Sooo...Body Shop to be sold
Thu, 2001-06-07 14:25
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Sooo...Body Shop to be sold
Big Mexican company of vitamins buying The Body Shop for oodles of money. Hope it doesn't stop The Body Shop being a great place to buy gifts for the females in my family at Christmas.
And they'd better bloody well continue as an outlet for ABCTales too!
Yes, saw that too on the Beeb news this morning (although they're only 'negotiating' at present) and my first thought was, of course (being a somwhat selfish sort on occasion), "What the bloody hell's going to happen to ABC then?"
Is there anyone out there that can reassure us poor, lost, paranoid souls??
Tony?
Emily?
Tessa?
Mark?
Um...Anita?
Anyone...?
I second that Jake.
;=}
On behalf of ABCtales.com... there is little we can say at the moment about the possible sale of The Body Shop to the Mexicans as events are still unfolding, as you will see in the media.
The sale has not yet been agreed and I would imagine it will take some time to happen, if indeed it does.
However, let me assure you that if the sale were to go through this would in no way threaten the future of ABCtales. We will go on providing your favourite writing and reading website and I am sure we will continue to grow at the current amazing rate.
If there are to be any changes to our distribution arrangem,ents we will let you all know.
Stephen Gardiner, General Manager
will they still stock the apricot knee-scrub?
don't be soft, robert, apricots don't have knees.
they don't, do they?
and nor do kiwi fruit have eyes... have you not heard of anita's famous marketing genius, soft lad?
Thanks for the update, Stephen.
Well, that's a relief then...
(But can one trust a beautician?)
Where is this parody, Stephen?
Look Si, stick to the thread topic. I will parody you one day when you are least expecting it.
More importantly, do peppermints have feet?
I hope everyone is enjoying the General Erection results tonight.
bloody hell!
the bosses are reading this!
good job i'm under age for persecution.
(or is that electrocution)
(i reckon william hague is going to get electorcution)
So it's lets have a go at Si time is it? Fine! I hope body shop is not sold as it is ideal for getting crap gifts for women and quite cheaply. Two things that are always ideal when buying presents for girlfriends.
* er forgets what having a girlfriend is really like*
I like to buy stuff from the Body Shop for myself. The body creams in partic. are great....the white musk used to be fabby, until everyone and his dog started to wear it.
However, If I get a gift of stuff from there, I'm mortally offended in some way, like theres no thought behind it....am l alone in this??
Liana, that is quite possibly why my girlfriends keep dumping me. Oh well nevermind. Have to think of something more creative next time like......hmmmm.....I know, a scented candle!
ARGHHHHH scented candles........
try the real oils...ylang ylang, neroli, frankincense, patchouli...if someone gave me those 4 oils tied up with a leather thong and a suggestive note, I'd be a pushover
:o)
would some wintergreen, dubbin, an old leather casey and a doctor's note have the same effect, Liana?
Hang around for another 40 years soft lad....it may do by then :o)
wow-zer!
i've trapped!
only got to wait 'til i'm 52.
anyone fancy five-a-side while i'm waitin'?
Damn you Soft Lad. I just went and bought ylang ylang, neroli, frankincense, patchoulia, a leather thong and wrote a suggestive note, just in the vague hope of pushing Liana over.
Someone gave me a scented hemp candle from the BS recentlty - I was deeply touched, especially when I lit it.
Scented candles rule! Always a great Mothers Day present
It was for Lovers Day, actually. Just a minor point, but significant.
For me, anyway...
Desperately hoping its a leather thong as in a piece of string, that you bought, and not a pair of knickers-type-thong, at which all women will run yelling and screaming in opposite direction......
*notes andrea's showing off about LOVERS day* ...harrumph ...
Don't worry Fish, after inhaling that candle everything else drooped a bit.
Liana, I bought both types of thong. In my experience girls like wearing thongs or is that me hoping that was the case?
ahhh.. all this talk takes me back to my youth...
days of wine, women and thongs...
or perhaps it was the mention of drooping wh?
must admit to a bit of drooping in the Brewer's department after a few Adelstrops in the Effin Unicorn. Luckily, my flag hasn't run up its pole since that incident in the hayloft with that French filly in 1943, so drooping isn't a problem any more.
Some girls might like wearing thongs themselves...but a man in a thong?
*Frantically trying to imagine a scenario where that might be lustworthy*
Nope. Cant do it. Nice tight shorts, or naked.
Oooer.
Unless, of course, you're Bernard Manning.
well whatever else might have drooped, at lease liana's standards haven't