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To: ClaireSolt
Well, I too have been thinking. Your post reminds me of a MLM sales pitch.

LOL! You owe me a new keyboard!

...that's pretty rare when Photoshop isn't involved, too.

There are unrecognized forces at work in the modern world. You need something only found in an exotic place. Pay us $100/mo for the secret to eternal youth.

...oh, that's what you meant about MLM. Well, then, make up your mind. First you complain about lobbyists pressing us to eat 10 servings of grain a day to enrich the corn belt, then you attack me for being anti-capitalist for suggesting alternatives?

As I pointed out in the vanity, if you don't grow it yourself, you have to buy it from *somebody*. And most likely it will be either a big company *or* a small company.

The most exotic thing I recommended is fish oil supplements, which you can even pick up at Costco nowadays. As for the rest, what is so "exotic" about loading up on leafy green vegetables (now that the spinach scare is over, that is) and drinking water instead of soft drinks full of high fructose corn syrup?

I'm not trying for eternal youth, I just would rather approach old age looking more fit than the Michelin Man. :-)

One example should refute your idea that big corporations are not sensitive to customers: New Coke, remember that one?

If they'd done any decent market research, they wouldn't have *launched* New Coke. :-)

I didn't mean to imply ignoring customers was universal, even among big companies. But small companies (as you so rightly point out) pretty much *need* each and every customer.

Cheers!

17 posted on 10/08/2006 12:48:27 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
If you want to improve your piece, you should remove all extraneous material. I said I disagreed with your initial premise, and since you have not defended it, it must not really have been your premise, at all. Maybe, it was the first thing you thought of.

Try building your argument based on what you really know and believe in. In reality, corporate profits have nothing to do with the benefits of fish oil and leafy vegs. Use fact and logic instead of fear of bogeymen.

19 posted on 10/08/2006 2:27:51 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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