Happy? New Year

I'm a fan of near future fiction and came across this:


http://www.halfpasthuman.com/HPHFH_COLLAPSE.htm


Especially with our growing deficit, it does make things look like a
house of cards. Hope it doesn't get too windy.

Willi

Willi writes:

Especially with our growing deficit, it does make things look like a
house of cards. Hope it doesn't get too windy.

It was all supposed to start happening in Nov and Dec 03? Market's up, not
down, and good economic indicators for next year.

Don't matter anyway. I got all my fortune in fishing equipment, cars, and
silver quarters - lots of silver quarters.
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html

In article , Dave
LaCourse wrote:

Willi writes:

Especially with our growing deficit, it does make things look like a
house of cards. Hope it doesn't get too windy.

It was all supposed to start happening in Nov and Dec 03? Market's up, not
down, and good economic indicators for next year.

Don't matter anyway. I got all my fortune in fishing equipment, cars, and
silver quarters - lots of silver quarters.
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html



Personally I favor fine double guns, scotch and mercury dimes but to
each their own! Dammit an 04 Allroad keeps looking better and better
though

Allen

Greg Pavlov writes:


You'll get out in time. Most of the rest of us still
have a ways to go before we get to retirement age and
by then our pension funds will be worth peanuts, `cause
the dollar will be like the Argentinian peso, and for
much the same reason: a hopelessly corrupt government.

It was a joke, Greg. Joanne's father, a Depression Era kid, was always afraid
that the world would go through another depression. He had millions - made
from the stock market - and he left it all to James Mason University..... go
figure. Anyway, he left his four children a burried treasure with a map to its
location. When we dug it up it was a three foot long four inch pipe chock full
of silver quarters. His reasoning was that if there was another depression,
gold and silver would rule as the currency. Gold coins only came in very big
demoninations, whereas silver quarters would be easy to exchange for food,
shelter, whatever.

You sound like Chicken Little, Greg with your economic forecast.
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html

Well guys i got my fortune in copper i figure with a deppression in site then
comes proabission (sp) we'll have to make our own booze so i burried jars and
jars of pennies that i'll sell to the Cakalakians so they can melt it down and
make tubing for the stills i put alot of thought into this and i thing it's
gonna pan out in 500-1000 years


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

Handyman Mike writes:


Well guys i got my fortune in copper i figure with a deppression in site then
comes proabission (sp) we'll have to make our own booze so i burried jars and
jars of pennies that i'll sell to the Cakalakians so they can melt it down
and
make tubing for the stills i put alot of thought into this and i thing it's
gonna pan out in 500-1000 years


SPLORK

You, you, you entrepreneur, you. You be doing the right thing, Mike; saving
for the future generations - but 100s of generations? d;o)
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html

Naw, the money is in helium futures. Demand is rising and supply should be
out by about 2010. Yah know how much of that Disney goes through every year
just to make Donald Duck movies?

--
Frank Reid
Reverse email to reply
(by the way, I'm serious about the supply running out)

....all I know is that I have been screwed. Major league big time, trusted
the wrong people too long.

.....have to refigure the whole retirement idea, which was scheduled to occur
two years from now and now, I just don't know. I'd hate to go back to
smuggling...

john


"Willi" wrote in message
...
I'm a fan of near future fiction and came across this:


http://www.halfpasthuman.com/HPHFH_COLLAPSE.htm


Especially with our growing deficit, it does make things look like a
house of cards. Hope it doesn't get too windy.

Willi

Greg Pavlov:

That is a neat story. My mothers's father
had a good chunk of money, back in Europe,
and what with the inevitable WWII coming on
he decided to put it into something portable
and easy to trade for food, etc if the going
got rough: crystal. The going did get rough.
I don't know what happened to the crystal,
but I know that it didn't do much good.

It was a neat experience. He had a tool shed about 100 yards in the woods from
the house. (BTW, he gave the land surrounding the house to GMU, but that's
another story.) All four of his children and Daisy their mother gathered at
mid-night. Aided by the light of two keresene lamps, we began to dig at the
spot the map indicated the treasure was burried. Each person took a shovel
full. We found the pipe about two feet down. Joanne's nephews and nieces
really enjoyed the spookiness of it.

But the story doesn't end there. Two of Joanne's brothers flew out to Oregon
and packed up all of "Daddy's" belongings, including window boxes full of dirt,
and all the potted plants in the house. The day after the "treasure dig", one
of Jo's brothers decided that it would be just like daddy to hide things in the
potted plants/window boxes. Sure enough, he found a Krugerrand and the hunt
was on. By the end of the dig, there were 30 to 35 gold coins found. Joanne
and her family are the most ethical folks I've ever known, and all the gold
coins were turned over to the executor and eventually to GMU.

John left his family very little - he thought that everyone should make their
fortunes by themselfs. But we had a helluva good time digging. If only Boris
Karloff and Lon Chaney were there.......
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html