The Buckeye Pillow

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 12:08 PM

To say the least, I have had a great deal of difficulty selling the ideas discussed here to other therapists. In fact, I think I may have driven several away.

So, today I want to change my approach and go with what the therapy culture wants – magic. (I think I may have written a bit about this)

Here we go:

Introducing The Buckeye Pillow!

As pictured below, this is an amazingly life-like, clinically proven, hypoallergenic, comfort-designed sleep aid that is guaranteed to alter your intellect in time for 21st century therapy practice.

I have authorized several advertising experts to provide their ideas regarding this new product and you’ll see their pitches below.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ron Popiel: The most amazing invention of the 21st century! I’m not going to sell you this for the perfectly reasonable price of $400 or $300 or even $200, but for just 4 easy payments of…
Richard Simmons: I love you so much that I want you to know about this amazing product.
Generic Evangelist: This is a bequest from beyond, but using it, well, It not gonna be eazy!!! It’s free with your lifetime subscription to our mailing list. Donations are gratefully accepted. Please just give from your heart.
Don Draper: This isn’t a dog pillow, it’s an introduction to your dreams; it’s a repository of genetically endowed and unconscious genius. It is instinct in a soft, furry package – and it’s naturally warm.

See a winner here? Any ideas of your own?

CDano · 17-01-2012, 12:17 PM

I'm allergic to dogs.

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 12:21 PM

5th line, 12th word.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 17-01-2012, 12:50 PM

Deepak Barnes "Its healing energy field will stimulate and align your innate self-correcting powerful fascial pathways! Peyton Manning started using one this year!"

Dr. Andrew Hamerhoff "The subtle but powerful quantum vibrations will provide your neurophysiology, specifically your amygdala, with the ability to correct most, if not all of the disease and illness of the modern western culture. It also stimulates the natural excretion of all the harmful toxins!"

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 01:14 PM

I need to thank Jon Newman for inspiring this post. He's also free to split all the proceeds from sales.

When I teach I use this image to promote various ideas conveyed by Buckeye telepathically (see below).

Someone once asked if she told me things in the usual way. I said, "Of course not, she's a dog. Gheeesh."

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 01:35 PM

I felt this thread fit here.

NateM · 17-01-2012, 05:49 PM

Can I order one of these pillows??!!

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 06:38 PM

Just now Jon Newman (my agent) is dealing with a small group of artisans in Wisconsin who have agreed to begin production. I’ll let you know how that goes.

I’m also working on this disclaimer.

Quote:

The use of The Buckeye Pillow may result in dreams deemed strange and Gary Larson-like, a compulsion to write and jonesing for ranch dressing.

Use at your own risk.

**Diane** · 17-01-2012, 07:28 PM

Such pillows require a certain amount of maintenance. That should be made clear in tiny print somewhere, maybe on a label that says, do not remove.

**Barrett Dorko** · 17-01-2012, 07:46 PM

I understand that these will be manufactured in the USA (well, an American protectorate in the South Pacific and that labeling them thus is perfectly legal - there, anyway).

We are negotiating with a chicken farm in the Midwest for stuffing.

**Diane** · 17-01-2012, 07:53 PM

Jon's chickens I presume?

Jon Newman · 17-01-2012, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barrett Dorko

I need to thank Jon Newman for inspiring this post. He's also free to split all the proceeds from sales.

Given your sales ability I'm afraid I'd end up owing you. And I already owe you enough.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 17-01-2012, 10:15 PM

FUNNY, Jon - very.

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-01-2012, 02:13 AM

Well Jon, you know how charming I ~~can't~~ can be.

I need Don Draper's charisma, but I can't seem to generate it. I think you have to be born with it.

gollygosh · 18-01-2012, 05:49 AM

I didn't see any thing here about the pillow restoring natural rhythms.

**Diane** · 18-01-2012, 05:56 AM

If Buckeye were a big cat, there would be purring to promote. Purring for sure lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, restores homeostasis, all that cool stuff.
So I hope you include a cat pillow too.

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-01-2012, 01:16 PM

Cat pillows are Jason's department.

