<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I like it! It needs something catchy. It reminds me of the completely phony 'clearance sale'. What does that mean? It means they want to sell things that are not selling, so they can order some things that might sell. Clear out so they can fill up again. The thing you can trust is that they will be cheaper than the usual price, which might be better than buying it somewhere else - maybe. "Sold elsewhere at $34.99" Yeah? Where? (Standard sales point on TV Shopping Network - does anyone actually the prices elsewhere?)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I always ask if advertised this way: "Home-cooked meals." Yeah, I ask 'Whose home?' and get funny looks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The one thing I have not seen is a phony fire sale. I have heard of 'going out of business' sales that were advertised as soon as the business opened.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:23 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-5644402793204365WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] xmas<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">If you are giving gag gifts, check out The Encyclopedia of Immaturity. I actually ordered it. bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/159174427X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=AJC03PKE1W7JD&psc=1" target="_blank">https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/159174427X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=AJC03PKE1W7JD&psc=1</a></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">I thought of one today. Freeway, big billboards advertising a local CBD Expo at the big convention center. No explanation for what CBD is, but I vaguely guessed it was one of those hipster things: if you don’t know what it is, you won’t go to the expo, and if you are a likely attendee, it doesn’t need defining. Right on: it is some kind of hemp oil thing. I wouldn’t understand.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">It gave me an idea: rent a billboard, advertise something that really isn’t defined, a huge international RLJ Expo, with all major dealers coming etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Then you get a bunch of curious yahoos showing up not knowing what the hell you are selling there. Lotsa hipsters go nuts whenever they find out they aren’t hip to something. Too much like admitting one is old. So all these hipsters show up, we could sell them stuff. Anything we want. If asked what is RLJ, we don’t know, just there to sell stuff.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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