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To: Carolyn who wrote (20415)	9/4/2001 9:50:56 AM
From: Barney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62548

Larry goes to see his travel agent. "Hey Larry, going away on holiday again?" "Yes, but I need to ask for something different." "Go ahead ask me." "You know last year you suggested Hawaii and when I returned my wife was pregnant." "Yes, but. . ." "And the year before you suggested Bermuda and when I returned my wife was pregnant." "Yes, but. . ." "And the year before that I went to Bali and when I returned my wife was pregnant." "Yes." "Well! Could you suggest something cheaper this year so that I can bring her with me?"

To: Carolyn who wrote (20415)	9/4/2001 12:01:12 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62548

The losses in the stock market -a.k.a money that went to heaven- reminded of that Portuguese immigrant that got rich producing milk. He immigrated and decided to sell milk. He decided to develop upstream. First he bought one cow. With the profiots he re-invested and bought another cow. Everyone like his milk and he had more customers than milk and started increasing production by adding water to the milk. So some 30% of the milk came from the tap. He got very rich and decided that it was time to go back to Portugal and retire with all the money he had made. But he couldn't leave those cows that were the source his wealth behind. He decided to ship them over to Portugal and retire the cows too. The cargo ship took his cows and he went with them in the same ship. In the middle of the trip the ship got into a trouble and started sinking, as he jumps into the life boats he sees his beloved cows drowning and sobbed in sadness and despair: "Water gave me them. Water is taking them away from me!" This is the wealth investors achieved form the bubble. As they see the market dived, you could hear them saying: "The market gave me. The market is taking them away."