Guest Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 EBAY has started to roll over upside momo gone bye bye downside momo will be brutal like trying to catch a falling anvil with your teeth like sitting in front row listening to fat lady sing, then, before you can move, she slips and falls off stage oh my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozer Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 great piece of art, The Prisoner. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> With its depiction of ubiquitous surveillance, a slogan-manipulated populace, a prison camp disguised as a planned resort community, and a sham benevolent authority intent on making sure that no one had a private thought in his head, it was, some think, a parable for our times. I think that "The Matrix" was closer to the mark. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes...but give them their due....The Matrix -had- The Prisoner, plus 30 years more 'progress' to examine, to base their piece on. Prisoner made their projection in 1965 or whatever. Pretty damn good projection, considering, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWD Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 It was pretty good. They had a lot of dystopian literature from which they could (and, I suspect, did) draw some inspiration: Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, and Zamyatin. There was more thought put into it than the garbage they show nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozer Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 It was pretty good. They had a lot of dystopian literature from which they could (and, I suspect, did) draw some inspiration: Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, and Zamyatin. There was more thought put into it than the garbage they show nowadays. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> god, yes.... a hundred times yes. ...or than the garbage they showed back then, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozer Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 like trying to catch a falling anvil with your teeth <{POST_SNAPBACK}> oowww....shorty...that one -hurt- just to visualize! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 By the authority vested in me, as Chief of Stock Proctology, whereby being so requested by the right honorable Jimi, who whereby and wherefore having entered into a gentlemen's wager with the right honorable machinehead, and whereby said wager was in the amount of $50, payable to one Dr. Stool, and whereby the terms of said wager were with regard to the price of oil at the end of November, whereby if said price were above $40 at the aforesaid date, the aforesaid Jimi, having lost said wager with the aforesaid machinehead, would therefore pay said wager to the aforesaid Dr. Stool, Now therefore, Dr. Stool hereby acknowledges the receipt of $50 cash US fiat money from the aforesaid Jimi, whereupon the right honorable Jimi shall remain in good standing with the right honorable machinehead as having met the terms of said, aforesaid, wager. So noted at the request of the petitioner, the aforesaid Jimi, by the aforesaid beneficiary, upon request of the aforesaid petitioner of the agreement, the undersinged Dr. Stepan N. Stool, said undersinging as a result of lack of sufficient heat, this twelfth day of December, Two Thousand and Four of the Common Era. Stepan N. Stool Undersinged by the power so vested Amen <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Jimi was most gentlemanly about settling the bet ... I'll send a contribution too ... after all, it's not about making money ... it's about BRAGGING RIGHTS. It brings back old memories of the first bet with the BAREister. He was badmouthing gold -- as usual -- and insisted it would fall back below $300 (yes, three hundred -- it had just broken out past $300). I said no, gold is going nowhere but north. After three months, it was up to $330 or so. I still feel that way ... gold going nowhere but north. C'mon BARE ... stop lurking out there ... let's have a little wager. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the notification, Doc. And the kind words, MH. I agree fully: it is about bragging rights, and you got 'em. But I'll scheme a future wager to fleece you of 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherone Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Aloha Riverboaters!!! Attn: Soup.......... Hey Brah... , I'll give you my answer. When AMZN was printing $400, it was clear that the entire Nasdaq was in a massive blowoff mode. The market was discounting nothing but a speculative hysteria combined with epic short squeezes. So far, all the indexes are acting normally, rising in an orderly manner, including the HGX. Wndy, WTF is unclear about this being a blowoff? Just curious... It also certainly no longer looks orderly... You gotta watch the leaders at the turns...don't ever forget that... That doesn't mean it couldn't run just a bit more, but with everthing else in place, I'm willing to bet that Friday was just about the top for the HomeBubblers.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that this stock has a P/E of about 12. Certainly the parabolic rise we have seen is not sustainable and some sort of correction and consolidation is in order. Perhaps, however, folks just might be starting to conclude that reports of the demise of housing might have been a bit premature. