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It could happen to anyone said:
Get well soon, little robot/Mr Jones.
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# 26 January 2012 at 7:22 pm

jacqui said:
I’m really glad he scored that hat-trick to help you feel just a little bit better.
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# 26 January 2012 at 8:10 pm

Love the trolling ;) said:
remember only sociopaths talk about their health on the internets ;)
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SD Reply:
January 26th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
@Love the trolling ;) ::
Ha!
Nope :: that’s the pity play … this is the far nobler anti-virtue of excuse making.
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Peter Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 1:42 am
@SD,
Whoa. I thumbed up Love the trolling and it went from +1 to +3. I’ve gained like plus two Stamina in Droidgeons and Dragdroids.
Or something.
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Wyrd Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 8:40 am
@Peter,
The page doesn’t live update. So, what probably happened was that between the time when you originally loaded the page and the time when you clicked the Thumbs Up, someone else clicked Thumbs Up on the same thing. (But that change didn’t show on your copy of the page.) Then, after your Thumbs Up request went through, the server thingie refreshed to the current total, er, “Thumb Value”.
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Furry cows moo and decompress.
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Wyrd Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 9:16 am
@SD,
Yeah, if it were pity party, it’d go something like,
“Oh, woh woh, I am soooo sick! Icky! But never fear, dear subjects! I will still get that next Gazillitron 3000 Money-O-Matic info frauduct out to you soon! So, if you haven’t ordered yet, now would be a perfect time. Go throw some cash in the Inbox of your favorit-est, best-es Internet Marketing Guru (me) so I can buy more kleenex!”
It’s so ingrained, it practically writes itself. With pity party, you try to make them feel bad for you to explicitly move them to “help” you by giving you something. Usually with money, but not always.
But I know you know all this already. I’m just rambling about what differentiates “pity party” from simply being a little under the weather.
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Furry cows moo and decompress.
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:27 am
@Wyrd, Some of the more advanced sociopathic pity-players — particularly those who have some sort of financial stake in appearing to be healthy and fit themselves — use the Internets to go on about the ailing health of cherished family members. Sick mamas or kids are especially good for some lucrative pity points, which translate to cash or gift certificates or just some comforting virtual hugs. Works every time.
Get well soon, J. Looking forward to the “big stuff coming.”
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# 26 January 2012 at 8:44 pm

Seppo said:
Hope you get better soon. I’m sorely missing the revelations cloaked in abusive and entertaining language!
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# 26 January 2012 at 9:31 pm

Jack said:
Sick sucks.
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# 26 January 2012 at 9:40 pm

Iwantz 2B rich said:
Telepathic get well card from miles away. If I can manifest money by thinking about it, manifesting greeting cards isn’t a big stretch. If the card doesn’t arrive, please accept the sentiment. Sincerely.
Now, I should feel better knowing that I’m not the only (in retrospect) foolish person who’s been sucked into the endless vacuum of IM predator programs, and knowing that the suck job extends into the UK. I’m not happy about there’s a club. Leave it to the BBC to provide the voice of reason. And the Droid. I do feel better about that.
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# 26 January 2012 at 10:02 pm

Robo said:
Maybe SD needs some Swarm Bots to look after him.
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# 26 January 2012 at 11:39 pm

