Cob: RE: Anti-cob marital discord, American marketeering, etc.

[Ocean]

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> From: "baco at pacinfo" <baco at pacinfo.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 20, 2002  10:02:57 PM US/Pacific
> To: "Ocean" <ocean at peacemaking.org>
> Subject: RE: Re: Anti-cob marital discord, American marketeering, etc.
>
> Ocean- Wow- you are so intuitive to gather all of that from so little 
> information contained in a jesting email.
>
>  
>
> What does your intuition tell you that I am thinking about your choice 
> to post all of that publicly?
>
>  
>
> BB
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-coblist at deatech.com [mailto:owner-coblist at deatech.com]On 
> Behalf OfOcean
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:41 AM
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Cob: Re: Anti-cob marital discord, American marketeering, etc.
>
>  
>
> Wow,
>
> Brian, that comment from your wife sounds like a threat, and seems 
> perhaps an expression of greater pent up frustration regarding things 
> other than your "new" interest in cob. I would suggest you and she have 
> a heartfelt conversation about what you are both happy and unhappy with 
> about with your marriage, and if you can't do that, some marriage 
> counseling seems in order.
>
> Beyond that, I think the best way to convince cob skeptics is to show 
> them...you guessed it...The Book! Especially the full color photo 
> spread, which has some gorgeous cob buildings which rival "Better 
> Homes". Even better, visiting a FINISHED (very important) cob is worth 
> far more than a 1000 words. Why don't you jet down to Cob Cottage 
> Company and show her Linda & Ianto's Heart House, the courtyard walls, 
> and the beautiful Bench Rocket Stove they installed in the main house 
> (a conventional structure).
>
> That's what convinced me...I was a cob skeptic too before visiting Cob 
> Co!
>
> ;-)
> Ocean
>
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:41 AM, baco at pacinfo wrote:
>
> Well maybe we have discovered a whole new impediment to natural 
> building. I
> was telling my wife how interested I am in building a cob studio and 
> setting
> up my kiln, wood working equipment, and music stuff in it. She said "why
> didn't you tell me about all of this before I married you?"
>
> Maybe I have been misdirected in my concerns over engineering standards-
> what cob needs is a concerted marketing campaign. How can we use Product
> Positioning to associate cob structures with Tommy Hilfigar sweatshirts?
>
> Maybe we could grind up the designer clothes to supplement straw.
>
> Any other ideas for good ol' American marketing?
>
> Brian Bray
> Eugene Oregon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-coblist at deatech.com [mailto:owner-coblist at deatech.com]On 
> Behalf
> Of W
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Re: Cob: sacrilege
>
> There is an aerosol product on the market purely intended to reproduce 
> that
> "new car smell" - I can't imagine how toxic it might be. Just goes to 
> show
> how far our species has "evolved" ...maybe not... ;)
> ---
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> W.
>
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>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:57:03
> John Russell wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> <snip>
>
> As an aside, I mentioned my interest in cob and natural
> building to my wife, her reaction to living in a cob house was, "Ewww,
> it would smell of dirt. " I guess we could always inport some petrol
> fumes and plastic smells, perhaps a discrete dispenser in a corner of
> the living room ;)
>
>
>
>
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>
Ocean Liff-Anderson

Steward of Ahimsa Sanctuary (check out our newly updated website!!!!!)
http://www.peacemaking.org

Owner/Manager of Intaba's Kitchen (best food and coolest cob ambiance on 
the west coast!)
http://www.intabas.com
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