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[zeninvestor32]

MY CONVERSATION WITH ANDY HILL

I had a very pleasant conversation with Mr. Hill this morning. I felt it was very insightful and thought I would share the information I gathered.

I first asked how Andy was doing. He replied "fine". I can only interpret that to mean that a filing will occur next week. I next asked how he was enjoying his new responsibilities as our IR person. He replied "Quite well actually, thank you." Although that may seem to be unimportant it was the WAY in which he said "thank you" that leads me to conclusively establish that Roger must have completed the final audit this weekend and has submitted it to Urban for his final approval. After that, I asked if he had spoken to Urban lately and he answered "Yes, I've spoken to him a few times this week." I think this is EXCELLENT news. The fact that Andy is speaking at all to Urban tells me that the OS must be between 5 and 6.7 billion shares now. I thanked him for his time and he said "You're welcome" and it was as if he was going to say something more but just stopped. It was at that point that I realized exactly what he was about to say but did not -- that there would be a PR on Thursday detailing all of our core sample results to date. I mean what else could it have been?? That HAD to be what he was going to say and he just felt he couldn't. I said "goodbye" and he said "bye". But I could tell by saying "bye" and not "goodbye" or "byebye" that Andy was signaling to me that the threat of DeBeers has been remedied by Roger and that a deal has obviously been struck with the MMs through the SEC to begin the forced cover. As you can see, it was a VERY revealing conversation and I thank Mr. Hill for saying all he could without actually saying it.

For those that have not yet gotten it, the above is a complete joke (but sadly is not far off from what a lot of people seem to be doing with respect to Andy). Hope you got a chuckle out of it and hope that nobody REALLY has any expectations for a timeline in the near future. If anything happens in the next month, I'll be thrilled. If it takes longer, I will not be disappointed and will simply continue to hold until the final resolution comes through. Between the Denver race, the other races, the halloween party, the dividend dates, the december dates, the SHO dates, and on and on and on, I find it hard to believe that anybody is STILL insisting that they "know" or even "truly believe" we will see a filing by any particular date (and for the record, Andy has no actual timeline on anything, despite what others have posted). Good luck to everyone. What a crazy ride and, at some point this year, I hope will be even crazier. :)

Second disclaimer: Because god knows SOMEONE out there will STILL think I actually had the above conversation with Andy, let me make this idiot-proof. I did not have the above conversation with Andy and it is a complete spoof of the other posts that seem to be reading way too much into every word spoken by Andy and practically ensuring that soon Andy will be limited to responding "no comment" to just about every question. LOL