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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mannie who wrote (6546)	10/6/2007 5:29:41 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50538

Would you like a FREE “1980-dollars” lunch on me? That’s correct…you heard me right - a FREE lunch on “mwah.” And I’m not talking about a cheap lunch. No buffets… no drive thru’s… no golden arches. And no low-fat sandwich from Subway either. Now listen to me here… and take this seriously. This is your chance to have a - fully inflated, Ben Bernanke helicopter-drop, printing presses-gone wild, free lunch on me. We’re talking about a manly lunch, because I won’t be using no stinkin’ PCE-price deflator to figure out how much you get to spend. In fact, I’m going to use the “gold bug formula” to determine what the proper price level for lunch should be… by re-pricing the cost of lunch today - in “1980 dollars” which by my calculations… comes out to be $48.63. I’ll even round it up… we’ll call it fifty bucks even. Enough for you and a guest for lunch. Now who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch? So here’s the drill… We're going to have a little survey. A contest of sorts. A fun way to introduce… “Monday Night Smackdown.” Yes, Monday night… not Sunday night. Sunday’s just don’t work for me. They either turn out to be a "too long" day with family and friends, or a get out of town day – to be somewhere else on Monday. This will also allow me an extra pain & suffering recovery day from the weekly thumping the Irish have been taking on Saturday afternoons of late. Another couple of weeks like they've been playing and I'm going to need lithium and Charlie Weiss is going to need bodyguards 24 x 7. (vbg). So from here on out… it shall be: ”Monday Night Smackdown” And the winner of our little kickoff contest get's a $50 gift card to the national restaurant chain of their choice. Applebee's, Red Lobster, Carraba's Italian Grill, (I highly recommend the Linguine Pescatore` by the way) Friday's, Chilli's etc. So it's lunch on me - if you are the first one to post the correct answer to our Monday Night Smackdown - contest question. Now I don’t want to violate any SI terms of service and we’ll figure out a way not to do that. I don’t need, or want to know your real name, or address etc. We’ll find some way to get you the gift card, or certificate – even if we have to do a “will call” under a pseudonym at your local restaurant. No biggie. Anyway… here’s how this will work. Monday night, at ex-act-ly 8 p.m. E.S.T. I’m going to post our contest question… and the first person to post the correct answer wins. It’s as simple as that. The contest will stay open until 9 p.m. EST, or until I post my “Monday Night Smackdown” – which ever occurs last (and I won’t be taking any bets on that one (vbg). I’ll acknowledge the winner shortly after that. So you’ll have about a 60 minute window to answer our little contest question. The reason for this is simple. I want to know if you’ve been listening. I don’t want the answer to come from googling it, or looking it up, doing research etc. Either you know it… or, you don’t… as simple as that. So, once again… the question get’s posted around 8 p.m. E.S.T. Monday night… and the contest window will stay open for about an hour… until, 9 p.m. EST, or when the “Monday Night Smackdown” gets posted. Oh, and I’d imagine you’re wondering just what this is all about? What do I have up my sleeve and where am I going with this? Well, the answer is - I have nothing up my sleeve… mainly because as I type this… it’s 87 freekin’ degrees on the SE shore of Lake Michigan and I’m wearing a tank top in October!?!? …now tell me Al Gore isn’t on to something here? Actually it’s because… as I’ve been enjoying my little “walkabout” (thanks to Mannie for that description) because that’s best word to describe my vacation… both literally and figuratively... I’ve been doing a little thinking, mulling a few things around, and I finally decided to shut a good friend up…by saying “yes” to something he’s been bugging me about… for about a year, or so. More on that later… This Monday Night’s smackdown is going to have a few charts (always time-tested, tempered and hardened by the fundies and sentiment), along with a couple of thoughts on individual gold & silver stocks, and a rant about gold-bug newsletters that got started by a “PM” from an SI poster here on this thread. Stay frosty, and DON’T even think about telling me that “global warming” isn’t real… as sweat is dripping down the small of my back as I type this on my laptop, out on my patio...in October...on Lake Michigan...in 87 degree heat! Later, SOTB Hey… and PS: All jokes aside. Take the time to do your own “walkabout.” You know what I did? I turned off the phones. All of them. Cell phone(s) plural - included. Rule #1 of Walkabout: No phones. And you know what else? Rule #2 --no watches. And no alarm clocks. To be honest… drove me nuts the first couple of days. I kept looking at my wrist (even though I put my watch in my nightstand drawer). Kept checking my cell phone to see how many messages I had… even though the phone was turned off. At 27 messages… I just deleted them all and put the cell phone in the drawer too. Figured if it was important… they’d call back again… and if it wasn’t – they wouldn’t. Very empowering. Very invigorating. Very peaceful. Try it sometime… on your next vacation, or walkabout. No watches, no alarm clocks, no cell phones… no damn phones – period. No interruptions… only an emergency contact. And most importantly – no work from the office. I promise you – you’ll enjoy your vacation twice as much, and find it 10 x more relaxing. And the best part? Your wife, or girlfriend will verrrrrrrry much appreciate it, if you know what I mean. ;) .