of free money.
(Waspard has your wank bank account details, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 20:06, 3 replies)

That has got me smiling..
..kudos for the most honest get-rich-quick scheme so far. And fucking funny!
(lost, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 21:34, closed)

My friend did something similar at uni
while still drunk from the night before, he and his mate from back home sat outside in just their underwear, with some stella and a cap asking for some change.

He was outside our halls which was the main walking route between the other halls/town and half the campus so thousands of people must've walked past. They got £20 which part funded the next night's drinking in which they brought a picnic bench back from the pub.
( thistle, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 21:55, closed)

I likey...
...so have a clickedy click you lucky bugger!
(Fluent In Bentish Living in Scatman's World, tis being fun!, Sat 2 Aug 2008, 1:29, closed)