April-12th-2004, 11:56 PM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
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Shills
Don't these PR people posing as illiterate adolescents realize how transparent they are?
Or maybe they're illiterate adolescents posing as PR people.
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April-13th-2004, 07:04 AM
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The Bluegrass
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More likely shills paying illiterate kids some measly wage to do their typing for them.
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April-13th-2004, 07:13 AM
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I don't think the political comment by Other Steve makes any sense but that's for an Alley discussion.
I think that the moderators should remove threads started to promote a cd by any poster whose lifetime # of posts is < 50.
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April-13th-2004, 10:19 AM
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To the opening post, I think it's the latter.
In my going on 10 years of doing radio and producing a program, have dealt with a vast majority of professional publicists, agents, and the like, and the minority who *sound* like our Mancini peddler.
On those occasions when we've even attempted a project was doomed by the outset...poor communication, cluesless, poor approach, UNprofessional.
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April-13th-2004, 12:47 PM
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Registered Loser
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Originally Posted by Pete C
Don't these PR people posing as illiterate adolescents realize how transparent they are?
Or maybe they're illiterate adolescents posing as PR people.
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Have you guys checked out Pete C's posts? I just started reading them recently, and I'm really impressed. His BBS writing is so awesome. Have you guys checked out his book yet? I've never met Pete, but I think his book is really great.
Let's talk about your favorite posters. Catch ya later!
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April-13th-2004, 12:59 PM
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An air of normality
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Just so there's no confusion, I deleted the crabby little fit of pique to which Gordon refers in posts 3 and 4. Gotta watch that...
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April-13th-2004, 01:45 PM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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Originally Posted by Sergio Zamora
Have you guys checked out Pete C's posts? I just started reading them recently, and I'm really impressed. His BBS writing is so awesome. Have you guys checked out his book yet? I've never met Pete, but I think his book is really great.
Let's talk about your favorite posters. Catch ya later!
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Sergio,
Pete is one of the best guys to hang out with (so is Jimmy Cantiello). We've gotten together three times and I hope to get to the Apple this year and do it again.
Pete's memory is uncanny. Don't ever challenge him!
Plus, the cat knows good food. 
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Last edited by clinthopson; April-13th-2004 at 01:46 PM.
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April-13th-2004, 01:49 PM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
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Actually, Sergio has met me, and I even paid him to say a few kind words.
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April-13th-2004, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Other Steve
Just so there's no confusion, I deleted the crabby little fit of pique to which Gordon refers in posts 3 and 4. Gotta watch that...
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Just so there's no confusion I deleted post 4 but kept the identical post 3. Or did I delete post 3 and keep post 4?
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April-13th-2004, 10:24 PM
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Plus ça change...
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Originally Posted by Pete C
Don't these PR people posing as illiterate adolescents realize how transparent they are?
Or maybe they're illiterate adolescents posing as PR people.
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I watched part the extremely vomitacious "Kid's Choice Awards" on Nickelodeon the other day with my older daughter. It had 4-year-olds posing as illiterate adolescents posing as shills. E.g., there were teeny boys and girls apparently trained to scream and pant for Hugh Jackman like 14-year-old girls used to cry for the Beatles. And many of the "awards" were obviously rigged--not kid's choices at all: just tie-ins with soon-to-be released movies. Grotesque.
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April-13th-2004, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by walto
I watched part the extremely vomitacious "Kid's Choice Awards" on Nickelodeon the other day with my older daughter. It had 4-year-olds posing as illiterate adolescents posing as shills. E.g., there were teeny boys and girls apparently trained to scream and pant for Hugh Jackman like 14-year-old girls used to cry for the Beatles. And many of the "awards" were obviously rigged--not kid's choices at all: just tie-ins with soon-to-be released movies. Grotesque.
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Not the Kid's Choice Awards! Is there no integrity left in this World?
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April-13th-2004, 10:56 PM
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Plus ça change...
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I know!!! Isn't just too impossibly sad and incredible? What next, Disney stealing from Stravinsky?! Jazz on tv commercials?!?!
No. I won't believe it.
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April-13th-2004, 11:56 PM
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Be Afraid
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Can I be a shill?
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April-14th-2004, 02:12 AM
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2007 Stanley Cup Champs
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Guys, you can just PM Lois or I with any "shill threads" and we'll dispose of it with a quickness.
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April-14th-2004, 07:02 AM
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The Bluegrass
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Mone -- For what it's worth, apart from using up Lois's memory space, I normally find the shill threads funny as hell because they're so stupid, and also, because apparently they don't read the responses after making the posts. It's probably cost them more to pay illiterates (assuming it's not the shill himself that's one, probably not a safe assumption) to post here than they'd make back in purchases from JCers in several centuries.
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April-14th-2004, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by mone peterson
Guys, you can just PM Lois or I with any "shill threads" and we'll dispose of it with a quickness.
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Good!
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April-14th-2004, 09:42 AM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
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It looks like the Mancini thread and its creator are gone.
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April-14th-2004, 11:34 AM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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Does this mean that I can't shill for my son Jerry's (who goes by the stage name J.C. Hopkins) great Biggish band featuring James Zoller, Claire Daly and a whole bunch of fine NYC players playing his songs, appearing regularly in NYC.
I wish shilling were allowed 'cause then I would tell you that.
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April-14th-2004, 04:18 PM
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10 Day Disabled List
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Originally Posted by Pete C
It looks like the Mancini thread and its creator are gone.
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An optimistic view.
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April-14th-2004, 08:28 PM
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I like them too. The Mancini thread was funny as hell.
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April-14th-2004, 08:33 PM
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Be Afraid
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Hmmm. Looks like Mancini has disappeared again. Does this mean Mancini is banished from JC? Oh, the horror!
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April-14th-2004, 08:48 PM
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Mancini is welcome. Mr. Rightguy has been sent the way of the dodo.
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April-14th-2004, 08:55 PM
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Be Afraid
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Originally Posted by mone peterson
Mancini is welcome. Mr. Rightguy has been sent the way of the dodo.
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Phew. I was getting worried there.
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