"I know Bill is not guilty. He tries to help to many people. Its not in his Careature to do so."

Good one. That got me looking..

"MF Norwegian School of Theology" is my favourite here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF

I assume therefore, that the context of the acronym usage is the key to staying kosher, although that theology school one could be argued either way.

I used to own a MF tractor.

Yeah, but it was a kindler, gentler time. 512k of memory, 20 meg disk drives -- not to mention those kindly gentlemen offering inside stock tips in your Compuserve mail account.

Who could want more?

Aww, what was a few (thousand) clusters among friends?

It is interesting that many other forums do not insist that "private messages" remain private; indeed the few articles on "netiquette" appear ambivalent.

As I recall, the insistence that PMs remain totally secret originated with Mr. Brown, something that you may wish to reconsider given his current plight.

Why would there be any greater expectation of privacy in internet communication than one would expect from written communication delivered -- always in the strictest of privacy -- by the US or Canadian postal services? I have never heard of the USPS suspending mail delivery because someone allowed others to reveal a personal letter.

A wise soul often reminded me never to put into a private e-mail something that would embarrass me should it appear on the front page of my hometown newspaper.

Regards,

Will

Pretty quiet here, isn't it?

Our corporate advisor company has sent this Investors Hub a certain email attached hereto where amongst other things they seek safety valves to insure that the short sellers and stock bashers activities are rained in and thwarted.

I've been trying to get some painting done, but find I've been rained in for days, to the point where I feel thwarted.

"matt knows where you live"

Thanks for the heads-up, I will keep that in mind.

At my age, sometimes I forget where I live.

Matt actually has brown eyes. That was the part of the picture that Paulie altered.

You still around marcos?

Have you ever johnned

No, but I Ralphed a couple of times...

Oh, quit Dicking around! You're giving me the Willies

Yes, like the ratio example I posted earlier, your calculation gives a correct response for all possible prices.

Regards,

WillP

A wise course of action, I suspect.

At $4, you would have a ratio of:

15/4 to 4 or 3.75 to 1, which suggests 3.75 shares for every one held.

"The ratio of share issuance will use the following formula ($15.00 divided by the Actual Closing Price on October 30, 2006 (x) minus Actual Closing Price on October 30, 2006) (15 / X - X)."

I have not followed this story, but the math is interesting. Ratios are typically expressed as something to 1, or something : 1, and occasionally as something - 1.

The above "formula" seems to be the latter.

Therefore, at a $1.80 close, the ratio would be:

$15.00/$1.80 (to) $1.80, or 8.33 to 1.

So, they would issue 8.33 shares for every one currently held.

If the share price was $15, then the ratio would be $15/$15 - $15, or 1 to 1.

Does that not make sense? Of course, the word "minus" in the text complicates that interpretation. It wouldn't be the first time that someone botched the math in a document.

Regards,

WillP

Yeah, it was awesome timing, especially because although they were closed, they also ran an attached restaurant and I was able to get the tire ordered. I still had to wait the night for it to come about six hours by bus from Winnipeg, but it obviously could have been far worse.

As a sidenote, it was that event that showed me my then 14-year-old daughter was grown up. I had two guys help me load my sports car onto the towing trailer a day earlier. It was tough because the undercarriage was so low. It was a challenge explaining to them what had to be done.

My daughter didn't need a single word of instruction. I did something on one side, she did it on the other, ad occasionally in advance of me.

How's yours doing with the great excavator incident?

Regards,

Will

Somehow it managed to stay stuck to the machine somewhere while I drove it about 1/4 mile to the workshop only to fall off at the most convenient place.

About 16 years ago, I moved myself halfway across (this) country, using a five-ton U-Haul truck towing my car behind. About 10 PM, in the middel of absolute nowhere, the right front tire blew. It was all I could do to hold the thing near the road, as the blown tire jammed into the wheel well. When I saw the shoulder widen, I just let it lurch to the right into what seemed like a driveway. After the truck ground to a halt, I looked up. There was a big sign over a building...

OK Tire Services.

Regards, and good luck wth your new owners.

Will

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Re: Barfing engines.

It seemed like "luck of the draw", rather than a direct relationship with cold. It was arguably vehicle specific, although I can't prove that, since it happened to an '89 Dodge 2.5L and a, geez what was theat Escort, a 2.4L?

