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To: Bruce Brown who wrote (33307)	10/18/2000 10:28:44 AM
From: Dr. Id	Respond to of 54805

By then we should be down to food stamps and might enjoy splitting a box of Triscuits together on our lunch break from our new jobs as parking lot attendants. Buckley will be in the outback trying to rope Kangaroos for dinner and wandering around aimlessly wondering why nobody put up an Internet Cafe in the outback. Tekboy will change his handle to "FormerTekboy@ILostItAllAndThenSome.com". I think I found Buckley's next job Downunder: Australians Put Privates on Parade for Stage Hit By Paul Majendie dailynews.yahoo.com. LONDON (Reuters) - A pair of irrepressible Australian comics have taken London's theaterland by storm with the help of two very unlikely props -- their penises. Simon Morley and David Friend are breaking box office records with ``Puppetry of the Penis'' which they hail as a celebration of the ancient Australian art of genital origami. The Eiffel Tower and the Loch Ness Monster never looked like this before and Kentucky Fried Chicken certainly won't taste the same again once you have seen their ``fast food'' version. For what these irreverent wits have done is to strip down to the bare essentials, manipulate their genitalia into some startling effects and project the results onto a giant screen. Audiences howl with laughter as they admire the baby kangaroo in his pouch or try to coax the mollusc out of his shell. But they are warned, amid all the contortions: ``Do not try this at home.'' The show at London's Whitehall Theater -- appropriately set between Nelson's Column and London's famed Big Ben clock -- has now been extended until next year. Seats are selling fast. Despite its startlingly frank content, the show is not smutty. The puerile puppeteers frolic innocently round the stage like two little boys who have just discovered what is happening ``Down Under'' for the first time. Critics have hailed ``the outgoing Aussie personalities that are as big as their very public private parts.'' ``It is very juvenile art,'' the 33-year-old Morley concedes. ''But it is art. Andy Warhol would stick up for us.'' They are never tempted to rise to the occasion on stage. ``You get a tingle now and then but nothing ever comes of it,'' said 31-year-old Friend. The pair first teamed up back home in Melbourne where they took the city's Comedy Festival by storm. ``Princes of Protuberance,'' proclaimed the critics. Next came acclaim at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. Now it's London. After that could come a European tour. It may not be quite what their parents had in mind for their sons and Simon Morley admits: ``My mother is tortured by what we do. But David's mum thinks it's funny. She just wishes he was someone else's son.'' The audiences certainly rave about the genital gymnasts -- especially women who shriek with unabashed laughter at their unusual interpretations of boomerangs, emus and didgeridoos. And the show certainly demystifies sex with a vengeance. One 60-year-old woman, still guffawing, came up to them afterwards and said: ``I have been waiting 40 years to laugh at a penis like that.''

To: Bruce Brown who wrote (33307)	10/18/2000 12:30:29 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Yesterday I found myself having lunch with a very big name in the investing world, where he opined that given the uncertainties ahead, the high valuations still prevalent, etc. etc., this was a classic "stock-pickers market" where disciplined selection would be the key to success. Yeah, well, we've all heard that before, but the performance of many of our faves recently has borne that out, I think, and is a great tribute to this thread. Take a look at this chart showing the performance of the G&K stocks in my portfolio since I started hanging with you guys last September: siliconinvestor.com not bad, eh? well, if the bigshot was right, then we should do even better (at least in relative terms) this year, since the coming days might put a still higher premium on selection... tekboy/Ares@thanks.com