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True Story: A friend of mine, call her "Jane", is a really good corporate blogger. Really good. She's won awards. Her work has been featured in the mainstream media. She's a pioneer. She's a rockstar.
Anyway, last week one of her company's major competitors started their own blog, basically trying to emulate Jane's work, or perhaps more importantly, Jane's success.
What did Jane do? She was cool about it. On her blog she wrote them a "Welcome to the neighborhood" post. "Good luck with your new blogging adventure" etc. Oh, and she also praised one of her competitor's products, which truth be told, is a really good product for that industry.
Well, no sooner had she posted it, than one of the senior suits wrote a group email to everybody, berating her for "Advertising one of our competitor's products, instead of talking about our own excellent products".
Sigh. What the poor suit doesn't realize, of course, is that on a basic, primal level, how you talk about your competition actually says a lot more about you, than talking about yourself ever will.
I call this The Cocktail Party Rule- what's true at cocktail parties is also true in marketing: "If you want to be boring, talk about yourself. If you want to be interesting, talk about something other than yourself."
If you have the cojones to actually say "Nice job!" in public to somebody in the same business as you, it means you're probably secure enough about your own schtick. It means you're not exactly worried about your own product. And people can tell. Animals can smell fear, or the lack thereof.
I've seen this happen in the art world, many times. It's the great artists who are the biggest fans of other great artists. It's the hacks and no-hopers who go around calling the great artists "overrated".
Jane explained her actions to the suit, and the logic behind them, the suit grumbled a bit, then conceded. Crisis averted.
Nothing I haven't seen before. It's human nature to want the benefits of this brave new world of ours, without wanting it to have to actually exist, without having to do anything differently themselves. At least at first. Education is expensive.
So true - and one reason why corporate blogging changes coporate culture after some while. If coprorate culture does not kill the blog before. But, psst, don't tell anyone.Posted by: Wolfgang Luenenbuerger at November 6, 2008 8:14 AM
Agree, Hugh.
Businesses too often behave as though they exist in a parallel universe to life and human conduct–that the mechanics of how we should behave in corporate life are somehow decoupled from the basic rules of person to person interactions. Often it takes the form of this quasi-militaristic, scorched earth approach in which our competitors are viewed as enemies that must be eliminated . . .while we describe people as "resources" and "targets" etc.
In fact the more corporations humanize themselves, the more successful they'll in building and actually sustaining relationships internally and externally. Here's to hoping they do.Posted by: RIck Julian at November 6, 2008 8:24 AM
I'm really glad you said this Hugh. It all comes back to the conversation and there isn't much of a conversation if you're blabbering about your damn self (or what your peddling) all the time. I want to know what's on your mind damn it. Right on my man.Posted by: Joshua Smith at November 6, 2008 8:37 AM
If you say that someone else's product is good when it is good, people are more likely to believe you when you say yours is good.
If the suits honestly believe they have a great product, they should be out there encouraging people to try out all the alternatives and consider them carefully. People will always prefer to choose a product because they think it's a great product, than because no one told them there was an alternative until it was too late.
Good for Jane.Posted by: Jessica Meats at November 6, 2008 9:05 AM
hmm.Posted by: SFG at November 6, 2008 9:16 AM
Hey Hugh, this is so true. people automatically try to eat out competitors. Not only that this behavior is not really polite and doesn't show a real care for the customer, it is actually a wrong business move. As mentioned in the book "Yes!" research shows that when stores provided information regarding their competitors, they were perceived as more trustworthy, leading the customers to buy in their store, even though they charged higher prices. People don't think before they act.
absolutely LOVE the line ... "If you want to be boring, talk about yourself. If you want to be interesting, talk about something other than yourself."Posted by: johnmoore (from Brand Autopsy) at November 6, 2008 9:37 AM
spot on, hugh.Posted by: christopher carfi at November 6, 2008 9:50 AM
Nice job.Posted by: John Dodds at November 6, 2008 11:10 AM
Well said, Hugh -- and I especially like Jessica's summation in her comment above: "If you say that someone else's product is good when it is good, people are more likely to believe you when you say yours is good."
