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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (11643)	3/26/2006 1:18:18 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19790

The shoeshine boy story is a fairy tale that comes in a variety of flavors, as (almost) everybody knows. Could a Microsoft encyclopedia be wrong? Certainly not in your world, Duke. encarta.msn.com ...So wildly did the masses take to the stock market that in 1928 John D. Rockefeller (or Bernard Baruch or Joseph Kennedy--the story varies) got a stock tip from his shoeshine boy. He immediately went out and sold all his stocks on the theory that when amateurs get into the market, it was time for the professionals to get out. As for the rest of your post: - The middle part illustrates well what a reasonably smart guy who often unfortunately indulges himself to write with equal measures of arrogance, contempt and vapidity sounds like. - The last line has some validity...that is, it doesn't matter. But I mean that in the nicest possible way. :-) --QS