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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (112515)	12/7/2000 8:05:30 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Could be.

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (112515)	12/8/2000 12:41:40 AM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Once upon a time there was a strange world inhabited by opposite thinking people. What was up for us was down for them. What was left was right. What was black was white (or red). Even more amazing is that a group of "experts" called ANALysts who's job it was to interpret the workings or foreign cultures and enterprise listened to the backwards language of the hypsters from this strange Bizarro world and they imagined fantastic new realities. Among the Bizarre beliefs that these ANALs quickly adopted was the concept that doing business on the Internet was magical; you didn't need your own warehouses and you could dispense with expensive stores. You didn't need the hordes of $8 an hour clerks because everything was automatic. Customers just clicked and the products appeared magically at their doorstep. Costs would be cut and profits would be huge. Customers would be easily entertained so they would flock to the web site by the millions at hardly any cost to the Bizarro World etailer. And once they bought something they were hooked, never to "shop around" as they would in the non-Bizarro World. Marketing was easy too: "Money for Nothing Marketing" was used to pay customers to shop until they dropped. "That is good" said their fearless leader, "Money for Nothing Marketing" will cause our business to explode and because we know the ANALs can't think past yesterday they will never figure out that growth doesn't mean profit. In fact, we can explain that here on Bizarro World spending $1.30 to sell $1.00 worth of stuff will result sometime in the future in huge profits. Down is up. Red is black. How are things in Bizarro World?