On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 2:41:12 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-02 10:20 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 1:31:15 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-01 8:45 p.m., Graham wrote:

On 2025-04-01 4:37 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

Well, that's a new one!  Did she bring a kit home and if so,
how did the finished painting look?

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No! She tactfully turned down the invitation.

I should consider myself lucky. My wife was invited to a lingerie party. >>>   Imagine a room full of women in buying frenzy for sexy lingerie and
sex toys.

I fail to see how declining a sexy lingerie and sex toy party would be
lucky for you, or anybody else.

???? Graham said his wife had been invited to a velvet painting kit
party and she declined. I said that I should consider myself lucky tat
my wife was invited to a lingerie party.

Thanks for the clarification. What a relief!

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 0:31:38 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:

On 4/1/2025 5:11 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

But I remember lots of Tupperware parties when I was a
child.  Also, someone passing around their catalog at
work occasionally getting up and order.

My mother bought Tupperware but I'm not sure she ever attended a
"Tupperware party". She probably did when I was a kid in the 1960's. I
do remember her giving me a Tupperware lunchbox around 1978 when I was
going to work in an office. The same little red plastic "lunchbox" with different sized containers that all fit inside appears in episodes of
the TV show 'Young Sheldon' which was set in 1989 or so. I didn't keep
that lunchbox. Perhaps I should have. ;)

Jill

I have a red Tupperware bacon keeper that was super useful
when I worked and wanted to take over medium fried eggs to
work for my breakfasts. I also have a red Tupperware lunch
meat keeper that was handy for scrambled eggs for work
breakfasts.

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 21:49:31 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:

On 4/2/2025 8:36 PM, Carol wrote:

I've always declined those tupperware and other types of 'parties'.
It's just a sales pitch and you are obligated to buy stuff that's way
overpriced.

No one is *obligated* but one does feel pressured. I worked with a
woman who sold Pampered Chef products on the side. She was always approaching people at the office with the catalog. Pampered Chef
products were way overpriced.

I never felt obligated either. If they were having a party
for a product I wasn't interested in, I just declined attending.
Sometimes I'd order from their catalog but not attend the party.
I agree about the Pampered Chef things, and I'd not be surprised
to learn that OXO Good Grips made their products.

Back in those days parents were always bringing in order lists for
things their children were supposed to sell to raise money for something
for their school. Wrapping paper, cookies, candy, etc. The company I
worked for at the time finally decreed they were not allowed to do that.

Jill

UGH, I hated that, too. I didn't mind buying if they were
offering something useful, but so many times it was just
junk.

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Hank Rogers wrote:

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-04-04, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

I once had to clean out my wife's closet to look for a leak. There were
44 pairs of shoes, all in boxes. I commented about it to her and she
didn't see a problem. As it turned out, those were her seasonal shoes.
There were just as many in another closet for off season storage,

Interesting. Imelda Marcos wasn't special. All women are like that.
I learn so much stuff here.

I wonder how many shoes Melanoma Trump has?

After President Trump's WONDERFUL presidency ends, the SMITHSONIAN is
going to build a special annexe to house ALL of First Lady Melania's
GORGEOUS duds, Sire Hank...!!!

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Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-04-05, gm wrote:

After President Trump's WONDERFUL presidency ends,
the SMITHSONIAN is going to build a special annexe
to house ALL of First Lady Melania's
GORGEOUS duds, Sire Hank...!!!

What? They're going to stuff Donald?
He's her most well-know dud.

At least it should be easy to program a
realistic animatronic voice-box.

When THE ELON plants the US Flag on MARS, the resulting settlement will
be dubbed MARS BASE TRUMP...

Then when Mars is finished being terraformed and becomes a lush green
paradise, Mars will be renamed PLANET TRUMP...

;-D

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Ed P wrote:

On 4/5/2025 11:49 PM, gm wrote:

Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-04-05, gm wrote:

After President Trump's WONDERFUL presidency ends,
the SMITHSONIAN is going to build a special annexe
to house ALL of First Lady Melania's
GORGEOUS duds, Sire Hank...!!!

What? They're going to stuff Donald?
He's her most well-know dud.

At least it should be easy to program a
realistic animatronic voice-box.

When THE ELON plants the US Flag on MARS, the resulting settlement will
be dubbed MARS BASE TRUMP...

Then when Mars is finished being terraformed and becomes a lush green
paradise, Mars will be renamed PLANET TRUMP...

;-D

I like it! They should both head up there next week.

Me and YOU got first - class tickets ALL the way, Ed... we've even both
got "luxury suites" and everything...!!!

Yoose, me, Sire Hank, Unca Tojo, and BRYAN are ALL going... it's gonna
be AWESOME...!!!

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Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-04-06, gm wrote:

Yoose, me, Sire Hank, Unca Tojo, and BRYAN are ALL going

Again, a usenet kook neglects to add me to another damned list.

Mon apologies, Mike... you will be getting a special "Luxury Suite" for
the voyage...

You are assigned to establish the Mars colony of "Nouveau Canada"...

How would you design such an outpost, what would you include...???

For starters, a recreation of Expo '67 aka "Man And His World" would be
nice, it's the very coolest thing that ever happened in Canada, we
visited it when I was a kid... it was AWESOME...

WIKI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67

"Expo 67, the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, was a
landmark event held in Montreal, Canada, marking Canada's centennial and showcasing "Man and His World" with innovative architecture and
technology, attracting over 50 million visitors...

It is considered to be one of the most successful World's Fairs of the
20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations
participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a
world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day...

