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Pastimes : The Justa & Lars Honors Bob Brinker Investment Club -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justa Werkenstiff who wrote (6334)	6/28/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Allan Harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15132

I think it is interesting that at the end of the month and quarter and first half of the year today -- at least -- the nets are under pressure while the Nasdaq is looking fine. It's called supply and demand. There has been a huge supply of dot.com IPO's and even with your Jays and Tonys buying all they can, there just hasn't been enough dollars to go round this this quarter. As for ridicule, like pornography, I know it when I see it...or in this case, hear it. But I do appreciate your taking the time for such an exhaustive post, including what appears to be at least one, maybe more, re-listenings to the exchange between Bob and Jay. Reminds of my years in solo practice in Atlanta, going up against the big downtown law firms who would without exception dump tons of paperwork and discovery on me, thinking it would intimidate, or worse, cloud the issues to the extent that they could snow the judge or jury. Not that there is anything wrong with that, right? Wrong! But I digress, like the Ameritrade (AMTD) commercial, if you want to talk about lawyers, "Don't get me started." See, here I am in the same paragraph and I bet half of the lurkers have forgotten what started this tirade. It was Bob's ridiculing of Internet investing. You can take any one phone call and analyze it to death to prove that it wasn't really ridicule. But the totality of circumstances surrounding Bob's comments paint a clear and unambiguous picture. We all heard it and if you have any doubts, just listen to his next show, we'll no doubt hear it all again. Now it's time to take the kids to see something called Big Daddy. Boy I hate it when it rains at the beach. A