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Offline D.A.L.U.I.

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Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« on: April 15, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »

   

 
Subject: Work....................
 
In 1923, Who Was:

1.  President of the largest steel company?
2. President of the  largest gas company?
3. President of the  New York stock  Exchange?
4. Greatest wheat speculator?
5. President of the  Bank of International Settlement?
6. Great Bear of Wall Street? 



These  men were considered some of the worlds most successful of their days. 

Now, 80 years later, the history book asks us, if we know  what ultimately became of them.



The Answers: 


1. The president of the  largest steel company.
Charles Schwab,

died a  pauper.

2. The president of the  largest gas company,
Edward Hopson,

went  insane.

3. The president of the  NYSE,
Richard Whitney,

was  released from prison to die at  home.

4. The greatest wheat  speculator,
Arthur Cooger,

died  abroad, penniless.

5.. The president of 
the Bank of International Settlement,

shot  himself.

6 The Great Bear of Wall  Street,
Cosabee Livermore,

also  committed suicide



However, 

in that same year, 1923,  the PGA Champion
and the winner of the most important golf tournament,
the US Open,
was 

Gene  Sarazen.

What became of  him?


He  played golf until he was 92,
died in 1999 at the age of 95.
He was  financially secure
at the time of his death. 

The  Moral:


f**k work..
Play golf.
 



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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2009, 10:08:44 AM »
I'm hoping this is true for even a "hacker" like myself............ :*))
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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2009, 10:19:41 AM »
Obviously the present day corporate heads have decided to pillage the corporations at our expense so as to NOT die penniless like their predecessors.    >:(

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2009, 11:05:26 AM »
I just dont see the point in golf  ???
If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got!

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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2009, 11:08:03 AM »
I just dont see the point in golf  ???

What kind of Scot are you?  You don't drink Scotch, you don't play golf.  They'll be coming to deport you for such crimes against the state.  :*))

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2009, 11:46:13 AM »
Obviously the present day corporate heads have decided to pillage the corporations at our expense so as to NOT die penniless like their predecessors.    >:(

Red

Golf . . . a good walk spoiled.  Mark Twain  ;D

Love you Red (in a Bud Light kinda way  ;D), but I couldn't disagree with you more on both counts.


Agonizing over what cannot be is an insult to what is.

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« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2009, 11:52:04 AM »

Love you Red (in a Bud Light kinda way  ;D), but I couldn't disagree with you more on both counts.

Just trying to be a total curmudgeon today.  I obviously succeeded.  My work here is done.   O0

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2009, 12:16:02 PM »
Oh yes, my dad will be getting an email with this one.
People are not limited by the circumstance that they are born in. They are limited by the size of their dreams. Show them that their dreams can have no limits and in turn their accomplishments can be limitless.

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2009, 01:00:53 PM »

Love you Red (in a Bud Light kinda way  ;D), but I couldn't disagree with you more on both counts.

Just trying to be a total curmudgeon today.  I obviously succeeded.  My work here is done.   O0

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What do you mean trying.

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2009, 01:02:52 PM »
I just dont see the point in golf  ???

What kind of Scot are you?  You don't drink Scotch, you don't play golf.  They'll be coming to deport you for such crimes against the state.  :*))

Red

I understand that his name is on a list in Glasgow somewhere.

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Re: Work? Play? You decide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2009, 01:18:07 PM »
I just dont see the point in golf  ???

What kind of Scot are you?  You don't drink Scotch, you don't play golf.  They'll be coming to deport you for such crimes against the state.  :*))

Red

I understand that his name is on a list in Glasgow somewhere.

I think it's Edinburgh, if not "L" town, but I don't want to pull the Ambassador's beard.  >:D >:D >:D>:D >:D >:D

 



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