Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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You may not like Wal Mart much now, but if they discover that you are
publically maintaining that they sell flea-ridden clothing, snip

Mike: I don't want to assume anything, but I believe the OP was referencing
the adage:
"If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas"

--
Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:
"Doug Kanter" observed:

Pompous little troll. Go sit in a corner and drink your chocolate milk.

And thus.......what?......you've demonstrated to the world that you've
got
teeth?

Teeth and a surprising modicum of perception for a newbie. I mean you
could go with malicious midget, malignant dwarf or my personal favorite,
malevolent manikin, but you gotta admit, "pompous little troll" is damn
close to nailing your smart-ass but good.

Well, it's good to know that a week of sulking will still restore your
spirits.......if not what little sense you may once have possessed. Dougie
probably doesn't realize it yet, but in the months to come (should he
survive here that long) I'm sure he will come to appreciate fully what a
marvelous.....if not to say perfect....acolyte he has gotten himself. And
it is heartening to learn that you have at long last found a talent worth
aspiring to.

And entertaining too. ;-)

Oh yeah, every bit of that.

Wolfgang
are you watching this, stevie? :)

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"Doug Kanter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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SNIP
The consumer often ends up with fleas, too. In clothing, for instance,
further cost reductions mean the company has to constantly find
cheaper
suppliers when the older ones can no longer afford to do business that
way.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to direct me to the "figure of speech", in
the above passage?

Tim (accurately) wrote: "i view this with some trepidation only because
you
lie with Walmart and generally end of with fleas...". It was a figure of
speech which referred to what happens to many suppliers who do business
with
Wal Mart. This has been well documented in quite a few business
publications. I extended his figure of speech to include retail customers,
as well.



Oh yes, very accurately indeed, "....end of with fleas". End of what with
fleas? Why would you need to lie with Wal Mart? You have been lying very
well without them up to now.

One might of course assume that he meant to paraphrase "If you lie down
with dogs, you wake up with fleas", but then again, one might not. However
this may be, you managed to bridge the not inconsiderable cerebral chasm
leading to "The consumer often ends up with fleas, too. In clothing, for
instance,............" . Remarkable.


You may not like Wal Mart much now, but if they discover that you are
publically maintaining that they sell flea-ridden clothing, I venture to
prophesy that you will end up liking them a great deal less.

Businesses are the subject of bad comments in all sorts of newsgroups.
They
cannot stop free speech. If they generate bad word of mouth, the solution
is
obvious: Eliminate the reasons for it.

Oh doubtless they will, they just need to find you first. They have not
generated anything at all , they have been subjected to a load of defamatory
codswallop in a public forum.

You are confusing free speech with libellous statements, not that that
worries me much, but why are you doing it here? Admittedly, there is
occasionally some "limp lettuce" knocking about, ( "limp lettuce", is a
"figure of speech"), witness your own rather less than crunchy efforts, but
as you are, by your own admission, hardly enamoured at the prospect of
such, I fail to see the point of the exercise.

Are you going to offer us some patterns for fleas? How may one incorporate
limp lettuce into a mayfly? How to learn better casting as a result of
following rash business decisions made by angry local shopkeepers? Better
fly-fishing through intense studies of the errant behaviour of stale
vegetable consumers? Advanced communication techniques for those
brain-damaged by limp salad? "Mayonnaise for mayflies", revelations for the
uninitiated? Salad fly-dressing? Presumably you are following some arcane
aim? What is it?

Just as a matter of interest, as you don´t shop there, how do you know
what
clothing they sell? Flea-ridden or otherwise?

Been to the stores, Mike. Tried them a few times before realizing what
they
were up to.


Oh I see, it´s all a plot I suppose? Make sure to put the tinfoil in your
hat before you go out. They may be transmitting subliminal messages urging
you to buy limp lettuce at crisp prices, or flea-ridden gladrags.

Now that you have woken up, do you still have the fleas?

It definitely is a hard life sometimes.

MC

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"Stan Gula" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
...
You may not like Wal Mart much now, but if they discover that you are
publically maintaining that they sell flea-ridden clothing, snip

Mike: I don't want to assume anything, but I believe the OP was
referencing
the adage:
"If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas"

--
Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps



Thanks Stan! :)

TL
MC

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Wolfgang wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:

Teeth and a surprising modicum of perception for a newbie. I mean you
could go with malicious midget, malignant dwarf or my personal favorite,
malevolent manikin, but you gotta admit, "pompous little troll" is damn
close to nailing your smart-ass but good.

... Dougie
probably doesn't realize it yet, ...

If you were as smart as you'd want all of us to believe you would know
that Dougie has nothing whatsoever to do with anything. He is obviously
a twit of the sort who never lasts long in this looney bin.

You're a clever fellow, clever enough to know that you never have been,
and never will be, a smart fellow. If you ever come to grips with that
reality you can relax and be yourself instead of trying to impress the
Usenet world with turgid rhetoric and clever malevolence. But, as we both
know that will never happen, we can, at the least, strive for entertainment.

Entertainingly yours,

--
Ken Fortenberry

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"George Adams" wrote...

snip
If the things I hear about how W.M. treats their "associates" are true, then
they are evil *******s,

Remind to tell you an "evil *******" story about WM when next we meet. :(
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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"Doug Kanter" wrote...
"tim_s" wrote...

i view this with some trepidation only because you lie with Walmart
and generally end of with fleas...Walmart's forced reduction of cost
by 5% by its vendors yealrly, for example, kills many
suppliers....they are poor to do business with, and I am hoping Orvis
comes out of this ok......

The consumer often ends up with fleas, too. In clothing, for instance,
further cost reductions mean the company has to constantly find cheaper
suppliers when the older ones can no longer afford to do business that way.
The results are obvious, if you've looked at some of the clothing being sold
there. snip

For someone who has only been there twice, you seem to know a lot about the
products sold at W-M. I think you must be a closet Wal-Mart shopper.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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Oh yes, very accurately indeed, "....end of with fleas". End of what with
fleas? Why would you need to lie with Wal Mart? You have been lying very
well without them up to now.

One might of course assume that he meant to paraphrase "If you lie down
with dogs, you wake up with fleas", but then again, one might not.
However
this may be, you managed to bridge the not inconsiderable cerebral chasm
leading to "The consumer often ends up with fleas, too. In clothing, for
instance,............" . Remarkable.

Thank you for the revelation. You just made it abundantly clear how Orvis
can get away with charging $350 for a jacket made of rags and treated with
bacon fat. P.T. Barnum had the answer, but he was polite enough not to
finish the thought.

Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

"Tim J." wrote in message
news:QhYic.35247$aQ6.1899896@attbi_s51...

"Doug Kanter" wrote...
"tim_s" wrote...

i view this with some trepidation only because you lie with Walmart
and generally end of with fleas...Walmart's forced reduction of cost
by 5% by its vendors yealrly, for example, kills many
suppliers....they are poor to do business with, and I am hoping Orvis
comes out of this ok......

The consumer often ends up with fleas, too. In clothing, for instance,
further cost reductions mean the company has to constantly find cheaper
suppliers when the older ones can no longer afford to do business that
way.
The results are obvious, if you've looked at some of the clothing being
sold
there. snip

For someone who has only been there twice, you seem to know a lot about
the
products sold at W-M. I think you must be a closet Wal-Mart shopper.
--
TL,
Tim

Well...how many years does it take you to look over 30-40 pieces of
clothing?