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Good Tuesday morning!
Here's your weekly,
incredibly street-smart
Dose
of Dover
Still
the single-most reliable source for un-common
sense advice,
insights and
cover-your-derriere strategies you simply
won't
be able to find anywhere else.
Take
your best shot...try to put me out of a job!
How?
Make everyone a little lot
smarter:
Forward
today's newsletter to
everyone
in
your Address Book! [C'mon...be
a big shot!]
Spread
the wealth and share the word: Lots of eye-opening
Tuesday, July 29, 2003:
One of the funniest stories I've ever heard
about mis-guided movie choices involves Oscar-winning director John
Schlesinger (who
passed away last week) and my ex-father-in-law: He
won the movie-world's most prestigious awards (for Best Picture and
Directing) back in 1969 for the Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight film "Midnight
Cowboy," but the funniest recollection about Mr.
Schlesinger's work has a more personal twist.
My ex-father-in-law was
a good guy...very Texan, very retired military (Colonel in the Air Force): He
loved his westerns (God, Jesus Christ & John Wayne were his perfect
personal Sunday trifecta) and in 1969, "The Colonel" took his wife
to see this "new western that just came
out...Midnight Cowboy!" Needless to say, they walked
out about 45 minutes into the movie. Heh, heh, heh...I woulda paid to
see the look on their face when Ratso
Rizzo started promoting his associate in a very, un-Gunsmoke like
way.....
Nowhere is it written
that you have to give them accurate information: They'd like
you to, but they'll never really know. So use a disposable e-mail address
(like Hotmail or Yahoo)
and get creative when you register. But just remember: They/we are
giving you a tremendous service for a great price...free!
So no complaining...
Speaking of brain-damage, check out the
new section for Californians that'll help you get a handle on your
rights if you do decide to pull the ripcord (that's slang for
filing for bankruptcy) on your creditors: It's
a Q&A
with one of the top bankruptcy attorneys in the state, and
a chance to debunk the half-truths being spewed by those bottom-feeding
tele-terrorists.
How long is it gonna be
before the U.S. Postal Service comes out with an Adolph Hitler stamp?
Or a Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer commemorative stamp? (You think
I'm kidding?) It really could happen (believe it or
not), thanks to a new commission established by President Bush last January.
Read
all about it here...
Mark my words:
Some whack-job is gonna take advantage of this latest maneuver by the Postal
Service to generate revenues, and they'll end up suing the government when
their attempt to create a controversial stamp is rejected.
Did you know that interest rates rose
again for the fifth week in a row? It's time you got a better
return on your dough and quit lining the pockets of your landlord:
Now's the time to buy a home! Interest rates are still
lower than they were a year ago, so
read what the big shots are saying about the future of those
incredibly-low interest rates. And since we're on the
topic of good timing, what
are you waitin' for? Cash
in and lock in the lowest
rate in decades by re-financing your current mortgage and cut 10
to 15 years off your term! It's
easy to get educated about the process first...and the price is
right! (Free!)
Everything you need to know can be found on-line; get your own copy of Bens'
2003 Home Buyer's Guide by clicking here.
Now that you're motivated to buy a house, or
trade-up from your current home...how
would you like to get some cash back on your next home purchase (or
sale)? (I'll
show you how.) Click here.....
Okay, so you're
about to move; it's time to go down your "things to do" checklist:
Moved your phone service and utilities? [Check!]
Put in your change of address on your mail? [Check!!]
Have all of your belongings held hostage by some rogue movers? [Check...not!!!]
Do your homework (first) and
choose the right moving company! Ben's
Moving Tips will save you time, money and lots-o-heartache.....
Still looking for a cool birthday (or other
special occasion) gift that'll keep on giving, all year long?
Then give 'em a subscription to the Dose
of Dover...the most
reliable source of insights and no s*** ideas available on the planet.
(You can afford it...it's free!) Be a big shot and share
the wealth! Sign-up
for a subscription to the weekly Dose of Dover Newsletter right
here!
Bad news for
bulimics...Banned drugs, Part II: Our government's seriously
considering the banning of a staple in American medicine cabinets since
1965, Syrup of Ipecac. Thanks to the American Association of Poison
Control Centers, syrup sales are going down the toilet. Wanna
read more?
Got credit problems?
(Know someone who does?) Wanna know more about the inner-workings
of that black hole known as the credit reporting bureau?
You can get a digital copy of Ben's 1993 (#5) bestseller Life
After Debt on-line, right now. Read
how right here.....
Tired of the heat, the rain or other crappy
(and downright oppressive) summertime weather yet? Then get
off your butt and start making travel plans for the lonnnnnnnng Labor
Day weekend (now only 31 days away): Stretch
your travel budget and get your Thanksgiving or Christmas-time
travel planning handled now while you're at it. Check out Ben's
no-brainer choice for hotel room or condo deals: www.hotels.com.
Score one for the good
guys and learn this valuable lesson now in case you ever have to get into a
shoving contest with your automobile insurance company over something called
"betterment": Farmers Insurance Group just got
thumped for $2.4 million over this theory, routinely used to beat consumers
down when they have to make repairs on their cars. Read
the story here...
Hey Moms
& Dads: Tired of your computer catching more viruses than a Haitian
Hooker? Wanna eliminate your chances of being fined or jailed for your kids'
on-line shenanigans? It's time to un-install Kazaa and
Morpheus and check out the cutting-edge of on-line music buying for Windows
users near-and-far: www.buymusic.com
Okay you Mac snobs, I
know all about iTunes getting on-line with this service first, but in the
big picture, who really cares? You're still
outnumbered about 9-to-1 by those of us (like me) who continue to fatten
Bill Gates' wallet by the nanosecond. Read
all about it here...
Speaking of the Internet
[God bless Al Gore]
if you ever use "public" Internet
access points, like at the library, at Kinko's or increasingly-popular
cybercafes, you may have already (inadvertently) given up your passwords
because of secretly-installed software! Don't
wanna make you too paranoid (okay, maybe just a little...) but the bad guys
have taken to installing software on public computers that secretly logs
individual keystrokes, giving up your most sensitive information to
cyber-thieves. Got that sick feeling in the bottom of your stomach,
yet? Then
you'd better read more about it.....
Gotta have your Dover Radio Fix?
Here are two options:
Call
Ben on the air live, Tuesday mornings (as in this
morning) on ABC Radio Network's Sirius [satellite] Channel 131 show
with Mark Willis: It ain't perfect, and it's not 2 hours
of Straight Dover,
but it's better than nuthin': (888)
782-5966. (Limited
show hours/limited window of opportunity to begin with...but it'll be
expanding soon: 7:00a Pacific/8:00a Mountain/9:00a Central/10:00a
Eastern.)
Whew! The
Apocalypse has been avoided!!! I'm talkin' about the Area Code
Apocalypse that had been predicted for 2007: What do
you mean, you didn't get the memo? There was a big buzz a few years
ago that, because of the surge in cell, pager and fax numbers in the 1990s,
the powers behind the telecommunications industry were predicting the
addition of an extra digit to our phone numbers - increasing our phone
numbers from 10 to 11 digits - over the next few years.
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