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Article #5772Re: Rainsoft - paid $5500 for install
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:42
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:42
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According to Mapi <nospam@this.address.com>: > Sort of like the old trick with Kirby Vacuum cleaners; put a black cloth > on the intake and vacuum a customer's bed. > There would be tons of dead skin and the cloth would turn sickly white. > Then we show them giant blowup pictures of bed lice and nits. > Another great selling/scare tool. I saw someone get revenge against that - many years ago, I was visiting a friend of mine, and her mother wanted me to sit through a Kirby presentation (on the basis of taking pity on someone who _claimed_ to be just practising...). Just as he got to the pitch about "have you anything you want to see if this thing can pick up?", her father got home, and offered the salesman a round object around 10" long to "try". Just as the salesman was about to try and suck it up, he asked "oh by the way, what is it?". "A stick of dynamite" her father replied. The salesman left abruptly. -- Chris Lewis, For more information on spam, see http://spam.abuse.net/spam It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10db0a,e03e354bdcc7b85 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0a,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2df,e03e354bdcc7b85 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2df,public X-Google-Thread: 1159e3,e03e354bdcc7b85 X-Google-Attributes: gid1159e3,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,e03e354bdcc7b85 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-19 16:50:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!qcarhaaa.nortelnetworks.com!bcarh189.ca.nortel.com!bcarh8ac.ca.nortel.com!bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com!not-for-mail From: clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,alt.home.repair,misc.consumers,austin.forsale Subject: Re: Rainsoft - paid $5500 for install Date: 19 Aug 2001 23:42:25 GMT Organization: NortelNetworks Lines: 26 Message-ID: <9lpit1$pfd$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com> References: <iaef7.36680$NK1.2382531@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> <3b7d858b_1@newsa.ev1.net> <cnhf7.129365$g_3.19612030@typhoon.austin.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bftzh111.ca.nortel.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999)