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July 4, 2005
Monday Reader Mail: 50
By QBlog in Reader Mail
Happy Independence Day America! This week's Reader Mail is from a cartoonist who wants to share his comics with the QBlog readers.
name: Francois T.
date: June 27, 2005
message: Hello ! I've been following your blog for a while, and I saw you have comics going on. I've recently started making my own comics, and I made some about Amway. If you want to check them out, here they are:
- Draw Those Circles
- One Book To Rule Them All
- And In The Darkness Bind Them
- The Madness of Crowds
- Newfound Riches
I thought you might get a kick out of them. I also have a list of my comics at Insolitology.
Enjoy and don't blow off any important digits as you're celebrating the holiday.
Comments
Those were pretty much useless, as is most of the stuff you'll read on this site. Just another critic trying to defame an awesome company.
Not too mention I don't know if any books on the 1st year book list are even written by people in Quixtar. They're all well known Success Principle books. Only in college will you find people writing books and then making it the required text for their class! Good way to guarantee sales!! Now thats a scam!
Tony
I am sorry to say this but u got to lighten up. Its a comic strip for God's sake. Laugh a little.
ps - The comic strips are hilarious.
ur comics suck... they make no sense, are not credible and aren't funny
I'd laugh Raj, if they were even remotely funny. I've laughed at critbot stuff before, but that didn't even qualify for pathetic.
Not to mention what if I made a comic mocking something close to you. Let's say Raj is short for Saaraj, and you're Muslim. And I make a comic of 2 guys in arab garb with guns saying "aah! yes we will kill Americans for Allah, allah is great!, allah wants us to kill all american infidels!! Praise to allah!!"
Are you gonna just sit there and say "haha, thats hilarious" or are you gonna say "dude, thats a pretty gross misrepresentation of most Muslims. We're not all extremists or terrorists!'
And then I say "dude, lighten up its just a comic".
What are you gonna say? Seriously, what would you say...
(well there's your answer)
Tony
No 1, u got some serious issues with muslims. While some people will call u racist, I won't. Well for a fact, I am not a muslim. Raj is a hindu name and I am an american. But that doesn't matter.
Also not all muslims are evil.
Religion is a personal and a very sensitive issue. But a business is not like that. The international amnesty or humanitarian or UCLA people will not sue your ass if u make fun of a business.
Raj, I don't even know where to start. Can someone please explain to Raj the definition of "hypothetical". FOR CRYING OUTLOUD!! It was an example! I don't "have issues with Muslims!" NO SHIT not all Muslims are evil - I have Muslim friends! (One of which is named Saaraj)
That was my point! Not all IBOs are evil! But comics like that misrepresent what most people in the business are really like!!
I still can't believe you thought I was being serious!! What, did you just skim my post??
You say religion is a personal issue, well in case you haven't used your powers of deduction yet, THIS BUSINESS is very personal to most IBOs. And we don't take it lightly when people mock it and spread lies about it!
I'd revise my comic analogy to be mocking Hindus, to show you my point, but I wouldn't want you to think I had issues with them too! Good grief!
(Trust me, it took every ounce of self-control not to call him every synonym for the word "idiot".)
(that doesn't count ;)
Oh, by the way Raj - I think you meant "ACLU" (American Civil Liberties Union).
UCLA is a college that sells overpriced books with no guarantee for success ;)
(oh, sorry) :P
IS this the same Tony who was really pissed off cos someone called him tony pepperoni. U were calling them racist cos they made fun of your italian heritage. So yes people will get defensive when made fun of religion or color.
Anyway u dont get the point , do you moron. What the comic strip did was funny. What u r trying to prove is offensive and not funny.
See I totally understand where u r going. Its a classical attach first mentality. U try to say something offensive about something very personal and then when I get defensive, u use that analogy to point to the fact that the business is personal to you.
But u moron, u should not pull religion or color into this. I make fun of of your business, then u make fun of my business or education. Why don't u try to say something funny about college, about 2 losers from college or something. Now I would laugh for that too.
Just proves again that u r a stiff lip moron.
>>Tony I think you meant "ACLU" (American Civil Liberties Union).
>>UCLA is a college that sells overpriced books with no guarantee for success ;)
>>(oh, sorry) :P
See that's funny. Now get the point
Raj, you're the one calling ME a moron!? You're idiot for thinking I really have those views of muslims!! I'm not racist toward Muslims! I was trying to make a point! I wasn't trying to make you mad to make the point that the business is personal to me! I was trying to make the point that he is twisting the truth to make IBOs look bad!
He's not representing what most IBOs are really like - JUST like if I made a comic using Muslim stereotypes, it would be just as wrong!! You're the imbecile for telling me I have issues about Muslims! I wasn;t making fun of religion or color!! It was a Frickin example Raj!! An analogy to show you how off-base His comic was. You HAVE to be smarter than that!!
And just so you have the facts straight - NO, I did NOT call anyone Racist for calling me Tony Pepperoni! I pointed it out that everyone jumped on me for being "racist" cause I called prasad a terrorist after he openly endorsed the beating of IBOs in his country, yet no one said anything regarding the Tony Pepperoni comment. It didn't offend me and I didn't call him a racist, BUT some critics did come to my back and said that the comment WAS bigoted, and meant to be insulting. My comment toward prasad had nothing to do with color or religion! ANYONE who endorses the public beatings of IBOs (or anyone) just because you don't agree with their views... is a Terrorist!!
