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Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute  

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Steph L. - Jan 26, 2005 5:48:15 am PST #7359 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Or maybe it's sales, involving you recruiting more people, which I guess would make it a pyramid scheme.

Turn 2; the rest are food.


Polter-Cow - Jan 26, 2005 5:48:24 am PST #7360 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

P-C, "The Team" is also known as Amway, if that clears things up.

Aha. Thanks. Yeah, cause I felt exactly like Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr in that dinner table scene in Go.

(And I owe you email. Soon! Ish...)

Yay! E-mail!

Mortimer Firefox

That's a pretty sweet name. Almost as good as Alistair Threepenny. Okay, better. In a way.

Turn 2; the rest are food.

Hee hee. Yeah, I thought of that too.


-t - Jan 26, 2005 5:50:15 am PST #7361 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

{{Raquel}} Sometimes that inability to pick our relatives really sucks.

(eta: Combinatorics! Very cool)


Volans - Jan 26, 2005 5:51:42 am PST #7362 of 10002
move out and draw fire

See, I have several dog's names picked out (for the dog we can't have until we move back to the States): Kiva and Kelso for a pair of Huskies, and Abernathy for a black lab. Our cats tend to get religious names (current cat, his name is Legion; previous was Extreme Unction; before that were Retribution and Penance). And all cars are named from Shakespeare.

So without a theme, I'm flailing a bit here.


Gudanov - Jan 26, 2005 5:51:45 am PST #7363 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I know I've wailed about this here before, but choosing a name seems like one of the biggest responsibilities possible!

My daughter's name 'Emaryn' was a little tough because while my wife liked it, I wasn't sure since it was the name of my cousin. 'Leif' was easy, as soon as the name came up it was a slam dunk.


Volans - Jan 26, 2005 5:52:50 am PST #7364 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Whoops, off to dinner. Y'all have a good day.


Trudy Booth - Jan 26, 2005 5:57:31 am PST #7365 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Oh, but I did meet a rather noteworthy woman at a party, talked for an hour or more. I was getting the 'You're worth talking to' signals, mirroring posture and that kind of thing, though no flirtage.

Awwwww... it's like geek-boy Wild Kingdom.


beathen - Jan 26, 2005 5:59:35 am PST #7366 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Has anyone heard of The Team? I've been invited to join their wide world of getting rich using The System of consumerist revolution. It does actually seem legitimate, but it's all business-y and stuff.

P-C, "The Team" is also known as Amway, if that clears things up. That link breaks it down, but yeah, pyramid-y is a good summary. It's legal, but icky. And it's not a way to make big bucks, either

I can vouch for this. Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money and put ALL your free time into it, it will not pay off. In the link where it explains how you get paid notice that I person has to spend at least $200 a month. The way they will explain it is that you are buying for yourself and getting others to do the same. That is only one aspect.

The second thing (to brainwash you) is that you have to go to a weekly meeting ($5), get the book of the month ($20), two inspirational tapes a week ($12/wk), attend a monthly seminar ($25) and quarterly leadership conferences (out of town, $100 plus travelling expenses).

The third thing is that they will tell you to spend ALL your free time to cold call people, contact people you come into contact with and try to get them all to do what you're doing.

A Dateline research on the company/group says that the people who are making the big bucks are doing it by having others buy their tapes (made at weekly meetings, monthly seminars, and quarterly conferences). I believe that some of that is true.

I personally know some people who are involved in it and are doing alright. Speaking from experience, it was not worth it for me. The books that they recommend you to read, for the most part, have sound business advice though some of it is geared towards people in the business.

As far as the structure is concerned, it's not a pyramid, per se. It's set more like a line. For example: If person A brings on 3 people, those people will not be directly tied to A. A will sponser B who will sponser C who will sponsor D. That way anything that D buys will also count as credit towards C, B & A, not just A (This group is known as the tap root). Everyone benefits. Person C can also add on lines of heirarchy to the side, but built in the same way.

It gets more complicated structurally (and if you want the hows and whys explained I can do that) but this additional heirarchy allows for the possibility that C can grow a bigger business than A or B and make more money.

If you want my opinion, don't do it. I'm not saying that ALL people shouldn't do it, but for me, being in college and trying to do it...not fun. I spent more money than I had and started me on my road to having debt.

t /someone who got suckered in


lisah - Jan 26, 2005 6:14:10 am PST #7367 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate

Hi everybody!!! I'm all crazed now because our cd is coming out and we're having a big release show next week and I just talked to somebody at City Paper (our local free weekly) and will shortly be talking to somebody at the Sun. Which is very very exciting and I'm hoping the press brings lots of new people to the show and they all want to buy the cd. But I'm all nervous I'm sounding like an idjit AND I totally forgot to put on deoderant this morning and I'm sweating like a sweaty sweaty fool. eeeeekk. And I'm worried about not having our website done in time and not being able to quickly get ahold of a good, high rez picture of us. And that I won't find the perfect top to wear at the show. and and I should have minions to do this worrying and sweating for me! I'm the Lead Singer damnit!!!

okay...I should stop freaking and start dropping new images into the big install guide i'm working on. that should calm me down some.


erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 6:19:02 am PST #7368 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Wow, Lisah, I'm all kinds of impressed!