#42930
09/24/2001 5:59 PM
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I guess I've been investing foolishly...
> If you had bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now
> be worth $49.
> If you had bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the
> stock)one year ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the
> nickel deposit, you would have $79.
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#42931
09/25/2001 1:57 AM
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My dear, in which dictionary does it say that buying beer is an investment?  (ribbit)
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#42932
09/25/2001 4:35 PM
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But you'd have had a $951 tax writeoff, meaning the Government pays you to make bad stock market decisions.
And if you drink all that Budweiser, it just goes to waist.
TEd
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#42933
09/25/2001 5:19 PM
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a $951 tax writeoff
Unless you're in a greater than 100% tax bracket you still come out with a loss. With the beer, if you're clever about who you drink it with, you can make some great contacts.
And you can turn contacts into relationships and relationships into results©
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#42934
09/25/2001 7:08 PM
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Or... just drink it for the *results.
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#42935
09/25/2001 7:15 PM
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With the beer, you can make some great contacts. And you can turn contacts into relationships and relationships into results©
And as an additional benefit: if said the results are finacial, the cost of the beer is tax-deductible.
Faldage, msy I suggest that we consider financial matters when I buy you a beer at Wordpalooza?
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#42936
09/25/2001 10:27 PM
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And remember that in Michigan the can is a dime, so you would double your money 
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#42937
09/26/2001 3:50 AM
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And if you drink all that Budweiser, it just goes to waist.
I once knew a surly old miser
Who mooched products from Busch and Anhuiser
But the stuff made him sick,
and it rotted his wick,
Now the miser is sadder Budweiser.
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#42938
09/27/2001 2:46 AM
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What's that saying? "If you can't be good, be careful, and if you can't be careful, name it after me!"
...and anyway, you don't buy beer, you only rent it...
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#42939
09/27/2001 2:50 AM
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#42940
09/27/2001 2:54 AM
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Heavens! The ultimate in keybounce! Sorry for mechanical errors. I'm not sure it was even worth posting once !
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#42941
09/28/2001 5:28 AM
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...and anyway, you don't buy beer, you only rent it...
And always remember:
We are but the intermediaries between the brewer and the sewer.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#42942
09/28/2001 1:25 PM
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journeyman
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At the risk of revealing myself as a "beer snob," I assert that the time it took to drink $1000 of Budweiser was wasted time. Now had it been a nice hoppy ale...................
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#42943
09/28/2001 1:31 PM
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re: a nice hoppy ale.
Hops-- just the thing i don't like about beer.. now malt liquor, a brew made with out hops or hard cider, they are fine.. i like my coffee strong, and bitter, but not alcohol. (mind you a drop of bitters is okay in a cocktail!) but not hoppy ale.
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#42944
09/28/2001 11:50 PM
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FYI :
The reason beer goes through you faster than water?
It doesn't have to stop and change color.
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#42945
10/01/2001 2:53 PM
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It doesn't have to stop and change color.
Hmmm. My experience:
.................INPUT.........OUTPUT
Beer..........yellow.........colorless
Water........colorless......yellow
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#42946
10/01/2001 3:01 PM
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#42947
10/01/2001 4:07 PM
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Too Much Input? 
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#42948
10/01/2001 4:46 PM
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Faldage, that's more than I really wanted to know!
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#42949
10/01/2001 5:00 PM
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that it were the sort of thing that one already knew.
And if one doesn't drink that much water I thought that one would appreciate being disabused of wow's misinformation.
Well, far be it from me to cast the flashlight of enlightenment into the footprints of ignorance again. All one seems to get is a muddy flashlight.
Harrumph® <http://wordsmith.org/board/images/icons/pout.gif>
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#42950
10/01/2001 5:05 PM
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All one seems to get is a muddy flashlight.There's Mud Inside? Poor ole feller, how the enquiring mind gets ridiculed, eh?
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#42951
10/01/2001 5:14 PM
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There's three kinds of people:
A) Those who make things happen,
2) Those who watch things happen
and
Þ) Those who wonder why things happen.
