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To: silversoldier a/k/a SI Sy who wrote (1742)	8/21/2000 10:26:51 AM
From: WTMHouston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

<<it is highly likely civil strife would ensue.>> It already is in some quarters. A side story: I took my daughter to college this weekend and left her with her first assignment: Bryan's post. Her assignment is to be able to tell me the meaning of every word in the post by Thanksgiving. You see, she has to follow "tuition laws." Simply, so long as Dad pays the tuition (and room and board and everything else) Dad makes the law. A few weeks ago when Ford was in the hospital with his stroke, she asked me, "Wasn't he president before Kennedy?" After telling her no and also finding out that she could not name the first three president's either, her "if you want to go to school assignment" was to be able to name all of the Presidents. She moaned about it, but, when all was said and done, was able to do so. I have no illusion that she will remember them all in three months, but she will remember a few of them, which is more than she knew a few weeks ago. My wife was not real happy with the assignment. To paraphrase "She already has enough to do -- give her a break." Heck, I thought that sending her to college was giving her a break, but the she did not see it quite the same way. So, you see, Bryan's post has already created civil strife -- perhaps not the way you meant it, but certainly just as perilous. Abe's trilogy is alive and well in this house -- but I have a fourth prong to add: "none of the people, some of the time." <g> Troy PS - this is the same daughter that picked Siliconix (SILI) in her senior Economics Class (that she took over the summer of 99 rather than go with us to Aruba) as one of her three stock contest picks; she knew nothing about stocks, but had heard me talk about SI and had seen my wife wear the Silicon Investor tee-shirt. All she remembered was Silicon something and thought she was picking SI. In the month she was in the class, it went from $22 to $52 (pre-split). When she came to brag about smoking the class, I liked SILI so much that I ended up buying a bunch of it at $15 (post 3:1 split). Even though it is "only" around $60 now, a year later, it has been as high as $160 in the past year. So, in a round-about kind of way, SI has paid for my daughter's college education. <vbg>