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Pastimes : Thread Morons

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To: Len who wrote ()6/22/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen  Read Replies (2) of 12810
 
Anyone who is not reading the Golden Eagle (MINE) thread Subject 8334
or its sister thread "How I spent MINE money:the SI Millionaires Club"
Subject 21178
is missing out on some vintage inanity. There are plenty of individually moronic posts but the thread is best appreciated as a fast paced, stream of consciousness stupidity.

As an example, the SEC has just ordered a halt in trading due to insufficient and misleading information. Many on the thread have convinced themselves this is a good thing and have offered various explanations why. The following is but one of many explanations:

Other Geologists, ex Barricks people and Newmont people. This is too big for the SEC
to comprehend and need verification.
My attitude has changed dramatically, i am now supremely confident in our Company


As background the company claims to have a Bolivian gold property with 6 million ounces of proven reserves and as much as 200 million ounces of implied reserves (triple the Bre-X max) based on a report of their independent mining engineer Guido Paravicini with no third party verification.
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