Portfolio of the week - 2007

[Rob]

The south won the civility war....

... and that other one ain't over yet! LOL ... Just ask Marcel Ledbetter.

[Lyehopper]

trading.... cover MFW

Peanuts.... please cover my MFW short and park me in Ca$h....

[jiesen]

Peanuts, please sell my AMLN and put me in NFI long. Thanks!

[Lyehopper]

trading.... HS (Long)

.... Peanutssssss..... please buy HS for me.

[peanuts]

I'll use that CA$H to buy PCG

[billyjoe]

Week 8 - Winter Games
Day 1 - sculpture

To celebrate the winter season, we're going to hold some winter games. The winner gets the admiration of the other members:

The jolly ice-pirate, Spikefader, takes first place in the sculpture section with a magnificient juggernaut of frozen buccaneers:


And the judges were so proud of alice's snowman:


Karel was not happy that Jiesen edged him out for third place:


Lyehopper swears that his ice cream castle was just here, but someone must have run off with it:

Sorry, dude, but that is one of the guiltiest smiles I've ever seen. The judges gave you last place.

Peanuts,
Guilty smile? We used to call it a sh#* eatin' grin.

-------------billyjoe

[peanuts]

Peanuts,
Guilty smile? We used to call it a sh#* eatin' grin.

-------------billyjoe

wait... so that's NOT chocolate ice cream!?!?!

[Lyehopper]

Ski,

It's your lucky day! I checked the historical prices from Yahoo! and those boneheads screwed up the ICOP opening price, yesterday. It is now listed as $6.46. Can you believe they would do that to me!?!?! I mean, I've got people's delicate emotions on the line here... they need to make sure they have the right prices or else poor little powerless peanuts might get snuffed out...

The Peanuts Sanction....

[peanuts]

Week 8, Day 2

Week 8 - Winter Games
Day 2 - Snow Ball Fight

What an event this was! We all had to build fortresses and defend them the best we could. Skiracer took an early pummeling and quit the event. He's got last place tied up for now, so the rest of us were just having fun, knowing that none of us could take that from him.

Lyehopper's giant balls were crushing to the competition and were big enough for first place. This was IIC's final toss before ol' blue stripe got him in the face.


This was the snowball that Peter Hansen threw at Scifos that ended the game but got Peter 2nd place. He didn't notice the stone in it before he threw it.


Karel created a clone for this event and the two of them combined got third place by barely beating sirtuck with a well placed shot at the collar.


Nobody wanted to fight the cat named, "Snowball" I wonder why?

[jiesen]

Skiracer took an early pummeling and quit the event. He's got last place tied up for now, so the rest of us were just having fun, knowing that none of us could take that from him.

Yeah, but I'm giving it the old college try anyway...

[scifos]

Ski,

It's your lucky day! I checked the historical prices from Yahoo! and those boneheads screwed up the ICOP opening price, yesterday. It is now listed as $6.46. Can you believe they would do that to me!?!?! I mean, I've got people's delicate emotions on the line here... they need to make sure they have the right prices or else poor little powerless peanuts might get snuffed out...

From my experience, it's not too unusual for them to put the wrong price in to begin with and fix it a day or two later.

[Tatnic]

Peanuts,
Their price is wrong and you are an idiot. I see why your family wanted you out of their business. Take me out of the game and shove it and this site up your ****ing ass you slimely little eel. I told you once that if you ****ed around with me and got me mad I would be showing up at your door. You're not far from that.

Ski, what's the big deal? Its a meaningless contest with no money on the line. And just so you know, you really can't threaten people even if its online. You might find yourself on the receiving end of a restraining order or summons.

[IIC]

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity".
....Dale Carnegie
Might I suggest the Dale Carnegie "Effective Communications and Human Relations" course...Best one I ever took

[Rob]

Today's opening prices for GOOG, as reported by:

Businessweek ... $474.00
Yahoo .......... $467.30
NYSE ........... $468.47
Stockcharts .... $469.84

Four different opening prices, and these are the only four sites I checked just now.

Which one will go into the historical quotes on both Yahoo and Businessweek after today? I'm betting it will be $468.47, the NYSE quote.

It was 469.84...but nobody ever listens to me

You and stockcharts.com got it right, Doug. Wouldn't you know it, after finding nyse.com to be right on the money dozens of times, the one time I quote them in trying to make a point is the one time they're off (by 3/10 of 1%). Now I'm wondering how reliable stockcharts.com's opening prices are.

[Tatnic]

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity".
....Dale Carnegie
Might I suggest the Dale Carnegie "Effective Communications and Human Relations" course...Best one I ever took

The best class I ever took, bar none, was typing. Not so much for the typing skills, although that turned out to be very useful, but more for the classmates (some looked like playmates in those tight sweaters).