Max, look very closely at the patch on the sweatsuit the child is wearing on the beach. If you spring for a decent video card you can clearly see that it says "Acme Rent-A-Kid". I had him at a good rate. You pay for three days, and you get a fourth day free. The catch is it has to include a Saturday night. But since I wasn't actually there, the hotel rate was extremely reasonable. It really pays to stay in the best hotels when you aren't there. Can't beat it. Leaves falling off the trees in February. I can see how this would cause serious problems for you. So the bottom line is that we won't get to hear where it is you reside? You and Osama roommates? Peace my friend, and don't give up the quest (whatever it is). rs7
I wouldn't think trees in Menton have leaves falling off at any time of the year? Osama? Hah! I could be your neighbor from the Galt.
Hey, I found my wife through Acme Rent-A-Date! She's been an excellent companion and I think she's a keeper!
Well, then according to your logic, that means you have never been to the Riviera. I mean how could you be so badly mistaken? So absolutely WRONG? This would seem, using your standards, to be irrefutable PROOF that you have never been anywhere but your cave in Utah, or wherever it is you secretly live. But one thing we do know for sure. You have PROVEN you have not been to the Riviera. Thank god we got SOMETHING cleared up!!!!!
Ah, this is an interesting point. You claim to know the back streets of Monaco. You explain how it would be virtually impossible for me to have been there and not remember how to get to the heliport. Yet now you say that you have not "claimed" to have been there. So.....what is the story? Are you a travel agent that studies city maps but never leaves your cave? Are you a meteorologist who has cause to doubt that the leaves fall from the trees on the Riviera in the winter? You are right. You never claimed to actually have done anything. You only claim to be able to "prove" that I have not done whatever I say I have. So you got me. I cannot refute your claims. You are technically correct. How obtuse of me to assume you were speaking from experience. You somehow knew some "secret" about the Aspen Police Department. Yet you were never there. Or never claimed to be. You explained how it was not possible for me to have skied the Vallee Blanc, and described the treacherous crevasses and dangerous conditions, yet again, you never claimed to have first hand knowledge. You have never asked Greg Allman if he knew me or what our friendship involved. But nonetheless, somehow you knew. Amazing! You somehow knew I could not have been in SE Asia in 1970, but never divulged the "sources" of your knowledge. You have expressed doubt that my son is my son. You told me that you did not believe that an old girlfriend became a famous actress. Again, based on what? And was this "bragging"? No, I said she was a secretary for a fire extinguisher company when we went out. Not famous by any means. Hell, she was a Texas "hick" in NYC who didn't even know that you don't hitchhike in manhattan when I first met her. Name dropping? Never mentioned her name. And if I did, what purpose would it serve? She is not the same person at 53 that she was at 19, believe me. (too bad sorta). I said I traded millions of dollars. I never claimed to have made millions of dollars. So when I expressed the fact that my stepdaughters college tuition at Northwestern is very expensive, you jumped on me for not being rich enough to not care. Trading other peoples money for a small percentage doesn't make me rich. Never said it did. But somehow you managed to make the whole thing into some weird self-contradictory condition. Which it most certainly was not. But of course facts and reality meant nothing to you. Just the joy of trying to "prove" that I am a "teller of tales". Sad that you cannot have a life of your own. I know some people live their lives vicariously. But what you do? It defies description. Sort of the Bizarro world version of living vicariously. You have told me that my brother in law is not my brother in law. (he is coming down next week...maybe I can get him on here and you two can exchange pleasantries). You asked for photographic "proof" and I got, in return, abusive doctoring of my picture on the Chamonix ski pass. I said I went to the University of Miami (hardly a boast!). Yet because I (apparently mistakenly) thought that Chuck Foreman was the first black football player there, you claimed with certainty that I could not have gone to school there since I was in error about such an important issue. I guess if I was trying to impress you with my undergraduate education, I should have opted for Harvard where the football program was (somewhat) less high profile. But no, I lied about Miami, because it was such a fine institution of higher learning. And I knew it would impress everyone here that I was at such a highly acclaimed center of academia. Or maybe because their football team was so great then (it wasn't). Look pal, there is nothing you can say or do to change who I am or what my life has been about. You said that I was playing a "gypsie violin" or some such expression implying I was looking for sympathy when I got beat out of some money. But of course, if you read the thread, never did I come close to saying anything that would lead any normal person to believe I was seeking "sympathy". But of course, as is your custom, it was just natural for you to assume the worst. Where was your diligent sleuthing ability then? Don't tell me you lapsed into laziness!!! I have told you that I was widowed quite young. If I wanted "sympathy" I would have played that card. But if you have been paying attention, I never went down that road. Quite the contrary. And believe me, going through watching your wife die of cancer and seeing the chemotherapy being worse than the disease warrants sympathy. I hope you never have to experience anything like it. But these words, as I type them are the very first mention I have made of that episode other than in casual passing. And I am not comfortable airing it out now. But it is part of my life, and it remains with me. Unlike the business beating I took with the crooks I worked for in Monaco. (the place, according to you I was never at). That is just a footnote in my life that had no lasting effect. The whole thread was about risk tolerance and what mentality traders had relative to the rest of the population regarding risk. But of course, you made it into what it was not. Once again, you should be very proud of yourself. If I bragged about anything on these boards, it was about the fact that I am damn proud of my re-marriage and of who I am lucky enough to be married to. So yeah, I will "brag" about that. I know I lucked out. A great wife and a great step- mother. So indulge me for bragging about that. If I ever didn't deserve anything, it is her. And so I will boast and brag and fawn over her. And you know what? It makes me feel good. Tell me what makes you feel good. I have been pretty damned forthcoming with you. And I have tried to contribute to the trading threads here at ET. What have you contributed of any benefit to anyone here at any time? You have asked a million questions and shadowed and harassed me. I asked you ONE question....where do you live....and you never responded. And the funny thing is, like all of us here, I don't care where you live. I just find it interesting that you pry into other peoples lives but don't say anything about your own. So when I use the tired old expression "get a life", in your case it seems to have real meaning. For obviously you don't have one. Or if you do, you must be quite ashamed of it. Because somehow you just refuse to share with anyone anything about your so called life. No one knows a thing about you. Very cool. The mysterious stranger. Which would fly if you weren't so damned nosey, nasty and essentially worthless. There are plenty of ET members who don't contribute. They "lurk" which is fine. There are plenty who post continuously and say very little. Which is fine. Some of us get bored and just post away. But harmlessly. There are plenty who add humor. Or ask thought provoking questions. Or give provocative opinions on everything from day to day minutia to things they feel strongly about like politics or religion. But you...you add nothing in any way at all. No humor. No trading insights. Not anything but dissent and negativity. So you have outsmarted me. Very good. It has served a great purpose. You have made the world a better place just by being a part of it. Happy hunting Max! Peace, rs7 ps: Ah, I stand corrected. You have added a tremendous degree of humor. Boy, that's a good one. I hope gordon gekko sees it so he can give us a big "LOL". I gotta hand it to you, that is truly hilarious stuff!!!! Way to go. I retract everything I said. You really cracked me up with that one. How did you think of that? Was it something you have been saving for the right time? Or was it a genius stroke of impromptu wit?