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To: Sowbug who wrote (4931)	4/23/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

I'd love to see some of these shorts play the don't pass line in craps in Las Vegas and then yell "In your face, pass line players! You! You! You! You!" when the shooter sevens out. They'd get the living daylights beaten out of them in the parking lot. I am an avid craps player I play both sides and sometimes play both sides at the same time for the odds bet. You make an interesting analogy because it is common for the pass line people to hoot and holler when they win but if a dark side player does that they get dirty looks. Why is that? Same thing on an individual stock thread. I wonder if Les thinks his posts on SI influence others to buy the stock and thus change the direction of the stock? Why would a short's postings be any different than a longs. Quite frankly, no one who posts here is going to change the direction of the stock.

To: Sowbug who wrote (4931)	4/23/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: cm	Respond to of 9343

>>>>>Why the need to be so pathologically antisocial? <<eom>>

To: Sowbug who wrote (4931)	4/23/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: Jonathan Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9343

<OT> Sowbug, Kathryn Staley, in her "Art of Short Selling," has this to say about the short seller, for what it's worth: "Short sellers are odd people. Most of them are ambitious, driven, antisocial, and singleminded. As individuals, they are not very likely to own a Rolex watch or a Presidential springer spaniel [?] or any other symbolic trapping of success; they are likely to have a wry, slightly twisted sense of humor. As a group, short sellers like to disagree, and they like to win against big odds. Typically, they have an axe to grind, a chip on the shoulder...." May I interject here that Staley is sympathetic to short sellers. But to continue ... "As in the general population, some are cretins and some are not [!], but they are all smarter (most of them, in fact, are intellectual snobs) and more independent than most people [this sentence--what can I say]. Contrary to popular wisdom, they do not form a cabal and bash stocks senseless. They normally are secretive and slightly paranoid." Thank you, Kathryn. For entertainment purposes only. J