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Barney did well in choosing you.

The magical kingdom in which I live is food for my soul…a rather huge blessing from Spirit to be able to spend my last years here…thank you for asking.

Moggy

I have become a near vegetarian (I still eat fish) much to the kidding of my family and friends. Much like my US Dollar charts that I have posted here from time to time.

(grin)

aurum

That’s a keeper…ever so nice, thank you!   And a good evening to you, too.

Moggy

Great joke. And it does apply to me as my family always says I overthink things.

I hope things are going well for you in that magical place you live.

aurum

No, you have to remember that your call is just that - a call. You always need an exit plan. How to be polite as you don’t know how concerned I am over the folks that have let positions get away from them. Maybe that is enough.

aurum

Your information is helpful even not. Say hi to barny for me. Animal lovers, I saw this tape awhile back about these two guys from England I think who bought a lion and ( the 60s I think) when it got big they sent it to africa to that guy who had a refuge to become wild. After he was wild again they went to see him but were warned it was wild now and had a pride. They went to see him anyways and shows a picture of the lion comming down the hill and then jumping on them giving them a hug. I read that the guy who shot the film and helped lions, I think part of the movie Born Free” was killed by a African up rising few yrs later. What a waste.

Serious as in tax talk…it’s the week-end, time for some fun.

Engineering In Hell

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, “Ah, you’re an engineer — you’re in the wrong place.”

So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After awhile, they’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, “So, how’s it going down there in hell?”

Satan replies, “Hey, things are going great. We’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.”

God replies, “What??? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake — he should never have gotten down there; send him up here.”

Satan says, “No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I’m keeping him.”

God says, “Send him back up here or I’ll sue.”

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, “Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?”

Moggy

When walking Barney tonight, he was attacked by a Pekingese that somehow got loose. My wife lets Barney go in these circumstances as he can fend for himself and will run home. But I put Barney behind me and face the attacking dog. I have done that with a Doberman so why worry about a Pekingese (though I am more afraid of smaller dogs).

Anyway it worked.

aurum

No problem with me!   I am always interested in the different thoughts and why people may be thinking different than the crowd.   I remember Joe Granville back in the late 70’s, THE GURU at that time, had a saying:   “IF it is obvious - then it is obviously WRONG!”   I always listen closest to the lone wolf’s since then.     

Have a good weekend!

(p.s.   Granville moved markets and was right for a long time, then he made a bad call and stayed with the call for years and lost most of his subscribers.  Your only as good as your last call.)

Life is too short to stay serious (and sober )

Good evening to you dear lady

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSO3ZW3hL1Q

“serious”?

aurum

Yes, as I understand it. Now whether the wash rule applies in Roth’s - that I would have to research - but I would say no as that is a tax avoidance rule and no taxes are due on Roth’s.

Remember I am not a tax attorney, not a tax accountant - my advice is worth - well.

aurum

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Good evening to you, Barney’s serious friend.

Moggy

It might comfort you to know that you know as much about rugby as I do.  You had no way of knowing that I was indulging in one of our favourite national pastimes - trying to get a rise out of them Aussies.  They do it to us all the time too, and we both love it.

The relationship between the people of our two countries is very hard to explain really.  The humour is too, I guess.  It probably sounds very cutting to folk who aren’t used to it.  With us it’s almost a way of saying, “I think you’re great.”  Maybe if we just ignored each other, we would be offended.

It all goes back to the First World War when the men of the two countries went away.  They fought together and died together and the bond between us has been very strong since then.  In some ways we are like one country.  Then every so often we will have a little spat.  I seem to remember there was something about our Prime Minister being ignored at one of their airports.  We got a little ruffled over that one, but most of them wouldn’t have heard about it.  Of course, I could say that was because none of them read the papers.  Then, they would come back and say something back again and we would all roar with laughter.  If it was funny, we would.

What our late Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon said about Australia is very typical of what I’m talking about, and this has been mentioned on the furum at least twice before.  He mentioned one day that all our no hopers were  going to Australia in droves, thereby raising the IQ of both countries. We have been laughing about that one ever since and never let them forget it.

It’s a dark day again today.  Next month it will be Spring.