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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve lipson who wrote (6506)	12/18/1997 1:16:00 PM
From: Tim Kenney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

So, AOL is 5/6 of the way there to earning the jackpot? Hardly. The better comparison is to one of McDonald's win a trip around the world promotions. All you need is to accumulate the six game tiles and you're there. Everytime you eat at McDonald's, you get a new game tile. The first five times you show up, you are able to accumulate the first 5 tiles. That's it baby, I'ma go'in 'round the world. You start eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonald's in pursuit of that last tile, sometimes eating three lunches there, sometimes spending an extra $5 for the value meal since you are ordering the drink, fries, and burger separately, so as to get three tiles instead of one. Unfortunately, by the time the contest ends, you have 100 of each of the first five tiles, but still lack the magical sixth tile. You lose, but you sure was excited while the game lasted.