burrocrat's Account Talk

[konakathy]

So, I'm in the market.

For a new crystal ball, and some more sheetrock. Thank goodness, because those windows are expensive.

I think I might have hurt it's feelings.

I thought you were a soothsayer?

Yeah..... those new curtains wouldn't look so hot on broken windows.

 

[burrocrat]

I thought you were a soothsayer?

Yeah..... those new curtains wouldn't look so hot on broken windows.

breaking stuff sometimes soothes me.

and broken windows always look better with curtains.

sometimes they're made out of bricks.

 

[burrocrat]

Oh yeah, pounded right through the -5% mark and still going.

I almost hate to say it because every time I get close then it tanks, but I'm really tired of running into this negative returns brick wall, and I think it might be different this time.

Let it ride.

 

[alevin]

breaking stuff sometimes soothes me.

and broken windows always look better with curtains.

sometimes they're made out of bricks.

Watch where you throw that thing, b. windows can cost a bit to replace, I should know. Just wrote a check for one this afternoon. ah well, I do learn from my mistakes, including how not to make a storm fit flush with the frame when it doesn't want to.

 

[burrocrat]

You didn't try to prepare for the future storm by fixing it with a magic 8 ball did you? That sometimes doesn't work out so well.

 

[alevin]

You didn't try to prepare for the future storm by fixing it with a magic 8 ball did you? That sometimes doesn't work out so well.

No magic-8s for me, I'm a fundamentalist charter meself. sometimes I can't tell the difference tho.

 

[burrocrat]

No magic-8s for me, I'm a fundamentalist charter meself. sometimes I can't tell the difference tho.

What's a fundamentalist charter? Is that like reading tea leaves?

 

[alevin]

Yup. Now that I think about it, there are strange patterns in the charts, just a matter of time before the real trend reveals itself in the fundamentals. I wish I didn't believe that.

 

[burrocrat]

-2, pshaw, that is soooo last month, that all you got? Now let's see the real move.

Birchtree: -6.64, Boghie: -6.86, burrocrat: -6.68. I've said it before, those are some of my favorite investors, at least 2 out of 3 of them are fine company.

That's a lot of 6's, and some 8's, even a half an 8. Just kind of lines up doesn't it, easy as pie, they're all divisible by 2 so that eliminates half the wrong choices, and if you break even on the other half then that's 3 to 1 to the good. How can you go wrong? Plus you're bound to get lucky once in a while.

Well, that's enough about math, back to the news.

According to The Bull, hedge funds have 1 tril sitting in cash, and mom-and-pop are afraid of being left behind. Wooooo, Wooooooo! Get on board.

 

[Sensei]

Birchtree: -6.64, Boghie: -6.86, burrocrat: -6.68. I've said it before, those are some of my favorite investors, at least 2 out of 3 of them are fine company.

Throw in Bquat, and you guys are the killer B's - 'cept he's up quite a bit more.

 

[Intrepid_Timer]

Don't forget Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), down 8.93% YTD. Well, at least there's another 8..........

 

[Bquat]

Throw in Bquat, and you guys are the killer B's - 'cept he's up quite a bit more.

I'm just a non-worker bee and don't even think Queen Bee, Buster. Oh he's a Bee too.

 

[burrocrat]

Whoa, that's a lot of b's too. I didn't notice that part before, I was concentrating on the numbers so hard. Plus I'm super time-efficient and search the tracker by alphabet because it's a lot easier to find myself again.

I think you guys might be on to something worth exploring here. Ok everybody, what's the first letter of your parent's names? I'm starting a little research project.

 

[burrocrat]

I hesitate to say anything (wow, that almost never happens), but I'm creeping up on the break even point, can see the light on the surface.

I hope I can come up for air soon, I've been stuck on this ride in my soiled sticky pants for so long it's starting to smell good to me.

Dang, I hope I didn't jinx it, better go knock on some wood, anybody got wood?

Oh wait, here's some. Woooo, hoo hoo hooooo!

 

[nasa1974]

Hey Burro,

Maybe you need to pop the top off this to get above the negative side of things.






P.S. I don't mean to offend anyone but Burro needs a little bit of help.

 

[burrocrat]

Hey Burro,

Maybe you need to pop the top off this to get above the negative side of things.

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Problem is every time I open a can like that a snake jumps out, or I get my ass whooped. Neither of those are my favorite things.

P.S. I don't mean to offend anyone but Burro needs a little bit of help.

A little bit of help? Man, you are an optimist. Thanks.

 

[nasa1974]

Problem is every time I open a can like that a snake jumps out, or I get my ass whooped. Neither of those are my favorite things. LOL


A little bit of help, man you are an optimist. Thanks.

Your welcome.

 

[burrocrat]

Oh, so close. Yep, jinxed it.

I'll break even one of these days.

Here we go again I guess, I think I'm going to go wheee, wheee.

 

[PessOptimist]

Burro, it might have been me who jinxed it. I posted a whoo hoo in my thread about being positive again. So blame it on me.

If you go wee wee please do so in an appropriate place. We don't want to see you incarcerated for anything. This ain't Europe yet ya know.

Have faith brother! We will all beat the G fund by years end. Maybe. If that's what the HMFIC has planned.

 

[burrocrat]

Burro, it might have been me who jinxed it. I posted a whoo hoo in my thread about being positive again. So blame it on me.

If you go wee wee please do so in an appropriate place. We don't want to see you incarcerated for anything. This ain't Europe yet ya know.

Have faith brother! We will all beat the G fund by years end. Maybe. If that's what the HMFIC has planned.

What? I'm not allowed to wee wee in my own sticky pants anymore too? That's what they're for right? At least it's better than doing it on someone elses outfit.

Never been incarcerated, or to Europe. And if my luck holds never will be either.

This market makes me want to sell all my moon rocks on the down low and hope for the best. But I hear that don't work out so well sometimes.

Joann Davis, 74-Year-Old Grandmother, Terrified In NASA Moon Rock Sting

When officers in flack vests took a hold of her, the 4-foot-11 woman said she was so scared she lost control of her bladder and was taken outside to a parking lot, where she was questioned and detained for about two hours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/joann-davis-nasa-sting_n_1028156.html

Out of all the stories someone might write about me, that is one of my least favorite.