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Good Tuesday morning!
Here's your weekly,
increasingly street-smart
Dose
of Dover
Always
your single-most reliable source for un-common
sense advice,
insights and
cover-your-hiney strategies you simply can't find
anywhere else.
Take
your best shot...try to put me
out of a job!
How?
Forward
this week's newsletter
to
everyone in
your Address Book
and
with any luck, make 'em a little lot
smarter.
[C'mon...be
a big shot!]
Spread
the word and share the wealth of
Tuesday, July
8, 2003:
Didja
happen to miss the fastest (and most relevant) 2-hours
in talkradio Sunday morning? Oops! So did I!
Sleeping late? Live outside of Southern
California? It doesn't matter: KFI canceled
the show on Monday, June 23, 2003. (Oh
well...that's life in the radio world.) Check
out KFI's new weekend line-up by clicking here.
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: 7:30a
Pacific/8:30a Mountain/9:30a Central/10:30a
Eastern.)
Have
you ever lied on a resume? Ever
exaggerated your employment history, areas of
expertise or even cooked up the ultimate whoppers:
Phantom jobs with companies you never even
worked for? Okay,
so maybe you're not as creative as Baghdad
Bob or even Laci
Peterson's jailed husband, but if
you're worried about hiring someone that was (in
reality) a former card-carrying member of the Manson
Family, check this out:
With high
unemployment and a rough economy making a good
job interview more important than ever before, one
of the biggest unexpected beneficiaries are
reference
checking services.
I'm not
talking about companies that check out your
references to make sure you're not embellishing
you qualifications...I'm
referring to companies that actually call the
(hopefully legitimate) references on your resume
to find out what your former bosses are saying
about you!
If what they're saying is positive, then
you're good to go. But if they throw you
under the unemployment bus, you need to hire one
of these companies to send them a nasty
letter and demand they knock it off...or
prepare to defend themselves in the
courtroom. Read
more here...
Wanna find out
what your former boss is saying about you?
Here are a few companies
that'll perform the counter-intelligence
footwork for a fee (all starting at around $60):
Speaking of new
movies worth seeing, you've gotta check out an
"art house" type film that's in limited
release but worth seeking out: I'm
a fan of Philip
Seymour Hoffman...you've seen him in
a variety of movies, from Twister
to Boogie
Nights to Almost Famous,
Magnolia and
a bunch of others. His
newest work is a dark one called "Owning
Mahowny," based on the true
story of a Canadian bank manager with a
gambling problem...and access to some major lines
of credit that the casinos in Atlantic City and
Las Vegas are happy to help him access. If
you (or anyone you know) has a gambling
(or other type of addiction problem), this is the must
see movie of the year.
If you're moving somewhere/sometime
soon, let's hope you're taking advantage of
these low interest rates and moving into a new
home. Wanna know how to get some cash back
on your next home purchase? (Who
loves ya baby?) Click here.....
Interest
rates are at their lowest levels in 45
years...so what are you
waitin' for? Cash
in and lock in the lowest
levels in decades by re-financing your
current mortgage and cut 10-15 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.
And now that you're
all revved up for a night out at the movies, keep
your eyes open for the newest promotional vehicle
targeting Chinese food fans: What
do 97% of the people finishing off an order of Moo
Goo Gai Pan (or other Chinese
fare) do at the end of the meal? They crack open
their fortune cookies, of course...and with 67%
of you anxious to read your
"fortune" aloud to your dining
companions, this is the next powerful
marketing frontier being pioneered by a
company called Buzz
Marketing. Put
down the chop sticks and read all about it (but
hold the MSG).....
Wanna increase the
size of your.....hmmmmm. Let me try to
re-phrase this. How about improving your
self-esteem? Does the name "Dirk
Diggler" mean anything to you?
Please don't contribute to the profits of the $100
million (plus) a year "male enhancement"
industry!!! Not only are you being a
gullible sucker when you buy this garbage, you're
contributing to the flood of spam that's been the
main marketing vehicle for these charlatans.
Score another one
for Nostra-Dover...check out the latest headline
from USA Today: "Spam Is Turning To
Scam." At the risk
of re-injuring my shoulder (this time from
excessively patting myself on the back) this
latest story confirms what I've been
preaching for the last 3 years. Bogus
websites, now called "phisher sites" use
scammy-spam to funnel gullible victims into their
clutches, shaking personal information like credit
card, bank account and (the Holy Grail) Social
Security Numbers out of 'em with a variety of
cover stories. Best
Buy, America Online and EarthLink
are among the largest (and latest) targets. PayPal,
eBay and even our buddies at the IRS
have also been unwitting accomplices for the bad
guys. Read
more about it, and then do the rest of us a
favor and shake-up (and wake up) any naive dopes
in your orbit of influence, and keep
them off the victims list.
The newest date rape
drug showing up on police radar is the most
insidious yet. And it's only a matter of
time before it starts showing up in this country,
so put the women in your world on alert:
It's called scopolamine
and it's colorless, odorless, tasteless its
victims have virtually zero chance of ever
identifying their predators. This
is scary stuff folks...originating from the home
of the illegal U.S. drug trade:
Read
all about it right here.
Yo, Brainiac!
Two questions for you:
#1
C'mon...you're not really worried about
the continuation of the hottest newsletter in
the nation, are ya? The radio show's just a
small part of the Dover
Media Complex,...so relax. Your
Dose of Dover will continue to show up every
Tuesday, (skip the Valium!)...
#2
Are you taking advantage of Brother Ben's hard
work that goes into every newspaper column, every
TV segment, every radio show (guest appearance) and
every Dose of Dover Newsletter? [I doubt it.]
Seriously...you're leaving a bunch of additional
information and entertainment value on the
proverbial table if you don't "click
over" hot-linked [highlighted] words
or sentences you come across. Incredible insights
and [frequently] twisted
humor are only one click away...
I know that as one
of the growing legion of Dover Disciples, you're
already planning for the long Labor Day
weekend (now only 52 days away) aren't
you? Wanna really
impress the peanut gallery by getting your Thanksgiving
or Christmas-time travel planning
handled now? Check out Ben's no-brainer
choice for deals on hotel rooms or condos: www.hotels.com.
And for great
deals on rental cars to drive once
you arrive: Simple! Buckle up and check
out www.travelnow.com
to squeeze
even more miles outta your travel budget.
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