Forget the pictures. That's this week's winner! :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Love this story, Ken. I am not quite as tolerant of marketers as you,
> and so in many a marketing database there are now records of a 90-year
> old guy with 17 children under age 5 ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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>
>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Offtopic - you have been warned....
>>
>> Last night we got a call at the house from somebody doing a survey.
>> Ok, no
>> problem, I didn't have anything else to do while preparing
>> supper... The
>> survey was being conducted for some organization that is promoting the
>> expansion of high-density beef/hog/poultry operations here in Iowa.
>> Hmm.... Over the past few years there has been a marked change in my
>> outlook towards farming practices, even though I was less than
>> pleased to
>> have my suppertime interrupted, I thought about the opportunity to
>> let my
>> voice be heard.
>>
>> I answered all the questions based on the following criteria: 1.
>> Runoff
>> pollution is the #1 problem, and 2. High-density operations are ripe
>> for
>> rampant disease. It irritated me to no end that the questions being
>> asked
>> were 'biased' and attempted to encourage answers supportive of the
>> industry's dangerous practices. (if you don't believe runoff
>> pollution is
>> an issue, just ask Joel Wilcox what his house was like after the
>> flood).
>> After the third biased question, my mind was made up as to how I was
>> going
>> to answer all the rest of the questions. (I did take advantage of
>> the fact
>> that a few of the questions allowed free-form answers).
>>
>> 18 minutes into the survey (my wife was getting rather entertained),
>> the
>> question about political affiliation came up. "Are you a Democrat or
>> Republican?" Neither--I'm a registered Green. "Independant?" No,
>> Green.
>> (pause) "Ok, found it." At that point I knew my survey was going
>> to get
>> tossed out, but I knew what the next question was going to be.
>> "Zipcode
>> where you live?" I gave my zipcode. (pause) "That's wierd, we
>> weren't
>> supposed to call that zipcode."
>>
>> I live in Grinnell, home of Grinnell College, one of the most liberal
>> locations in the country. A survey FOR the livestock industry isn't
>> going
>> to get encouraging numbers from my zipcode.
>>
>> Shortly after that the survey ended and I proceeded to eat my steak
>> which I
>> was grilling while taking the survey.
>>
>> AG
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