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Don Sailorman on June 25, 2007 - 12:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually, I've been doing consulting since 1962 and am (so far as I know) the only one who offers a "no questions asked" money-back guarantee if the buyer thinks my report is not worth the fee.

Surprise, surprise, in forty-five years nobody has ever asked for a refund . . . .

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Asebius on June 25, 2007 - 1:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Land prospecting for survivialists and peak oil doomers since 1962!!

Geez, I'm very impressed.

Am I the only one who thinks this smells a little ripe?

i.e. you trolling among the faithful on this board, hawking your leads.

Ewwwww, does this ever reek. Excuse me while I move up wind. The vultures gather.

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Don Sailorman on June 25, 2007 - 1:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I do not post nor sell my services on TOD. For your information, my first big wave of business was in October 1962, when we were closer to having TSHTF than any time before or since.

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Asebius on June 25, 2007 - 3:06pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Fascinating stuff. Well, Don, count me among the few who didn't know you had been successfully profiteering off people's worst fears for decades.

HEY FOLKS, Y'ALL LISTEN UP! The world's gonna end, but if yer willing to pay up big I can give you a line on where to find land in the wilds so you and yer dear littl'uns can make it through. Few are going to survive the cummin' fire, but you can. "Straight is the gate and narrow is the way" as the good Lord sed.


All you hafta do is hire the services of economist and author, Don Sailorman, surviving apocalypses since 1962. See info upthread for current opportunities before the fallout flies.


Remember, though these services will cost you very dear -- larnin' the whereabouts of sech land that won't be nuked or overrun by starvin' city folk -- it's worth it cuz nobody's been nuked that bought land on Don Sailorman's advice. Not once.

There, Don, I've promoted your business for you. What's my cut? ;-)

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Don Sailorman on June 25, 2007 - 3:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

All my customers have survived all the apocalypses. Results guaranteed or double your money back;-)

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GreyZone on June 25, 2007 - 5:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Asebius, I hope you get banned for your constant personal cheap shots. This is not the only occasion I have seen you disrupt threads with personal attacks either. I see little of value in your trolling name-calling antics and that sort of crap is not needed here.

As for Don Sailorman, he has apparently sold information to people who were interested in risk management and who did not have the time to do the research themselves. At the time of the sale, those persons buying the information thought that it was good enough to cover the possible scenarios with which they were concerned.

Maybe you are too young to remember but the world has been to the brink of global thermonuclear war more than once. People thought about these things and took various mitigation steps.

Fortunately for us all, the risks against which they were planning never materialized. Just like the tornado shelter in the midwest or the hurricane shutters and seals for your home along the coast, you invest in these things and hope that you never ever have to use them.

It's the same thing with peak oil. We all assess the risk and then take whatever mitigation steps that we believe are necessary and which we can afford. It is for you and your kind that I fervently hope we do not have the sorts of scenarios envisioned by people like Lovelock or Hawking, individuals whose stature is so far above your puny trolling contemptible self that you are no more than a fly on the dung they drop. Indeed, I hope that Lovelock and Hawking are both wrong about the dangers facing our species, but I will take both of them seriously.

So shy don't you go away until you can stop playing the useless troll and add something worthwhile to the conversation. Belittling others is all too easy on the internet. Try to be better than that, if you can, Asebius. And if you cannot, then I hope Professor G sends you a nice "goodbye" email soon.

Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett

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BobCousins on June 25, 2007 - 7:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

...individuals whose stature is so far above your puny trolling contemptible self that you are no more than a fly on the dung they drop.

Greyzone, you are truly the King of the cheap personal shot! I'm impressed how you manage to get one into every post too.

Worried someone is after your crown?

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Asebius on June 25, 2007 - 8:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Greyzone:

To be blunt, I think many of TOD staff members are kind of embarrassed by the survivalist stuff, and see it as something that undermines what they are trying to do, by making us look like kooks.

-- Leanan, Drumbeat, June 19, 2007

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2685#comment-203248

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GreyZone on June 27, 2007 - 5:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Then why don't you let the TOD staff decide what to do with Don Sailorman rather than just attacking him? Leave Don alone and I leave you alone. If TOD doesn't want Don here, they can make that clear and Don can either not post or refrain from posting about such topics. However, I am not aware that Don Sailorman has ever been told not to post by TOD staff.

Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett

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