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To: Oblomov who wrote (84246)	2/1/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: accountclosed	Respond to of 86076

excellent point, aa. tongue-in-cheek is more my speed.

To: Oblomov who wrote (84246)	2/1/2000 2:17:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Respond to of 86076

You are right! Looks like I have helped engineer that morph!

To: Oblomov who wrote (84246)	2/2/2000 10:35:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Respond to of 86076

I choose not to ridicule success, but at some time this is going to come crashing down... Still, I play both sides of it having both bearish and bullish positions. Whatever happens, it won't be a disaster for me. But then again, some of the mania stories are incredible: siliconinvestor.com [...] in the mania chronicles... "I am a broker at an independent brokerage firm in Southern California. A broker friend of mine who handles accounts for brokers in the firm who are out, got an interesting voice mail that I think you'd find very funny. The guy called up to say he was in Hawaii at 2 a.m. and wanted to buy stocks in the morning `because we had just had a correction.' This was the morning after the day the Nasdaq experienced its heaviest volume on record, Jan. 24. "Anyway, after this `correction' - his words - he wanted to buy stocks and was calling my friend because his broker was unavailable and he just had to buy. He wasn't specific on what we wanted to buy (I don't think it mattered) and he wanted to put the purchases on his credit card." [...]