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a sales pitch!Or in your case...a stales pitch! 
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a stales pitch!
The pitcher worth a thousand words?
stalesy, second only to wordsworth [notgrin]
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Does anybody out there actually like their telephone service provider?In Canada some of the phone companies are still Crown corporations. As for liking them - well, for an additional $20 a month on top of my local service rate, I get unlimited long distance during evenings and weekends within Canada. Since most people I talk to live elsewhere, and my family is known to be loquacious, that is the best deal in the world, as far as I can tell! 
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a stales pitch!
mav: The pitcher worth a thousand words?
Ewer pitcher a worth a thousand words?
[Since my modification was fairly obvious, mav gets most of the credit for this pun; I get only a word's-worth.]
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The latest uproar about Telstra is that a young boy died of an asthma attack - 10 days after his parents had asked for their telephone service to be fixed. They lived in a semi rural district and could not call out when he was struck by the fatal attack.
A tragic tale - and maybe unfair to blame Telstra (perceptions are distorted by grief) - but it serves as an example of how willing the media and public are to sink the slipper into big corportations around here.
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sink the slipper
Whaaaa? [confused]
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C'mon Bean - that was an easy one... "sink the slipper" To put in the boot / to kick! You should appreciate this URL - this, and a lot more Ozspeak expanded http://www.humour.com.au/sayings3.htmlstales
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So are you saying people are unjustly upset (ie. kicking the telco while it's down)? That's the bit I don't get.
I've never kicked anyone with my slippers on either. (Slippers = soft comfy footwear to wear around the house, especially with pyjamas!) OK, never is a bit strong, but a bit of light Taekwondo sparring against my husband in the kitchen while waiting for water to boil doesn't count.
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Sorry - I obviously deleted the reference to kicking whilst (Telstra) was down after you read it.
What I was trying to say in Strine was that perhaps it was unfair to be hasty in allocating blame to Telstra. People take whatever opportunity they can to speak against it - it's our iconoclastic nature.
I think it's the alliteration of the saying that appeals - rather than the practicalities of the image.
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Yup, not very threatening, slippers. Usually pink fuzzy, floofy things. Often with bunny ears and cute button noses on the ends. Slipping somebody the slipper sound vaguely fetishy.
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