PS: After I got that answer I thanked them politely and walked away even more confused. How could my org’s OT Committee honchos be charged with raising MILLIONS of dollars for a building and not be able to furnish such basic information? It was incredible to me. I had trouble “thinking with it” to use some Scientologese. This was one of the major unanswered questions which greased my slide out of there.

Dawn,

What you’ve pointed out was one of the first questions I asked at an early Ideal Morgue fundraiser: “Whose name will be on the deed to our new building?”.

By way of answer, blank stares from the OT gals running the shindig.

I wasn’t being a smart-ass, I was clueless at the time, and it seemed a reasonable question and I was curious so with ARC, I repeated the question.

This time I got blank stares accompanied by shrugs.

I thought this was odd and so I said, (gently, gently), “You mean that you’re responsible for buying us a building but you don’t know who the owner of this building is going to be?”

With another shoulder shrug one of OTs replied, “We just go with the flow”.

Oh my! Idiots. I hope Kim was unharmed and finds a solution to the housing situation (and that the idiot was caught and jailed).

Seriously, though, RB, I think Sherman is sane, and just knows the job, that’s all. The job is to make an almost nothing sound like really, really something. Read the lyrics from the song, “Razzle Dazzle” from “Chicago”. Nails it, totally.

RB, your comment was thought provoking and funny at the same time.

Forewarned is forearmed. I hear you!

As re your questions, its my hunch that Sherman rolls his eyes while he rolls out his schlock.

But then who knows, maybe the cheese really did slip off his cracker long ago.

And, look, if we could as a group afford it, 2 intensives of auditing would be the perfect first prize for this contest!

Got it on the target and everything else 🙂 Sounds like a plan.

Cindy, right you are! That’s why I suggested first prize automatically should go to the judge! Mike indicated it could probably be Dan Koon! Well, we’ll have to do something special, that’s for sure.

Love it!

And can second place go to whoever used the biggest word in their writing? I may cheat and go borrow a word or two off Marty’s blog so as to garner second place.

I like the idea of a contest, but the poor sap who has to read all those Shermanspeak entries to the contest will have a splitting headache, will be cross-eyed, and probably will want to slit his wrists after only a couple hours of reading the Shermanspeak. What a punishment!