[LINK] Advice from a dotcom loser...

[Howard Lowndes]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:16, r.polanskis at uws.edu.au wrote:
> More Friday sillies....
> 
> > Subject: Investment advice.
> 
> If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
> now be worth $49.00.
> 
> With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
> 
> With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
> 
> 
> But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of Beer one year ago,
> drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum
> recycling price, you would have $214.00.
> 
> Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily
> and recycle.

Mmmm... Since I tend to drink wine more than beer, I wonder what the
recycling price is on glass...

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Howard.
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