TA wants my vote - I want their T Shirt

The new sticky is urging us to vote for TA in Budget Travel magazine%26#39;s 10 Greatest Travel Innovations poll. Now if they had only sent me a T shirt (or backpack or anything!!!) I might have been inclined to cast my vote. It%26#39;s not too late TA...

BTW, who in their right minds would vote for ';curved shower rods';???

TA wants my vote - I want their T Shirt

Nic ..... just think about this for a moment ..... do you really want the TA to have your name and address ? Who knows what evil business they will do with that information. They%26#39;ll probably sell it to travel companies as a list of people interested in travel related products and tours. The you%26#39;ll be bombarded with tons of junk mail. I would imagine your local Postman might get ticked off at you for having to carry all your junk mail everyday. You know how those Postmen can be ..... well ..... ';postal';. Next thing you know you%26#39;ll be in a fist fight one morning with a six foot four irrate guy wearing a postal uniform and carrying a huge forty pound bag filled with junk mail. You%26#39;ll probably get arrested ..... lose your job ..... wife will want out ..... you%26#39;ll go homeless and wind up living in an old refrigerator crate box in Times Square. Though come to think of it ..... you will have a prime location in the heart of NYC ..... but is it all worth it just to get a crappy t-shirt. I think not !!

TA wants my vote - I want their T Shirt

Now that you put it that way, perhaps I%26#39;ll wait till your lawsuit comes through. Then we%26#39;ll all get free Tees courtesy of Lotuspath Inc (formerly TA).

Now that%26#39;s the ticket Nic. See ..... use your head ..... that%26#39;s what it%26#39;s for ..... other than a nice place to keep your hat. Me ..... I%26#39;m always thinking one step ahead of Jane. Oh that Jane is a evil tricky one ..... she%26#39;ll try to tempt you with her good looks and fool you with her promises of pleasures unknown ..... but you need to keep your wits about you mate. I have known may women just like her ..... and I%26#39;m sad to say they have had their way with me over the years. But now I%26#39;m wise to them ..... I%26#39;m not just some %26#39;boy toy%26#39; for them to pleasure themselves with and then toss aside like an empty tube of toothpaste. You know I really ';like the cut of you jib'; mate (gee ..... where have I heard that phrase before ..... I wonder ). When LOTUSPATH Inc. takes over the TA ..... why I%26#39;m going to put you third in command ..... right behind the lovely Bettina (my Queen) ..... and ..... well ..... maybe also right behind Venomous and a few other people too ..... but you%26#39;ll certainly be right up there ..... I promise.

I hear the Marriott is nice.

Well, if I%26#39;m behind Queen B, can I at least be the Marriott Marquess?

Oh, and do I get a harem as well?

LOL! I tell you, you don’t get repartee like this on any other travel forum that I’ve visited.

Now what I want to know is: will there be a place for me in Lotuspath Inc. when it takes over TA and eventually the world?

I believe I have all the qualifications needed to be a model employee of Lotuspath Inc. Twenty years of working as a civil servant has crushed whatever creativity, initiative, and free spirit I may once have possessed. In other words, I’d be the perfect boot-licking sycophantic lackey, the ultimate Yes-man. Speaking of Yes-men, there are times when I feel my life resembles episodes of Yes Minister, that classic British comedy. Life imitating art, I guess. Scary, but true.

By the way, not the Marriot. Definitely not the Marriot. Try the Maritime Hotel instead; I hear it’s the “in” place this year for pirates and pirate wannabes.

The Marriott or The Maritime?

Well, if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn%26#39;t very much in it one way or the other as far as one can see, at this stage.

surely with your writing talents, Johannes....LP,Inc will find a place of honor for you!! Did I say honor? well, a place.....maybe near the Marriott....which is quite nice!!

Arrgh Johannes ..... arrgh ...... I think you%26#39;ve got some excellent qualifications and should fit right in at LP Inc. What with .....

*** Twenty years of working as a civil servant has crushed whatever creativity, initiative, and free spirit I may once have possessed. In other words, I’d be the perfect boot-licking sycophantic lackey, the ultimate Yes-man. ***

The whole ';boot licking/lackey'; thing sounds great ..... but Arrgh ..... do %26#39;ye have a spine ? We need a few good spineless individuals with very low morals and a total lack of conscious to offer travel related advice to other vilians and despots seeking suggestions about where to eat, what hotels to stay in and how to best get from the airport when we re-direct them all to New Jersey. I%26#39;m anticipating people might perhaps just keep asking a lot of travel related questions on the new LOTUSPATH Inc forum too ..... does anyone even know the location of New Jersey ? I%26#39;m thinking it%26#39;s somewhere up in Canada ? Hit it Bruce ....

I got no time for the corner boys

Down in the street making all that noise

Or the girls out on the avenue

`Cause tonight I wanna be with you

Tonight I%26#39;m gonna take that ride

Across the river to the ..... JERSEY SIDE

Take my baby to the carnival

And I%26#39;ll take her on all the rides

`Cause down the shore everything%26#39;s all right

You and your baby on a Saturday night

You know all my dreams come true

When I%26#39;m walking down the street with you

Yeah ..... I%26#39;m in love with a Jersey girl !!!

Bettina - the Marriott is VERY nice - glad you agree.

revlon