001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

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001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by rocklin » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:03 am

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by mars » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:59 am

rocklin wrote:.

If the management has a stated purpose for CPAP.talk, would it possible to make it public?

Thank you,

roc
I do not know what the Forum Mission Statement is, but I like this one

http://www.nutzworld.com/mission_statement.htm

cheers

Mars

PS This might help us to create one, if anyone thought one was needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJhG3HZ7b4o
for an an easier, cheaper and travel-easy sleep apnea treatment :D

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by rocklin » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:05 am

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mars wrote:
I do not know what it is, but this one I like

http://www.nutzworld.com/mission_statement.htm

cheers

Mars

PS This might help us to create one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJhG3HZ7b4o
Mars, at first I was annoyed that you've made sport of my rather serious request for CPAPtalk's undoubtedly, brilliant, life-affirming Mission Statement (MS).

But your links are so funny, and I laughed so hard, that I forgot the crucial reason I needed the MS in the first place.

Mars, this is very disconcerting, I know I had a good reason . . .

Cheers back,

roc

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by mars » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:57 am

rocklin wrote:............................. that I forgot the crucial reason I needed the MS in the first place.

Mars, this is very disconcerting, I know I had a good reason . . .
Sorry Roc, but they are never going to respond -

because according to the well known business school http://professor-howdy.blogspot.com/200 ... ement.html
A mission statement is defined as
"a long, awkward sentence that
demonstrates management's
inability to think clearly."
All good companies have one.
Which means that if you have a Mission Statement you are unable to think clearly, and if you do not have a Mission Statement then you are not a good company.

Forum Admin, being between a rock and a hard place, will no doubt refuse to respond.

So you see, it it really doesn't matter that you have forgot why you wanted it

that is - if you remember that you forgot it

cheers

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by Goofproof » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:17 pm

I didn't know you needed a mission statement to be one of the good guys. I don't think one is needed, this site functions as a place to learn and share our experiences with Sleep Apnea and sometimes other medical problems that are related, in a world where our normal medical providers aren't providing the info we need. The fact that it's allowed to run with the K.I.S.S., method, is what makes it a great site.

Thanks to Cpap DOT Com, for providing this site, no Mission Statement needed. Jim
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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by jnk » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:10 pm

Don't mission statements always self-destruct soon after being read/heard? Or is that only the impossible ones?

Here's the closest thing I know of:
CPAPtalk.com is a free, online forum home to over 40,000 friendly CPAP users! Here, you can get and give sleep therapy advice, read about industry developments, hear what people think about the latest products and more. CPAPtalk.com is available 24/7, so you can get answers when ever you need them. -- https://www.cpap.com/cpap-talk.php
I guess the "free" is referring to money, not time invested.

And I'm not sure what an " online forum home" is exactly, but it sounds like a disconcerting place to live, to me. And I once lived in a double-wide trailer right next to the four-lane in Eastern Kentucky.

How the "40,000 friendly" figure was arrived at, I don't know for sure. Besides, what does that say for the rest of us who don't even try to be part of the 40,000 friendly?

And isn't "whenever" supposed to be one word, not two?

Other than that, and a few missing and misplaced commas, the good old boys down at the mission in Texas wrote a really, really nice statement, I think.
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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by BlackSpinner » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:17 pm

rocklin wrote:.

If the management has a stated purpose for CPAP.talk, would it possible to make it public?

Thank you,

roc


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It is f..ing internet board with people chatting trying to help each other. It is not a company, it is a free service offered by a the owner of a server because the software comes free with a Godady server software.

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by jnk » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:35 pm

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by mars » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:58 pm

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and here is a Mission Statement for us all -

http://hodgepodgesociety.com/MissionStatement.htm

together with some sexy (?) t-shirts

cheers

Mars
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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by rocklin » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:00 am

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jnk wrote: Your carton of spam has been shipped.

Thank you for shopping with us.
Jnk, I appreciate the heads up, but Spam is the least of my problems, atm.

Besides, no one has spammed me, not yet.. And I believe no one will. .You want to know why, sir? Because, imho:

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Just a sleepy old man's opinion.

Thus, jnk, I remain, Sincerely Yours, and stiff as a . . .

roc


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BlackSpinner wrote:It is f..ing internet board
My deepest apologies, Ms. "Spinner". Had I known that this was a BDSM board, and that you would try to top from the bottom, I would have ordered you to reply, and demanded that you press the submit button.

Btw, have you ever experienced "tongue in cheek'? .Give it a try some time, seriously.

