Public Address | Real Times | Gettin' large at the launch https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=704#post704 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=704#post704 I doubt it, they still look longingly at those brochures... I'm guessing that they'll have enough points or whatever they need, to score a sports car by the end of this century.

Mind you, they probably have the leisure suits already.

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:04:34 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=701#post701 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=701#post701

BTW – we have people close who are into Omegatrend "The giving never stops!"

Ugh. Couldn't you get them to take up something more socially redeeming? A P habit, perhaps?

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:59:48 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=699#post699 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=699#post699 Well... one coincidental outcome was that Mrs Llew inadvertently (colossal coincidence) outed one of their (apparently) happily married chapter members as a notorious philanderer.

You could have heard a pin drop. Until Mrs llew burst out laughing.

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:54:02 +1300 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=696#post696 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=696#post696 "I am always reminded of that scene from the movie "Go" where the protagonists believe they are being set up for "swinging", but it is actually the network marketing pitch

And really, how different is the outcome?"

Ha! – yes other than the semantic difference of who is screwing who,…

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:49:14 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=693#post693 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=693#post693 Happy to refer you David :)

Actually, and here's where we find that half the people that come here are members of an Omegatrend chapter, or coven, or whtever they call them...

Um... perhaps I should just say that their marketing material is hilarious – mansions, sports cars, yachts, and…

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:45:45 +1300 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=686#post686 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=686#post686 Yes – press record for Tupperware.

I am always reminded of that scene from the movie "Go" where the protagonists believe they are being set up for "swinging", but it is actually the network marketing pitch

And really, how different is the outcome?

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:24:50 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=678#post678 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=678#post678 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:40:58 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=676#post676 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=676#post676 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:39:22 +1300 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=670#post670 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=670#post670 BTW, I didn't see the Tupperware doco but wish I had .... someone close to home spent a long time as a *Tupperware Queen* and by the end I was starting to think of them as a little, well, cultish.

And as with many similar marketing schemes, the true costs…

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:28:48 +1300 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=667#post667 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=667#post667 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:05:22 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=654#post654 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=654#post654 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:25:57 +1300 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=648#post648 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=648#post648 I'm sure that at the launch that I saw Mr Hooten very enthusiastically clapping the PM's speech, which is further evidence – if needed – that there was a strange vibe in the air.

The Maradona doco was great, some of the footage of he and the entire crowd weeping…

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:25:55 +1300 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=646#post646 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=646#post646

but the laws of physics dictate that two instances of Slack may not occur in the same space

Bullshit. Disproving that is as easy as walking into Hallensteins and asking for.... a pair of Slacks.

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

By the way, thanks a bunch for wiping…

]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:57:11 +1300 The Doctor https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=645#post645 https://publicaddress.net/system/real-times/gettin-large-at-the-launch/?p=645#post645 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:39:04 +1300