[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Valued by whom? Assets, unless they are cash or readily tradeable stocks or bonds, are subject to remarkably wide ranges of valuation. Something which an auditor might claim to be worth $187 million might, if push came to shove, be worth only $5 million. I've seen Movement valuations in the past that were based on what donors said their stock donations in privately held, lying-through-their-teeth-financial-statment companies were worth. Ultimately, something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. And I would bet considerable amounts of money that the assets in the World Peace Fund weren't worth anything close to a real $187 million. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? As stated earlier (and ignored), intuition. And the oft-proven fact that no one in the TMO I have *ever* met seemed to have a clue as to the real nature of its finances, or care enough to find out. I'd be willing to bet that this situation has not changed. When Maharishi dies, people will try to find out, and discover that there isn't *nearly* as much money as they thought there was. No one will know where the rest went. And they *still* won't care. The World Peace Fund had $187 million in it a few years ago. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? Anyone in this day and age who purports to head and run an INTERNATIONAL organisation with stated, unambiguous objectives that are global in character cannot -- I repeat CANNOT -- name any of his relatives to positions of importance. Indeed, such people should be at the bottom of this list of potential executives for those positions. And when such relatives ARE named to these positions of responsibility it is the obligation of all -- media, members of the organisation in question -- to ASSUME that something untoward is going on and assume the worst...and the onus should IMMEDIATELY be on the head of the organisation to prove the contrary, that things are, indeed, above board. Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? As stated earlier (and ignored), intuition. And the oft-proven fact that no one in the TMO I have *ever* met seemed to have a clue as to the real nature of its finances, or care enough to find out. I'd be willing to bet that this situation has not changed. When Maharishi dies, people will try to find out, and discover that there isn't *nearly* as much money as they thought there was. No one will know where the rest went. And they *still* won't care. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? Anyone in this day and age who purports to head and run an INTERNATIONAL organisation with stated, unambiguous objectives that are global in character cannot -- I repeat CANNOT -- name any of his relatives to positions of importance. Indeed, such people should be at the bottom of this list of potential executives for those positions. And when such relatives ARE named to these positions of responsibility it is the obligation of all -- media, members of the organisation in question -- to ASSUME that something untoward is going on and assume the worst...and the onus should IMMEDIATELY be on the head of the organisation to prove the contrary, that things are, indeed, above board. Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Amen! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
on 8/25/05 1:26 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Which, of course, they aren't. I have a friend who taught TM in India for 8 years. He says the Indian movement has a very mafia-like mentality, not above killing people. What does the mafia do besides kill people? It raises money illegally. Sets up fronts to launder dirty money and make it disappear. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/25/05 1:26 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Which, of course, they aren't. I have a friend who taught TM in India for 8 years. TJ ? He says the Indian movement has a very mafia-like mentality, not above killing people. What does the mafia do besides kill people? It raises money illegally. Sets up fronts to launder dirty money and make it disappear. Puts the India web sites of vast enterprises, yet little perceivable substance, in perspective. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? As stated earlier (and ignored), intuition. And the oft-proven fact that no one in the TMO I have *ever* met seemed to have a clue as to the real nature of its finances, or care enough to find out. I'd be willing to bet that this situation has not changed. When Maharishi dies, people will try to find out, and discover that there isn't *nearly* as much money as they thought there was. No one will know where the rest went. And they *still* won't care. The World Peace Fund had $187 million in it a few years ago. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. How do you know? I don't. But that's my intuition. I trust it far more than I trust Maharishi or anyone in the TMO. So you intuit that some guy you never met is pocketing 100's of millions of dollars based on...? Anyone in this day and age who purports to head and run an INTERNATIONAL organisation with stated, unambiguous objectives that are global in character cannot -- I repeat CANNOT -- name any of his relatives to positions of importance. Indeed, such people should be at the bottom of this list of potential executives for those positions. And when such relatives ARE named to these positions of responsibility it is the obligation of all -- media, members of the organisation in question -- to ASSUME that something untoward is going on and assume the worst...and the onus should IMMEDIATELY be on the head of the organisation to prove the contrary, that things are, indeed, above board. Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Amen! so what do the finances of the ICRC or the American RC look like? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/25/05 1:26 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Which, of course, they aren't. I have a friend who taught TM in India for 8 years. He says the Indian movement has a very mafia-like mentality, not above killing people. What does the mafia do besides kill people? It raises money illegally. Sets up fronts to launder dirty money and make it disappear. So who did they kill? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/25/05 1:26 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, financial statements of assets and income for the international organisation in question audited by reputable accounting firms should be easily and readily available to all. Which, of course, they aren't. I have a friend who taught TM in India for 8 years. TJ ? He says the Indian movement has a very mafia-like mentality, not above killing people. What does the mafia do besides kill people? It raises money illegally. Sets up fronts to launder dirty money and make it disappear. Puts the India web sites of vast enterprises, yet little perceivable substance, in perspective. You mean like the Maharishi Vidya Mandir websites? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] He says the Indian movement has a very mafia-like mentality, not above killing people. What does the mafia do besides kill people? It raises money illegally. Sets up fronts to launder dirty money and make it disappear. BTW, you may be correct about the corruption of the indianorganization and MMY may wellbe aware of it, but unable to influence it directly. Note that David Lynch founded his OWN non-profit to fund TM-related activities rather than go with the TMO directly. Do you suppose that Lynch founded his own org without talking to MMY about it? I think that MMY is well-aware of any irregularities but is willing to tolerate them for now since he doesn't have time to clean house AND get his short-term agendas fulfilled. House-cleaning will come after he's gone and loyalty transfers to King Nader and MMY's nephews become irrelevant outside of India. Maybe... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) The above was obviously tongue in cheek, but there is a question I've been wanting to ask sparaig for a while. You seem to be consistently in favor of anything that brings in money so that the organization can survive into the future. Is that a correct assessment? My question is, Survive as what? Survive as whatever. THe TMO's focus right now is on raising capital, allegedly for the projects that MMY has stated its for. YOu can say he's lying, but that's an interesting claim... And one I don't think I've ever made. I think he's convinced his self that what he says is true. ...since most men his age are interested in creating a legacy, and you're apparently claiming that his legacy will simply be liar. No, I don't think I've ever said, or even suggested that. I suspect his legacy will be just another guy who started out well-meaning but who got taken out by his own ego. I don't think *he* is lying about where the money goes. I suspect he's been taken in by his nephews, into whose pockets the money all goes. I think that Maharishi has no more clue about the real world around him than he ever had, and doesn't care to. He's *never* lived in the real world, and isn't about to start now. Maharishi doesn't DO self analysis; AFAIK he just assumes that every thing he says is true. And he's carefully surrounded himself with people who believe the same thing, and would never be so rude as to suggest otherwise. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. And YOU should have laughed. Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. Just yesterday on a.m.t., you told Paul to keep flogging that non-sequitur. I commented at the time that it was an interesting term for masturbation, but I never really suspected that you thought of it that way in real life. I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) Then again, you may have discovered the REAL secret of the lying and phoniness and criminal behavior you like to accuse me of. It's NOT that I hate MMY. It's that I hate Girl Scouts. My entire ten-year history on TM-related forums was just a distraction, a lead-in to my REAL tirade, against that devil org, the Girl Scouts of America. Wait'll I start in on the things they REALLY do in those summer camps, and the REAL story of their original idea for a door-to- door selling campaign. They weren't originally going to sell cookies; they planned to sell condoms. But some prissy-assed Girl Scout leader couldn't handle a joke, and convinced them it should be cookies. I'll bet you know her. :-) Unc Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Unc, you might want to choose from the following Yogi Berra quotes: I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. I never said most of the things I said. Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. I think that my flogging the non-sequitur reply should pretty much cover things. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adn given your history of wanting to personalize everything, it's not surprsing your would respond defensively. I checked out several sites also. Not one had any scholarship based on selling cookies. It's up to you to prove your assertion, not someone else. Either your memories are faulty or , more likely, the articles don't exist. Yet another person willing to risk arrest by flogging the non-sequitur in public. And they claim that TM makes one more law-abiding... And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/22/05 3:51 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Judy, you forgot the but of course as in but of course you knew that. Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. I got a chuckle over the fact that Judy would *want* to argue over them. :-) But I hear that some people who've developed a habit of flogging the non-sequitur get compulsive about it, and do it even in public. There are times when I wish her vibrator *hadn't* committed suicide by hurling itself off the nightstand. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Judy. Please. Stop embarrassing yourself. Quit while you still have a few cookies left in the cookie jar... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. And YOU should have laughed. Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. Just yesterday on a.m.t., you told Paul to keep flogging that non-sequitur. I commented at the time that it was an interesting term for masturbation, but I never really suspected that you thought of it that way in real life. I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) Then again, you may have discovered the REAL secret of the lying and phoniness and criminal behavior you like to accuse me of. It's NOT that I hate MMY. It's that I hate Girl Scouts. My entire ten-year history on TM-related forums was just a distraction, a lead-in to my REAL tirade, against that devil org, the Girl Scouts of America. Wait'll I start in on the things they REALLY do in those summer camps, and the REAL story of their original idea for a door-to- door selling campaign. They weren't originally going to sell cookies; they planned to sell condoms. But some prissy-assed Girl Scout leader couldn't handle a joke, and convinced them it should be cookies. I'll bet you know her. :-) Unc Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy. Please. Stop embarrassing yourself. I think you may have meant to address this to Barry. Quit while you still have a few cookies left in the cookie jar... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. And YOU should have laughed. Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. Just yesterday on a.m.t., you told Paul to keep flogging that non-sequitur. I commented at the time that it was an interesting term for masturbation, but I never really suspected that you thought of it that way in real life. I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) Then again, you may have discovered the REAL secret of the lying and phoniness and criminal behavior you like to accuse me of. It's NOT that I hate MMY. It's that I hate Girl Scouts. My entire ten-year history on TM-related forums was just a distraction, a lead-in to my REAL tirade, against that devil org, the Girl Scouts of America. Wait'll I start in on the things they REALLY do in those summer camps, and the REAL story of their original idea for a door-to- door selling campaign. They weren't originally going to sell cookies; they planned to sell condoms. But some prissy-assed Girl Scout leader couldn't handle a joke, and convinced them it should be cookies. I'll bet you know her. :-) Unc Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. As you usually do when you find yourself on the wrong end of a dispute, you misrepresent what happened. It's never clear with you whether you genuinely don't remember what happened and make stuff up to fill in the blanks to your own advantage, or whether your misrepresentations are deliberate. There was no inquisition of *any* kind on my part, not at the start nor at any time throughout the entire exchange. In fact, in two of my posts I agreed with you, in one case defending what you had said against a challenge by someone else. Our exchange got ugly only after I had pointed out that the Google search you had come up with in response to the other person's challenge didn't show what you wanted it to show. (You had already gotten ugly with the other person for having dared to challenge you.) You don't like to be challenged, Barry. You almost invariably get ugly when that happens, especially when you're in the wrong. snip And YOU should have laughed. And how do you know I didn't? Are you so insecure about whether you've managed to be funny that you need to see a big HAHAHAHAHAHA? Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. I *should* have gotten offended?? Why on earth would you think I'd have reason to be offended? Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. No, I didn't focus on it. I merely pointed out, very briefly, that the Girl Scouts didn't operate the way you said. And you agreed, saying the contests you remembered might have been locally sponsored. Then I posted a little essay on how the Girl Scouts ran the cookie drive, because I thought *it* might be a good model for the TMO. No nitpicking there either, just a constructive suggestion for the TMO. If there was any preoccupation with nits, it was yours, in feeling you had to defend yourself from the other person's challenge, and then from *my* challenge to the bogus Google search you had cited in defending yourself from the first challenge. snip I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) Actually, as noted, you're the one flogging it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
-Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. Don't waste it on nonsense. You and Turquoise are like an old unhappily married couple who for some reason will not seek a divorce. I'm wondering if we should ask Grand Wizard Rick Archer to impose some kind of temporary restraining order on you guys. Something along the lines of authfriend and Turquoise are not permitted to respond either directly or indirectly to each other's posts for a period of 14 days after such posts appear. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. As you usually do when you find yourself on the wrong end of a dispute, you misrepresent what happened. It's never clear with you whether you genuinely don't remember what happened and make stuff up to fill in the blanks to your own advantage, or whether your misrepresentations are deliberate. There was no inquisition of *any* kind on my part, not at the start nor at any time throughout the entire exchange. In fact, in two of my posts I agreed with you, in one case defending what you had said against a challenge by someone else. Our exchange got ugly only after I had pointed out that the Google search you had come up with in response to the other person's challenge didn't show what you wanted it to show. (You had already gotten ugly with the other person for having dared to challenge you.) You don't like to be challenged, Barry. You almost invariably get ugly when that happens, especially when you're in the wrong. snip And YOU should have laughed. And how do you know I didn't? Are you so insecure about whether you've managed to be funny that you need to see a big HAHAHAHAHAHA? Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. I *should* have gotten offended?? Why on earth would you think I'd have reason to be offended? Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. No, I didn't focus on it. I merely pointed out, very briefly, that the Girl Scouts didn't operate the way you said. And you agreed, saying the contests you remembered might have been locally sponsored. Then I posted a little essay on how the Girl Scouts ran the cookie drive, because I thought *it* might be a good model for the TMO. No nitpicking there either, just a constructive suggestion for the TMO. If there was any preoccupation with nits, it was yours, in feeling you had to defend yourself from the other person's challenge, and then from *my* challenge to the bogus Google search you had cited in defending yourself from the first challenge. snip I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) Actually, as noted, you're the one flogging it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. Don't waste it on nonsense. You and Turquoise are like an old unhappily married couple who for some reason will not seek a divorce. I'm wondering if we should ask Grand Wizard Rick Archer to impose some kind of temporary restraining order on you guys. Something along the lines of authfriend and Turquoise are not permitted to respond either directly or indirectly to each other's posts for a period of 14 days after such posts appear. I warned you guys what would happen if she followed me here, right? I would be perfectly happy to abide by such a guideline. Make it PERMANENT, and I'd be even happier. Here. I'll start. Let's see how long she can keep it up... :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I warned you guys what would happen if she followed me here, right? What did I just get done saying about Barry's misrepresentations? As I pointed out sometime back when he made this claim, Barry had *invited* alt.m.t participants here, urged us all to join. There is simply no excuse for his continuing to lie about this (among many other things), nor for the rest of you to carefully refrain from calling him on it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. First of all, I try to do that too, or at least to advance the discussion. Sorry you seem to have missed all those posts. Second, why is it Judy, stop and not Barry, stop? I'll bet you a buck that if he, or anyone else, continually misrepresented your participation here, you would speak up just as I do. There's some sort of very pernicious double standard operating, in which Barry is allowed to get away with the most outrageously false statements, and you criticize me for calling him on them. (No, I'm not talking about his Girl Scouts blooper but rather about his misrepresentation of the entire exchange.) If you all would ride herd on him yourselves, I'd have no need to do so. Moreover, if he were made to realize his behavior wasn't acceptable on this forum, he'd change it. But he knows you'll delicately avoid confronting him and will instead come down on me. So of course he continues. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
