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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3978)	1/17/2003 1:27:04 PM
From: vds4	Respond to of 8273

...and the room fell quiet. all ears on the child, all ears on the child... :o)

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3978)	1/17/2003 2:27:18 PM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 8273

Hey Kastel, I'll be adding the little guy to my "spud" list<<gg>>, what will be his SI handle?? PawnCo. gg

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3978)	1/18/2003 11:20:54 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Of course you are kidding. How could a 3 year old be smarter than most of the SI investors many times his age? Parents no doubt often wonder "where he heard it", as they cannot recall when they would have stated that exact phrase. But of course you may not have, it is an imitation and amalgamation of other conjunct phrases that he sees are related to what you say. His intellectual language learning processes are obsessed, as our are as well, with divining meaning and re-expression, in order to achieve his own synthesis and understanding of vernacular. What you don't realize is how often you thematically repeat yourself in areas of interest. By the time your kids are 18 they will be able to completely ignore by heart, and do the opposite of for spite, perhaps 100 of your favourite lectoral lessons-in-life designed to guide them down the straight and narrow. Perhaps that is why Scheherezade varied her tales of enchantment. EC<:-}

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3978)	1/19/2003 3:48:27 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

Now ask him what to do next ... once you've got your nut back from all your favourites - which of course are all winners, by definition [the losers tend to become un-favourites real quick-g-] - then what? ... find new favourites, yes, that's a good idea, there's always something else coming along .... But, in many cases, the old favourites are still great picks ... example - nine months ago i sell Minefinders back to freebies, look at the chart, you'll see that's just before the steep part of the rise, lol .... ok but let's say with better timing, i theoretically get them off in June at 6.40 or something - late in July i can buy mfl under 4.00, and through early August it is trending up, improving its chart nicely ..... meantime, given my confidence both in mfl's fundamentals and the imminence of further PoG improvement, it looks like it should be in the collection - Should i consider this a new trade, ignoring the old freebies which are tucked away, and try the same procedure over again? Same with Corner Bay, which for years has had clear value to it, and made a good vehicle for trading the PoAg .... and which i've been lucky enough to trade in and out of since '98 .... just using these two for examples, recently sold some of each of them One thing that's hard is to buy back what you've sold at a higher price ..... which i've done with mfl twice, and bay once, man did that feel stupid, but the mistakes had been made on the previous sales, not the buys, which turned out quite well .... so while it's good to stay open to new picks, sometimes the old ones stay great too If he can't accept this just give him the old line, young man when you're my age you'll understand -g- On the other thing - i swore off talking about that .... tooo much angst among certain aggrieved holders, partly, also with my best source of info on the company i haven't had a lot of contact lately ... then it just became a habit not to even keep up with developments much, beyond skimming the news etc ... generally i think that as a non-gold, it will be swimming against the tide this year if it wants to head north .... but, haven't sold any more, too stubborn [sold purchases from late '01 and early '02 last spring, as posted above] .... so i dunno, don't think about it much really .... if it had much of a run i'd be a seller probably, that wouldn't be a comment on management or its eventual prospects, just a reflection of my perception of near-term market realities .... golds are the thing, until this coming summer or longer, perhaps much longer ... imho ... cheers