The fair was visited by many of the most notable people at the time,
including Canada's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, Lyndon B. Johnson,
Princess Grace of Monaco, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy,
Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie, Charles de Gaulle, Bing Crosby, Harry Belafonte, Maurice Chevalier, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Marlene
Dietrich...

Musicians like Thelonious Monk, Grateful Dead, Tiny Tim, the Tokens and Jefferson Airplane entertained the crowds...

Despite its successes, there were problems: Front de libération du
Québec militants had threatened to disrupt the exhibition, but were
inactive during this period...

Vietnam war protesters picketed during the opening day, April 28.
American President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit became a focus of war protesters.,,

Threats that the Cuba pavilion would be destroyed by anti-Castro forces
were not carried out.

In June, the Arab–Israeli conflict in the Middle East flared up again in
the Six-Day War, which resulted in Kuwait pulling out of the fair in
protest to the way Western nations dealt with the war...

The president of France, Charles De Gaulle, caused an international
incident on July 24 when he addressed thousands at Montreal City Hall by yelling out the words "Vive Montréal... Vive le Québec... Vive le Québec Libre!"...

The most popular display of the exposition was the soaring Soviet Union pavilion, which attracted about 13 million visitors. Rounding out the
top five pavilions (by attendance) were: Canada (11 million visitors),
the United States (9 million), France (8.5 million), and Czechoslovakia
(8 million)..."



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On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:05:16 +0000, Janet wrote:

BECAUSE you haven't been to those parties you very
clearly haven't a clue what goes on there.

Janet UK

I can't recall if I've ever been to one of these parties. We've been
invited to several of those parties though. The hosts like to invite
couples into their little world. We may or may have not gone to these
"parties" but I do know about Multi-level marketing AKA, pyramid schemes
AKA pyramid scams.

They are not really selling overpriced plastic containers or cleaning
products, vacuum cleaners, or health products. Their real product is
"business opportunities" and the dream of the good life. A life of being
your own boss. Greed, as in most schemes/scams is always a big part of
it.

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 4:13:07 +0000, gm wrote:

Yoose, me, Sire Hank, Unca Tojo, and BRYAN are ALL going... it's gonna
be AWESOME...!!!

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I only got one question about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCui-UrNCME

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On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:36:17 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-07 12:14 p.m., Graham wrote:

On 2025-04-07 4:44 a.m., Janet wrote:

In article

They are not really selling overpriced plastic containers or cleaning
products, vacuum cleaners, or health products. Their real product is
"business opportunities" and the dream of the good life. A life of being >>>> your own boss. Greed, as in most schemes/scams is always a big part of >>>> it.

    Tupperware went bankrupt.


    Janet UK

And yet just this morning, I saw a newish Nissan car with Tupperware
signs all over it.

I don't know what's going on there. I read that they had gone bankrupt.
They had closed their last plant in the US and moved production to
Mexico. You can still buy the stuff.

Just wondering.... if an American owned and operated company shuts down
their production plant in the US and moved production to Mexico is that another one of Trump's examples of Mexico taking advantage of the US?

Trump has his crap merch made in China, like his guitars. He'll get his
guitars for less than 100 bucks and sell them to MAGA suckers for $1,200
to $11,000. People are indeed being taken advantage of.

Fender guitars lower priced models have been made in Mexico for many
years now. Fender still has a factory in the US that manufacturers their
higher priced models lines. They also have make guitars in China for
their dirt cheap guitars. These days you can get a cheap ass guitar from
Fender that's made in China or a guitar made in Mexico for a little
more. An American Fender will cost you some bucks - that seems fair to
me.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-xVy2aOm56o

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On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:44:27 +0000, Janet wrote:

In article
<6227d68a822b757d70b66cc3a660b9be@www.novabbs.org>, dsi100
@yahoo.com says...

On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:05:16 +0000, Janet wrote:

BECAUSE you haven't been to those parties you very
clearly haven't a clue what goes on there.



Janet UK

I can't recall if I've ever been to one of these parties. We've been
invited to several of those parties though. The hosts like to invite
couples into their little world. We may or may have not gone to these
"parties" but I do know about Multi-level marketing AKA, pyramid schemes
AKA pyramid scams.

They are not really selling overpriced plastic containers or cleaning
products, vacuum cleaners, or health products. Their real product is
"business opportunities" and the dream of the good life. A life of being
your own boss. Greed, as in most schemes/scams is always a big part of
it.

Tupperware went bankrupt.

Janet UK

Somebody's still manufacturing and selling them. I think they're stodgy
and unattractive. They really need to modernize their collections. The
good news is that Tupperware is a well known name brand.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%27tupperware&hvadid=695637978887

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 23:45:17 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-04-07, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:

Somebody's still manufacturing and selling them. I think they're stodgy
and unattractive. They really need to modernize their collections. The
good news is that Tupperware is a well known name brand.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%27tupperware&hvadid=695637978887

From the link you provided, we have these.

<https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-Plastic-Containers-Reusable-Stackable/dp/B07PTWH38V>

It looks like a lot, but they nest nicely. We should be good for the
rest of our lives.

Vented lids seem like a good idea. Being able to microwave the plastic containers is a great feature, although some people are deathly afraid
of heating food in plastic. They are ascared of "fumes." I'd do it of
course, because I'm just wild, crazy, and fearless.

Beats the heck out of me why Tupperware still makes their containers semi-opaque. That's so 1960's.

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dsi1 wrote:

Somebody's still manufacturing and selling them. I think they're stodgy
and unattractive. They really need to modernize their collections. The
good news is that Tupperware is a well known name brand.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%27tupperware&hvadid=695637978887

Movies also influence Japanese consumer behavior...

You never see Godzilla driving an American car, for instance...

B-)

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