30 Dec 10 Selling Toothbrushes
The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited.
Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: “I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30,” she said proudly,
“My sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civic spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success.”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next:
“I sold magazines,” she said, “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.”
“Very good, Jenny,” said the teacher..
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn.
The teacher held her breath …
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk. “$2,467,” he said.
“$2,467!” cried the teacher, “What in the world were you selling”
“Toothbrushes,” said Little Johnny.
“Toothbrushes,” echoed the teacher,
“How could you possibly sell enough toothbrushes to make that much money?”
“I found the busiest corner in town,” said Little Johnny,
“I set up a Dip & Chip stand, I gave everybody who walked by a free sample.”
They all said the same thing, “Hey, this tastes like dog shit!”
Then I would say, “It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?”
“I used the governmental approach of giving you something shitty that they say is good, And then making you pay to get the shitty taste out of your mouth.”
The teacher was speechless. . . . . . . . 
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01 Jul 08 Tastes Change
Mrs Thomas called me from the living room to the kitchen to tell me that dinner was ready.
She served up liver bacon and onion casserole. I sat there cutting this darn liver into smaller and smaller tiny pieces, along with the cabbage too, and hoping it would somehow melt and vanish.
Eventually Mr Thomas, who struck me at the time, as a very stern man, if one was to upset him, asked me in his thick Rhondda Valley accent, what was wrong with Mrs Thomas’ dinner.
I mumbled something about having a stomach ache, and he mumbled something about food going to waste. At that time I didn’t much care that it was going to waste; I was more concerned that I didn’t have to eat it.
Anyway, 35 or so years later, and this evening I was sitting down tucking into my dinner, and thinking how tastes change.
For dinner this evening, I made liver,bacon and onion casserole, with mash potatoes, and cabbage.
Suddenly my mind transported me back to sometime in the early 1970′s, and Mr & Mrs Thomas’ flat in Acton…
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31 May 08 Rockferry
In my spare time, when I’m away from the computer, I like to relax with either a good book, or some good music.
Of course, one’s tastes in either are very subjective; I tend to prefer non-fiction, and science, history, and geography when reading; and my tastes in music are fairly wide, covering classical, country, folk, rock, soul, and jazz.
It’s difficult to give any one specific genre, and I can’t ever truly name favorites – it really depends what mood I’m in at the time, when it comes to my choice of listening.
This afternoon, while doing some work, I was listening to Paul Gambacinni on BBC Radio Two. I wasn’t listening all the time, as I was talking as well, and concentrating too. One track caught my ear enough to listen intently afterwards to catch the name of it.
It’s called Warwick Avenue, and it’s off the debut album from Duffy entitled Rockferry
Duffy [born Aimee Anne Duffy on June 1st 1984 in Nefyn, Gwynedd, Wales], is a Welsh female soul singer-songwriter. She signed with A&M Records in 2007
During late November 2007, she performed on the excellent BBC2 television show “Later with Jools Holland”, which resulted in a second appearance on his show, well his Hootenanny, which has seen the New Year in great musical style for the past few years.
On the show she performed with soul legend Eddie Floyd. She came back a third time in February this year, and performed three tracks from the album, which was released in March 2008. Duffy is the first Welsh female to achieve a number one pop single in the past 25 years.
As befits an album that begins with ‘Rockferry’, a mournful, slightly unsettling tale of moving on, and ends which ‘Distant Dreamer’, a soaring epic that finds Duffy contemplating “all the things I’d like to do with my life”, Rockferry is a musical journey that’s both sad and stirring, and is in a largely retro-soul style.
I thoroughly recommend it.
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