profit_guy, actually, I like Hal. He helped me make some very nice $$ last fall and this winter. My Hal comment was just to pull Larry's leg.
As for Hal, i.e., Larry, "ridiculing" calls by Zeev, you have to keep in mind that those two go back a long time together. In fact, Larry and Zeev used to be golfing buddies with Charles Dow, only Mr. Dow couldn't understand Zeev, because Zeev hadn't learned English yet, and Mr. Dow didn't speak Hungarian, which was Zeev's native tongue.
So Larry invented the very first Hal, (Hal 0001), as a translation device. The letters H-A-L stand for the Latin version of "Hungarian to English Language." (In English, the "E" has replaced the Latin "A" -- as in "Anglo" -- in much of our usage.)
Anyhow, my point is that it may seem like Larry gives Zeev a lot of guff, but it's really just curmudgeonly kidding between old buddies.
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