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To all:
Tonight at 5pm my step daughter gave us our 7th & 8th Grandchilds. Twin boys, Kyle & Kelly, both have red hair, 6.8# 19.5" & 5.6# 19" everybody is fine! Been braggin all evening!
Ron
Is there ever a true "CLOSURE"?
Today, in the aftermath of yesterday's one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America, my sister sent me an email that deeply touched my soul and prompted me to create yet another webpage in honor of the victims of September 11, 2001.
I hope you find it as comforting for you as it is for me.
http://community-2.webtv.net/CREWCUT7777/WhereWasGodon/
That is an awesome website dpb5, thanks for your work!
Ron
There ARE some things that even DUCT Tape CANNOT fix!
Here is a link to a webpage that I created in honor of the first anniversary of September 11.
Feel free to share with friends and family...
http://community-2.webtv.net/CREWCUT7777/APrayerforthe/
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together. -- Anon
If anyone else receives a copy of the following, be forwarned, it is fraud. Please report it to the IFCC @ http://www.ifccfbi.gov/cf1.asp
**Feel free to post this message on other threads!
From: Moses P. Kabila
Pº de la Castellana,
28046 Madrid, Spain
Satellite Telephone Number: 874 762 919870,874
762919873
Fax: 874 762 919 871
Dear Sir,
INVESTMENT OFFER
In appreciation of your esteemed contact received
through a reliable source and the choice of your
country I wish to introduce myself, I am Moses P.
Kabila the son of the late Democratic Republic of
Congo President Laurent Desire Kabila of the blessed
memory.
I know this letter might come to you as a surprise but
I honestly do not intend to surprise you. I write this
letter in respect of my intention to invest the sum of
US$30M(Thirty Million United State Dollars) with you.
I inherited this money from my mother. This money was
got through the exporting and sale of Diamond and
Timber when my father was the head of state. My mother
though not her legal wife used her privilege position
to engage in the business of Diamond and Timber since
she knows that her survival will depend on how much
she can get out of the privilege situation.
When my father was assassinated on 16TH Jan. 01 by one
of his bodyguards Lt. Rashidi Kasereke through the
conspiracy of some top army officers that wanted to
topple him.. I escaped to Madrid, Spain because of the
fear that I might be arrested by my half brother Lt.
General Joseph Kabila the present head of
state.Actually his mother and my mother are not in the
best of relationship because of who among them will be
the first lady tussle and this ultimately affected us
their children.
My mother advised me to leave For Madrid, Spain where
these funds were deposited for safe keeping with a
Private Security Company here in Spain.
On getting to Spain where I have been living since
then as a political refugee I am seeking for a
reliable foreigner who can come down to Madrid, Spain
for a meeting and to clear the funds in his name as
the sole beneficiary of the Consignment as I was
afraid of being defraud.
Honestly I contacted you because I don't want to
invest this money in Madrid Spain due to my status
here as a political Refugee. And moreover I wouldn't
want to take risk because this money is all that my
Mother and I are depending on. My stepbrother Joseph,
who is now the present leader of my country has seized
all my father's assets and money He left us empty
handed without knowing about this funds deposited with
the Security Company here. That is why I decided that
investing this money abroad should be the best
investment for me. I will be honored if I can be given
the privilege of investing this money with you.
I expect you to be trustworthy and kind enough to
respond to this distress call to save My Mother and I
from a hopeless future. And if you agree, I hereby
agree to compensate your sincere and candid effort in
this regard with 20% of the total amount of $30
million US Dollars. When the money ($30 million) is
moved into your discrete account. You will be allowed
to draw 20% in your favor, while the remaining 80%
will be invested meaningfully for our future if
possible in your area of business and different
sectors of the Economy in your country which are
dividends yielding.
Whatever your decision is please reach me immediately,
and keep this letter tight secret for the interest of
my Family.
Best regards,
Moses P. Kabila
M&M Man
Thanks to Excel at The Coffee Shop Board!
Duct tape: It's not just for repairs anymore
Saturday, August 31, 2002
By LINDA MATCHAN
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Once upon a time, duct tape was used for a practical purpose -- fixing ducts -- not for making prom dresses or toe rings or sculpture.
