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To: marginmike who wrote (123412)	9/18/2001 4:55:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I can't access The Street.com, but here is what AntMan sent: >>Thank you for offering this opportunity for readers to give tribute to Bill Meehan. Bill was a very good friend. I first met Bill on Silicon Investor. I had commented to some other SI participant "Doesn't Meehan flip flop quite a bit". A month or so later, Bill Meehan himself responded. I had no idea Bill was a member of SI, but from there his participation flourished. The thread on which he participated was called "The Myth of the Big Kahuna". The idea was that there were those of us that believed 3 years ago, or so, that the market was too high and would come down at some point, but there was a crowd of folks that had been beaten up fighting the tape. After Bill and I, and others had become quite regular pals on SI, one day I asked Bill to use the word "Myth" on one of his TV appearances in honor of the thread. All in all, he did that for us about 20 times. My nickname on SI was "Antman" and one day he even said that the market looked "Antsy". Here was a guy that had been a little early calling for the market to decline, but suddenly his calls were dead on the money. He called the original Nasdaq drop within a point or two at 2150. He was in demand everywhere on TV and became a regular on Real Money. And yet he was still tipping his hat to his pals on TV. I echo the comment that your editors and contributors are making. No matter how well he did, he never talked down to you. You were Bill's peer. An absolutely extraordinary quality. The only person I have known to compare him to was Richard Feynman, who was a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, yet always was generous with his time and never talked down to anyone. And Feynman, too, had a diverse set of interests including music, etc. Bill was scheduled to come to our wedding this month, and he will dearly be missed. You can rest assured that there will be a Cantor Fitzgerald tie there which he had given me. I don't know that I can do justice to conveying the warmth of his character. Recently when the parasailor hooked himself on the Statue of Liberty, I emailed him and told him "You crazy New Yorkers"... and he wrote on Trading Track that a friend had written him and he was off to the windows for a better view. We celebrated when he first appeared on Wall $treet Week. Thanks for sharing your great ride, Bill. We love you dearly. You taught us a lot about the market, but much more about life. We commend your soul to the Lord, and pray that you have found peace. We'll miss you deeply. Your friend forever, (AntMan)<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Actually the thread was "The Naked Truth - Big Kahuna is a Myth" Subject 17047 Started by our own Jumper, about our own MythMan. Lo these many years later, the Dow and the Naz are still higher than they were when those threads were started. AntMan was the one who talked me into cashing out in 1999. LOL! Never did learn how to short.