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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87382)	12/21/2000 3:14:46 PM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

MB: LOL!! Man, I'm glad to read your comments as it does alleviate a growing belief that I've got an undetected (by me, but not by others) bad breath or body odour problem. (g) It delights me that you would stick a small pin into the exalted egos mentioned. I just posted a short comment over on the CFZ thread that pertains to Dear Abby. Best, Earlie

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87382)	12/21/2000 3:39:46 PM
From: vampire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

<<Less lazy, not co-opted, experienced, a cranky old contrarian. Yeah, I think they'll buy into that last one >> how bout not beholden to the IB department?!?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87382)	12/21/2000 5:02:56 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, >>Less lazy, not co-opted, experienced, a cranky old contrarian.<< I think I'm not nearly as smart as a lot of analysts, but I think I have a more sound way of looking for potential investments than most people that are smarter than me. Q: How do you beat Bobby Fischer? A: Don't play him chess. If everyone is geared towards short term earnings projections, predicting interest rates and the Fed's next move, predicting the economy, indexing, CAPM, or other ways of looking at businesses, that can't possible be the right way for me to play. For one, I'm not smarter than they are. For another, they have more time and access to more information. But that doesn't mean a can't learn a few sound principles that might help me identify undervalued businesses in ways that others are not focusing on. I think I get better at that every day. Wayne

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87382)	12/22/2000 9:23:03 PM
From: Dave Kiernan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Maybe liberated? Oops..may get feminist flack for that one!

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87382)	12/23/2000 5:47:57 AM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, Nice post. Even a sea urchin doesn't take noise coming out of Abby's mouth seriously. Neither do I. So, I suppose I'm at least as smart as a sea urchin. But then again, I have another reason that the sea urchin doesn't: I have money which could be easily taken by the AbbyClone crowd by listening to the likes of Abby. I'd rather burn my money. That at least would be comparatively fun. But what is even more fun is making money by ignoring the AbbyClone LetUsTakeYerMoneySpeak---or better yet, using them as a contrarian signal. As always, JMVHO.........YMMV Walkingshadow Disclosure: I don't work for Abby and am not an analyst. 'Course, even a sea urchin would've guessed that <gggg>.