Your comparison to artists is apt, and it reminds me of the same phenomenon in sports: the really good players have no trouble saying "We've got our work cut out for us, because that's a really good team they've got." It's the bush-leaguers who feel the need to belittle the opposition.Posted by: Tim Walker at November 6, 2008 12:23 PM
Instead of don't be boring, how about "How to get a date," i.e. how to look appealing to others. RULE 1: take a shower. Ok, this doesn't apply here, but RULE 2: be confident! Insecurity ain't sexy! If you have the poise and confidence to regard other products with respect, it says "Things are ok here, in fact we are the best. So much so that we don't have to berate competition or disavow their existence." Customers see this as brand transparency and integrity! Cheers, Hugh! Blog on!Posted by: Drake at November 6, 2008 2:20 PM
Always a smart reminder - And in today's engagement connections through shared passions - people want talk about what excites them.
And if they don't know you - yet - unless your amazingly sexy or charismatic - starting off with information about yourself - well you most likely won't excite or interest them.
As the old saying goes - Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.Posted by: Bob Collins at November 6, 2008 3:55 PM
Low down, dirty, spineless
RATS in SUITS?
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AMEN!Posted by: Rasul Sha'ir at November 6, 2008 7:34 PM
She was fortunate that disaster was averted. The whole issue of what may and may not be said on a blog is such a minefield - especially if the blog is professional but privately held. I effectively got canned for one of my posts and for the comments others made on it!Posted by: karyn romeis at November 7, 2008 2:07 AM
You made my day! I'm supposed to sit by the computer and read articles about business cards and other promoting printed materials. At last - a real profound message delivered by few words and a funny picture. Thank you! My job title is: Online Business Development Manager of an Online Print Website named: DCP-PRINT (Digital Color Production) our website is: http://www.dcp-print.com and you are invited.Posted by: joe alon at November 7, 2008 3:11 AM
Know want you to that smoking prevailed cessation
make sad ashtrays and lonely cigarettes divorced from usefulness. Lied to myself apocryphal incoherence and blog fast nonsense instead of love at blog site reknowned.
Make sense it does you know.
If instead of talking about myself I hire a PR firm to talk about me - do I get in under the rule?Posted by: peter at November 7, 2008 1:23 PM
How can there be any honesty in the world of corporate blogs? It sounds like it's always just a matter of time before your client or employer gets offended.Posted by: SplendidMarbles at November 7, 2008 4:53 PM
Remember, and repeat, someone's name.
Ask questions. Then ask more questions when you get answers to the first questions.
Say something good about someone, or don't say something at all.
Age-old principles that are sporting new duds now in the digital age. Surprised it hasn't completely infiltrated our political system yet, but we've now got four years to see if that will change for the better.Posted by: Brett Duncan at November 13, 2008 6:25 PM
"...how you talk about your competition actually says a lot more about you, than talking about yourself ever will." Man! Spot on. Are you on a roll, or what!Posted by: Harry Joiner at November 14, 2008 7:55 AM
To Joe Alon of dcp-print.com: you're being too forward, IMHO...
[If I were you I would have held off the invitation to your website after I've made at least a few dozen comments at Gapingvoid and made myself an interesting character yet be so mysterious that curiosity would lead others to naturally click on my link.]
[And no, I'm not interested in visiting your website. Yet.]
[I'm not sure about Hugh, though...]
[note to self: if you wanna be interesting bla-bla-bla....]Posted by: Lemi4 aka. fERDI:) at November 16, 2008 6:47 AM


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"Local gangster Justin Bieber is being released today after serving three years in prison. The teenager was arrested shortly after murdering—" I shut the TV off, carelessly throwing the remote to the side while letting out a much needed breath.
All morning; every news channel, radio show, magazine and newspaper has been filled with the buzz about Justin and how he's being released out of jail.
