Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

with all the black and orange around tonight, it dredged up some memories from long ago. i know where we can get about 250# of copper really cheap.

in feb 1969, the garbage-skow-reject i was serving on left the mekong delta for shipyards in japan. we stopped for a few days in hong kong for some r&r. there are hundreds of small boats in the harbor selling about anything you can imagine. they would take fiat or copper or brass for their wares. one boat pulled up and offered a large orange and black rug that had a tiger featured. i wouldn’t line a doghouse with it but an electrician mate from oklahoma wanted it real bad. he got the windings from a large electric motor and offered it for the rug. the chinese guy lit up like a slot machine when he saw those big copper windings. they weighted about 250#. the electrician asked me to help him lower the windings down so i got him a rope that would allow us to lower the windings. when the chinese guy got the windings in his boat, he cut the rope and took off without tying on the tiger rug. needless to say, the okie electrian was really p$ssed.

as luck and idiocy would have it, the same guy showed up a couple of days later. i noticed him and called the electrician. he got a friend of his to show the guy the armature from the previous windings. he really lit up this time when he agreed to take the armature for the rug. i got another gunners mate to help the electrians friend and this time instead of a 30′ rope, we used a 6′ rope. those two guys really struggled with the armature to get it over the railing and then they let go. the armature went through the rug, other stuff in the boat, and through the hull creating a geyser of water about 12′ high. we had just come from the mekong delta so a little loss of life didn’t really matter at the time.

the chinese guy abandoned his sinking boat and called out to the other operators of small boats to help him out. he must have been a real @ssh@le because they just picked up his stuff and left him in the bay. we were standing at the rail loao the whole time he swam across the bay to the pier. he lost his boat and all the stuff he had to sell in it. the harbor patrol came out but the rest of the boat people got them to leave us alone.

let me know when you want to go retrieve that armature.(G)

rno

rno

started about 1550……  458 years ago……. to mock the devil.  although the Church knew that lucifer was an angel of the light ( he would come as a deceiver, a liar, a fallen angel) and not “a devil”,  it was good that people made a mockery of him by dressing up in goolish costumes……….. in order to show lucifer  that he was an ass…………………………………  hey lets have a paulson/bernake day — everybody dress up  as banker in drag………

Your description indicated to me that it is much more difficult than I realized for accountants to get at a true picture of what is happening in the entity being audited.   Best wishes.  Equiz.

  I think what he really means is end the dollar supremacy.

  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12608

I have to laugh at the irony that you brought up this chart about wheels within wheels and Dan Ferrera on this day.  I talked with Dan the night before on what may be up with 2009 and my investments.  He is a local guy and our kids play football together. 

He has a calm instinct about the market and definitely follows his own advice.  The historical data is right and I am now a close watcher of what the book shows since I could of saved a lot of money with a little more reading.

NIA but it can’t hurt to be safe this next couple of years and just play the bounces

 Thanks

KJ

Glad you enjoyed it! 

Thanks for the “Happy Halloween” GREAT graphics !!

You gotta try it once, (leaving the treats outside with a note.) I haven’t left yet. A large group came up with a WOW, and then after the kids..about 7 or 8 of them a mother came up with a I just can’t resist look and took one too. But I remember when I was taking my kids out one halloween I brought my own bag and told people I had a sick child at home I was collecting for. Forgive me father for I have sined. Well after enjoying some of my bounty I donated the rest.

the december and march contracts have the most open interest. if march is still trading after december gets settled, we should have some real fireworks.

rno

I know what you mean, I miss the coolest ones too every year.  Got the camera ready this year.  If anyone snaps some neat costumes, please posted ‘em for those of us without tricker-treaters.   

they have already started delivery. Mr. Tulving has said as much.

had one young lady (12-14 years) dressed like queen victoria. absolutely stunning. after she left i thought about a pic. i never get the best ones.

rno

That is one KOOL pumpkin!! Great job of carving…..who was the model ??

Going out with your grandchild is THE BEST!! Have lots of fun and let the kid have some of the candy!!

Been working between Boulder and Longmont, CO in a small town called Gunbarrel (what a name, eh?).

As I was leaving work, across the street came a rider dressed as the headless horsemen (sleepy hollow) on a huge, real stallion…magnificent horse. 

The horsemen even had a real pumpkin on his shoulders!  Wow, it was assume, i should have snapped a picture.