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To: Ahda who wrote (15832)	8/13/1998 4:16:00 PM
From: paul ross	Respond to of 116791

*OFF TOPIC* Collection of Stock Market Jokes after the Crash 1) Submitted by several, first Greg Woods Q: What's the difference between a pigeon and a stockbroker? A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW. 2) Submitted by several, first Kyle Adler These two women were walking through the forest when they hear this voice from under a log. Investigating, the women discovered the voice was coming from a frog: "Help me, ladies! I am an investment banker who, through an evil witch's curse, has been transformed into a frog. If one of you will kiss me, I'll be returned to my former state!" The first woman took out her purse, grabbed the frog, and stuffed it inside her handbag. The second woman, aghast, screamed, "Didn't you hear him? If you kiss him, he'll turn into an investment banker?" The second woman replied, "Sure, but these days a talking frog is worth more than an investment banker!" 3) From Patricia Giencke--and the New York Times Merrill Lynch has adjusted its investment portfolio: 50% cash and 50% canned goods. Bumper sticker on Wall Street: My other Porsche is for sale. How many investment bankers can you fit in the back of a pickup truck? Only 2 - you have to leave room for the lawn mowers! I have an uncle down at Wall Street. He used to have a corner on the market. Now he has a market on the corner. "Get my broker, Miss Jones." "Yes sir. Stock, or Pawn?" 4) Some very, very old jokes used in just about all bad times, now applied to the market: Q: In these busy market times, how can you get the attention of your broker? A: Say, "Hey, waiter!" --------- How do you get a broker down from a tree? Cut the rope. 5) The market may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried. Many have sent jokes about broker suicides. Since there actually were very few, if any, both now and in 1929, these didn't really get much of a laugh. You could also see them all coming down 6th avenue, so I'm not posting. \| Browse the Best of RHF: "Jokes about Current Events" \| Best of Jokes \| Current Jokes \| RHF Home \| Search

To: Ahda who wrote (15832)	8/13/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: Ray Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

Hi Darleen, Background: I'm a New Yorker (30+ years on Wall Street) transplanted to Vancouver 9 years ago. Maybe I'm qualified to comment. New Yorkers (maybe Chicagoans, etc.) are pretty brash. They are not too bashful about calling a spade a spade, a scam a scam. Plus, the tendency to litigate readily also may help keep people from stretching the truth so much. In Vancouver - self-professed Lotus Land (aka LaLa Land) - folks tend to avoid being "cheeky" because British folks know that's not nice. Lots of nice folks around here. But you'll often hear a Brit softly singing "Paddy was a Welshman, Paddy was a thief (my ancestors again)." So, up here it is understood that, underneath the nice non-cheeky, like all other nationalities, there's a very normal tendency to see if we can cheat a little. So, (he said trying to avoid being cheeky) this mild-mannered national characteristic allows bullies to bully, scammers to thrive, abusers to abuse because there's little tendency for meek common folks to protest. Too cheeky. So the word doesn't get around. (Or if it does, Paddy wants in on the action 'cause there's a fast buck to be made.) If there is so little public wailing, knashing of teeth, tearing of hair and rending of clothes, why should regulators leave the golf course down (chose one Florida, Bahama, Mexico) way where the sun sometimes shines?. Bottom line: Canadians aren't gullible, they are just too darn passive (as is daily professed in the Canadian media). I mean, the way they get ripped off by politicians (getcha news - scandal of the day in Ottawa), taxed to oblivion, mired in 10% unemployment, brain drained into mediocrity, abused by untrained and inept police (never saw a police weapon pulled in 30+ years in downtown NY but have had machine guns pointed directly at me and the wife, hey there's a Welshman), proves you just can't raise public outcry against abuse of any sort here in LaLa Land. Great contemporary Canadian author P. Burton lays the blame on the U.S. revolution. Says all the passive folks fled to Canada to avoid confrontation. The quarrelsome, the malcontent, the legacy of the penal colonies - oops, my ancestors again - stayed below the 49th parallel. In Burton's view, this natural selection process concentrated an aggressive lot of malcontents in USA leaving Canada with the placid folk. By the way, have you heard the latest scam - this one by the VSE itself setting up a monopoly and forcing all VSE-listed cos. to distribute News Releases ONLY THROUGH THEIR CHOSEN COMPANY. Fairness, open markets, competition? No, VSE coercion! So, how can we blame promoters when the authorities do it too? Paddy strikes again. Hey, the sun's shining, I think I'll go for a sail. Bye from LaLaLaLaLaLand.