Anyway, cats apparantly think quite a lot of themselves and would be far more operator than interactive. The purring distracts us from that. In this manner they get away with stuff dogs never would.

Just Buckeye's opinion.

**Jason Silvernail** · 18-01-2012, 04:05 PM

Did somebody say cat pillow??

**Diane** · 18-01-2012, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barrett Dorko

Cat pillows are Jason's department.

Anyway, cats apparantly think quite a lot of themselves and would be far more operator than interactive. The purring distracts us from that. In this manner they get away with stuff dogs never would.

Just Buckeye's opinion.

Haha! quite true.

But the purring has "worked" for me over the decades, and they smell better, and their fur feels a lot nicer. Although their claws do not. And there would still be that sticky issue with allergens. The hairless cats wouldn't work as well, I'm sure.

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-01-2012, 05:50 PM

I think the effect of purring fits well into the "sound like touch at a distance" thread, wherever that is.

Please remember that many, many terrible people have a way of speaking we all find compelling. Some would say that cats exploit this.

Not me, of course.

17-01-2012, 12:21 PM	#3
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	5th line, 12th word. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

17-01-2012, 12:50 PM	#4
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 839 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Deepak Barnes "Its healing energy field will stimulate and align your innate self-correcting powerful fascial pathways! Peyton Manning started using one this year!" Dr. Andrew Hamerhoff "The subtle but powerful quantum vibrations will provide your neurophysiology, specifically your amygdala, with the ability to correct most, if not all of the disease and illness of the modern western culture. It also stimulates the natural excretion of all the harmful toxins!" __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

17-01-2012, 01:35 PM	#6
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	I felt this thread fit here. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

17-01-2012, 05:49 PM	#7
NateM Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Albany, New York Posts: 203 Thanks: 21 Thanked 30 Times in 14 Posts	Can I order one of these pillows??!! __________________ Nate Mosher, PT, DPT

17-01-2012, 07:28 PM	#9
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,669 Thanks: 1,486 Thanked 3,187 Times in 1,566 Posts	Such pillows require a certain amount of maintenance. That should be made clear in tiny print somewhere, maybe on a label that says, do not remove. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

17-01-2012, 12:17 PM	#2
CDano Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 274 Thanks: 75 Thanked 50 Times in 34 Posts	I'm allergic to dogs.

17-01-2012, 07:46 PM	#10
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	I understand that these will be manufactured in the USA (well, an American protectorate in the South Pacific and that labeling them thus is perfectly legal - there, anyway). We are negotiating with a chicken farm in the Midwest for stuffing. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

17-01-2012, 07:53 PM	#11
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,669 Thanks: 1,486 Thanked 3,187 Times in 1,566 Posts	Jon's chickens I presume? __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

17-01-2012, 10:15 PM	#13
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 839 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	FUNNY, Jon - very. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

18-01-2012, 02:13 AM	#14
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	Well Jon, you know how charming I ~~can't~~ can be. I need Don Draper's charisma, but I can't seem to generate it. I think you have to be born with it. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

18-01-2012, 05:49 AM	#15
gollygosh Geralyn Giuffrida PT Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 375 Thanks: 137 Thanked 124 Times in 62 Posts	I didn't see any thing here about the pillow restoring natural rhythms.

18-01-2012, 05:56 AM	#16
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,669 Thanks: 1,486 Thanked 3,187 Times in 1,566 Posts	If Buckeye were a big cat, there would be purring to promote. Purring for sure lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, restores homeostasis, all that cool stuff. So I hope you include a cat pillow too. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

18-01-2012, 01:16 PM	#17
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	Cat pillows are Jason's department. Anyway, cats apparantly think quite a lot of themselves and would be far more operator than interactive. The purring distracts us from that. In this manner they get away with stuff dogs never would. Just Buckeye's opinion. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

18-01-2012, 05:50 PM	#20
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,661 Thanks: 610 Thanked 1,473 Times in 865 Posts	I think the effect of purring fits well into the "sound like touch at a distance" thread, wherever that is. Please remember that many, many terrible people have a way of speaking we all find compelling. Some would say that cats exploit this. Not me, of course. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

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