AAAH!!! --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. First of all, I try to do that too, or at least to advance the discussion. Sorry you seem to have missed all those posts. Second, why is it Judy, stop and not Barry, stop? I'll bet you a buck that if he, or anyone else, continually misrepresented your participation here, you would speak up just as I do. There's some sort of very pernicious double standard operating, in which Barry is allowed to get away with the most outrageously false statements, and you criticize me for calling him on them. (No, I'm not talking about his Girl Scouts blooper but rather about his misrepresentation of the entire exchange.) If you all would ride herd on him yourselves, I'd have no need to do so. Moreover, if he were made to realize his behavior wasn't acceptable on this forum, he'd change it. But he knows you'll delicately avoid confronting him and will instead come down on me. So of course he continues. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/22/05 3:51 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. I got a chuckle over the fact that Judy would *want* to argue over them. :-) Except, of course, that I *didn't* argue over them. The argument was all from Barry's side. 1) Go back and read all the exchanges. 2) Reconsider whether you're correct in your statement the argument was all from Barry's side. 3) If you still agree with that observation, run, don't walk, to the nearest therapist. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we haven't even broached the topic of which cookies are better than the other... Oh, hands down it's the ones with coconut and chocolate with the hole in the middle... On 8/22/05 4:59 PM, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. Don't waste it on nonsense. You and Turquoise are like an old unhappily married couple who for some reason will not seek a divorce. I'm wondering if we should ask Grand Wizard Rick Archer to impose some kind of temporary restraining order on you guys. Something along the lines of authfriend and Turquoise are not permitted to respond either directly or indirectly to each other's posts for a period of 14 days after such posts appear. Nah. Let the marketplace determine their fate. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember the post that we're talking about. I posted a thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some kind of inquisition. Go figure. As you usually do when you find yourself on the wrong end of a dispute, you misrepresent what happened. It's never clear with you whether you genuinely don't remember what happened and make stuff up to fill in the blanks to your own advantage, or whether your misrepresentations are deliberate. There was no inquisition of *any* kind on my part, not at the start nor at any time throughout the entire exchange. In fact, in two of my posts I agreed with you, in one case defending what you had said against a challenge by someone else. Our exchange got ugly only after I had pointed out that the Google search you had come up with in response to the other person's challenge didn't show what you wanted it to show. (You had already gotten ugly with the other person for having dared to challenge you.) You don't like to be challenged, Barry. You almost invariably get ugly when that happens, especially when you're in the wrong. snip And YOU should have laughed. And how do you know I didn't? Are you so insecure about whether you've managed to be funny that you need to see a big HAHAHAHAHAHA? Or gotten offended about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- to-door initiation drive. I *should* have gotten offended?? Why on earth would you think I'd have reason to be offended? Instead you focused on the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. No, I didn't focus on it. I merely pointed out, very briefly, that the Girl Scouts didn't operate the way you said. And you agreed, saying the contests you remembered might have been locally sponsored. Then I posted a little essay on how the Girl Scouts ran the cookie drive, because I thought *it* might be a good model for the TMO. No nitpicking there either, just a constructive suggestion for the TMO. If there was any preoccupation with nits, it was yours, in feeling you had to defend yourself from the other person's challenge, and then from *my* challenge to the bogus Google search you had cited in defending yourself from
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I warned you guys what would happen if she followed me here, right? What did I just get done saying about Barry's misrepresentations? As I pointed out sometime back when he made this claim, Barry had *invited* alt.m.t participants here, urged us all to join. There is simply no excuse for his continuing to lie about this (among many other things), nor for the rest of you to carefully refrain from calling him on it. Oh, now it's all OUR fault as well? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AAAH!!! Peter, if you feel like Charlie Brown after Lucy has pulled the football away from him for the 1,000th time, well, get used to it... --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine discrimination. First of all, I try to do that too, or at least to advance the discussion. Sorry you seem to have missed all those posts. Second, why is it Judy, stop and not Barry, stop? I'll bet you a buck that if he, or anyone else, continually misrepresented your participation here, you would speak up just as I do. There's some sort of very pernicious double standard operating, in which Barry is allowed to get away with the most outrageously false statements, and you criticize me for calling him on them. (No, I'm not talking about his Girl Scouts blooper but rather about his misrepresentation of the entire exchange.) If you all would ride herd on him yourselves, I'd have no need to do so. Moreover, if he were made to realize his behavior wasn't acceptable on this forum, he'd change it. But he knows you'll delicately avoid confronting him and will instead come down on me. So of course he continues. