Investment advice

[Kangan (imported)]

Subject: Interesting Investment Advice of the Day

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan isto drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg Plan. A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!

God, what a great country. I mean it makes me so proud of being an American I just want to cry.

[Slammr (imported)]

Subject: Interesting Investment Advice of the Day

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan isto drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg Plan. A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!

God, what a great country. I mean it makes me so proud of being an American I just want to cry.

I realize that this is a joke, but the actual calculation ruins it for me. To receive back $214 would require returning 4280 cans at 5 cents a can (what they pay in my state). That would make the price of a can of beer .23 cents.. If anyone knows where they can buy beer for that in the USA, please let me know. Maybe I'll take up drinking beer again.

[Kangan (imported)]

I realize that this is a joke, but the actual calculation ruins it for me. To receive back $214 would require returning 4280 cans at 5 cents a can (what they pay in my state). That would make the price of a can of beer .23 cents.. If anyone knows where they can buy beer for that in the USA, please let me know. Maybe I'll take up drinking beer again.

This was sent to me as a joke, but there could be some truth in it. I don't drink beer so I have no way to verify the numbers.