Meanwhile all I could think about was how the hell I was going to react when I saw him for the first time in a little over three years.
Three years.
Just the words; saying them, hearing them, reading them… it didn't seem normal. It all felt so surreal like this was all just one big, bad, horribledream and that if I pinched myself, I would wake up and everything would be back to normal.
I would be having dinner with my boyfriend and family, enjoying the food, laughing at the jokes shared amongst us and we would all be bonding; making up for the horrible catastrophe our last dinner had turned into.
But, no, instead, I was hit with the news that my boyfriend—the one who I was supposed to be able to love and trust, no matter what—was arrested for killing the one guy I thought was behind us all.
My phone buzzed in the pocket of my jeans, startling me from my deep thoughts. Shrugging the intensifying feeling growing in the pit of my stomach, I took it out, the screen illuminated with the words "One new message: John".
My breathing hitched in my throat as I slid my finger across, unlocking it, the message instantly popping up.
From: John
You ready?
I froze, my heart beat accelerating greatly, my body going numb, palms sweaty. This isn't like me. Licking my lips, I fought the courage to fight through my nerving behavior, typing back quickly, my fingers doing the talking while my head screamed another.
To: John
Yeah, I'm ready.
'Ready' my ass, my subconscious sneered at me, taunting me of the numerous amounts of doubt and unreasoning I felt in the mist of all the anxieties in my stomach.
I swallowed hard, shaking my head, trying to steer my head in the right direction of where my thoughts should really be.
I should be happy, ecstatic, relieved and all the above of all positive emotions…. But why was it that not even an ounce of my being felt any of those?
Why did I, instead, feel lost, scared, disappointed and most of all… disoriented?
The bell's ring thrashing against the walls of the four corners of the house, bouncing in my eardrums, brought me out of my daze causing me to snap my head up and over to the door. Several soft yet demanding knocks were heard soon after and that's when I knew… this was it.
Biting the inside of my cheek, I slowly stood up, grasping onto my phone for dear life as I walked over to the front door. The moment I unlocked it, there was no turning back. Taking a deep breath, I grasped the doorknob, twisting it before tearing the door open, revealing both Carly and John standing on my front porch.
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2 Key ingredients for petroleum accumulation
2.5: Combining the ingredients
Having examined the essential ingredients for a petroleum accumulation, this section discusses how knowledge about them is combined to create a petroleum play. This is a particularly useful concept, since it consolidates what is known (or not known) about the petroleum potential of a particular level within a basin and forms the basic strategy for oil and gas exploration. A play is defined as a perception or model of how a petroleum charge system, reservoir, seal and trap may combine to produce petroleum accumulations at a specific stratigraphic level. By examining whether each of the play ingredients is both present and effective, it is possible to define parts of a basin where petroleum accumulations can reasonably be expected to exist. This process can be conducted systematically in a given area to generate a play fairway map that depicts where the ingredients coexist, even though the precise details of trap location and size may not be known. As more data become available the play becomes better defined, but even when the play is proven by a discovery it does not imply that every trap within the same fairway will contain a petroleum accumulation. It is in the nature of exploration that more often than not geoscientists are wrong with their predictions, but this approach at least helps to reduce their uncertainty.
To illustrate the petroleum play approach an example is provided from the Upper Jurassic of the North Sea (Table 4).
Table 4: Upper Jurassic petroleum plays of the North Sea.
There are two play types: the Kimmeridgian–Volgian deep marine play and the slightly older Oxfordian–Volgian shallow marine play. Whilst the depositional settings for the two reservoir types are quite different, both plays share the same petroleum charge, seal and trap ingredients. Importantly, notice that the onset of petroleum generation comfortably post-dates trap formation. For simplicity the two plays can be combined and their distribution plotted to create an Upper Jurassic play fairway map (Figure 5). This illustrates the close correspondence between the limit of mature Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay source rocks and the fairway, such that the migration pathways between the two are short (less than 15 km) and highly permeable. More than 60 Upper Jurassic fields have been discovered to date beneath the North Sea. They have combined oil reserves of about 2.5×109 toe (tonnes of oil equivalent) and account for 23% of total North Sea production (Evans et al., 2003).