It never happened all the times I was starting engines at -40, -50, and a few times at -60F, but those times were back in the '70s and early 80s, in far more northern climes and with older vehicles.

It might have had to do with temporary pressure buildups due to thick oil blocking parts of the engine. I knew it happened by the smell of the engine once it warmed up to start smoking the oil, now all over the top of the engine.

Regards,

WillP

It's been a long time since I bought diesel fuel, but up here, there are about a dozen different blends of gasoline used throughout the year, depending primarily on temperature. It's not unheard of to have highs run to 100F in July, august or early September, and -40F can occur in January or early February. Between, there can be some wild swings, and that keeps the major oil companies' fuel chefs busy.

One year, one company had a big marketing campaign centred on "winter gas", but of course, there are several concoctions during the season.

I've had the misfortune of having to literally spoon some 15W40 oil onto my engine at -55F. (Thankfully at a site well north of here.) On rare occasion, an engine will vomit much of its oil supply upon startup in cold temperatures. I've never figured out why. Any ideas? I had it happen to my Dodge Spirit on a few occasions, and a '98 Ford Escort once.

By the way, all those temperatures are actual air temperatures, not that silly wind chill nonsense. Your engine will never get colder than the actual air temperature, no matter how strong the wind is blowing. Having said that, wind can cool down your engine faster, so there is a certain strategy in deciding just where to park your car.

Regards,

WillP

The two Hondas are the best I've ever seen for interior warming. I have *hot* air at one mile, after a 30 second warmup.

The process is accelerated considerably if I plug in the block heater. (I assume you're far enough south not to need one, but far enough north to know what one is. [One or two visitors a year from the southernmost states ask if those things in the parking lots are old hitching posts.])

Sigh. I had a 1980 Dodge Spirit with a turbo. I put 260,000 miles on that beast. That's my record so far.

Regards,

WillP

A good thing, though, is that efficiency (unlike with MSFT) is extremely high on the list with automakers.

Yes, and they do listen to customer complaints. I have every hope that future models will make the "interior warm-up" more efficient than it is today.

When I bought the two Honda's, we had to fill out these customer satisfaction surveys. The sales manager gave them to me and said, please tell me now if you have any single concern with the dealership or the service. I said, "No, you guys certainly are good."

He said, that's a problem.

His Japanese bosses considered "good" as the fifth-worst out of six categories. I looked at the survey and sure enough. Above good, was "very good", "superior", "excellent" and finally, "truly outstanding".

There was only one possibility worse than "good", which was "fair". Poor service is apparently unspeakable in Japan.

So now, whenever my wife asks how her special dessert, etc., was, I have to remember to say, "truly outstanding", or get "the look".

Domo arigato, Honda.

Regards,

WillP

A good thing, though, is that efficiency (unlike with MSFT) is extremely high on the list with automakers.

Yes, and they do listen to customer complaints. I have every hope that future models will make the "interior warm-up" more efficient than it is today.

When I bought the two Honda's, we had to fill out these customer satisfaction surveys. The sales manager gave them to me and said, please tell me now if you have any single concern with the dealership or the service. I said, "No, you guys certainly are good."

He said, that's a problem.

His Japanese booses considered "good" as the fifth-worst out of six categories. I looked at the survey and sure enough. Above good, was "very good", "superior", "excellent" and finally, "truly outstanding".

There was only one possibility worse than "good", which was "fair". Poor service is apparently unspeakable in Japan.

So now, whenever my wife asks how her special dessert, etc., was, I have to remember to say, "truly outstanding", or get "the look".

Domo arigato, Honda.

Regards,

WillP

Sigh.

After several hours visiting frinds last winter, I went out to start my Honda CR-V to warm its interior for my wife's comfort.

Imagine my amazement that I could not lock the door with my remote gadget. It took about five minutes of trying various things before I was manually able to lock the door and then close it.

I should have known better. Of course, my remote opener would not open the door. It wouldn't even open the rear window.

So, it seems I have to carry a second set of keys to actually warm my car up. The alternative is to just leave the freaking door unlocked, but that negates the usefulness of an immobilizer rather effectively.

Consider it yet another personal freedom fallen by the wayside.

Regards,

WillP

you mean Francaise, don't you.. Francois is french for Frank LOL

And I'm sure you mean français [grin]

Just say you got your money's worth.

