Ever since she retired, the Dust Bunny Queen misses casual Fridays and going out with the girls for a few cocktails.
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Which one is DBQ? I'm torn between the green and the red, though the black and white gal with the smile and the bows looks fun and competent too.
ReplyDeletesniff...I never get any memories!
ReplyDeleteWhich one is DBQ?
ReplyDeleteBased on her amazing golf handicap (and that is a base judgement), I'm guessing she took the photo.
Ron said...
ReplyDeletesniff...I never get any memories!
That's true, Troop. You must have something festering up there.
her amazing golf handicap
ReplyDelete????
Oh...
No more stress management meetings on Friday. Alas.
ReplyDeleteHowever, we now have bare naked titties on the deck afternoons. (Haz will get it) Pretty good trade off, if you ask me :-)
Golf instructors will tell you...."Put your elbows together". I'm like: Are you fucking kidding me?!? 36E. Lisa (Trooper's sweetie will get it too)..
I gave up golf.
I had to pinch a nasty watery loaf at work today.
ReplyDeleteIt lasted like 45 minutes with long drawn out farts.
47 people came in during that 45 minute span. I counted. While one would come in I squeezed my 14 year old pucker together so hard so as not to rip out a huge fart-but sometimes I failed and said fuck it here it comes. It was followed by the sound of my ass releasing fluids and it sounded disgusting.
Some of the loaf splashed into my ass after ricocheting off the water and bowl. When I got up the lou looked like a scene from Helter Skelter.
I had too much lettuce for lunch.
I was devastated.
You oldies that don't work anymore are lucky because you can pinch to your hearts content at home and not while at work.
I hate public restrooms.
tits.
You're lucky you didn't wind up with a prolapsed polyp, Titus.
ReplyDeleteshits
ReplyDeleteSigns of Too Much Trooper York:
ReplyDeleteDisrupting one form of benign speculation for a tit check.
Laughing when I make it through 45 minutes of long drawn out farts and ass release, only to discover the root problem was too much lunch lettuce.
Which leads to, How many heads did he eat???"
Bodily functions, bodily functions,
ReplyDeleteWe're all concerned about them;
Ideally routine, major eruptions
Follow downing leaves and stem.
Titus, You tell us about great sex in public restrooms and now you tell us you hate them.
ReplyDeleteI've known people who will only shit on their own toilet. They must have powerful sphincters.
ReplyDeleteHey! Can anyone get in here or is this a private party??
ReplyDelete"I gave up golf."
ReplyDeleteIf you ever turn Lesbian DBQ give it another try. It works for them - 36E or not.
Hey! Can anyone get in here or is this a private party??
ReplyDelete@ RAA, I sent your two comments on sales, made by TOP, to younger SonM. He is starting out in sales and liked them. Hadn't heard the Jim Jones quote before, but it now lives on in another. The line that most resonated: Whoever is asking the questions is in charge.
Ruth Anne where have you been? We wished you a happy birthday not too long ago.
ReplyDelete@AllenS Ruth Anne has been busy. She was a featured caller on the Dennis Miller show.
ReplyDeleteLike Troop, we knew of her before she was famous.
@ Ruth Anne
ReplyDeleteI commented on your sales comments, but probably got lost in the avalanche of comments.
You are right on about sales, covering and answering objections. I think we must have gone to the same sales training classes.
Another useful sales technique that I was taught in a 5 week course from Ma Bell, back in the 70's.....Buying triggers. There are a few that can be classified that if you are going to sell to you pick the one(s) your prospect will tune into. 1. Technical and engineering aspects (yea I'm looking at you chickelit). 2. Prestige 3. Looks/artistic esthetics 4. Usefulness...kind of like #1 but without all the detail. 5. Cost efficiency.
With those starting points you can sell the same thing 5 different ways. There are probably more ways. But 5 is good to start. You can close the sale on anything.
:-)
WOW! Here's the link.
ReplyDelete"What a way you have with words!"
Doesn't get much better than that!
Chick you know absolutely everything that goes on in the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteHow do you do it?
I am impressed yet a little unsettled by every quote and clip and comment you know about out there.
tits.
@ MammaM
ReplyDelete1.Meet/greet
2.Interview through casual conversation, not an actually questioning.
3.Establish some commonality. "Wow, you like dogs? ME TOO!! I once had a ..blah blah blah"
4.Determine what the buying triggers are. AND Know your product well enough or be prepared to tailor your presentation and change horses in mid-stream.
5. If you don't get a response or think you've missed the mark go back to #2.
6. Welcome and acknowledge the validity of objections and questions. "Yes, that is a very good question...let me tru to answer you on that" "Valid points" "I understand your concerns"
7. Start closing the sale, using mild questions that do NOT require yes/no answers. "How would you feel about..." "What do you think about..." " Why don't we...."
There is more, but I forget. Good skills not just for sales but in all of your personal life too.
AWESOME clip. Ruth Anne is a star. Plus now we have a voice to go with your written comments.