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The Research Framework outlines a process of assessing evidence that asks questions related to important aspects of interpreting research findings. The Research Framework provides a sound methodology for reviewing practices to determine whether or not these practices can be considered "best practices" in education. This Research Framework is a new feature of the Best Practices Clearinghouse (BPC) and served as the basis for establishing standards for the review of the evidence to ensure that the Best Practice Summaries are evidence-based and practical.
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Beginning with new Best Practice Summaries added to the BPC during the 2009-10 school year, the BPC Evidence Types are based on this new Research Framework and Evidence Standards to ensure that all identified best practices: (1) are evidence-based, (2) meet a meaningful threshold of effectiveness, (3) are generalizable, and (4) provide actionable information to help practitioners implement practices. The Evidence Standards are working guidelines and are modified as necessary to reflect feedback from the field and closer alignment with educator needs. The figure below illustrates the process of assessing the evidence associated with best practices included in the BPC.
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Arrival Amritsar : Upon arrival at Amritsar Airport /Railway station meet and Greet and transferred at hotel in Amritsar . Afternoon visit Indo-Pak, Attari Wagah Border to watch Flag Retreat Ceremony- Wagah, an army outpost on Indo-Pak border 30 Kms from Amritsar where the daily highlight is the evening "Beating the Retreat" ceremony. Soldiers from both countries march in perfect drill, going through the steps of bringing down their respective national flags. As the sun goes down, nationalistic fervour rises and lights are switched on marking the end of the day amidst thunderous applause. Return to hotel. Overnight stay at Amritsar Hotel.
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AmritsarâKatra(242km 5/6 hrs) : After Breakfast , start your city tour, visit Golden Temple also called as Harmandir Sahib or Swarn Mandir, the most important sikh shrine. Visit Jallianwala Bagh where hundreds of unarmed innocent Indians was killed by a senior British military officer, on 13 April 1919. Afternoon drive to Katra via pathankot and Jammu reach katra in the evening, check in the hotel, overnight at Hotel in Katra.
Day 3
Katra : After Breakfast, Start trekking to Holy shrine 13.5 KM for the Darshan for Mata Shri Vaishno Devi Jee , Shri Mata Vaishno Devi is believed to grant all the four boons Dharm (Righteousness), Arth (Material Pursuits), Kaam (Contentment) and Moksh (Enlightenment)} to those who visit Her Holy Shrine. She is considered to fulfill anything and everything that a person wishes for in life, in a righteous way. It is an experience of all, that no one goes empty handed from Her Great Pilgrimage. After the Darshan return back in the evening. Overnight at Hotel in Katra.
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KatraâSrinagar(268kms 6/7hrs) : After breakfast drive for Srinagar .Reach Srinagar in the evening at arrival check in the Hotel .Overnight stay in Srinagar.
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Srinagar : After Breakfast start your half day tour of world famous Mughal Gardens visit the Nishat Bagh (The garden of pleasure) and Shalimar Bagh (Abode of love). In the afternoon Shikara ride on The Dal Lake to enjoy the beauty that God has graced this city with which is often compared to Venice. You will get a view of some very interesting places around the Lake. Overnight stay at Srinagar Hotel.
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Srinagarâ Gulmargâ Srinagar( 112 Kms 2/3 hrs) : After Breakfast drive to Gulmarg, Full day tour of Gulmarg which is one of the most beautiful summer resort in the valley. It is also popular for its golf course (in summer), the highest in the world and skiing during the winter season. Enjoy the splendor of nature and the snowy mountains. One can have Gondola ride (cable car) from Gulmarg to Khalinmarg In the evening return to Srinagar. Overnight at Hotel in Srinagar.