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --- -~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip [I wrote:] Except, of course, that I *didn't* argue over them. The argument was all from Barry's side. 1) Go back and read all the exchanges. 2) Reconsider whether you're correct in your statement the argument was all from Barry's side. 3) If you still agree with that observation, run, don't walk, to the nearest therapist. You're misremembering, Shemp. *You* go back and look. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) The above was obviously tongue in cheek, but there is a question I've been wanting to ask sparaig for a while. You seem to be consistently in favor of anything that brings in money so that the organization can survive into the future. Is that a correct assessment? My question is, Survive as what? Survive as whatever. THe TMO's focus right now is on raising capital, allegedly for the projects that MMY has stated its for. YOu can say he's lying, but that's an interesting claim, since most men his age are interested in creating a legacy, and you're apparently claiming that his legacy will simply be liar. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer -- were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door-to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) The above was obviously tongue in cheek, but there is a question I've been wanting to ask sparaig for a while. You seem to be consistently in favor of anything that brings in money so that the organization can survive into the future. Is that a correct assessment? My question is, Survive as what? The Catholic Church has survived for a long time. As an organization that no longer offers any technique or method by which followers can be like the supposed founder of the organization (Christ) or achieve any of the things he lived on a daily basis. In fact, all of the dogma even *suggesting* that followers could ever be on the same level as Christ has been carefully purged and eliminated. It's an organization whose major goal can be accurately viewed in terms of history as self preservation. The primary goal of the Catholic Church IS the preservation and continuation of the Catholic Church. Always has been. In my opinion, that's where the TMO is headed. They've *already* all but eliminated the teach- ing of TM. But they're raising money like gang- busters to be able to continue teaching the technique they no longer teach and seemingly have no interest in ever teaching on a mass scale again. The emphasis is all on Grand Schemes (big buildings) and robes and crowns to impress the lingering rank and filers (think the pomp and circumstance of the costumes worn at the Vatican). What is is that the TMO is raising all this money FOR? In your opinion, it seems to be a way of ensuring that this valuable rediscovery they call TM will never be lost, and will be made available to future generations. However, even in *this* generation, the organization has done everything in its power to make sure it is NOT available. TM, the *foundation* of the church, is passé, forgotten. It is rarely even *discussed* in the TMO any more, as far as I can tell, much less taught. I think the TM organization is already caught in self perpetuation mode. They want to keep on keepin' on forever, and need more and more money TO keep on keepin' on forever. But they have forgotten WHY they wanted to keep on keepin' on in the first place. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yeah, there could be local contests funded by local supporters, but the only Girl Scout-specific policy involved would be that of allowing them to take place. The whole idea of the Girl Scouts (and Boy Scouts) is mastering skills for your own satisfaction and future benefit in life; that's why the only official awards are the patches and pins. They make a big deal about what can be learned from participating in the cookie program--teamwork, how to handle money, keep records, do market research, construct a sales pitch, and so on. There's a whole curriculum involved. And the local Scout troops design their own selling programs, deciding how much to charge for the cookies, which ones to order from which supplier, how much of the proceeds will be turned back to the national organization and how much will be kept to fund local Girl Scout projects. Wouldn't be a bad model at all for the TMO, come to think of it. (They do need to get rid of the trans-fats in the cookies, though.) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Sal Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. As seems to need to be said often on this forum, just 'cause you've never seen something doesn't mean it's impossible, only that you haven't seen it. Heck, it may even be *against* official Girl Scout policy for all I know...I wasn't ever one. The closest I ever got was at summer camp once, where we had the Boy Scout camp on one side of the lake and the Girl Scout camp on the other side. One of the only merit badges I ever earned was for swimming. :-) Unc Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. These days, accumulating money for college can start very early, sometimes even from birth, because the cost of a college education is so high. It's by no means impossible that scholarship money would be a big incentive for (at least the parents of) elementary-age Girl Scouts, especially since even a small amount invested at the time would grow significantly by the time the child was ready for college. Also, of course, an excellent way for a local business to get publicity. And if the girls are hotly competing for the scholarship money, it's good for both the local troop and the national organization because more cookies will be sold. I seriously doubt the Girl Scout organization would be unwilling to permit such offers to be made. But they *would* be local, and none of the money would come from the organization, either local or national. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Sal Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Links? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Yeah, I want links. Let's get to the bottom of this horrible Girl Scout cookie controversy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I want links. Let's get to the bottom of this horrible Girl Scout cookie controversy. The real question about Girl Scout cookies was raised in one of the Addams Family movies: Are they made from real Girl Scouts? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Unc, you might want to choose from the following Yogi Berra quotes: I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. I never said most of the things I said. Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Ha Ha Ha Ha! And only come back here once you'd read all 6690 of them -- twice -- and done a 3,000 word book report on each. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Judy, you forgot the but of course as in but of course you knew that. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/22/05 3:51 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Judy, you forgot the but of course as in but of course you knew that. Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. As I said, he should have stuck with what he remembered. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Adn given your history of wanting to personalize everything, it's not surprsing your would respond defensively. I checked out several sites also. Not one had any scholarship based on selling cookies. It's up to you to prove your assertion, not someone else. Either your memories are faulty or , more likely, the articles don't exist. Sal And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. Why point out anything at this point, then, if you don't want to be at his alleged low level of existence? What prompts you to get involved? Don't you have better things to do with your time? Go to the boardwalk (aren't you in Atlantic City?). Go to one of the casinos and give Mr. Trump some of your money or something. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. For God's sake, woman, we're talking about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES Get a life... As I said, he should have stuck with what he remembered. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. Why point out anything at this point, then, if you don't want to be at his alleged low level of existence? What prompts you to get involved? Huh? I like facts. Live with it. (As much as it may be contrary to your--and Barry's--inclinations.) Don't you have better things to do with your time? Not in the five-minute increments I have for taking breaks while I'm working. Go to the boardwalk (aren't you in Atlantic City?). No, I'm not in Atlantic City. Go to one of the casinos and give Mr. Trump some of your money or something. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. For God's sake, woman, we're talking about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES Non sequitur. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer -- were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door-to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? I'll wait for the pundits to arrive before I start. Have the pundits and the Raja's do it :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer - - were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door-to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? Maybe, maybe not. BTW, mall centers aren't at all kooky. They're the craze right now. You have yogo, chinese, etc., centers and walk-in plastic surgury clinics all over the place. We even have them in Tucson, but the overhead is likely too high for the profit-margins that the TMO wants. Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer - - were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door- to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? Maybe, maybe not. BTW, mall centers aren't at all kooky. They're the craze right now. You have yogo, chinese, etc., centers and walk-in plastic surgury clinics all over the place. We even have them in Tucson, but the overhead is likely too high for the profit-margins that the TMO wants. Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer - - were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door- to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? Maybe, maybe not. BTW, mall centers aren't at all kooky. They're the craze right now. You have yogo, chinese, etc., centers and walk-in plastic surgury clinics all over the place. We even have them in Tucson, but the overhead is likely too high for the profit-margins that the TMO wants. Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? Can you spell D-I-G-N-I-T-Y ? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