That, however, was before duct tape moved out of the toolbox and into pop culture.
For reasons that may well be inexplicable, there has been a spontaneous eruption of duct tape expression in North America of late.
An American flag the size of an NBA basketball court, made completely of duct tape, was unveiled in Manhattan's Union Square, to commemorate Flag Day in June. It was made by full-time duct tape artist Todd Scott.
The month before that, Holly Monsen of Palermo, Maine, was one of hundreds of high school seniors across the country who showed up at her senior prom this year in a homemade duct tape gown, as part of a contest sponsored by Duck brand duct tape. She chose a lacy Victorian theme, rendered carefully with an Exacto knife, while her date wore a matching duct tape tuxedo, with cummerbund.
At least eight books of duct tape humor have been published recently, including "Duct Shui" and "Ductigami," which explores the art of duct tape folding to create such objects as a toilet roll cover and cell-phone holder. A 2002 Duct Tape desk calendar offers 365 uses for duct tape, as in: "Lose your pooch? Duct tape a pork chop to your chin."
Also, the first known full-length duct tape movie, "Red Green's Duct Tape Forever" (about a duct tape virtuoso who lives in a fishing lodge), just came out on video.
In short, "you are seeing a groundswell movement of people who are duct tape fanatics," says Bill Ryan, marketer for the Scotch brand duct tape.
The questions are: Why now, and why duct tape and not, say, two-sided tape or masking tape? After all, duct tape is hardly new: This year is its 60th birthday. Duct tape, a strong, three-ply tape made of polyethylene, fabric mesh and rubber-based adhesive, was first manufactured for the U.S. military during World War II by the Johnson & Johnson Permacel Division, according to Tim Nyberg, a Minneapolis graphic designer, co-author of "Duct Shui" and four other duct tape books, and de facto duct tape historian.
Originally, the tape was used to keep moisture out of ammunition cases, but the military also found it useful for fixing guns, Jeeps and aircraft parts. After the war, it was used in the growing housing industry to connect heating and air conditioning duct work. However, it soon became clear that because it was so sticky, tears easily and conforms to various surfaces, people were becoming "very emotionally involved with duct tape," Ryan says.
For one thing, "it has saved a lot of people in a lot of situations," says Scott Sommers, senior category manager for Duck brand duct tape, one of about eight companies that now manufacture duct tape, including 3M and Polyken.
It's been used to hem dresses; fix holes in car upholstery, tires and radiator hoses; repair trees and shoes; patch tents; and protect windows in hurricanes. It's rumored to be used by fashion models to enhance certain body parts during beauty pageants. Nyberg knows of a dog owner who duct taped his Doberman's injured foot, and an athlete who wraps his shins with duct tape before weight lifting, to protect them from the weight lifting bar. It also has been used by NASA astronauts to make repairs in space.
"I'd venture to say that 90 percent of homeowners have at least one roll somewhere in their house," says Dan Lynch, a Bellingham-based spokesman for The Home Depot, where duct tape sells for $4.97 for a 45-yard roll. "I just used it this morning to tape together six or eight pieces of copper tubing so they wouldn't rattle around in my car.
Right now, I'm watching my wife on the porch, while the tablecloth on the picnic table is flopping around.
Eventually, she'll get the idea to duct tape it down."
"It's a universal panacea," says Nyberg, who is one-half of the duct tape author-and-comedy team called "Jim and Tim, the Duct Tape Guys." "We say there are two rules to get you through life: If it's stuck and it's not supposed to be, use WD-40. If it's not stuck and it's supposed to be, you duct tape it. They're the yin and yang of your toolbox."
Nyberg and Jim Berg, who are brothers-in-law, have been finding humor in duct tape for nine years, writing five books on the subject (plus another on WD-40), and doing stand-up duct tape jokes on television and at home shows. (Sample: "Turn any floor or table lamp into a ceiling fixture. Just duct tape it upside down to the ceiling.")
They're not the only ones who find duct tape inherently funny.
