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[Ed Who?]

i stole from Blinky...but its awesome!

Originally Posted by Don Schmidt View Post
Retirement investments compared...

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Airlines stock you would have $49.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.

But ... if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
This is called the 401-Keg Plan.


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[Mechanicben]

live it and love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nicegy525]

it may be true but that means standing at the damn recycling machines as you recycle 4,280 cans!

[Pat-13]

it may be true but that means standing at the damn recycling machines as you recycle 4,280 cans!

The idea is to save your last few cans to drink while you are standing there. Plan ahead as they say. :party:

[jkaiser]

it may be true but that means standing at the damn recycling machines as you recycle 4,280 cans!

Man, what kind of beer are you buying?!? $0.23 a can? Yikes!

I've updated this to reflect the current economy, keep in mind I did this at the start of the day, before the market had fallen another 500 pts.


If you had purchased $1000.00 of Citigroup stock one year ago, it would now be worth $180.

With AIG, you would have $52 left of the original $1000.
With Fannie Mae, you would have less than $15 left.
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Freddie Mac stock you would have $20 left.
If you had purchased Washington Mutual, you would have nothing left.

But ... if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer (at $0.50 a beer) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $45.36.


(Updated as of Oct 7th, 2008)

Average aluminum can is 14.7 grams
29400 grams = 64.8 pounds
Average price paid for aluminum cans nationally $0.70/lbs.

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[Ed Who?]

ok. so after past few days. no joking is making me feel better about the market. :(