Arrogant Worms have a sketch about a Mountie getting accosted by US tourists:

"Where do you keep all those guns?"
"In our tank."
"You have a tank??"
"We didn't WALK here!"
"Where did you get a tank?"
"Wal-Mart"

("The Mountie Song" from Live Bait)

Lloyd Sumpter

Oh oh. There's a career killer for Arrogant Worms. Sheryl Crow CD's were
banished from WalMart for a time due to a similar, one-line reference to the
chain.

Wal Mart admits to ordering record companies to rejacket CD's that they feel
feature graphic elements not consistent with "approved American values" (where
*is* Skipper these days, anyway?). Won't be long until they insist on the right
to censor content, too.

Actually, my previous statement is not quite correct. All they do is inform the
record companies why they feel they need to protect their customers from this
CD cover or that, and suggest how if the cover were changed they would be happy
to order 3-million copies for WalMart stores.
They can't really demand a change, just economically force one.

Gould 0738 wrote:

Arrogant Worms have a sketch about a Mountie getting accosted by US tourists:

"Where do you keep all those guns?"
"In our tank."
"You have a tank??"
"We didn't WALK here!"
"Where did you get a tank?"
"Wal-Mart"

("The Mountie Song" from Live Bait)

Lloyd Sumpter

Oh oh. There's a career killer for Arrogant Worms. Sheryl Crow CD's were
banished from WalMart for a time due to a similar, one-line reference to the
chain.

Wal Mart admits to ordering record companies to rejacket CD's that they feel
feature graphic elements not consistent with "approved American values" (where
*is* Skipper these days, anyway?). Won't be long until they insist on the right
to censor content, too.

Actually, my previous statement is not quite correct. All they do is inform the
record companies why they feel they need to protect their customers from this
CD cover or that, and suggest how if the cover were changed they would be happy
to order 3-million copies for WalMart stores.
They can't really demand a change, just economically force one.

I'm waiting for an interesting expose on Wal-Mart's pharmacies.



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I'm waiting for an interesting expose on Wal-Mart's pharmacies.


A guess: They're dealing through Canada. :-)

Doug Kanter wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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I'm waiting for an interesting expose on Wal-Mart's pharmacies.


A guess: They're dealing through Canada. :-)



Oh, that would be ok. I don't blame anyone for doing that. But with
Wal-Mart, I'd be more concerned about its buying drugs from third-world
countries, or having its underpaid and untrained clerks filling the
little bottles with the wrong stuff, even though they are not supposed
to be doing that at all. It is Wal-Mart, after all.

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I'd be more concerned about its buying drugs from third-world
countries, or having its underpaid and untrained clerks filling the
little bottles with the wrong stuff, even though they are not supposed
to be doing that at all. It is Wal-Mart, after all.

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At the end of a 92-hour work week, even a pharmacist can make a mistake. "It's
a Wonderful Life."

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:59:48 +0000, Gould 0738 wrote:

Arrogant Worms have a sketch about a Mountie getting accosted by US tourists:

"Where do you keep all those guns?"
"In our tank."
"You have a tank??"
"We didn't WALK here!"
"Where did you get a tank?"
"Wal-Mart"

("The Mountie Song" from Live Bait)

Lloyd Sumpter

Oh oh. There's a career killer for Arrogant Worms. Sheryl Crow CD's were
banished from WalMart for a time due to a similar, one-line reference to the
chain.


He He...First, it's funny to see "career" and "Arrogant Worms" in the same
sentence. But more seriously, WalMart doesn't have the impact here in Canada
that is does in the US. A news story saying WalMart is refusing to carry an
Arrogant Worms CD would probably be a major boost in their "career".

Now, of Sams, or A&B Sound, or even Superstore or Costco refused, that would be
a different story...

Lloyd - (just bought 3 DVDs at Superstore)

I wonder if there would be any interest nationally in boycotting those
companies that are exporting American jobs to places like India.


None. People substitute their wallets for their brains as it is, no hope that
they'll avoid making the same substitution (in large numbers) for their social
consciences.

I learned an interesting thing about human nature several years ago. Seattle is
a pretty liberal place, with a lot of greenies.
Back in the early 90's I offered electric cars for sale on my used car lot. A
local co-op built "kit cars" and installed electric motors and batteries. They
releid on me to sell them. I used to drive one back and forth to work, and on
company errands. Great little vehicles for 20-30 mile, round-town runners.
"There will be a lot of interest in these," I thought. I was right!

I must have had 600 greenies on the lot in just a few months. Every time I
showed the electric cars, the conversation when something like this.

"Wow, dude! This is way cool that you've decided to offer these electric cars.
We got that hole in the ozone, all this pollution, people getting sick on fumes
everywhere, and we're going to run out petroleum some day. This is just
bitchin!
Everybody ought to buy one!"

When we 'd get around to asking for the order, the conversation always went
from
"everybody ought to buy one" to "everybody except me ought to buy one. I've got
some special personal reason why I'm forced to continue to drive my gasoline
car- but the rest of the world? They ought to get with the program and go
electric!"

Sigh.

We all have a long list of social goals we'd like to see accomplished, if only
*everybody else* will make the sacrifices we're unwilling to make ourselves.