Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

"Doug Kanter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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.



I did?????????? Fantastic!!! Could you explain it please? I have plenty
of rags and bacon fat. Perhaps a limp lettuce would keep the rain off my
head as well? Are they obtainable in camouflage? Or does one merely wait
for the variegated brown and yellow spots to appear among the general limp
green? I suppose Orvis wants a hundred bucks for such a lettuce?

Actually, I think anybody who manages to get "350$ for a jacket made of
rags and treated with bacon fat", really deserves the money. Of course, I
know perfectly well that Orvis don´t do this, as you may also quite possibly
be aware. Or ( horror of horrors!) you are in fact as stupid as you make
out. This particular type of hyperbole is just silly.

P.T.Barnum not only finished quite a few thoughts, he coined a number of
phrases describing them, two of the most well known ones are "There's a
sucker born every minute", and "Every crowd has a silver lining". But those
were not by any means the only ones. He also said, "Whatever you do, do it
with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of
season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour
that which can be done just as well now".

I rather imagine his success was more due to this, than to his alleged skill
at skinning suckers.

It occurred to me that Wal Mart might have such a "rag and bacon" jacket a
little cheaper? ( OK, with fleas, but hell, you can´t have
everything).Might I possibly crave your indulgence, and obviously expert
advice on the matter? Don´t worry, we won´t tell Orvis that their
obviously exclusive "Rag and Bacon" line is being undercut.

I wandered far and wide, and heard a thousand empty vessels sound,
saw knowledge and intelligence, beneath a thousand thoughtless bootheels
ground,
such a clamour and a clatter, as witless wonders spewed their every waste,
is this then the awful human fate? Mediocrity, the failure of good taste?
shall lies and foolishness usurp every single stage, blaring silly triumph
to the earth?
what price then quality of life, for what may one yet hope? What is such
existence worth?

Pray that they not know their awful sins, such burdens even fools might
break,
endure, although that same endurance, the patience of a hundred saints may
take,
abide, die hard, relinquish not your hold on life and all it´s glowing
wonders,
despair not, at the works and pomps of foolish men, and all their blunders,
common sense may yet win the day, although common it is definitely not.,
Stupidity is the bulk it seems, and this of course explains an awful lot.

Fill not your mind with this mad chatter, rise above the swaying heaving
crowd,
try harder, do your very best to tune the talents, with which you are
endowed
these things are very hard indeed, and sometimes one may feel sharp
desperation,
but stay your hand and thoughts, discourse with a fool, brings merely
consternation,
ignore the noise, as more such aimless clatter rises, threatening to drown
more subtle tools,
the baffling swirling contents of a million empty heads, stuck fast on
abject fools.

Even entertainment palls at last, for who can gain more than a modicum of
pleasure?
at baiting fools, a hopeless pastime, there are far better kinds of
fruitful leisure,
one may hope of course, this springs eternal, or so at least more than a few
have said,
that some small measure of the mewling mass, may pause and try to fill an
empty head.
and what if not? Your fear is very real my friend, you dare not fail, give
ground, succumb,
for should you, tried beyond forbearance, falter and give way, then that too
would be dumb.

MC

Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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SNIP
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.



I did?????????? Fantastic!!! Could you explain it please? I have plenty
of rags and bacon fat. Perhaps a limp lettuce would keep the rain off my
head as well? Are they obtainable in camouflage? Or does one merely wait
for the variegated brown and yellow spots to appear among the general limp
green? I suppose Orvis wants a hundred bucks for such a lettuce?

Your vigorous defense of Wal Mart must mean you're a stockholder, and a very
defensive one, at that. Sort of like people who own a Lincoln and SWEAR it
gets 35 miles per gallon.

Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

Wolfgang wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:

In your defense, it has to be tough to be a six-foot, ten-inch,
blonde-haired, blue-eyed Teutonic prince permanently stuck in
the corpus of a gruesome little Milwaukee gnome,

Not at all. ...

Yeah, sure, uh huh, I believe you. No really, I really, really do !

--
Ken Fortenberry (not at all ;-)

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"Doug Kanter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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SNIP
Your vigorous defense of Wal Mart must mean you're a stockholder, and a
very
defensive one, at that. Sort of like people who own a Lincoln and SWEAR it
gets 35 miles per gallon.



Your logic is absolutely breathtaking! Indeed, awe-inspiring! I can see
you were only kantering up to now, but at last you have broken into a
gallop. ( I knew there was some horse**** around here somewhere).

I will let you into a secret, I run my Lincoln on bacon fat, which I wring
out of the offcuts from rag jackets which Orvis discards, but which as a
Wal Mart shareholder, I can get cheap. Its all part of our scheme to take
over the Western world. I tried limp lettuce juice as well, but it caused
too much black exhaust smoke, and very nearly buggered my dubbing
machine.Mind you, I did not need any wax on the last forty three batches of
hare´s ears, although they turned out a peculiar limp green colour, and
smell like breakfast. I get 45 miles to the jacket.