The movie "Red Green's Duct Tape Forever" is based on the Canadian comedy television series, "The Red Green Show," which stars a handyman in a fishing lodge who uses duct tape ("the handyman's secret weapon") to make bizarre projects such as duct taping home heating ducts together to make a pontoon boat. Garrison Keillor invented a fictional sponsor called the American Duct Tape Council on his radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion." And Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of "Car Talk" on NPR, have been known to play the song "Duct Tape Madrigal in C Major" on the show, an audience favorite.
Then there's Todd Scott in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba, the duct tape artist. Scott, 30, has sculpted such works as a bear skin rug, the Empire State Building, and a bison, the symbol of Manitoba. He considers his work "modern folk art." Duct tape, he says, "is funny because of the things you can do with it. I was sitting down the other day making a space shuttle and it just made me laugh. It really looks like the space shuttle."
Duct tape "is wicked funny," agrees Dave Lavalle of Chelmsford, founder of the Mr. Handyman franchise, a home handyman service.
"When you use duct tape, you are considered a hacker, someone who's not doing the job the right way. It's a patch. It's a temporary situation that typically ends up being a long-term solution."
Excel
People don't run out of dreams
They just run out of time.
Glen Frey
Well, for one thing, it's good for rocking chair repairs <g>. Or keeping your sweater closed when you can't see the buttons? Or using double-sided tape to keep your toupe from slipping? Or get the glow-in-the-dark kind for finding your way to the bathroom at night? Or...
AK
p.s. My son is studying stagecraft (technical theater); I expect him to be creative (each in our own way, mind you). Besides, his duct tape is provided by the school <vbg>.
See! I knew it. I'll never be as creative as your son, but hopefully I have a few years left in which to find ways to use duct tape, at least in some mundane manner. I keep thinking and looking!
Bill
Last week we are packing my college age son's computer for shipment back to school. I noticed what appeared to be a neat black box with an opening towards the front, and asked him what it was. Oh, that's for the remote control (he has a TV tuner/video card), he answered. Then he lifted it off the computer for packing. What's it made of, I asked. Gaffer's tape, he said. (Gaffer's tape is an "expensive" black duct tape that does not leave residue.)
Now all the years when my wife would buy the kid Scotch tape as a plaything are coming home. He would make the most creative things, and my wife would say, look how many hours he is occupied for 79 cents! And now, at 19, he's finding all the "practical" applications of duct tape.
You are right -- look what we've missed. <g>
AK
Ya know..... As long as I have been around, I have never given much thought (actually none) to duct tape. But, since this board was started I see it all around me.
There is some renovation going on in an apartment building across the street from me. Every morning when I go out to get my newspaper, I see the workmen "building" a temporary ramp into the cargo containers with plywood, boards, etc.... all held together with duct tape.
Yesterday, I was National Wholesale Liquidators and ran across a display of duct tape. I was quite tempted to buy some, but finally talked myself out of it since I am not much of a handyman.....and don't need a tuxedo (or a prom dress for that matter!). But I'm still thinking about it. Ah, how I wonder what my life might have been like if I had discovered duct tape when I was younger..... :)
Bill
Matt is now using Duct Tape in his icons??
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?user=9339
I just created an all new webpage about OTCBB stock companies, and I'd be interested in your comments about this webpage. Obviously, it is brand new and is merely outlining the intent of the webpage as a source of information to existing and new investors in OTCBB and Penny Stock Listings.
I will ultimately be asking for others to contribute commentary and education to the website as I proceed.
Please PM me and let me know if you like or dislike this idea, and why.
http://community-2.webtv.net/dpb5/OTCBBAnalysis/
The Complexities of "Scientific Duct Tape" !!!
http://www.msnbc.com/news/768365.asp
The FAT LADY finally sings "IT'S OVERRRR!!!!"
You know how the saying goes...
It's not over until the Fat Lady Sings....
Well this pic was posted on another financial website in reference to a company that is in dire straits.
I found it so hilarious that I wanted to share it with all my IHUB friends!
Here is the direct link...
http://www.rtlyrics.com/photos/fatlady.gif
And here is the pic...
It's a Tribute To ELVIS PRESLEY Weekend!
All this weekend, right here on IHUB at the ROCK Board!
Stop by and enjoy the many songs of Elvis. Feel free to post any of your memories of Elvis or interesting links about him, serious or funny!
