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To: Ilaine who wrote (58224)	4/30/1999 2:23:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 132070

Oh that's easy to take care of. You just chew up a charcoal briquette after each martini. Not the ones pre-soaked with lighter compound, of course.

To: Ilaine who wrote (58224)	5/3/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

A tax question, if you have the books and the inclination to explain something not very difficult. I know that short sales count as short term, no matter when you cover the short, but I think that profits on a put held over a year qualify for capital gains treatment. True or false? In exchange I will offer my opinion as to whether Walt Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter" can be scanned as iambics or not--a question I feel sure is of great interest and deserving of generous fees to settle adequately.