Well FWIW I wound up selling today as a pre-emptive strike against a margin call. I still believe that in the long run LGND will be a winner but in my heavily margined situation I just couldn't prudently take a chance of it going down any more. It came down to either selling LGND or GELX and I choose LGND. Actually I also needed the tax loss because I did manage to get a double with RPC earlier in the year. Sheese, one of these days I'm just going to go to all cash at the end of June because I always do much better in the first half of the year. GELX is a great stock and I could write several paragraphs on it's prospects but I won't because this isn't the proper forum.
Best of luck to all here. tonyt.... I even hope your stock *longs* make money. *if* your short LGND, I hope you get your head handed to you:)
I ran across this the other day on the net and in view of the sometimes combative nature of this board I can't resist posting it.
The Golden Rule of Flaming:
Flames should be witty, insulting, interesting, funny, caustic, or
sarcastic,
but NEVER, EVER, should they be boring.
The Twelve Commandments of Flaming:
1. Make things up about your opponent: It's important to make your lies
sound true. Preface your argument with the word "clearly." "Clearly, Fred
Flooney is a liar, and a dirtball to boot."
2. Be an armchair psychologist: You're a smart person. You've heard of
Freud. You took a psychology course in college. Clearly, you're qualified to
psychoanalyze your opponent. "Polly Purebread, by using the word
'zucchini' in her posting, shows she has a bad case of penis envy."
3. Cross-post your flames: Everyone on the net is just waiting for the next
literary masterpiece to leave your terminal! From the Apple II RoundTable
to
X-10 Powerhouse RoundTable, they're all holding their breath until your next
flame. Therefore, post everywhere.
4. Conspiracies abound: If everyone's against you, the reason can't
*possibly* be that you're a jerk. There's obviously a conspiracy against
you,
and you will be doing the entire net a favor by exposing it.
5. Lawsuit threats: This is the reverse of Rule #4 (sort of like the Yin &
Yang of Flaming). Threatening a lawsuit is always considered to be in good
form. "By saying that I've posted to the wrong group, Bertha has libeled me,
slandered me, and sodomized me. See you in court, Bertha."
6. Force them to document their claims: Even if Harry Hoinkus states
outright that he likes tomato sauce on his pasta, you should demand
documentation. If Newsweek hasn't written an article on Harry's pasta
preferences, then Harry's obviously lying.
7. Use foreign phrases: French is good, but Latin is the lingua franca
of flaming. You should use the words "ad hominem" at least three times
per article. Other favorite Latin phrases are "ad nauseum," "veni, vidi,
vici," and "fetuccini alfredo."
8. Tell 'em how smart you are: Why use intelligent arguments to
convince them you're smart when all you have to do is tell them? State
that you're a member of Mensa, or Mega, or Dorks of America. Tell
them the scores you received on every exam since high school. "I got an
800 on my SATs, LSATs, GREs, MCATs, and I can also spell the word
'premeiotic' (or in our case, 'mnemonics'").
9. Accuse your opponent of censorship. It is your right as an American
citizen to post whatever the hell you want to the net (as guaranteed by
the 37th Amendment, I think). Anyone who tries to limit your cross-posting
or move a flame war to email is either a communist, a fascist, or both.
10. Doubt their existence: You've never actually seen your opponent,
have
you? And since you're the center of the universe, you should have seen them
by now, shouldn't you? Therefore, THEY DON'T EXIST! This is the beauty of
flamers' logic.
11. Lie, cheat, steal, leave the toilet seat up.
12. When in doubt, insult: If you forget the other 11 rules, remember
this
one. At some point during your wonderful career as a Flamer you will
undoubtedly end up in a flame war with someone who is better than you. This
person will expose your lies, tear apart your arguments, make you look
generally like a bozo. At this point, there's only one thing to do: INSULT
THE DIRTBAG!!! "Oh yeah? Well, your mother does strange things with
vegetables."
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