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Srinagar â Sonmarg â Srinagar(196 Kms 3/4hrs) : After Breakfast Drive to Sonamarg, Full day excursion to Sonmarg which is the most beautiful drive from Srinagar. Sonmarg 2690 Mtrs (Meadow of Gold). One can ride on horse to visit Thajiwas Glacier where snow remains round the year and Sonmarg is known as Gateway of Ladakh. In the evening return to Srinagar . Overnight at Srinagar Hotel.
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Srinagar â Pahalgam- Srinagar( 186 Kms 3/4hrs) : After Breakfast full day excursion to Pahalgam 2440 Mtrs (vale of Kashmir) on the way visit Saffron fields, Avantipur ruins and Anantnag sulpher spring. Pahalgam is the most famous place for Indian Film Industry. Enjoy the nature charm of the valley. In the evening return back to Srinagar. Overnight at Srinagar Hotel.
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Killing A Lady Killer
Some could call it a game changer... some could say it's one of the biggest shockers of the year so far... some could just say it is Scotty being Scotty and pulling another surprise out of the sleeve of his dragon printed shirt. But what they can't argue over is the facts that Scottywood is the new General Manager of HOW and COOL Reality are the now co-number one contenders for the HOW Tag Team Titles.
Titles that they possess.
So doesn't that make them nine tenths of the champions?
And then one twentieths of the number one contenders?
--There is a pause as our narrator has a near brain aneurism.--
Ok, enough math for today. Well just say that Scottywood is in possession of one of the Best Alliance's Tag Team titles... and Cancer Jiles the other one. While their tag team partner this week, Bobby Dean has "legal" possession of what was Mike Best's LSD title.
You can take notes if it helps you follow along... but don't fret, there will be no test afterwards.
Anyhow, one half of the Law of Possession HOW Tag Team champions, "The Hardcore Artist", "The Anti-Christ", or the so called "Push-Up King" Scottywood is ironicly banging out some pussh ups while he waits for the rookie HOW cameraman to get ready.
"Two thousand and forty six, two thousand and forty seven, two thousand and forty eight..." Counts Scotty with relative ease as the cameraman cuts in.
"I'm all set Mister Woodson." States the seemingly straight out of college kid who aims the camera at The Hardcore Artist.
"Please just call me Scotty. I'm certainly not some three piece suit, ass sniffing corporate slave... and I more than frequently act like I am still twenty-three years old, so I don't deserve to be called Mister." Replies The Hardcore Artist as he pops up from the ground and we see that he on the stage of the Blue Arena. Dressed in his limited wardrobe usual of sneakers, black jeans and a cutoff Scottywood t-shirt, he certainly hasn't embraced the attire of his new job. Then again who ever thought he would?
Oh... and he is of course sporting one half of The Best Alliance's Tag Team titles. Titles that if you believe the pretty sound logic of Scottywood... should legally be COOL Reality's. But we won't argue stacked decks versus playing fair tonight. The BA will get theirs at Rumble at the Rock and there will be no flim flaming going on at Alcatraz. Just cold hard justice being dished out by Cool Reality.
The red light on the camera lights up as Scotty smiles... it's his first recorded words since he announced that he had become the new General Manager of HOW.
"As much fun as I have already had with my new job... it really is cutting into my drinking schedule. Then again, anything would cut into something always fills up said schedule. Which is making me really want a beer..."
He pauses for a moment on the stage... probably deciding what he wants before he places his order.
"FRANKIE!!!! Get me a Lagunitas!!" yells Scotty as we can hear a loud crash backstage as Scotty smirks, knowing his order has been heard. He only has to wait for a moment before Frankie rushes out, and as ordered, a bottle of Lagunitas IPA in his hand.
"Here ya go Scotty." As Frankie hands the beer off to Scotty who reaches for the bottle opener on his keychain and pops the top off the bottle.
