I landed safely in Seattle yesterday around noon. Jeremy met me at the train station and showed me around a bit. It’s going to take me some time, I think, to get adjusted here in a new routine and everything. So bear with me as I figure out an appropriate updating schedule for this site.
In other news, I keep getting emails from people asking me to send them miracle spring water. It’s annoying the crap out of me. See, I wrote a post about a fellow named Peter Popoff (real name) who gives away (for a donation) magical spring water that can allegedly heal you and bring you money and a variety of other things. Even though my write-up of him was certainly not positive and it’s clear that I’m not him and don’t represent him, I’ve gotten probably 5 requests in the past 2-3 weeks from people who want ME to send the spring water, because they saw MY commercial on television. This unnerves me because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and believe that there is a basic level of intelligence out there. But it seems from my interactions with these people that there are a boat-load of people out there who are just begging to be taken advantage of when it comes to religion and “magic.” Maybe I’m in the wrong business - maybe I should start selling tiny vials of Tim Boucher’s Miracle Tap Water. Anybody want to buy one? Fifty bucks. It’s good for what ails ya!
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13 Comments
Hey Tim,
How was Seattle? Did you say hello to Bill for me?
Yes, I would like a couple bottles of that water.
The check’s in the mail….
Tim, do you sell anything for like $10 or $20? I just need a 20 oz…
LOL, let me know!
So Tim, are you living in Seattle, or the suburbs? I’ve only been there twice to visit my grandfather, and both times, the area was quite beautiful.
Welcome to Seattle Tim! I don’t know how you did it, but you brought the sun with you. I think I read yesterday that we have had 36 straight cloudy days. Until that is, your first full day here. Though I don’t mind the cloudiness, you can go ahead and stay as long as you like.
Oh, you have no idea, and don’t you worry…
What was your commercial for?
Miracle Tap Water? Tim - we’re your fans. Big fans, Tim. We don’t want water. We want more, Tim. We want your urine. Tim’s Transubstantiation Pee. Hell, if Chuck Norris can do it (Red Bull - just taste it), I think you could really make a killing. Tap water’s just so… impersonal. Y’know?
My hilarious jokes aside - hope you like the Seattle. I haven’t been since I was a wee lad, years and years ago, but I still had a great damn time. And google earth tells me that it has far more coffee shops than churches, so you know you’re in good hands, spiritually. I’d trust a local coffee shop worker far more than most ministers with my life’s details. But maybe that’s just a Southern thing.
The dumber it is, the better it will sell. Just make sure you work in the word ‘miracle’ and put some jargon about sub-atomic structural geometry, and they’ll eat it up..it worked on Kathleen Harris.
Yeah, I got to admit, every now and then I consider cashing in on people’s stupidity that way. Sometimes I feel like, “so what if I’d be huckster… I’d be a RICH huckster.” But, I just can’t make myself do it, no matter how badly I want the money.
Charlie’s Horse: LOL. Yeah, sell your urine. I don’t know what is funnier: the idea of selling urine, or knowing that it would probably really sell well! Set up a shop on ebay. Those folks will buy anything.
Tim,
Wish you all the luck in Seattle, though never been there myself. As for the spring water, take it easy, people always want some miraculous things and only care about getting something done, without any efforts involved from thier side. You site is for intelligent human beings, just do not take things personally, it has nothing to do with you. All it has to do with is the very stupidity of the other people, which you are not responsible for. Still, the net is littered with all sorts of magic stuff on offer, so people may presume you are in this line of business as well as the others, the world is very much about business. Anyway, unhook from the matter, you can not be held responsible for all the stupidity in the world.
You should have replied by saying the magical water you offer costs nothing and is imbibed in words…
All water is holy.
Nemesis, I like your response to all this!
Cheers tim, i often find myself drunk from such things.