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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cellhigh who wrote (36997)	11/22/1997 6:55:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>> jibberish... << well... I was going for parody. Missed, eh? >> go yell at the dog or something! << What do you have against my dog? >>buy cant you say nothing<< (sic) Say what?

To: cellhigh who wrote (36997)	11/23/1997 11:15:00 AM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 58324

RE: *OT* Strategies in writing ronald, >cant you say nothing >...or what adds up to nothing on another thread? >jibberish... Just for the record, jwk was indeed saying something. It's just that he was using SATIRE to say it, and that satire took the form of DELIBERATE gibberish. As people who used it often--such as Jonathan Swift and Galileo--sometimes found out the hard way, though, satire is often misunderstood and can be risky for the author to use. Mind you, I'm not defending or endorsing jwk's position, which is clearly anti-daytrading and anti-options. Unlike him, I'm all for the daytraders and the options jockeys chatting with each other here, taking their risks with their own money, and either scoring big or going down in flames, or doing something in between. Although I rarely play their game myself with my own money, I've learned a lot by voyeuristically peeping over their shoulders as they do their thing. Just in case anyone misses it, that's an implicit endorsement of a single thread on my part. Let's use Gary Wisdom's system and put either T for trading, or F for fundamentals, or FT for both, or OT for none of the above in the subject lines of our posts. Oh, and Sheila, as the follow-up posts to your message make clear, you and I are clearly not the only longs on the thread. Maybe, though, we are the only two posters who are both STRICTLY long and also CHATTY. Others combine their longs with other plays, or they resist the urge to post more than we do. Maybe Jack Knutson constitutes a third here, though he has the good sense to go out to play, instead of pounding the keyboard, more often than I do. That first-person Comdex report was terrific, especially the explanation of the letters of endorsement for Clik. Happy trading, all. Cheers, Tom (long IOM)