Hi ho, MMMLogerios!

One dear to me just shared a rant about something you too may have had some experience with and thought behind you, over like a nightmare, gone and dead like a nasty, cheating ex . . .

If you haven't noticed, Amway has completely disappeared in the last few
years. Never thought much of it until last night when a 'friend' finally
nagged me into a '10-minute web tour' of something he & his wife are
involved in. Arrrrrrrrrgh! Amway of the web-waves! It is a shopping mall
web site that is 'going to rival Amazon.com' in a few years, and this is a
ground floor position and some folks are already making kazillions of bucks.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

As our friend rambled on in his telephoned canned speech and virtual web
tour as I tried not to doze at the computer when suddenly I heard it:
Amway!!! Something about the same soap and beauty products as were sold by
Amway but with different labeling, and how Amway had disappeared about 6 or
so years ago and how this company was started by the children of the Amway
founders, i.e. Son of Amway. Wow! They used to drag you to meetings and
feed you insipid punch and cookies, now they trap you electronically and I
am (believe it or not) too nice to scream NOT ON YOUR LIFE BUCKO! and slam
the phone down, turn off the ringer and throw a cat fit. Instead I sat
there like some great brainless wonder-girl and made appropriate muttering
sounds.

Where has decency gone? Hasn't anyone ever noticed that multi-level
marketing is a cult unto itself? One of the great cult rules is to rope in
more culties. One of the other great cult rules is to be friendly with
fellow culties and treat all non-participants like poo-poo. That would be
the life of a multi-level cultie! I'd rather be poo.

See, I was just mentioning to the DH other day that it had been many wonderful and personally prosperous years since we'd been asked to do a friend a favor and listen to this great and very secret so they couldn't tell us about it then and there new business idea they were getting into--yup, Amway. We were once even gifted a start up membership or kit thingy and dragged to a cult marketing meeting where the "upline" biggy cultie harangued me, who'd gone along only because my friend insisted, for being mmmmmmm who isn't the least interested in that crap and would also rather be poo than trick my friends and family into pumping up some upline biggy cultie's bottomline.

And your horses, too, multi-level cultie scum!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, letting you know my flame filter so on and automatically bounces back accursed crap at the sender three fold.