Yes, it should be fine to grouse about OCS from a performance point of view. If you have an OCS account, that is.

Do you?

No I do not, so rest assured I won't be making any comments about their performance. More correctly, I'll be making as many comments about their performance as I do about any other brokerage.

There's a difference between discussing an online brokerage and pissing on things for fun. You said openly "over there" that you had no interest in killing the issue and proved it by your mouthy responses.

Yes, I said that. Of course, what I meant was that I had no material interest in killing the discussion. Nevertheless, I have urged people to let the issue drop.

Someone took an unfair shot at Mr. Brown, I said so. Then they engaged me. I urged them to let it go. I now urge you to let it go.

Furthermore, a quick look at my previous posts here shows that I made exactly one post on the matter, and in htat one post I urged people to let the matter drop. How many posts did you make on the matter here? [chuckle]

I'm glad you've now decided you just want to talk about the performance point of view. Let us know when you get that account.

I can't have an account. They aren't licensed in my jurisdiction. Sorry.

Who is this "we" and "us" you refer to?

Regards,

WillP

Heartily agree. I'm not aware of any such issues, though I do stay well clear of the loop, but if there were, this would be an appropriate venue.

I'm glad you agree, but not surprised. You guys do a good job of being fair, I think.

I haven't read enough of this board to know what kinds of personal attacks have gone back and forth, and Matt's is the only opinion that matters in that regard (aside from the opinion others offer him),

Nor have I, and the offensive posts have probably been deleted anyway.

...but my own take is that though Ken's arguably a public figure, he's one who can't post here and it would be pretty tacky, at best, to attack him here in any fashion.

Agreed. Another angle; is the owner of a *private* company a *public* figure?

That said, if you play poker sitting next to him, wear asbestos. LOL He had some folks riled up at that table. But the cards were doing it just as much.

LOL. Well, if he's a poker player, I'd probably like him. Unless he's a good poker player --- nah, even then. [grin]

Many brokers or traders can rub people the wrong way. It's a curious thing, given the nature of the business.

We were playing Texas Hold 'Em, [snip]

Yeah, I hear 'ya. Been there, done that. Or more correctly, had that done to me. [grin]

Oh, and one more bad thing to say about Ken. I did kinda fair at Blackjack, but the weak part of my game there is knowing when to press up my bets. Overall, I do well at it. I could do a lot better, though.

I'm not a great Blackjack player.

Ken has no such problem there. He seriously cleaned up at it. I think I ended up leaving about even or after having lost about $50. He caught up with me later, having started out betting about the same size I was, but when he found me, he had a handful of green and black chips.

Good for him. Curiously, one of the best (non-poker) gamblers I ever met was a broker.

That was a great post earlier, by the way, oh wise one.

Regards,

WillP

Based on your posts here and in the other forum, it looks like you are a prime example of someone who is trying to prolong the pissing-match side of things for as long as possible, for your own fun and benefit.

Then you have misread things, I fear.

Further, my post to you points out that all brokerages should be held to the same standard. If grousing about etrade, etc. is A-OK, then so it should be fine to complain about OCS, from a performance point of view. That has nothing to do with any recent splits between Ihub and OCS, now does it?

Do we pronounce your moniker as, "Will Pee"?

That's precisely how you would pronounce it.

Shake it off, and run along now.

Sure. After you.

I would like to float a suggestion back to you in this regard. The moderators of this board (Matt and Rager) should enforce it and remove posts that come up calling Scordo and OCS a "POS" and "Sour Dough", etc.

You may have a point about Scordo, although it might be argued he is a public figure. Would you also ban calling other brokerages a POS? That would cut out a lot of traffic, no?

Regards,

WillP

Not everyone agrees with you Matt:

Your husband seems to have handled himself professionally in light of remarks made when Ihub announced the end of the venture on their own. Some of those remarks were certainly uncalled for.

Based on what I can decipher from public posts, that's an interesting spin on what professional behaviour is all about.

I wonder which of your remarks were uncalled for? That you walked from the deal? That you said OCS was still a safe place to invest? That you didn't want to talk about it?

Some advice to OC and its followers. Let it go. Every time you or a supporter makes a post, it makes you look badly.

Regards,

WillP

If you are truly a lawyer I question the intelligence of your professors.