Wyrd said:
@SD,
Sick, huh? Kevin Trudeau’s got a book chock full of all the “secrets they don’t want you to know”. You should get well real quick with that.
I remember one time at my old job there was once a new worker that swore by the Kevin Trudeau natural cures thing. I tried printing out some pages from an FTC website showing that Trudeau was obviously and clearly a fraud.
It went about as well as you might expect. The dude totally didn’t care what information I presented–it was all just proof of the conspiracy against Kevin’s awesome knowledge or something like that. Very sad. *shrug*
That employee didn’t make it past his probationary period anywayz. I suspect that the reason he didn’t last was not because of his weird reading choice, but rather–his weird reading choice was just one symptom of his character, and his character was not a particularly great fit for the job.
Get well soon. Remember, Bill Maher’s cool, but he’s a little bit dumb when it comes to medications. Yes, big pharma is evil and the enemy and all that (I’m a liberal), but it doesn’t follow that the whole of the drug industry is a big scam. Or–heck I dunno, maybe it does.
What I mean to say though is that there are plenty of times when a medication or three really can do the trick. Don’t be shy with the mucinex. That stuff can help prevent your sick from getting more sick. Or–so I’ve been lead to believe.
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Furry cows moo and decompress.
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
@Wyrd, Speaking of KT, I’m still going back and forth on Amazon discussions with a very dedicated True-dough Kool-Aid drinker who insists KT never was in prison. Her “proof” is that some folks told her KT was a top Amway distributor at the time she joined Amway in 1994, and there’s no way he could have built up to that level of success in Amway by then if he’d been in prison during the early 1990s, as the “liars” in the media claim. Her latest reply to me appeared last week. Here’s a link to the discussion: http://tinyurl.com/85ysorn
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jack Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
@Cosmic Connie, My new lesson from it: “People facts” are different from “real facts”.
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Jack Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
@Cosmic Connie, I see now you gave her some more “People facts” from a very-specific person of the “People fact” category. Waiting for the spindom now.
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Anonymous Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
@Jack, I predict one of several outcomes:
1. Ms. Alicia Rose is forced to concede on the one point that despite her protestations, Kevin True-dough was indeed in prison, and he served during the time I stated in my comments, but that it’s really NBD after all, because it was a long time ago, and he has mended his ways, and he’s such a hero to millions. (This is the most common rationalization employed by KT and his fans when the felony record comes up in conversation.)
2. Ms. Rose continues to nurture her delusion that KT was never in prison, claiming that KT never actually wrote those confessions in those two books, but that in both cases they were sneaked in just before press time by government operatives who had infiltrated the book manufacturer. She will further claim that KT never actually said anything about his imprisonment in numerous media interviews, as widely reported, but that the words were put in his mouth by Big Pharma operatives and/or FTC agents who infiltrated the mainstream media outlets that broadcast or published the interviews.
3. Ms. Rose is truly shocked at the strong evidence that KT was indeed in prison during the time I claimed he was, and she suddenly notices there’s just enough of a crack in the armor to let the light get in… upon which she finds herself entertaining more doubts about her hero’s past and present business operations, as well as his motives. I don’t hold out much hope for outcome number 3, however.
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I guess the pic gave it away, but that “Anon” above was yours truly. I thought the “Name” and “Website” fields were already filled in and I pushed “Submit comment” before I noticed they weren’t.
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Jack Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
@Cosmic Connie, Worst anonymous comment ever!
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Here’s an outcome I didn’t predict, at least not exactly. (Consider it a modified version of Number 1 in my list above.) Now Ms. Rose says she was never arguing that KT was NOT in prison, just that he couldn’t have been in prison during the time period (1991-93) widely reported. And she continues not only to laud his heroism but to accuse me of sour grapes.
http://tinyurl.com/82ue8jr
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Jack Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
@Cosmic Connie, I just saw other 2-stellar reviews she gave to a man named Tomislav Sunic who I didn’t know until now. So far from what it looks like on surface-glancing he seems to be the quite-the-charmer and champion of the civil rights…especially for the white people.
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Lanna Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 3:02 am
@Jack,
Sweet Jesus! She has five reviews: the one for KT, two for Tomislav Sunic, one for Xenia Sunic, and a review of her own self-published novel marked “from Dr. Tom Sunic” which says, I shit you not:
And yet the plot in the novel does not sound surreal – but very real.
A young mother who goes by the name Alex is kidnapped from Earth – by the aliens who claim to be her relatives – again from a very surreal California, now part and parcel of the globalized United Earth Coalition.
I guess if we’re all creating our own realities, our realities will vary, right? Somebody reassure me. Help me forget that she’s the Oklahoma City Health and Happiness Examiner and writes important articles like Eating organically increases better health.
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 12:13 pm
@Lanna and @Jack, Those other links go a long way towards ‘splainin’ why Ms. Rose is such a passionate defender of True-dough. Many of KT’s recurring themes show up in her writing: everything from the health secrets “they” don’t want you to know to New World Order/conspiracy stuff to the seekrit society crap. If not a shill, she’s certainly the quintessential KT sycophant.
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# 27 January 2012 at 1:17 am

