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12-27-2007, 08:16 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Do I at least get some iota of editorial credit ?
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Are you sure you want to have your moniker pop up on a Google search for "Penthouse photos"?
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12-28-2007, 08:28 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Do I get "humor credit"??
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This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
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12-28-2007, 11:34 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by frayne
Do I at least get some iota of editorial credit ?
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Done. Sorry for the oversight.
You are also at the top of the hotlink.
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For the fun of it...Keith
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12-28-2007, 11:38 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by FinanceDude
Do I get "humor credit"??
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I will put in the screen names of all contributors that specifically OK it here.
Are there any objections to this thread being linked?
Nords should I include you or Dilbert?
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For the fun of it...Keith
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12-28-2007, 12:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I'm OK with that!
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12-28-2007, 01:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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ok by me
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12-28-2007, 02:45 PM
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Administrator
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ok by me
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12-29-2007, 11:09 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by kcowan
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Now updated with all collaborator's screen names. Thanks all.
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12-29-2007, 12:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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6)Thou shalt not hire any advisor named "Guido", "Lucky", or "Slick".........
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or Redbone. (Does anyone remember?)
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12-29-2007, 06:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Hey, Scott Adams did it with only nine:
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I owe you one, Nords!
I *knew* I had that summary in one of my Dilbert books, went looking for it mroe than once, and failed.
Now I've got it: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, page 178.
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TickTock Rule Of Finance - heavily discount any promises of money/benefits to be paid to you in the future
"I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less" -Jim Croce, Age
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12-30-2007, 04:20 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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"thou shall not covet they neighbors ass. divorce is expensive!
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12-31-2007, 12:15 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Hey, Scott Adams did it with only nine:
1. Make a will
2. Pay off your credit cards
3. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
4. Fund your 401k to the maximum
5. Fund your IRA to the maximum
6. Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
7. Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
8. Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
9. If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio
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This is completely off topic, but does anyone else remember reading in one of Scott Adams' books that (and I believe he was being serious), the thing you had to do to get anything in life was to write what you wanted (in this case financial independence) something like 20 times each day and believe that you would get it? And that this would (again, I believe he was being serious) transfer your existance to a parallel universe where what you wanted was a reality?
His 9 steps listed above seem far more reasonable...
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12-31-2007, 08:25 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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skyline,
The Dilbert Future, pages 246 - 252, "Affirmations" and Appendix A, pages 255 -256, "Affirmations Technique".
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TickTock Rule Of Finance - heavily discount any promises of money/benefits to be paid to you in the future
"I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less" -Jim Croce, Age
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12-31-2007, 08:35 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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..and spend all before the inevitable.
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