If you question the intelligence of his professors, I shudder at what you must think of the bar exam he would have passed.

Regards,

WillP

I assume you mean a 500cc bike? Can't really imagine you riding the equivalent of a moped to work and back.

Not to mention the problems I have imagining a zero-point-five litre Cobra. [grin]

Have you solved your cooling problems? I had a similar problem with a 1989 turbocharged 2.5-litre Dodge Spirit that, among other things, also went through front motor mounts like they were consumables. I ultimately decided it was some nasty vapour lock, and after draining and carefully refilling the system, it went away. Don't know, but the problem sounds eerily similar.

Regards,

WillP

ROTFL! What a sales technique!

Regards,

WillP

I saved 15% on my insurance with GEICO

Yeah? Well, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

How about Frizzell taking payment in certs?

If you mean the breath mints, there might actually be some value there.

Well, I guess this transaction pegs a market value to that trillion-dollar uranium play...

Regards,

WillP

United Carina Resources Corp. has entered into an option agreement with Entourage Mining Ltd. whereby United Carina granted Entourage the right to earn a 20-per-cent interest in certain claim blocks consisting of 14,529 hectares (35,800 acres) of prospective uranium properties located in the Hatchet Lake area of the eastern Athabasca basin in north-central Saskatchewan.

The properties are contiguous and have been subject to previous exploration for uranium; one surface showing yielded assays ranging from 0.3 per cent U3O8 to 1.4 per cent U3O8. An additional claim block in the area, that has been staked but not yet registered, will become part of the agreement upon registration. The properties are located 30 kilometres north and northeast of four known uranium deposits (Rabbit Lake, McLean Lake, Collins Bay and Eagle Point). United Carina will be the operator of the project and Dave Billard, of Saskatoon, Sask., will be the qualified person for the project.

To exercise its option and acquire the 20-per-cent interest, Entourage will make a cash payment of $40,000 to United Carina and participate in the exploration program by making expenditure contributions of $100,000 per year for two years for a total of $200,000 over two years.

The Athabasca basin of Northern Saskatchewan contains the most significant high-grade, low-cost uranium deposits in the world. The deposits defined to date collectively contain, or have produced, almost 1.5 billion pounds U3O8.

When the transaction is concluded, ownership in the properties will be United Carina 40 per cent, CMKM Diamonds Inc. 40 per cent and Entourage 20 per cent.

Well, I guess this transaction pegs a market value to that trillion-dollar uranium play....

Regards,

WillP

United Carina Resources Corp. has entered into an option agreement with Entourage Mining Ltd. whereby United Carina granted Entourage the right to earn a 20-per-cent interest in certain claim blocks consisting of 14,529 hectares (35,800 acres) of prospective uranium properties located in the Hatchet Lake area of the eastern Athabasca basin in north-central Saskatchewan.

The properties are contiguous and have been subject to previous exploration for uranium; one surface showing yielded assays ranging from 0.3 per cent U3O8 to 1.4 per cent U3O8. An additional claim block in the area, that has been staked but not yet registered, will become part of the agreement upon registration. The properties are located 30 kilometres north and northeast of four known uranium deposits (Rabbit Lake, McLean Lake, Collins Bay and Eagle Point). United Carina will be the operator of the project and Dave Billard, of Saskatoon, Sask., will be the qualified person for the project.

To exercise its option and acquire the 20-per-cent interest, Entourage will make a cash payment of $40,000 to United Carina and participate in the exploration program by making expenditure contributions of $100,000 per year for two years for a total of $200,000 over two years.

The Athabasca basin of Northern Saskatchewan contains the most significant high-grade, low-cost uranium deposits in the world. The deposits defined to date collectively contain, or have produced, almost 1.5 billion pounds U3O8.

When the transaction is concluded, ownership in the properties will be United Carina 40 per cent, CMKM Diamonds Inc. 40 per cent and Entourage 20 per cent.

You're most likely thinking of one of the first diamondiferous hits on the Diavik property. (Dare I use the word 'diamondiferous' on this forum?)

It was in November of 1992, and on closer inspection, the lab determined that some of the diamonds were yellow micros that originated with the drill bit. Upon that determination, the company -- now known as Aber Diamond Corp. -- revealed the revised counts.

Regards,

WillP