Is it just me?

From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

Date: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 10:33 AM

I know that "Bob" is the one true saviour and the only true road to
salvation. I'm not arguing with that. Don't get me wrong.

But lately, I have been comparing the things he wrote before, and the
things he wrote after, he got in the car accident when he suffered all
that massive brain damage, and it begins to strike me that there are
... well ... DIFFERENCES between the two. Not that that's BAD. Don't
get me wrong. Just DIFFERENCES.

Like this:

"If the lady of the house invites you in for lemonade during a sales
call, TAKE HER UP ON IT. Don't be shy. In doing so you establish a
rapport with her, and heck, you get to spend time with a pretty lady!"

- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, "Secrets of sales", 1958

"ALEEENZ ARE COMING TO EAT MY SOUL! THEY EXOOD OUT OF THE POWER
SOKKITS! WE MUST BUY! WE MUST SELL! REPENT NOW!"

- "Bob", scrawled in feces on a towel, 1963

"Remember my #1 rule of success: KNOW YOUR MARKET. If he HAS a power
lawn mower, he doesn't NEED a power lawn mower!"

- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, quoted by colleague, 1958

"I AM TAKEN TO A SPINNING! THE MOON WALKS THE EARTH AND IS EVIL!
LIZARDS GRIN AT ME FROM EVERY CORNER! I AM THE TRUTH!"

- "Bob", early church seminar, 1965

I'm not saying that's BAD necessarily. I'm just saying.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
"The acid in human urine causes great damage. It sounds like a laughing matter but it really isn't."

- Gert-Christian Jakobzik of the Berlin city senate

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Subject: Re: Is it just me?
From: Cardinal Vertigo <jhobbs@myrealbox.com>

I don't see it. I think it's just you.

--
"A cry in the dark
Disappears into the void
PLONK"
-- Joe Cosby

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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

I think I know what you mean. I'm just not trying hard enough. Is it
"Bob"'s fault if I can't understand his mysteries?

I think he was just being SUPER-SUBTLE in his earlier works. I need
to READ BETWEEN THE LINES.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
"A free society trusts its citizens."
-- George W. Bush in China

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Subject: Re: Is it just me?
From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Joe Cosby wrote:
>
> I know that "Bob" is the one true saviour and
> the only true road to salvation. I'm not
> arguing with that. Don't get me wrong...

The word of "Bob" is always true, in all times and
all places. It is just by failure of faith that we
might misjudge his lies.

--
"Money can't buy you happiness,
but when you're poor, you can't
buy shit, and nobody will loan
you happiness."
--nu-monet

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Subject: Re: Is it just me?
From: polar bear <bear@pole.com>

>
> "Remember my #1 rule of success: KNOW YOUR MARKET. If he HAS a power
> lawn mower, he doesn't NEED a power lawn mower!"
>
Man, that is so flawed. If the customer already HAS a power lawn
mower, your job is to sell him a BIGGER power lawn mower! If you only
sold people stuff they actually NEED, well brother, you'd be one lousy
salesman.

I don't know who wrote that, but I'm sure it wasn't "Bob."

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Subject: Re: Is it just me?
From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

Well that was before he was "taken up" too.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
"A free society trusts its citizens."
-- George W. Bush in China

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