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mars wrote: Which means that if you have a Mission Statement you are unable to think clearly, and if you do not have a Mission Statement then you are not a good company.

Forum Admin, being between a rock and a hard place, will no doubt refuse to respond.

So you see, it it really doesn't matter that you have forgot why you wanted it

that is - if you remember that you forgot it

My Goodness, that was refreshing! .Mars, do you have literary representation? .If so, is his name Cy?

Skewer this—if you dare—a defenseless golden-throated, man/woman/man/woman, dear sir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0TBmXolGxA

Where is it, Mr. Fung? .Where is it, Mr. Fung? .Where is it, Mr. Fung?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNTlNYStys

(my deepest apologies to Ms. E, but A&J couldn't remain our secret, exclusive love child forever)

Mars, I believe you possibly might be the 2nd person on this board who "get's" me.

And you're one heck of a ping-pong player.

Cheers, yet again,

roc

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by rocklin » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:11 am

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by mars » Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:11 am

rocklin wrote:

Skewer this—if you dare—a defenseless golden-throated, man/woman/man/woman, dear sir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0TBmXolGxA

Where is it, Mr. Fung? .Where is it, Mr. Fung? .Where is it, Mr. Fung?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNTlNYStys

(my deepest apologies to Ms. E, but A&J couldn't remain our secret, exclusive love child forever)

roc

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Dear me Mike -

you really should know that if the words are incomprehensible, then at least have the visual attractive and entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXo-TH ... re=related

I rest my case

but as you presented two videos -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zvIV1cX-U

see what I mean

cheers

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http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t7020 ... rapy-.html

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by rocklin » Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:51 am

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mars wrote:you really should know that if the words are incomprehensible, then at least have the visual attractive and entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXo-TH ... re=related

I rest my case

but as you presented two videos -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zvIV1cX-U

Mars, the tawdry parlor trick of attempting to distract my libido with the divine Ms. Eartha, and the Ethereal Ms. Chin, is, as you must know, doomed to failure.

But, if you have more such links, I am willing to review them in utmost privacy, and reconsider your case.


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mars wrote:Dear me Mike -
An eye roll!!!

Oh . . . My . . . God!

Sir, I must respectfully point out to you that I remain an American, and you, sir, are, most decidedly not.

I believe we've been down this road before.

As an American, it is my atavistic, hyper-ballistic, Catmullistic(1) and utterly Who's Your Daddy! understanding that we—and only we—have the exclusive world rights, in perpetuity, to the Four Gs:

God, Guts, Get-up-and-Go!

quod erat demonstrandum

Cheers

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(Pssst, Mars, are you impressed with my random-walk Googling skills yet? .I now get paid $10 an hour to do this—beats flippin' pancakes at IHOP—can ya believe it?)





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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by jnk » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:33 am

rocklin wrote: . . . no one has spammed me, not yet.. And I believe no one will.
It's the bots ya gotta watch out for, not the humanoids.

Let me know if things change, and you decide to take the info down, so I can take it out of my quote.

Maybe I'll see ya at the next A.W.A.K.E. meeting, if we both make it.

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Re: 001: What is CPAPtalk.com's Mission Statement?

Post by mars » Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:29 am

Rocklin said -

Mars, the tawdry parlor trick of attempting to distract my libido with the divine Ms. Eartha, and the Ethereal Ms. Chin, is, as you must know, doomed to failure.

But, if you have more such links, I am willing to review them in utmost privacy, and reconsider your case.


What do mean attempting ? You said you were an American !

Lets hope you do better next time, here are some more links -

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=earth ... =firefox-a

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=tsai+ ... =firefox-a
by Rocklin

As an American, it is my atavistic, hyper-ballistic, Catmullistic(1) and utterly Who's Your Daddy! understanding that we—and only we—have the exclusive world rights, in perpetuity, to the Four Gs:

God, Guts, Get-up-and-Go!


Poor Mike - your memory has failed you again

Eventually the God and the guts will overtake the get-up-and-go, and there you will sit, good for nothing but prayerful contemplation and movie reviews

http://thecouchpotatoesblog.blogspot.com/

Now, what the atavistic, hyper-ballistic, Catmullistic and utterly Who's Your Daddy Four G's really say is -

http://www.peacemaker.net/site/c.aqKFLT ... our_Gs.htm

and you need to read all of this twice, and perhaps once a day for a while, so you don't forget again

Good luck

Mars
for an an easier, cheaper and travel-easy sleep apnea treatment :D

http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t7020 ... rapy-.html