To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (43478 ) 10/24/2001 8:31:42 AM From: stockman_scott Respond to of 65232 Here are some common phrases and the actual meaning: 'Word on the Street is that Buffet is buying tons of this one.~~I am capable of making up anything. 'I am in at 10.'~~The current value of my shares is $10 below the market value. 'Looks like some accumulation going on.'~~The stock has traded three times the number of shares in the entire float today. 'I am just going to take my shares and tuck them away.'~~I can feel those shares being tucked now. 'Shorts are panicking now!'~~The stock is dropping so fast they can't possibly get an uptick to short more. 'Institutions are buying.'~~Anyone buying should be institutionalized. 'Dips are buying opportunities.'~~Not just dips are opportunities, morons, idiots, the gullible, drunks, anyone you can get to buy is an opportunity to unload. 'Everything is pointing go long on this stock.'~~I not only asked my Magic 8 Ball, I called Psychic Hotline. 'Just wait until the company announces their contracts.'~~Wait, while I get out of this dog. 'We should stop responding any more to negative and shorts posts, I am only going to respond to positive posts about this company.'~~I think we need to start holding hands. 'I will see you at a hundred.'~~The $25,000 I put in this company is now at $251.15 and dropping. 'I called the company, this one is solid.'~~I called investor relations, they are still in business the answering machine was on. 'This company is the next Microsoft.'~~I have relapsed into drug abuse yet again. 'I am backing up the truck to load up shares.'~~I just lost my house and pickup to a margin call. 'There is a squeeze going on.'~~When I bought this thing I never expected it to grab me there. 'I am calling in my certificates.'~~At current value the paper they are printed on has more worth as mulch. 'This is just a head fake.'~~God! It dropped 20 points. 'The MM's are just shaking out the weak hands.'~~Smart money just left. 'It is going down because of illegal shorting.'~~That earnings report was appalling. 'I just use talk boards to swap information, no one in their right mind would use them for investment advice.'~~Fair warning, I am going to spew some real garbage now in hopes you will buy this dog. 'I checked my TA, this one is getting ready to explode.'~~This is the literal truth. 'This one is going to the moon!'~~Care to join the lunatics? 'Shorts are just spouting a bunch of nonsense on this board.'~~I can't understand those SEC filings at all. (courtesy of flamer par excellence Druss, from the flame thread)