[Grovenet] Common ground (stocks!)

[David Morelli]

Dick,

You suckered me along on that one, right down to the final quote.   
Ouch!  Or as Barney Keep used to say, "chuckle, chuckle, sob".

David

On Jul 7, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Dick La Jeunesse wrote:

>>> 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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