Kangan (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:54 am 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) wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:27 pm 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.