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#42952
10/01/2001 5:17 PM
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But my dearest Faldage, do you not make the philosopher's error of assuming that one's personal traits are universal? Philosophers must ultimately find
Their true perfection,
By learning all the foibles of mankind
Though introspection.--Piet Hein
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#42953
10/01/2001 5:21 PM
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Well, far be it from me to cast the flashlight of enlightenment into the footprints of ignorance again. All one seems to get is a muddy flashlight.Agreed. 
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#42954
10/01/2001 5:53 PM
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the philosopher's error of assuming that one's personal traits are universal
Silly me, and I thought it was purely a matter of biology.
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#42955
10/01/2001 11:05 PM
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Thus the cry and hue of wow's and faldage's differing biological viewpoints.
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#42956
10/01/2001 11:06 PM
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Ann, is your last name by any chance Heuser?
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#42957
10/02/2001 1:21 PM
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wow's and faldage's differing biological viewpoints.
Mebbe she jus din't never drink enuff beer.
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#42958
10/02/2001 2:18 PM
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There's three kinds of people:
A) Those who make things happen,
2) Those who watch things happen
and
Þ) Those who wonder why things happen.
<There's three kinds of people:
A) Those who make things happen,
2) Those who watch things happen
and
Þ) Those who wonder why things happen.>
May I add
4) Those who laugh at things that happen?
I may not always have wise things to add to the often enthralling exchanges, but I must say, that I am getting my RDA of chortles!
Luv, Marigold
Marigold
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#42959
10/02/2001 2:55 PM
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Faldage, I may have been unfair to you. Given that you and wow have differing shades of opinions, which of you two pooh-bahs should I consider the higher authority on this particular subject? I must give that precedence to Faldage, for one simple reason: this board has long recognized that men are more sensitive about biology.
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#42960
10/02/2001 5:03 PM
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Can't we have some pees around here?!?!?!
TEd
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#42961
10/02/2001 5:18 PM
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s'all right, TEd. I shall mind my ap pease and ac cuse. note to mav -- come join us! Let's get all four of us Marx Brothers together!
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#42962
10/02/2001 5:30 PM
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#42963
10/02/2001 7:01 PM
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In the recent PBS special on evolution, a researcher, who was expecting to find theories and/or at least the depth of discussions to extend beyond "social" interactions, was suprised to document (by eaves-dropping{sp?}) that more than 2/3rds of all discussions are "gossip like" and that the human is more of a *social being than an intellectual one (or some similar extrapolation)...
This reminded me of a previous "documentation" (not related to PBS) that revealed that there are three *kinds of people:
- Those that talk about people
- Those that talk about events
- Those that talk about ideas.
It is impossible (that ought to *stir things up) to be involved in one without referring or understanding the context of the other two, but...
Would it be presumptious to say that this discussion board generally seeks to focus on number three...?[snicker-e]
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#42964
10/02/2001 7:05 PM
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Those that count and those that don't count.
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#42965
10/02/2001 7:10 PM
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Then where do you fit in..? 
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#42966
10/02/2001 8:22 PM
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Can't we have some pees around here?!?!?!
Urine for it now, TEd!
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#42967
10/02/2001 8:23 PM
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Re:-Those that talk about people
- Those that talk about events
- Those that talk about ideas.
i heard it as people with:
Small minds talk about people.
mediocre minds talk about things.
great minds talk about ideas.
no mind at all talk about themselves..
the nuns used use this when ever any one was showing off -- especially after christmas, when many of us had few things to show off..
i find i alternate between being mindless, and great.. and mea culpa, but mindless wins all to often! but talking about food wins out over self and others. in the magnatude of sins, food is not so bad.
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#42968
10/02/2001 8:27 PM
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I giggle, Jackie ROTFLHHO, we're such a happy bunch. Some . some , some some  . Some are  ,  , or , but mostly we all get along. Glad you have joined us Marigold. Welcome. Benvenidos. Which category would you try to fit me in with this then, Musick?I have many chambers in my mind. Sometimes I enjoy a good snicker from the interplay of WORDS
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10/02/2001 8:46 PM
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TEd
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