"Thanks Frankie"
"No problem Scotty... So have you thought anymore about a match for me next week?" Eagerly asks Frankie... his eyes lit up as if it may be Christmas morning and he's about to opener a kick ass present.
"You know what... I actually have. See, Chris Diamond wants to pick on people who don't have HOW contracts? Well I have found a perfect match for him. No, not Luchadors De Muerte or whatever the fuck they are called. I've got the six-time NGW Untamed champion... Frankie the Cameraman!" He smiles as Frankie starts to jump up and down on the stage like a little girl who just got a pony for Christmas.
"Thank you daddy!" Screams Frankie as he bolts backstage....
"Though just because I have "found" Frankie, doesn't mean I'll actually book it. More so wanted to prove a point of how fucking stupid... and more so insulting it is for you to be talking shit about people who aren't even in HOW. You have failed to pin me or Cancer in two straight matches... but you have plenty of time to trash talk Kostoff, trash talk De Muertes and just assume that you're going to somehow just beat COOL eGG Reality? That name is a work in progress." As Scotty starts to make his way down the ramp to the ring.
He places his hand on the bottom rope and gives it a pull before letting go. it shakes back and forth, the verberations sent through to the adjacent ropes as Scotty shakes his head.
"To step in this ring is a privilege Chris. And I don't just mean ANY wrestling ring, I mean a HOW ring. You need to respect every man you walk into this ring with... something you obviously haven't learned yet. Which is why I booked this match. You have the second biggest mouth right now in HOW... only second to me. But the difference is that I have the talent to back what I say up Chris. I've beaten your ass twice... I've won countless titles here in HOW, last over four years and oh ya... I'm in the fuckin' Hall of Fame. You Chris... what the fuck have you and Same done? What grand accomplishments have you achieved? Oh and beating LDM at War Games doesn't count or beating Chance Von Crank doesn't count since they both fuckin blow balls and both are soon to no longer have HOW Contracts."
Scotty rolls into the ring, of course making sure that he doesn't spill an ounce of his beer. He
stands up and surveys the ring inside the empty Blue Arena. A ring he has stepped into for 125 previous HOW matches. Certainly more than anyone would have ever expected when he joined HOW in 2008. But Scottywood has always been known for his loyalty. Just look at his seven year run of NGW... which included several revivals until it was just no longer a feasible promotion.
"I never thought there would come a time that I would step into a wrestling ring with more respect for it then I had for the one that I took to heights that many never expected. NGW was my home. It was my wrestling life day in and day out. But over the past few months here in HOW I have started to understand that HOW has someone managed to accomplish the impossible... that it has become more important... more respected by myself then my very own creation. In short, HOW has become my new home, my new wrestling life. Not that I will ever forget NGW, it will forever hold a special place in my life, but HOW has done just so much for me. It has taken my career to new levels that I never thought of before in NGW."
He makes his way over to one of the corner and takes a seat on the mat and leans up against the turnbuckles as he has a drink from his beer. Maybe thinking over his past twelve years in the business or maybe thinking about the only few matches that possibly remain in it.
"So I feel it is now my responsibility to put those that disrespect HOW in their fucking place... just like those in HOW did to me when I first started. But the difference between me on then and The Lady Killers of now? I actually had talent to back my shit up with. I was able to fight with them and earn their respect. While you Diamond... you have NOTHING to back your twitter tweets and promo posts up with. I'm going to tear you the fuck apart come Mayhem... tear you to an inch of your fucking lives. Then I am going to leave you... leave you for a fate that is much worse than death. A fate that you two will never come back to HOW from!" exclaims Scotty as he finishes his beer and spikes it in the middle of the ring... successfully smashing it unlike Gronkowski earlier in the day.
Suddenly "Don't Hate Me (Because I'm Beautiful)" by Nerfherder a.k.a. Mike Best's theme music hits over the P.A. system as Scotty's body twists towards the entrance way and he prepares for a fight. He waits for a moment and then finally we see a figure make their way out from backstage.
