[Grovenet] Common ground (stocks!)

[John Welch]

Very Punny Dick!

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick La Jeunesse" <dicklajeunesse at hotmail.com>
To: <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Common ground (stocks!)


>>>If you are looking at stock, how about goats?  <smile>
>>
>>David
>>
> How about sheep, David?
>
> My Great grandfather stumbled onto a scheme that made him a lot of money. 
> To help make ends meet, he had been poaching deer and selling the meat to 
> local New England restaurants.  Before long, the demand outstripped his 
> ability to "obtain inventory" (the game warden was on to him).  He 
> partnered with a local sheep processor to invent a way to cure mutton to 
> make it taste enough like venison to fool the restaurant folks.  He became 
> a very rich man.
>
> Thus his advice to me when I was just a tad -
>
> "Buy sheep and sell deer"
>
>
> words to live by.
>
>
> Dick  ;)
>
>
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