As some of my esteemed piscatorial brethren and fellow subscribers to this
veritable mine of madness, mystery, myopia and mundanity, have been known
to occasionally indulge in various herbal refreshments, perhaps you would be
kind enough to inform us all where you got your last batch of limp lettuce?
It seems to have had the most astounding effects on your thought processes.

Now where did I put all those share certificates?

MC

Orvis + Wal-Mart = Angry local shopkeep
 

"Doug Kanter" wrote...
"Tim J." wrote...
"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.

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

That takes hardly any time at all, but looking AT them does take a little
longer.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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"Tim J." schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Qv_ic.21864$cF6.930156@attbi_s04...
SNIP
Well...how many years does it take you to look over 30-40 pieces of
clothing?

That takes hardly any time at all, but looking AT them does take a little
longer.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj



Nahhhh! Fighting off the fleas takes a lot longer!

TL
MC

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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
SNIP
Your vigorous defense of Wal Mart must mean you're a stockholder, and a
very
defensive one, at that. Sort of like people who own a Lincoln and SWEAR
it
gets 35 miles per gallon.



Your logic is absolutely breathtaking! Indeed, awe-inspiring! I can see
you were only kantering up to now, but at last you have broken into a
gallop. ( I knew there was some horse**** around here somewhere).

I will let you into a secret, I run my Lincoln on bacon fat, which I wring
out of the offcuts from rag jackets which Orvis discards, but which as a
Wal Mart shareholder, I can get cheap. Its all part of our scheme to take
over the Western world. I tried limp lettuce juice as well, but it caused
too much black exhaust smoke, and very nearly buggered my dubbing
machine.Mind you, I did not need any wax on the last forty three batches
of
hare´s ears, although they turned out a peculiar limp green colour, and
smell like breakfast. I get 45 miles to the jacket.

As some of my esteemed piscatorial brethren and fellow subscribers to this
veritable mine of madness, mystery, myopia and mundanity, have been known
to occasionally indulge in various herbal refreshments, perhaps you would
be
kind enough to inform us all where you got your last batch of limp
lettuce?
It seems to have had the most astounding effects on your thought
processes.

Now where did I put all those share certificates?

MC



Great. Another boy masturbating with a thesaurus.

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I'd guess a lot of the people moving to Bozeman--or moving their small
(often hi-tech) businesses there--are coming for the "quality of life":
fishing, skiing, and other outdoor activities, etc. They've got lots of
money; if they've sold a house in one of the hi-tech meccas of CA or the
East Coast, they sold it for a hell of a lot more than what an identical
house in MT sells for, and they'll easily be willing to pay the same.

This is happening more and more.

Local folks who had a reasonably decent quality of life based on
ranching, logging, etc., and related industries, will be driven to
borderline poverty working (often part-time and with poor benefits) in
the "service industry" or box-store retail.

Sort of true for this area. The construction industry seems to be
replacing most of those jobs as new home construction is just
absolutely booming here. Not that I am a particular fan of
subdivision after subdivision, but it is keeping people employed at
a fairly decent wage for this valley if you have the skills. I do
see the poor falling a little further behind, but more money is
moving into the valley, new businesses are opening that provide more
jobs that often pay the same or even slightly more (much more when
compared to ranching or farming jobs) and I would say that overall,
the town is fairing better than it has in the past. I doubt that
this level of development can be sustained in the long run, but we
haven't hit the backside yet.

Growth does come with a price however. Perhaps you will get a kick
out of this. Gallatin County published a free booklet called "The
Code of the New West." Check it out at:
http://www.co.gallatin.mt.us/code.htm
My favorite is '5.5 Animal manure can, and often does, cause
"objectionable" odors. What else can we say? No whining!'
--
Warren
(use troutbum_mt on either yahoo or earthlink to respond via email)

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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Some of them have rhyming dictionaries. Wou may be subjected to juvenile
poetry. It may take you back the forth grade if you went to a school in a
low life neighborhood.
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Entertainingly yours,

Thus answering the question, WWDD?

Wolfgang
sorta sucks when you realize what you've done and how long you're
going
to
pay for it........don't it? :)



Welcome to Westchester!

Welcome to Westchester! Empty lives propped up by symbolic expenditures of
capital, and an excessive amount of time spent masturbating with Roget's
Thesaurus.

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"Tim J." wrote:

"Doug Kanter" wrote...

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

That takes hardly any time at all, but looking AT them does take a little
longer.

Not to side-track the thread or anything, but now that the weather has
warmed and the Roman girls have taken to wearing next to nothing at all,
I can verify that sometimes even the least little bit of clothing
requires considerable study.....

JR