"Alice?" questions Scotty as his red hair and tattooed friend makes her way out from backstage and down towards the ring. Scotty still puzzled as to why she is coming out to Mike Best's music. She walks up the steel steps with caution as Scotty opens the ropes to make her entrance into the ring a little easier.
"Really? Mike Best's music?" questions Scotty to Alice who smiles and shrugs her shoulders.
"That was Mike Best's music? Had no idea. I just wanted to be cool like a wrestler and make a grand entrance. So the tech guy told me to pick some music and that one looked most appealing. Really makes me question this Mike Best's sexuality if we have the same tastes in music."
"I've questioned that for a long time... but sadly no concrete proof." Responds Scotty as he starting to want another beer to replace the one he has finished.
"But I came out here to ask you, did you really grant Frankie a match on Mayhem next week? Not that I really care if he gets destroyed by Diamond... was just curious because he won't shut the fuck up about it." Says Alice with a little bit of annoyance in her voice. She never signed on to be some kind of babysitter, especially for a "kid" old enough to buy his own booze.
"I never specifically said he had the match. He just assumed that from what may have been some misleading words by myself. Though if I ever booked Frankie versus Diamond... it would be a hell of a lot closer than most people would expect. I mean Frankie isn't completely helpless in the ring and Diamond can only beat wet bags of sand. But I wouldn't do that to Diamond." Says Scotty as he shakes his head, sorta disappointed in himself in a way.
"Why not?" Ponders Alice... who maybe actually hopes that Diamond would destroy Frankie and rid him from Scotty's side.
"Because that would be a dirty BA tactic. Something like what Michael DeNucci pulled against me when he booked Gino in that HOFC title match against me. That was a fucking slap in the face, a sign of total disrespect towards me and the HOFC title. And while I think that Chris Diamond doesn't deserve to be in HOW... I respect him just enough to have HOW wrestlers destroy him. That way in his death... because that fucker will die... he will have some shred of honor." Claims Scotty as he shows what separates his fucked up soul from The Best Alliance's fucked up souls... respect.
"We are going to tear The Lady Killers apart... demolish their egos that they have somehow undeservedly attained and bring them back down to a level in HOW that is more suited for their talent... or lack talent level. They wanna build heat with tag teams? Well come Mayhem they will feel the heat from COOL Reality and Bobby Stevens as we burn the fuckin Lady Kilers alive!" States Scotty as he signals the cameraman to cut the feed as he rolls through the ropes and to the floor.
"Someone get me another fuckin' beer! Frankie!" Yells Scotty as he makes his way backstage, presumably to his office where he expects a cold Lagunitas IPA sitting on his desk.


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The 2008 killing of 11-year-old Erin Maxwell shocked Oswego County. One year later, her 27-year-old stepbrother was convicted of her murder. Alan Jones was sent away to prison for 25 years to life. But now an appeal has reduced both his conviction, and his sentence. Our Candace Hopkins explores the legal issues in play in the Jones case.
OSWEGO COUNTY, N.Y. -- The state appellate division ruled Jones should not have been convicted of so-called murder with depraved indifference. That means he now faces only five to 15 years in prison. Why that happened has to do with what's considered "depraved indifference."
"Courts have been struggling to define this, and have decided that generally a one-on-one attack isn't depraved murder, unless the victim is particularly vulnerable and the defendant doesn't get attention and help for that person," said Paul DerOhannesian, Legal Eagle.
District Attorney Greg Oakes was not in office during Jones' trial but argued against the appeal. He says Erin's age and size made the crime fit that definition of murder.
"As I argued to the court, the appellate division, when you have an 11-year-old girl who's facing a full grown man, who outweighs her five times her weight, and has a foot on her height, and she's locked in a room like an animal, behind a locked screen, certainly I think any reasonable person would view her as a vulnerable victim," said Greg Oakes, Oswego County District Attorney.
The appellate division disagreed, because of what Jones did after the attack.
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