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Top 'til you drop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozer Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 I'll be watching the semis too.... If da boyz can pump those up for another round of fleecing, then the whole tech market might melt up. They looked a little under the weather on Friday tho... I'm not sure I see the homebubblers as so easy to pump up another notch....but since it's not people trading, but herds of fumbles and hedgehogs, I suppose they'd rather play the usual game, than anything new and different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardrech Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 It was pretty good. They had a lot of dystopian literature from which they could (and, I suspect, did) draw some inspiration:? Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, and Zamyatin. There was more thought put into it than the garbage they show nowadays. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> god, yes.... a hundred times yes. ...or than the garbage they showed back then, too! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A candid admission from all of you--Who here at some point in his life did not attend movies so undistinguished that they fit the catagory of Garbage? I dont mean attend them by accident but because of some perverse extension of adolescent aesthetics you and your pals would purposely go out of your way to see some cinema so bad it was almost ungodly?? I did nad we called ourselves the rotten flm club---and the reason we went was to laugh at all the kitzchy scenes,usually in a movie with productin values were so bad you couldn't believe they were ever made by earthlings One case in point was a gangster film (Prettty Boy Floyd???Baby Face Nelson???) where a scene of the protagonist shortly after he had a fist fight exhibited his wound,to his eye no less,by portraying the injured eye with so help me G*d a raised ring around the orb as big as a Bagel-- So ludicrous was the sight that I began to laugh and laugh andlaugh until i fell on the theatre floor under some seats and I began to almost DIE OF LAUGHTER--tHE IDIom isn't merely a poetic metaphor poetry I promise you--I felt myself literally choking to death or drowning as if the producers of th emovie were getting their revenge=the combimation of amusement and almost dying at the same time has i'm sure been experienced by at lest one or two of you beardrech G*d works in mysterious ways--he I'm sure was instriumental in making the producer mae the movei ===Hey BD ya wise punk--wipe that look of terror off your face-ya hear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alceringa Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 It was pretty good. They had a lot of dystopian literature from which they could (and, I suspect, did) draw some inspiration:? Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, and Zamyatin. There was more thought put into it than the garbage they show nowadays. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> god, yes.... a hundred times yes. ...or than the garbage they showed back then, too! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A candid admission from all of you--Who here at some point in his life did not attend movies so undistinguished that they fit the catagory of Garbage? I dont mean attend them by accident but because of some perverse extension of adolescent aesthetics you and your pals would purposely go out of your way to see some cinema so bad it was almost ungodly?? I did nad we called ourselves the rotten flm club--- <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Stinkers 20. Ishtar 19. Barb Wire 18 Godzilla (1998) 17. Anaconda 16. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 15. Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls 14. The Avengers 13. Grease 2 12. The "Look Who's Talking" Sequels 11. Jaws 4: The Revenge 10. Waterworld 9. The Blair Witch Project 8. Showgirls 7. It's Pat 6. Speed 2: Cruise Control 5. Spice World 4. Howard The Duck 3. Batman & Robin 2. Wild Wild West 1. Battlefield Earth George Lucas did "Howard the Duck", which makes it even more amazingly bad. The only other ones I've actually seen are 10 and 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinharder Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 One more piece on sentiment before this thread is closed: When your indicators stop working By Leigh Stevens Indicators are like cars - once in a while they stop working. When the key indicators I use suggest a correction to the trend is likely, but it doesn't happen, there are some things that I've learned about these occurrences. Market/Index indicators dealing with volume, sentiment, overbought/Dover Sole, advance-decline, TRIN, volatility, etc. are always SECONDARY indicators. Moreover, indicators flashing divergences and warnings on overbought/Dover Sole conditions can also LAG what eventually happens to the trend by a longer than usual time. Hey, if everything worked like clockwork all the time, it wouldn't be human and the market is a human institution. http://www.optioninvestor.com/traderscorner/tc_120904_1.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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