Frantz November Specials

[mikefrantz]

WOW! I am working on our November specials, and I am sure they will knock your socks off!

So if you were going to place an order on Wednesday, the last day of the October specials......you might want to wait another day....unless you are happy with all the free glass we are giving away! If that is the case, then order on Wednesday and get that free glass.....but order again in November so you get some of special deals!

November will be more than free glass.....there will be free tools.....there will be tools with discounts ranging from around 72% to 82%. These tools retail between $40 and $85 each, and while I wish I could give them away, I just can not do that.....but I can give them to you at less money than I paid........and everybody wins! You get a good tool at below my cost and you buy glass from me!

And we have found some glass that will be given away at the 10 lb level, which will include your choice of Vetrofond Original River Rock, Poppy and Green Ocean!

At 5lb, 10lb, 15lb and 20lb levels there is a free gift or a large discount on special tools!

Also, our new website is better than I ever could wish for. I know everybody has complained about it (including me). We made fixes, we made it easier to deal with, but that saying "calling a spade a spade" *** is really true about our website. You can put salt and pepper and seasoning on dog doo, but it is still a dog turd!

Our new website continues to get better and the number of customers new and old who have ordered on it prove the point that YOU NEED A GOOD WEBSITE and the saying "better late than never" hold true.

***

"to call a spade a spade"

(Phrase Origins)



is NOT an ethnic slur.
It derives from an ancient Greek expression: _ta syka syka, te:n
skaphe:n de skaphe:n onomasein_ = "to call a fig a fig, a trough a
trough". This is first recorded in Aristophanes' play _The Clouds_
(423 B.C.), was used by Menander and Plutarch, and is still current
in modern Greek. There has been a slight shift in meaning: in
ancient times the phrase was often used pejoratively, to denote a
rude person who spoke his mind tactlessly; but it now, like the
English phrase, has an exclusively positive connotation. It is
possible that both the fig and the trough were originally sexual
symbols.
In the Renaissance, Erasmus confused Plutarch's "trough"
(_skaphe:_) with the Greek word for "digging tool" (_skapheion_;
the two words are etymologically connected, a trough being
something that is hollowed out) and rendered it in Latin as _ligo_.
Thence it was translated into English in 1542 by Nicholas Udall in
his translation of Erasmus's version as "to call a spade [...] a
spade". (_Bartlett's Familiar Quotations_ perpetuates Erasmus'
error by mistranslating _skaphe:_ as "spade" three times under
Menander.)
"To call a spade a bloody shovel" is not recorded until 1919.
"Spade" in the sense of "Negro" is not recorded until 1928. (It
comes from the colour of the playing card symbol, via the phrase
"black as the ace of spades".)

This, of course, does *not* necessarily render the modern use of
"to call a spade a spade" "politically correct". Rosalie Maggio, in
_The Bias-Free Word-Finder_, writes: "The expression is associated
with a racial slur and is to be avoided", and recommends using "to
speak plainly" or other alternatives instead. In another entry, she
writes: "Although by definition and derivation 'niggardly' and
'nigger' are completely unrelated, 'niggardly' is too close for
comfort to a word with profoundly negative associations. Use
instead one of the many available alternatives: stingy, miserly,
parsimonious..." Beard and Cerf, in _The Official Politically
Correct Handbook_, p. 123, report that an administrator at the
University of California at Santa Cruz campaigned for the banning
of such phrases as "a chink in his armor" and "a nip in the air",
because "chink" and "nip" are also derogatory terms for "Chinese
person" and "Japanese person" respectively. In the late 1970s in
the U.S., a boycott of the (now defunct) Sambo's restaurant chain
was organized, even though the name "Sambo's" was a combination of
the names of its two founders and did not come from the offensive
word for dark-skinned person.



Thank you for shopping at Frantz!

Mikey Frantz

[Hayley]

Dang, Mike! I just placed a very LARGE order and it was shipped today (which is great btw!) . . . knew I should have waited . . . River Rock, River Rock, River Rock . . . lol!

[mikefrantz]

Ok, we will try to get our newsletter out by the end of work on Wednesday. If we do not get it out til the 1st of November, we still will have these specials and the sales department will know what is going on. The only exception is that the free graphite tools are just clearing customs and will probably not make it here until Friday or next Monday, which might delay your order.

Please do not try to order the River Rock, Poppy or Ocean Green, it is NOT for sale. Two of them came from my Vault and we found a box of River Rock that was mismarked and instead of selling it and limiting how much anybody could purchase, I decided to give it away (while supplies last)!

There is enough river rock for the first 400 customers!

Mikey Frantz

[mikefrantz]

Our newsletter will tell you all about how to win a trip to Murano with Mike Frantz.

Real Easy to win. Each time you make a purchase at Frantz Art Glass you are entered into this drawing to win a free trip to Murano with Mike Frantz.

If you place one order in November, you get one entry into our contest.
If you place six orders in November, you get six entries into our contest.
Each month we will pull a finalists name.
This contest will run from November thru June 30th.
We will pull a finalists name each month so that there will be 8 finalists.

But there is more. We will pull a one name from the entire 8 months plus
anybody who ordered in October, so there will be 9 finalists.

We will pick the winner from the 9 finalists at the ISGB Gathering in Oakland next year.

If you do not buy from Frantz Art Glass.....but you still want to win a trip to Murano with Mike Frantz.....you will be able to enter our contest. See the rules in our Frantz Newsletter coming out soon.

So what does the winner get?

Round Trip from anywhere in the U.S., our choice of airlines and our choice of either Business Class or First Class. Winners from outside the United States will be eligible, but other flight arrangement will be made. I know that if you live in the Antartic we can not fly you First Class, but we can provide a dog sled for you.

You will either fly with Mike Frantz or be met by Mike Frantz at Marco Polo Airport and escorted to your private apartment on the Grand Canal of Murano. You will be Mike's guest and treated like Royalty! Almost everything that you might spend money on....you won't have to! Besides personal purchases, gifts, glass etc, Frantz Art Glass will pick up the tab! Sorry, we will not pay for babysitters or dog sitters and the usual exception apply!

You will spend seven (7) full days on Murano!
You will see glass factories and glass artists and dine on Italian food

ENOUGH SAID! This will be a trip of a lifetime.

Only one winner.,...but I hope it is you!

mikey frantz

[Elegance_1]

I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...I will wait one more day...

It's gonna be a loooonnnggg day today!

[Dia-T]

So what constitutes waiting for november 1. 12:01 eastern time, or Pacific time, or after close of business today?

Dia-T
must be one of first 400.

[Ronnie_Renee]

OMG...what a great contest...... I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz, I wanna got to Murano with Mike Frantz!

[Frantz Art Glass & Supply]

I would say November 1st is 12:01 Pacific time. I'll hopefully get the all the info updated on the www.FrantzNewsletter.com site either later today or tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Dia-T

So what constitutes waiting for november 1. 12:01 eastern time, or Pacific time, or after close of business today?

Dia-T
must be one of first 400.