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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (64770)	3/5/2004 12:55:09 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I was thinking of you today looking at AFFX. When I turned everything over to the financial manager two years ago, I kept a few secretly that I was too embarrassed to admit I owned. (They made me sell all the losers I told them about.) I think I was in denial, or maybe shock. But I kept my NXTL, AFFX, INTC, and a few others and while AFFX isn't there yet-- it has sure come back a long way. The others look great. Now I wonder if I need to sell and turn the money over. I feel like an alcoholic with a few bottles stashed away under the dirty laundry.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (64770)	3/5/2004 2:55:14 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 71178

Jfred, Good to hear your stocks are behaving. Here's something I ran across on my depraved hard disk. For some reason, it made me think of you - Holly Clipped from "San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune" gazillion years ago, when California first started implementing smog and pollution controls on autos and factories. This letter was a response to a letter which was, in turn, a response to a press release by a local politician, Bud Collier, who was grandstanding and stating he had spent $2000 to have lead removed from his body, such was the deplorable condition of Southern California's air at the time (according to Collier). Mercifully, Bud Collier has long ago faded from the poliical arena. Or maybe he just changed his name to Jerry Brown and was twice elected Governor. <g> "Mr. Marcuso's rebuttal to Bud Collier's complaint that it cost $2000 to get the lead out, misses the point, I think. Mr. Mancuso is no doubt correct in stating that workers exposed to high lead dosage need only a little diversion away from excess lead to reduce their lead content to safe levels, but with politicians, it is not so simple--in fact, excess lead historically has been normal for them--long before the auto was invented. There is little hope of politicians ever getting the lead out, since they are nearly always (except the numerous and lengthy recesses) exposed to such megadosages of it. "If Collier paid $2000 to get the lead out it certainly appears no noticeable improvement has been made. If lead could be gotten out of a politician for a 'mere' $2000 each, that would be the greatest bargain the taxpayers could get. "Spontaneous remissions have been known to occur--for the very brief time it takes to vote themselves more of the noble metals--gold and silver, but no permanent cure has ever been recorded. " - Geoge Shutt - Glendora (California)