Lady Blacksword wrote:
Perhaps you chose that insult because you have something smoking in
-your- pipe?
Prem spends 90% of his NG time sharing his knowledge and photography
of native Florida orchids. I haven't seen you being near so selfless.
In fact, you rarely share any knowledge, mostly just very infrequent
photos and snide side-notes. Oh, and since we had to mention
"flogging", you spend an awful lot of time "flogging" your ego, and
"morals". Maybe some of us ARE interested in Prem's "stupid wares."
Quit jeering those who give a lot more to this community than you do.
Murri

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Prem never comes here except to flog his stupid wares, so put that
in your pipe and smoke it MURRI.

K Barrett

"Lady Blacksword" wrote in message
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I agree w/ Joanna. And, being an artist myself, I'd like to offer
counter-encouragement to the comment awhile back, about your
calendar being too expensive.
It Isn't.
Read that a couple of times, and feel free to fluff up and preen.
People will always have a tendency to say something is "too pricey"
when they personally can't or won't afford it. I'll just be
truthful - I'm an artist (jewelry designer), and I can't afford to
buy it. I'd love to have your calendars, Prem, and I'd buy them for
that price in a heartbeat, but, honestly, I'm cheap. I'd rather buy
an orchid in my splurge moment.
Keep up the good work and don't let nay-sayers get you down,
Murri

PS-
To all who think Prem's calendars are too expensive, trot your
butts down to Barnes and Noble, and see just how much they are
charging for calendars, many of them far inferior in photographic
talent.
Then shut your face and give him the complements he deserves,
instead of stupid complaints.


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"J Fortuna" wrote in message
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Prem,
My two cents on this subject: I would think that if a person (such
as yourself or Ray, for example) who is a valuable participant in
this virtual community and has posted many messages that are not
just advertisements, chooses to post a brief non-obnoxious ad for
their products from time to time, as long as it is orchid related
and likely to be of interest to the participants, I don't think
there is any problem, and I hope that others feel the same.

What does bother me is if someone we have never heard of before
posts a message to this and a dozen other newsgroups which are at
best marginally related to his subject without bothering to even
stick around to see whether anyone minds. Since what you did
wasn't remotely like that, no problem here. Joanna

"prem_s" wrote in message
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K Barrett wrote:
I know, next he'll plead innocent that he didn't realize it was
advertising, he only wanted to show how neat his calendars are.
K Barrett


Actually, I'll do no such thing...I was indeed advertising the
presence of my calendar to people who've seen my orchid
photography for a number of years. There's been a
long-standing (long before Mr./Ms./Mrs. Barrett showed up)
tradition on (at least) rec.gardens.orchids that posting a
URL to something new and interesting (like an update to your
own plant listing if you're a commercial vendor) is not
out-of-bounds. Posting the contents of your plant listing,
or posting the details of your orchid-related item
(specifications, price, etc.), directly to the nesgroup, on
the other hand, would be crossing the line.

Hence, since I did not cross this line on r.g.o, I see no reason
to apologize or excuse my actions. Now, if I've violated the
charters of the other newsgroups to which I've posted (of
which I'm admittedly less aware), then I would gladly offer
my sincere apologies for any offense caused.

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---Prem
Orchid art, photography, t-shirts, and related products:
http://www.premdesign.com/orchidpics/

not here, please?