ReplyDeleteSo very cool!
How do you do it?
ReplyDeleteKnowledge of Ruth Anne was tweeted to me without having to even look for it. I "follow" hundreds of people on Twiiter but really only pay attention to a dozen or so.
My recollection of DBQ's golf handicap came to me because it was one the funniest damn things I ever read here a year or so ago when she first wrote it. I just have a good memory, Titus. Did I tell you that I can fill in a blank periodic chart lately?
I don't tweet or blog.
ReplyDeleteI do yelp though.
tits.
Ruth Anne, Wonderful 40 seconds!! "We're not worthy..we're not worthy." And, not only the content, you have a very pleasant voice. Damn proud to know ya'.
ReplyDeleteI was taught that people buy from people. When someone is looking at my products I size them up - are they wearing clothing that indicates where they are from or where they work or went to school? If so, I start talking to them about that.
ReplyDeleteOnce a guy was just wandering by and I saw he was wearing a hat that indicated he was from Maryland - I immediately yelled something along the lines of "Hey, Terp!", you know, keeping it classy and all, and got his attention. I talked to him for a while, established my Maryland bona fides and after about 20 minutes sold him a bowl. Some days you have to work for it, but sure beats sitting around not selling.
My products are all about enhancing the buyer's life - when you get one of those beauties in your house you will immediately improve your standing among your peers. Yep - I am just that good!
And since I have been just about everywhere I can talk to people about their home town. Montana? Great place - got caught in a big storm there once. California? Where abouts? Bodega Bay? No kidding - I know a guy who noticed the same thing that I did - the school house is in Bodega, not Bodega bay. And so on.
Hey, whatever it takes to keep the wolf away from the door, I always say.
Oh, and dogs! I really like dogs and there are dozens of them at the market every week. Sometimes I get so caught up in talking about dogs I forget to sell. Dogs are better than most people.
ReplyDeleteWard Clever vs. Ward-Heeler.
ReplyDeleteI like that.
Tweed jacket vs Boss Tweed!
ReplyDeleteWait, what are we talking about?
RUTH ANNE! Call of the year! You talked to Dennis Miller! You are my heroine! Knocked it out of the park! Dang, girl, you rock!
ReplyDelete@DBQ: I just wanted to encourage you to keep up the silence over at TOP. It doesn't deserve response.
ReplyDeleteI read a DM tweet - something along the lines of "The night janitor at Big Ben couldn't have cleaned Obama's clock better than Romney did!"
ReplyDeleteBrevity, wit, and to think that you talked to him!
CL - is your comment WRT DBQ worth the effort to locate?
ReplyDeleteIn general, everything at TOP is unworthy of response, in my NSHO.
Last week was all about Fluff.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend it is Honk Fest.
Think Music, Music, Music! And Dance! And Art! And political activism.
And Libtards everywhere in Somerville and Cambridge. The squares will be packed.
This time of the year is festival season here.
Last year at Honk Fest there was a team of dancing vaginas-they were incred.
How are you?
Tits.
Nevermind, CL - I found that sick fuck Inga's comments. She is a mess. But she is stupid. If she can't tell Baron Zemo's voice from Trooper's she is pathetic beyond redemption.
ReplyDeleteThanks, DBQ! Both your comments are appreciated. The one on triggers and the other on the 7 steps, which reflect the style he began adopting by intuition, taken to the next level.
ReplyDeleteBoth our sons are unusual, the mechanical one has a photographic memory and the seller an auditory one, recalling everything he hears. This is part of the reason I enjoy chickelit's comments. With his prodigious "good memory" and ability to connect pieces, he reminds me of a combination of the two with some extra electrons flitting around.
I'm believing the amount of time Titus spends in the bathroom loafing, plucking, puckering, purging, waxing, dipping, and yelping might cut severely into his reading opportunities. Unrelenting anxiety also impairs memory and recall, but humor helps. The picture on "Honk Fest" looks suspicorously like tits popping out of a lettuce filled colon.
Mama, I only pinch in the lou.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the activity is actually completed in the dining/living space of my loft...fyi.
Approximately 1200 square feet and currently valued at approximately $950,000, based on the previous sales...and I am in the Penthouse Loft which is much more valuable.
This aint Ohio bitch.
No need to get nasty, Titus. The fault lies with my imagination. I hadn't pictured you examining your youthful pucker or dipping your balls into essential oils in your dining/living area.
ReplyDeleteSixty Grit
ReplyDeleteDennis Miller, whom I've met backstage before a recent show, is a good man. He is humble and kind and real. I believe nothing bad about him. He even used a joke of mine in an HBO special once. It's not often you get to meet someone in real life who lives up to your high opinions, but it happens sometimes.
MamaM: Oh, really?
AllenS: I've been around, but I can't get into Trooper York on my iPad without keying in the daggum password. After a while, you just forget to log on!
