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To: tuck who wrote (387)	1/18/2001 6:13:05 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (2) of 1784

one of it's holdings actually pays dividends! Aargh - I remember dividends. <g> Actually what I most remember is that when I first started investing I didn't hold the stock in street name (didn't trust those early discount brokers <g>) and I kept getting all these dividend checks for $1.17 and the like. I never bothered to cash them and so then I kept getting plagued by all these letters from the transfer agents about all the dividend checks I never cashed. Persistent buggers, but they eventually gave up when I moved. The funniest related event was a stock split certificate I never got in the mail because I had moved. Finally figured it out years later and it turned out to be the best screw-up I ever made, because the stock (an early Canadian cable TV outfit) had soared in the meantime and I had sold my original shares years earlier. The transfer agent bureaucracy got back at me (and then some) by making me jump through many obscure hoops to get my lost shares back ... Peter

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