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To: Lucretius who wrote (43286)	1/13/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: Copeland	Respond to of 132070

I think I wrote about that last week. Since becoming a market idiot, I'm up about $13,000 on one day trades (mostly with the second tier interjunk). Buy what and when the herd buys and hope that nothing happens. Baaa... baa.... baa...

To: Lucretius who wrote (43286)	1/13/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: wlheatmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

And you thought you had a bad day. (this was an article in the CALIFORNIA EXAMINER, March 20, 1998): Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully-clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast-some 20 miles away from the forest. The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.