Dust Bunny Queen: I think I caught your comments. I was working that thread for all I was worth. My sales experience began with Girl Scouts and cookies and a father who made sales an honorable profession. He polished his shoes every week, like he had been taught in the Army, to go see farmers, muddy them up, and start again. I learned a lot from my years as a Mary Kay consultant. My National Sales Director emeritus was a great trainer. My sister drives a pink Cadillac. Sales is good.
And DBQ, I will always read your comments [and Synova's and Freeman Hunt's] when I skim comments elsewhere.
Hi, Titus. You may be an owner of lofty posh pads, but to me you will always be the sweet little guy from the only Waunakee in the world.
ChickieLit: You know I love you.
NDSpinelli: I hope to get to know you better. I like you.
MamaM: Oh, really?
ReplyDeleteYes, really. Believe it or not.
Mama M. See what I did there?
ReplyDeleteMama M. See what I did there?
ReplyDeleteI see nozzing. Well, maybe not quite nozzing, but a blurred picture at best. The questions that came up for me after reading your "Oh, really?" response to me was this: What is she asking? Is she serious? Is she playing a game?
I chose to respond as if you were seriously questioning veracity. What was your intent?
I intended to depict the idea that 'whoever is asking the questions is in charge.'
ReplyDeleteWasn't that kinda clever of me?
Ruth Anne, I'm glad to hear what you have to say about DM, b/c I'd like to like him given his pretty gutsy stance as a libertarian/conservative in Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteI disliked him intensely after seeing him mock a kid years ago for seeming effeminate in the national spelling bee. I'd like to think that he regrets that.
Ruth Anne Adams, if you enjoy playing kinda clever games based on mutual respect, I'm in.
ReplyDeleteChip S.
ReplyDeleteIf you listen to him after he lights up a caller, he is a bundle of regrets. He second-guesses himself all the time and I'm betting he would regret that. Sounds like he erred on being a bully. But he does apologize when he's wrong. So he's not perfect, but a good guy.
Mama M: I'm in, too!
Aw, Ruth Anne, I like hearing stories like that. Dennis Miller has long been a favorite of mine, if only because, like Chicklit, he leads me to learn stuff.
ReplyDeleteI thought Pauli Exclusion was about how the character on the Sopranos got those wings in his hair. Turns out that's only one use of that phrase.
Back. We went to the 'big city' yesterday, spent the night, used the hotel hot tub, dropped a bunch of money at Costco and bought some tools so we can write off most of the trip.
ReplyDeleteWhat did I miss at TOP? I try not to respond to Inga/Allie/whatever since I consider her somewhat mentally ill and to do so just increases the damage that she does to a productive conversation.
I really like Dennis Miller, he makes you think and you'd better listen to his words because they are so densely packed. Sometimes we have to look up his more obscure references and go...>Oh...that's what he meant.
However, we now have bare naked titties on the deck afternoons. (Haz will get it) Pretty good trade off, if you ask me :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! And yes...works by the fireplace during winter as well.
Congratulations Ruth Anne! I have to figger out how to listen to Dennis Miller..work puts the kibosh on streaming radio programs over the internet. Plus, I'm surrounded by commies at work.
Two things I remember from sales: (1) Create the economic necessity, and (2) People in sales are the easiest of all customers. They love being sold.
And by the way, "meet Ruth Anne Adams in person" should be on everyone's bucket list here at Trooper's place. The three-dimensional, in person Ruth Anne is even better than the tweeting, commenting or voice-on-Miller's-show Ruth Anne.
ReplyDeleteDid you run that idea past Ms. Ruth Anne? Just askin', mind you...
ReplyDeleteSixty Grit:
ReplyDeleteHe ran it past me, stopped, backed up to make sure he'd done it and then ran over it again.
I've seen Mike and Mrs. Haz the last 4 times I was in Wisconsin! They should be on everyone's bucket list, too. And they always know what restaurants are good.
Alas, Ruth Anne and I have more than once been traveling across country in opposite directions at the same time, so I've never had the pleasure of meeting her in the flesh. I have, however, talked to her on the phone what could be accurately described at this point as "many times" over the past several years, which is a great good treat all its own. Now I'm setting my sights on meeting up in Williamsburg, VA, with the kids once we finally get relocated out East.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to meet Haz and his wife before we depart the Midwest, but I don't know how doable that is.
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ReplyDeleteChickelit is a good egg, too, with a wonderfully kind voice. Hoping to catch up with him when he's in D.C. someday. (Or, of course, flights to SoCal are way cheaper and more direct from Philly than from Davenport, IA.)
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah, I do plan to scoot up to Brooklyn at some point for a proper bra-fitting. I could use the lift. In both senses.
Which reminds me--sorry to have blown you off Friday. A situation arose that I had to deal with, and it was unavoidable, so I missed the window of time and didn't want to bug you out side of that window. I'll follow up soon.
ReplyDeleteThat last comment was directed to Chickelit.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, r.l. I open and close Windows everyday.
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