Don't miss out on all the fun! Join us now!.....
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=464064
[Suppressed Sound Link]
"His prank was a bust
Z100's Fratboy arrested
By RICHARD HUFF
DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR
Greg J. Tyndorf, known to listeners of WHTZ's morning show as Greg T. the Fratboy, found himself on the wrong side of the law yesterday.
Tyndorf was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct by Carteret, N.J., police after he was duct-taped to a utility pole in a busy intersection while holding a sign that read "Save Ira Joe Fisher."
"I understand it may be a good publicity stunt, but the fact is, all I need is one person to look at that and not the road, and there's a strong possibility for an accident," said Carteret Police Chief John Pieczyski........"
Excerpted from NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/10894p-10285c.html
I don't remember the finer details, but probably because it smelled good too? I don't think I actually ATE it... but I'm sure I gave in to tasting it like everyone else did.
In 1st grade some kids ate that paste but I couldn't understand why. Why did you?
WHY? isn't it a requirement? LOL
Doesn't everyone ?
LOL! General Curiosity.
I didn't inhale though!!!!!!!
No, I just copied the gif from the freezone board. Why did you eat glue?
YUMMMM!
I ate School Glue! Didn't you eat School Glue? Didn't everyone experiment with School Glue as a child?
Thank God it's non toxic! Or WAS it? LOL!
If you have SOUNDS enabled on the "TOOLS" menu, you would be hearing "STUCK ON YOU", by Elvis! LOL!
[Suppressed Sound Link]
This girl is using some sort of Invisible Internet Duct Tape to try to solve her problems...LOL!
Not sure if those who post here read Excel's Coffee Shop (ECS) at all, but there is a hilarious thread there right now about a website called...
savekaryn.com
(Poor Girl!)
Check out this link and read the followthrough posts to see what I emailed to Poor Karyn! LOLOL!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=453653
Here's a story that'll chill you to the bone!
http://www.sptimes.com/28-seconds/index.html
Please HELP HARRY!....
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=452219
Duct Tape Fashion Galleries
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/fashion.html
"37.M heist a cushion to retire on"
By RICHARD WEIR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
William Robinson was sitting on a fortune.
The former security chief of the Versace boutique on Fifth Ave. looted its safe of $3.7 million in diamond rings and gold jewelry — and stuffed most of the booty in the cushion of an easy chair, police said yesterday....."
"......"The seat cushion weighed, like, 50 pounds. So we thought the jewelry might be there," said Detective Gerard Gardiner.
Stashed inside the foam cushion, secured with duct tape in a cut-out space, were envelopes containing all the jewelry — minus the two diamonds sold to Afzal — along with certificates of authenticity.
"It was like finding a pirate's treasure," Fahey said......"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/8977p-8436c.html
Hey, that's a really KEWL website...
I wonder?
Is my IBOX on the Hangout Board too big to handle all that data? We'll find out.
I'm gonna get some ZZZZZ's here. Been a long weekend for me! I'll catch up later on though!
Stay "DUCKY"! LOL!
Duct Tape has you STUCK?
Hopefully, my pitiful Spam in other places here on IHUB brought you to this board?
That was the plan!
You see. .. ... ..... I am only out to evilly entice people who may someday wish to invest in Duct Tape!!!
I have no clue who the makers of Duct Tape even are/is/were? LOL!
3M? Scotch? Super Glue?
If it's a product of Super Glue, I guess that relates to horse's hooves, so logic states the intelligent investor will soon see the need to buy OAT FUTURES!
Horses DO EAT OATS you know. I heard a song once that went....
Mares eat oats,
And Does eat oats,
And little lambs eat IVY.
A kid'll eat IVY, too!
Wouldn't you?
So here is an inside tip. I don't give them out often and you should consider yourself lucky to have found your way here to this board to hear this tip.
