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Ann,
I find it very annoying that you solicit people to buy thru your portal. Why exactly should motivate people to contribute to your personal wealth? I don't get it. It costs you nothing to blog, you do it for your personal gain...I'm not sure what that gain is (fame, respect, adulation, fun).
Does it cost you to maintain this blog? That I can understand. Tell us what it costs you, and tell us what you receive via the portal. A financial statement, so to speak.
Miss picky picky SJL is up early this Saturday.
I demand a financial statement from SJL. Does it cost SJL to comment on this blog? If so how much? Does SJL get a reward for commenting on this blog? Some form of personal gain? Maybe 35 profile views for example.
SJL said...
Ann,
I find it very annoying that you solicit people to buy thru your portal. Why exactly should motivate people to contribute to your personal wealth? I don't get it. It costs you nothing to blog, you do it for your personal gain...I'm not sure what that gain is (fame, respect, adulation, fun).
Does it cost you to maintain this blog? That I can understand. Tell us what it costs you, and tell us what you receive via the portal. A financial statement, so to speak.
She could do that. Or you could just blow it out your tailpipe.
OK, I admit it. If I had such a successful blog, I would take advantage of it and make some $$ by having people use it to buy products. After all, that's the American way.
Hats off to Ann!
Building up a successful anything and making money. Wow. How unfair is that? People should stop doing that.
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Thanks to everyone who used the portal yesterday. And thanks for the comments.
I sympathize with you, SJL. I feel the same way about American Idol threads. They're tacky and annoying. And the worst part is the guy with the gun who makes me read them.
I bought the teak bench.
And even more I think Ann needs the money because she invests her valuable time and talent her. She has paid subscriptions, e.g. the OED. Otherwise she could be defending some deadbeat Madison low life and being paid by the state.
Nice bench. Thanks, FleetUSA. The O.E.D subscription shall continue at least one day longer:
B. n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).
A worthless idler who sponges on his friends; a sponger, loafer; also (orig. Austral.), a man down on his luck. Also attrib. Cf. beat n.1 16.
1863 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 94 ‘Beau’ Hickman [was] a professional pensioner, or, in the elegant phraseology of the place ‘a deadbeat’.
1875 Chicago Tribune 13 Oct. 4/4 To go on a dead-beat spree.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xli. 325 A system of local government controlled by 30,000 bummers, loafers, and dead-beats.
1882 B. Harte Flip ii, Every tramp and dead-beat you've met.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 115/2 Deadbeat. In Australia, it means a man ‘down on his luck’, ‘stone-broke’, beaten by fortune.
[...]
1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike liv. 304 The Wrykyn team that summer was about the most hopeless gang of dead-beats that had ever made an exhibition of itself on the school grounds.
1912 E. Pugh Harry the Cockney xi. 114 He was a full private..attached to London's vast army of dead-beats..these miserable stricken creatures.
[...]
1959 ‘J. Welcome’ Stop at Nothing vi. 107 You don't want help from an old dead-beat like me.
1971 Guardian 18 Jan. 8/2 He didn't write me off as ‘Oh, that dead-beat’ when my name was mentioned.
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