Peter said:
Somebody needs to take Jason to the Chicago Diner and feed him a vegan reuben. Because from my extensive experience eating vegan reubens at the Chicago Diner, they are nature’s best cure-all.
Hope you get well soon, Jason. Or, if you prefer being sick and playing video games to fighting crime, I hope you stay sick forever! Whichever.
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Lanna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 3:07 am
@Peter, Mmm, nom nom. Can you please organize a vegan Salty Droid fan monthly restaurant meetup?
@SD, Get well soon! Remember to stay hydrated so your body can flush out the bad stuff.
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jacqui Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 11:49 am
@Lanna,
Uh oh! Is this a vegans only blog? I looked for a vegans only sign the first time I visited a couple years ago…and every time since. But I didn’t see one anywhere. Now I look stupid.
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Jack Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
@jacqui, I think the vegan-site is OK for you, because I think some of the other blogs get anthropoids that eat an occasional small bird. But now for the camel-leopards I don’t know about it.
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Anna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
@Peter, Don’t let Madge Crikey get too worried about Salty. She’ll probably hop on a bus over there and make him some chicken soup. And a poultice. Or something.
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jacqui Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
@Anna,
Why does it always have to be chicken soup??
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I wantz 2B rich Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
@jacqui,
Because Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen need more money.
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Anna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
@I wantz 2B rich, Man, I hate those guys. They even rubbed me the wrong way before I learned what sleaze they really are!
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I wantz 2B rich Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
@Anna, I’m just STARTING to connect the dots, and it is un-fucking-believable. They’re all in bed with each other, and they all have their hands in our pockets. I just read most of a thread on “Dr.” Joe Vitale. I remember him from full page magazine advertisements – don’t remember what he was trying to sell, but since he doesn’t really sell anything, well, guess that’s why I couldn’t remember the non-product.
OK. There are enough of us here to pool our stories and write “Chicken Soup for the Tortured Soul”. Bet we could make the NYT bestseller list.
Here are the rules:
You gives me your stories.
I takes all the monies.
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Anna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
@jacqui, because I was going for the cliche! And because it’s brothy and hydrating. And there’s collagen in those chicken bones.
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# 27 January 2012 at 1:45 am

Courtney K said:
@Peter
A vegan reuben would not be a reuben. It would be a sauerkraut sammich.
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Anna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
@Courtney K, I’ve seen it done with tomatoes or marinated soy something or another. The thing that ruins it for me with the vegan version is the lack of Swiss cheese. No real cheese, no deal. I’m from Wisconsin!
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Lanna Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
@Courtney K,
From http://www.veggiediner.com/wp/?p=1346
THE RADICAL REUBEN™ 10.50
Corned “beef” seitan, grilled onions, peppers, sauerkraut, vegan Thousand Island & cheeze, on marbled rye.
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Anonymous Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
@Lanna, Yikes, they want $10.50 for that!? I know it’s the big city and stuff’s more expensive there, but wow.
@SD, get better soon. And please take a buzz saw to Shurtleff, I beg you.
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mirele Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
@,
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Lanna Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
@mirele,
That’s pretty much big city prices for a tasty burger with a side at a sit-down place.
While the raw ingredients (wheat flour, tofu) for a vegan burger are cheaper than beef, it takes a lot of effort to transform them into deliciousness. And there is a smaller target market for vegan food, so they probably have to increase the margins to reflect that, too. You’ll find similar pricing on the Scorpion Burger at Native Foods or Crab Slider at Karyn’s on Green.
The vegan restaurants are for us yuppie vegans (and “broke-ass” hipsters secretly living on mommy’s credit card) anyway. The cheap-ass vegan option is to buy 20 lbs of rice at the Asian grocery and 20 lbs of beans at the Hispanic grocery and live on that for months.
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# 27 January 2012 at 9:33 pm