1. Buy Oat Seed.
2. Buy Horses.
3. Plant Oat Seed.
4. Pray!
5. Pray some more.
6. Dress the female horses up.
7. Disquise the oats as Budweiser.
8. Plan a really BIG PARTY.
9. Charge admission to the horses as well as the mares. (don't discriminate)
10. Tell the horses to wait patiently.
11. Defy to the mares that the SEC suspects anything.
12. Turn the music up.
13. Bring out the champagne.
14. Tell the band to keep on playing.
15. Dance your heart out, and keep the sentiment strong.
(remember, hope outweighs reality)
16. When the Security Exceptional Committee alerts you that the oats will run out before the party is over, buy pizza. (Pizza always works.)
17. Write yourself a note in your diary to call it quits. Blame it on CNN.COM
18. Paint your Living Room! (always an excellent diversion to reality)
19. Cancel Cable TV or Satellite DISH. (We all know that the Secret Global Government known as the "TASTEE FREEZ" has already FROZEN our future fate.)
20. Rewrite your will. Expect governmental delays in processing you personal expectations.
21. Call the Pope. Let Him know He is still alive.
22. Weed your garden. Discover your ability to write a best selling novel regarding your ability to discern the difference between bee gathering weeds and hornet specific flowers. (Plan to become a millionaire when this book hits WalMart!)
23. Redefine what the favorite room in your house is. (Take a closer look at the bathroom, or basement!)
24. Cancel your Cable or Satellite TV Service. (The AT HOME CANDY MAKING Company sounds "better than ever".
25. Melt two pounds of butter in a pan. Add sugar.
26. Call your broker and remind him/her how pitifully little money he/she has made in the last two years.
27. Snicker Uncontrollably upon hanging up from your broker.
28. Sit in the quiet chair in the living room, and redefine just why it is that you ever gave up Disco Dancing.
29. Pull out your old stamp/coin collection and remind yourself how very very WEALTHY you are.
30. Go to the kitchen and grab the half stale loaf of bread from the breadbox.
31. Find a KNIFE!
32. Pray to God that tomorrow morning you'll awake laughing about all this economic fiasco.
33. ADD Jelly!
34. Tell yourself that you will soon awaken and all will be right with the world.
35. Laugh in your bed, as you toss and turn!
36. Finish eating the sandwich, leaving the crust. Knowing that the crust is that which poisons thee.
37. Pretend that you aren't a citizen of Planet Earth.
38. Wake up to the sound of CNN.COM reminding you of certain doom.
Another day begins!
It's MONDAY! You are STILL BROKE. You wait great news about the stock market, as you slap two pieces of bread in the toaster and wonder if you still have any jelly left in the fridge.
You begin to speculate on GRAPE FUTURES....
Original. I want the rest of the story concerning the minister with the duct tape!
Excel
Been here yet? Check this out!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1090
To all: READ THIS PLEASE and then vote!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/27/pledge-hold.htm
Muell
Poet,
Welcome!
Share AKVetch's photo and I can put it into the IBOX.
Thanks Muell! Thank you God!
Yes, sometimes the beautiful things this world has to offer flash by like the images outside the window of a fast car Eh? And most of the time we are moving too fast to go back and see them as we are trying to Get There, wherever that is <GG> :^)
Good Luck to All! :^)
PLAN the TRADE and TRADE the PLAN!
Hi Leslie,
Thanks, I thought it worth posting here! BTW, last I knew duct tape is required, lol!
Muell
That is a wonderful post, Muell. I'm so glad to have stopped and read it.
Hi there Dave,
Do I require duct tape for admission?
AKvetch has a great photo that involves duct tape.
Hey YOU! Stop on over at The Corner Bar (BAR) here on IHUB this week!
We're having a CONTEST!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=444556
Nice Post, Muell! EOM!
From another board here.
For those who did not receive this, also have a great weekend.
Just a little something...
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street,going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and drove the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown.
The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"
The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister...please, I'm sorry...I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop..." With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out his fancy handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very
noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"
God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us.
It's our choice.
Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He listens.
He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose your heart.
Face it, friend -- He is crazy about you!
Send this to every "beautiful person" you wish to bless, God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
Muell
quack, quack.
Hello there...
thanks for the invite over here :) And love that picture of the duck LOL.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Incredible Proof that Duct Tape is WORTHLESS....
....from my newly created board called "GOOD NEWS!!!"
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=435140
Clever use of Duct Tape...
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/bachelor.html
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