A silk noose would probably be better.

Indiana doesn't still do that do they?

They should.

*Yes, not a word <g>

The details of the deception, laid out on Bonnie Kaye's web site just made me sick.

Oh, my name it is Carl Lau, it is Car Lau.
My name it is Carl Lau, it is Carl Lau.
Ny name it is Carl Lau,
and I'm here to take a bow.
I've scammed you all, and how!
Goddamn your eyes.

Now it's off to jail I go, off I go.
It's off to jail I go, off I go.
It's off to jail I go,
but I don't care, I know.
That I've brought your bankrolls low,
Goddamn your eyes.

Coming soon, Indiana Jones and the Last Airleaf Scam of Doom!!!
(Just don't call him Junior.)

The usage is also regional - UK English uses the regular versions far more than US English, or at least than the US regional dialects I am familiar with.

By the way, can you tell us which Airleaf/Bookman employee it is that lives or used to live on Wilbur Road between Ballinger Road and E. Shore Drive? (Most likely in one of the two houses north and east of this curve.) Jim mentioned this in the main post. Whatever Airleaf/Bookman associate lives there will be the person who came into our comment threads under two different false names in order to promote a criminal enterprise.

Is "weaved" acceptable as a word now?

Yes, if you're talking about traffic. Less so when talking about textiles or webs.

And the people down below,
They'll say "Carl, we told you so"
They'll say "Carl, we told you so"
So damn your eyes.

First, anyone nationally can be included in this. People should definitely get in touch with the state AG.

There was a promise of voluntary compliance on behalf of Carl Lau, president of Airleaf. He said he'd stop doing a number of things which he had no reasonable method of procuring/producing.

"Promised his clients in-person participation at book fairs, presentations to movie producers and advertising," from the news article, compared to: "agrees to refrain from representing... a sponsorship, approval, ... or benefits it does not have ... [or] is able to complete ... the transaction ... when the respondent knows or should reasonably know it could not." from his assurance.)

http://atgindsha01.atg.in.gov/cpd/docs/enforcement/SteveCarter-397144-1.pdf

I'm not sure exactly how the new suit relates to this, but it is certainly related; the fact that he voluntarily agreed that there was jurisdiction, and promised to stop certain activities he continued with is a bad sign for him; I'd expect this to be a relatively quick proceeding (months, not years, from now.)

A year ago, I could have done a drive-by in Martinsville -- now there's a scary town. As recently as the 80's, the local Klan was reputed to meet at the Rax restaurant. I've always thought of it as Bloomington's evil twin.

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[Chorus:]
Indiana sued me, calling me a schemer
Indiana sued me; Lord I'm just a dreamer
I wish I had Stu, to tell you.

Folks, if this e-mail finds its way to you
Pursue the link for fortune and be famous too and on TV
And when you're there in Hollywood just think of me

Good lord I think I've just seen a
State lawyer with a subpoena!

Indiana sued me (just for fleecing losers)
Indiana sued me (Lord I hate those hoosiers)

This is the police. Stop typing. Stand away from the computer.
[repeat to fade]

It's kind of like watching someone try to sell perpetual motion machines to a roomful of physicists.

I note that one source I found refers to the book's author as a "former Disney Imagineer," which suggests that the email address imagineer1@comcast.net (used in post #25) may belong to the author.

Also, someone named Mae Collins at Amazon has posted exactly three reviews--all of books about innovative thinking, all of them trashing the books in question. Mae Collins doesn't post a review of "Thinkertoys" though.

Hypothetical: mae collins=Michael Michalko?

I wonder if 10 Speed Press approves of spam marketing?