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To: IndioBlues who wrote (57955)	1/6/2000 12:09:00 AM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 95453

re: O/T posts & comments on Tokyo Joe / SEC Case... First, realistically due to the high testosterone, high adrenalin, very competitive nature of this "thing" we share & the fact that we have at least 5 certain Post Combat Stress Disorder Psychoid's as regulars (including one former Intel LSD-Interogation experiment gone wrong...) - perhaps the best we can do is to : #1. Label any "personal" comments, or "feedback" posts as "O/T" - use O/T to start the post and people can click past them. Personally, I use the "next 10" feature - I dont "ignore" anyone (inquiring minds want to know) - and I can scan a days posts in 5 minutes... try flipping through a damn Yahoo thread, click by click - post by post, if you think THIS is bad... I like the SI format - they did a nice job. #2. Try to limit the personal diatribes for AFTER Market Hours. In the evening after market hours, perhaps we can comment on side issues such as the Va Tech Phenom, other market issues, Viet Nam Service, Life in Small Town Trailer Parks etc... (VBG). Lets "honor" market trading hours as a time to make money & stay on topic... Also, lets at least respect the "spirit" of tit for tat reparte' - ie: a simple sarcastic one liner, does not require a 37 line retort. If you can't return fire with near equal brevity - don't engage... ... now, on the Tokyo Joe case: Sarge ! - damn, did you see where Tokyo Joe was getting 100,000 shares direct from the company for his "work" ?!??!? Getting paid for what you & I "allegedly" do for free ?!?! Hot Damn ! Sarge - PM me, we may have found our "special purpose" (VBG)... Can you imagine - the Internet Odd Couple; Slider & Sarge... better than Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Hannity & Colmes,or Schwarzegger & DeVito in Twins... Gee, my own personal "Bubba Gump" to play with (VBG). Perhaps JL Holloway owes you 100,000 shares & Kelly Miller owes me a "hun" as well ? damn... 100,000 shares & 3800 members at $200 per month; don't know about you Sarge, but I just might be able to make ends meet on that; if I cut out that 3rd Starbucks in the morning... On the actual SEC case vs. Tokyo Mex; one of the charges is that he was selling privately while simultaneously pumping & touting publically. ... seems to me that if the SEC really wants to crack down on that policy - CNBC may have to be condensed into a 30 min. daily show; as virtually 97% of all analysts & fund managers who have appeared on CNBC in the past - are "likely" guilty of pimping the stocks they'd like to sell into strength... How about the entire "upgrade/downgrade" game by analysts ? Now if the SEC would REALLY like to change something... maybe a few major brokerage houses need to be investigated to see what they may have been selling - when their reps were appearing on TV touting & promoting, or when they issued upgrades, or downgrades...were they ever enhancing their present, or soon thereafter trading positions ? I think we all know how that one would turn out...