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To: Ilaine who wrote (6351)	5/13/2006 10:11:17 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217669

CB, I think that with regards to gold/silver there is a big change in the public attitude that is just beginning. I am here in South Florida and to be sure there are an inordinate number of gold bugs in these parts (just look up gold auctions on Ebay by location). Some of these folks are already using gold/silver much as they might have used a 6 months CD a decade ago, as a vehicle for saving any cash surplus that might accumulate and a source of funds in a pinch. There are the usual problems that come with any physical asset, a main worry here being what to do in case a hurricane blows your house away and you wind up in a FEMA trailer. Give this another few years with high PM prices and this will spread far and wide. Slagle

To: Ilaine who wrote (6351)	5/13/2006 11:22:21 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 217669

i still want to mud wrestle with you. yeah i know. you outweigh me by 200 lbs. but that wouldn't bother me. how bout we meet on CFZ for old times sake and get it on???

To: Ilaine who wrote (6351)	5/13/2006 11:55:55 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217669

Pearls are interesting - they were very valuble around 1900 - there was a large set of pearls traded for an apartment building in New York. relative price has been declining for a long time, even before the spread of cultured pearls, with the wider use of various diving equipment and increase in trade to many Pacific islands. Nice too have, but not an investment. I thougth Francis Bacon made a large contirbution to Sci methoo, well before Royal society. I will check Wikipedia. Great thing about Wikipedia is they will generally have most controversial views listed and represented. They can be error prone, however.

To: Ilaine who wrote (6351)	5/15/2006 2:45:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217669

CB, TJ loves his Go-d and thinks like the Iridium people, who were also excited about how many electrons went around a nucleus and how many satellites went around the world. They changed to dysprosium, a more prosaic-sounding element than iridium, but kept the name, and went bankrupt anyway because their ideas were bung. I am planning to shift lead and mercury to gold and platinum. I just need to move a proton or two and I'm in business. That can't be very difficult. I think a judicious application of phragmented photons should do the trick. Imagine when I convert lead, or mercury, to gold and platinum, what that will do to my profits. Mqurice