Mitman,
I suppose I should be really mad at you, cause last night you almost cost me my job. Plus, I think you are very mean and just a plain old bully. Last night after you posted your message not to me but rather about me, I was sitting at my puter wondering just what to do next, like respond with a nasty message or just plain quit, frankly, I was hoping you might post an apology. I am new at this job and havent even finished training yet plus mom needs the money. Well, the garage door opened, in came my boss, and well, he just blew up.
'What in the hell are you doing? I pay you to talk trash stocks, not to sit there bawling like a baby!'
'Oh yeah, well I just found out there is this thing called "minimum wage", its a federal law, and even kids like us are supposed to get it!'
That just made steam come out his ears!
'Federal law!, listen kid, this is the big D, junior is large and in charge, remember, "Dont mess with Texas!". Besides, I pay you ten times what the others get!, mainly cause you can spell.'
Suddenly, 10c per gross posts sounded pretty good and I stopped crying, after all, even with my brief tenure as a stock analyst, even I understand that it is relative valuation that really matters.
'Others, what others?'
'Jesus H. Christ, dont you even bother to read the thread!'
He was really getting mad now and I think he was going to give me the boot. Suddenly, a light bulb came on (we dont have the problem like you do out in california)!
'You dont mean! It cant be! Surely not, after all his handle is mitMAN.'
I noticed a brief smile cross his lips.
'I knew you were no dummy. Remember how I told you if you did well, I would tell you the secret of the internet? Well, come sit on my lap, I think its that time. You know your grandfather and I are good friends, let me tell you how we met. A long long time ago when AOL charged by the minute, we were pioneers of what is now known as the internet. Well, every saturday nite I used to get a six pack of cheap beer fire up the old 286, sign on AOL, and check out the chat rooms. My favorite was "Teen-age girls 13-19". I think my favorite handle at the time was foxychick94162. One night I was in a private room with hotlips687243. It was getting really hot so I asked for a pic to make it more interesting. When I opened the JPG I was shocked, shocked! I tell you!, it turns out hotlips was really longdongsilver! Well, to make a long story short, we became great friends, got a clue as to how the hundreds of babes were all fat bald farts with hairy balls like us, realized the potential of the internet, and look where we are today!'
'Look this is getting boring, plus everbody and his mother knows that crap! Granpa tells that story every night, BTW whatever happened to fat joey and all those guys.'
'Well some became internet infrastructure CEOs, but most now regularly appear on CNBC as guests.'
'So what does it mean to me?'
'Well, you know how history doesnt repeat, but rather rhymes?'
'Yes'
'Well just like then the popular chat rooms were 100% fat bald guys pretending to be underage children,
now they are 100% pre-teens pretending to be grown-up.'
'Oh okay' |