And if you still think that I'm really making fun of religion or color or have issues with anyone than you're truly an absolute moron!
Now get a clue!!
Ok, Let's advance this idea of a non-offensive Muslim cartoon, yet keep in mind that like the IBO cartoons, stereotyping IS part of humor.
First Panel.
Two Muslims holding guns(in keeping with Tony's premise)
First Muslim..."You have a magnificent weapon. Where did you get it?
Second Muslim...Allah provided.
Second Panel
First Muslim...Well sure, but how did Allah provide it?
Second Muslim...Ok, if you must know I got it from my brother.
Third Panel
First Muslim...He gave it to you? Praise Allah!
Second Muslim...NO I BOUGHT IT FROM HIM CHEAP, he needed cash to buy some Amway Tapes.
now that's funny(ier)
Well, gee guys, I only talked about 1 panel, my other 2 panels were hilarious! ;)
But Dave that is funny! But be careful, Raj might have the UCLA "Bruins" sueing your butt for being racist! ;)
http://store1.yimg.com/I/universal--shopping_1848_55536293
Here is a cool site for Muslim haters:
http://tinyurl.com/8jezh
;)
Tony> ANYONE who endorses the public beatings of IBOs (or anyone) just because you don't agree with their views... is a Terrorist!!
Imran> What if you beat up people who are comming to rob your family, choghad aadmi
If someone busts in my house with a knife and starts grabbing stuff, and I feel my family is in danger, I will defend them. If someone knocks on my door and says "hey do you mind if I come in and take a few things", I'm gonna say "Get out of here!" and lock the door!
If someone says "hey you wanna make some extra $", and I don't like the program they offer, I'm gonna say "no thanks" - I'm not gonna get a gang and find him on the street and say "there he is!, there's that guy in Quixtar, lets Beat him"!!
Sorry Imran, try fishing a different spot! ;)
But Tony, they Q kingpins are saying
"hey you wanna make some extra money", but it's a deception because most people in Q don't make any money. You attend a function and there are maybe a handful of big pins making money, but the money is being made from all the faithful who attend the functions and not from retailing. Think about it, if the "mentors" in the business teach buy from youself and teach others to do the same", then the vast majority of Q income is derived from the people in the business. If that is the case, then a diamond who has 1000 downline each spending $60 a month on tools, that's where the diamond is making $40K per month, and then you add in the Q income and now the diamond makes $50K a month.
You need to sit down and do the math on a diamond's income to really see this clearly.
I think Parsad got busy in beating :) I hope he comes back and read this thread and tell us how it went ;)
Seriously, terrorist is extreme buddy. A person who beats up ppl in street, some times, say once or twice in life is not a terrorist.
I think it's quite healthy. Keep you in shape and tough.
Beside, if I told an IBO to stay away from me and my family / town (Backhome whole town is kinda family, generations living together for centuries) and he doesn't .......
What if I come to an open and start spreading negative? And refuse to go away and keep on comming?
Remember, IBOs do get pretty annoying. Like used car sales man. There is a reason for this reputation.
I thought David's comic was the best.
Speaking of "comics", I'd personally rather see a kid (or even an adult) TRY to draw a picture, even a stick figure, than look at a stupid cg illustration with some mildly funny (actually topical, and not much more than banal) text.
In my book, on a scale of 1 to 10, I give them a 3.
The subject WAS the cartoons, right?
Tony - I think that if you had thought up an example with a couple of Bubba's your "illustration" would have been less controversial. But, whatever.
As a former active Quixtar IBO I can say this...my upline platinums, emeralds and diamonds (Gala and Kumar teams) spent an awful lot of time making fun of IT workers, college educated people (especially PhDs), lawyers ...pretty much anyone not in Quixtar. The called them "losers". Everyone seemed to think it was funny. Being an educated (I have 2 undergraduate and one graduate degree), well read, IT worker I guess by Tony's standards I should have been incensed.
Ditto here. Do you remember Dave Severn saying, "Don't get me started on 'professional' ppl"
What was your upline? Mine was Vishal Diamond and Ahmer Azam platinum?
Imran.... I got a little busy with my In-laws visiting me. :-))
We haven't resorted to beating yet. But we actually got 4 people put of this scam in India. Thats FOUR, if you can count Tony Moron.
Talking to tony is wasting time. he is doing his job as a faithful quixtar employee of posting gibberish on the "negative" sites. I am sure he is one of those Sock Monkeys.
Haha! pisSAD called me a sock monkey! Thats funny dude- Draw me a comic of that!
I think whats funnier, is that he really thinks I'm a Quixtar employee. Nope just an IBO.
Well I guess he's not a terrorist if he's not actually beating up anyone yet., but I guess the threat of violence could be considered as such. But I don't think anyone would take him too serious. I picture him as a little guy, 5'7, 135lbs, not the physically intimating type. But he talks a big game online!
Comics? Hey Francois, you have absolutely little talent for comics. Your language is slightly more elevated and that should help you just pass the class.
Posted by: Comic Rider | July 6, 2005 9:26 AM