Officer Goodman said:
When I’m sick, or just nursing a few bullet wounds, I like to take it easy on the couch eating chicken noodle soup and watching my favorite TV series, “Retardid Policeman.” Maybe this will make you feel better and inspire you:
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zipnar Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
@Officer Goodman,
Am I the only one who thinks that the cop was a much better actor than the two girls?
4 serialz.
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Hollywoody Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
@zipnar, He ain’t actin’. Read the description on the youtube page.
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zipnar Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 7:00 am
@Hollywoody,
Exactly. Still the better actor.
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# 28 January 2012 at 7:16 pm

Tom said:
Mark Lyford and Chris Cobb eh?
Rings a bell….
http://chriscobbscam.org/
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Raymond Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 6:37 pm
@Tom, Ouch. The man who put up that protest web site is out 25,000, and it looks like he is not alone.
Great effort to share his story. This is what consumer activism is all about.
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Jack Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
@Raymond, Or NOT.
mr. Lyford registered the domain May 3/2011
Domain ID:D162182042-LROR
Domain Name:CHRISCOBBSCAM.ORG
Created On:03-May-2011 17:48:32 UTC
Expiration Date:03-May-2012 17:48:32 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
7/2/2010 he’s already up into JVNotify NutterButter land telling people how to make the Big $$ through the “awesome connections” he got to make from the people he tells us are:
“In addition I have made some pretty assume connections in
the last 8 months and I have persuaded people to contribute
great quality content to this product.
These people include: Chris Cobb, Chris Freville, Ciaron Doyle, Jani G, JP Schoefel, Phil Henderson, Shaqir Hussyin, Simon Coulson, Simon Hogkinson, Sohail Khan, Steve Essa, Trevor Crook & Matt Garrett. All these guys are going to be featured in the sales copy and linked into my success story.”
http://jointventures.jvnotifypro.com/2010/07/08/mark-lyford-millionaire-profit-secrets-jv-invite-more/
Even best is when he tells us:
“I have Jani G helping me out with the product launch.”
If you want the inside-of the joke, here it is (again):
“Jani G. can make people millinaires for just $10,000 according to these:
http://www.warriorforum.com/internet-marketing-product-reviews-ratings/319274-auto-traffic-hijack-glitch.html
http://www.warriorforum.com/internet-marketing-product-reviews-ratings/308670-auto-traffic-hijack-5.html
Also, he told people about getting free FaceBook ads but many people didn’t like that to get the free ads you still had to pay for them and they couldn’t understand about that they were free if they still had to pay for them, including a man who said:
“It’s like saying you can get a Pizza Hut franchise free using an insider secret…and the secret is you need to do well with the franchise so you make a profit-offsetting the cost you pay upfront.”
Also, according to a Copy Nazi here some people didn’t like that the product they paid for wasn’t there after they got it:
“Yep – March 11. But apparently these guys are saying they’ll update the software by then. Meanwhile a good third of the site is missing content – Vids/Forum/PDFs. You really got to wonder. One JV I spoke to said he made 100 sales on the first day and had 70% Refunds on the second.””
It’s a good launch only 4 months after he gets the coaching from Brad Gosse about how he can making money, too.
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Raymond Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
@Jack, I didn’t dig any beyond the immediate issue raised on the site. But yes, when the duped are also duping, sympathy runs dry.
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SD Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
@Jack ::
From near the bottom of cobb scam dot org …
I simply want my $25,000 back , once I have it back this site will be removed and i will make sure people know I got my refund request honoured.
… such chivalry.
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# 29 January 2012 at 3:57 pm

SD (author) said:
I’m back … and I’m way behind on email so everyone just stay calm … your requests will be processed in the order in which they were received {or in any arbitrary order decided upon by me arbitrarily and without notice}.
Clint Dempsey should go to Arsenal … don’t argue with me about it.
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Tom Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 6:05 am
@SD, I had no idea you were a Gooner – much respect!
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# 30 January 2012 at 1:53 pm

I wantz 2B rich said:
WB, hope you are feeling better.
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# 30 January 2012 at 11:27 pm

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