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UK TRIP: CHRISTMAS 2002
Large (400k): Dec. 27 2002 at the Winterbourne Arms.
Left to right: Jack, Helen (front), Anne, Nancy, Martin (front), Gareth, Ruth, Glad, Phillip, John, Chris.
A smaller one of same (150k).
Gareth and Martin.
At Saint Martin's Church (Salisbury) after singing the Messiah.
Scotland: Tris and Nancy.
Up the road from where we stayed on Loch Ard, but this is not Loch Ard.
FROM THE PREVIOUS CENTURY
Mum, Dad, Nancy and I, (Oct. 18, 1997) on a walk around
the Ridout estate.
Scanned photocopies of old photos: Granddad
Roberts (40k), formerly unidentified
lady (62k) now identified as Mrs. Phillips (Mary or Margaret?).
PHOTO OF BETH AND TRIS. What
loch is that? Zoomed-in-on-faces.
(each about 80k) Summer '97
Who am us? Maybe it's easier to say what these pages are about - mostly fun with photos you might say. Here's a picture of/by Nancy and Gareth, at my fave tree de la season, Autumn 1996. Then there's our Mushroom Photo, and one I call Tomato (both Paris Twp.). Another of us about 10 years ago (by Kenzo Industries)...I call this the wife and pigs.
Writer Mark Dodge of The Quacky Alpacky
wrote: "Lame doesn't begin to address the vacuousness of your page. Its
unparalleled depth is surpassed only by its lameness. It wallows in lameness.
It is festooned with ribbons of flaming lameness. It is, in a wasteland
of meaningless content, virtually content-free!"
But that, it should be
said, was last century. Perhaps we are no longer quite so well-favoured
as candidates for the Hall of Lame.
From a New York Times article by Joe Sharkey (unauthorized)
...The backlash has begun..."Telemarketing is simply sociopathic behaviour",
said Robert Bulmash, who heads a 2,000-member consumer group, Private
Citizen Inc., [...has taken on its newborn love child: junk email]...techniques...some
of which he collected in a book, So You Want to Sue a Telemarketer...Bulmash
and other anti-telemarketers recommend instructing an unwanted caller to
remove your name and number from the company's "call list" WHICH THEY
ARE REQUIRED TO DO BY LAW...
The Direct Marketing Association, a manhattan trade group
sensitive to public backlash, also accepts requests to place a name and
number on its widely distibuted "do not call" list, which at least reduces
the number of unsolicited calls. (Send your name and phone number
to the Direct Marketing Association Telephone Preference Service, P.O.
Box 9014, Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735-9014.)
Getting on such a list "makes sense but it isn't much
fun", said Vince Nestico, a 25-year-old draftsman who created a Website,
the Anti-Telemarketer Source
(URL updated 12/98)..."Do you know that some of them, if you hang
up, actually sell the information that you were home at a certain time?"
Bulmash of Private Citizen has his own pet peeve: a
new technology called predictive dialing that telemarketers use to to stack
up calls like an airport landing pattern while salespeople are still on
previous calls. If a salesperson can't get to the call within several
seconds of someone answering, the dialer simply terminates it, noting in
its data bank that the person was home. He said this accounts for
those perplexing hang-up calls that seem more and more frequent.
There is also a self-help book, How to Get Rid
of a Telemarketer, by Bad Dog Press of Roseville, Minn...etc etc
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You may be able to find this article in its entirety on the Akron Beacon
Journal's site, Ohio.com, for a price.
I'd guess it appeared in or prior to 1997.
I have done little other than several times use the "please put me
on your don't call list" ploy.
[How to tell if it did any good?] ...and get a cheapo caller
ID box (I like it, but...).
Get a counter
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