Then you'll have to put your $214 toward the cost of your impending liver transplant; you won't have insurance because you got fired for being tanked on the job! ;) Gene > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net > [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Seth Dimbert > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:32 AM > To: kclug@kclug.org > Subject: [OT] Investment Advice for the New Era > > > If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it > would now > be worth $49.00. > > With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00. With > Worldcom, > you would have less than $5.00 left. > > If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the > stock) one > year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent > deposit, you would have $214.00. > > Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and > recycle. > > (not mine) > > -SD > > >