Pink Spoon Blog?
Manolo says, Faces of Multiple Streams? This it sounds to the Manolo like the gobbledy-gookity.
It is simple what the Manolo does in this place, and it does not need the jargony, gobbledy-gookity speech to be explained: The Manolo, he entertains.
This it is the “secret” to the blog of the Manolo.
If you are honest with the peoples who read the blog, and are polite, and are good at the entertaining of your internet friends, you will succeed. End of the story.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:46 am
That’s just creepy. Flattering, but creepy.
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:41 pm
So are speaking at a seminar? Are they just profiling your blog? Will free ice cream samples come with the pink spoon?
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:50 pm
Pure silliness. However, if there are free ice cream samples with the pink spoon, I will be entirely more forgiving.
October 3rd, 2005 at 1:10 pm
I like what George Orwell said about speaking plain English: “If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.”
October 3rd, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Even though the Manolo remains anonymous and he is clearly making money with the blog and all that gobledy gook….I LOVE THE MANOLO.
October 3rd, 2005 at 4:18 pm
“If you are honest with the peoples who read the blog, and are polite, and are good at the entertaining of your internet friends, you will succeed. End of the story.”
The Manolo is all that (double entendre intended) and more. He gives us a place where we can feel comfortable expressing ourselves and communicating with one another when we want to. His good-heartedness shows through. And he helps to bring out the superfantasticness in all of us, as well.
There is no formula that can be copied here. The Manolo, he is beloved by his peoples because of who he is.
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:02 pm
Poor Andrea Lee,
It is now impossible to read her website without cracking up, I’ve just run my husband out of the room because I was laughing so hard and he was trying to concentrate. Gobbeldy-gookity indeed. I didn’t know you were employing the BOP techinque, by the way.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:06 pm
It seems to the Camera that anybody who needs “Tell a friend” software for their blog has simply not understood what the Manolo seems to know in the Manolo’s very veins — if you are good enough that your readers want tell a friend, you don’t need to ask them to. (Alas, but the Camera has not learned that she should not leave her prepositions dangling…)
The Camera feels this woman is paying the Manolo the compliment of backhandedness by citing the blog without compensation. The Manolo is being most beneficent in mentioning her, even if it is to hold her up to the ridicule of which she is most deserving.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:08 pm
Oh, and if the samples of ice cream do come on the pink spoon, the Camera would like something chocolate with almonds, please.
October 4th, 2005 at 12:22 am
The person who reads the blog and then snipes from the sides without engaging openly and honestly in the hurley-burley of the discussion is call A TROLL. I believe we have evidence here of our first major troll, and a shamelessly clueless and commercial one at that. May her seminars be vacant and her bank account thin.
October 4th, 2005 at 2:36 am
WTF?
October 4th, 2005 at 9:01 am
There are “faces of multiple streams” conducting seminars on the “spiritual aspects of investing in real estate” and she had the temerity to call the fabulous Manolo a “fictional character”? Pffffft.
October 4th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
“Coaching” is the EST of the new millennium.
The Manolo, he is successful because he obviously loves what he does. It shows.
If The Manolo indeed makes the six figures from the blog, the Zarba he humbly congratulates him.
Beats the crap out of working….
October 4th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
To Camera Obscura…Ending a sentence with a preposition is not always an ungrammatical thing to do; even many grammar purists (myself included) regard practicality as being more important than strict and blind adherence to rules. There is a widely quoted example involving Churchill referring to “something up with which we will not put.” Much more clear, and unstilted, to say “this is something we will not put up with.”
In your example, though, your ending the sentence with “to” is grammatically correct for another reason, i.e., what obviously and logically follows your sentence’s ending “to” in the reader’s mind is “tell a friend.” To repeat that phrase at the end of the sentence would be redundant and even silly, so, technically speaking, that part is understood and is better left out.
(…Just thought you might want to know.)
October 4th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Not to be crude, but six figure income? So that’s how you can spend so much time reading, watching and listening. Brava!
October 4th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
Dear Mimi makes the case I’d like to make.
The Manolo is fun and we enjoy all his company!
October 4th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Yes, the Manolo he entertains. And the Manolo he gets paid for all your link click throughs when you read through his site. The Manolo is a good businessman who laughs all the way to the bank. And yes, the Manolo is one of the “faces” of successful Multiple streams of income. His site is one of the better monetized blogs around. The Manolo’s site is set up pretty much like he is a member of Robert Allen’s Enlightened Millionaire Institute, and has taken their “multiple streams of internet income” course. I admire the Manolo’s business acumen.
October 4th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
The Camera thanks the Mimi for the astute but unnecessary lecture on the dangling of prepositions. If the Mimi will click over here, she will find the myriad versions of the Churchill story / quote. And if she will peruse previous comments, she will see that the Camera leaves prepositions hanging, dangles participles and splits infinitives with rapturous abandon.
The Camera also has the nasty habits of sometimes leaving out the comma after the next-to-last item in a list and putting the period outside of quote marks when they are for something other than a spoken declarative sentence. The Camera knows these habits are sometimes acceptable to the British, but the Camera’s European ancestors have lived on North American soil since the early 1600s so she has no reason other than that she is being obnoxious. The Camera has herself been accused of being a grammar Nazi and an sesquipedalian freak, which she refutes loudly whilst quickly hiding her book and CD copies of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.
It appears though that the Camera should start inserting the smiley-face emoticon when she is making the joke of grammar.
October 5th, 2005 at 10:43 am
La BellaDonna waves to her fellow grammarians, the Mimi and the Camera Obscura, and confesses that in the years of the college, La BellaDonna used to correct the graffiti in the women’s bathrooms. :)
October 5th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
The Camera bows three times in the direction of La BellaDonna, acknowledging a true artist.