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The DOW is back to the level where it was before Lehman went bust!!!! Yet, it still has a historically high yield.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you older folks (Arkady, denton, pete) to restructure your equity portfolios into quality companies, growing dividends with high yields to generate retirement income. You can still get yields of 4-6% that will grow as companies systemeatically increase dividends as they have a history of doing.
c.f DD, MCD, VZ, VOD, MO, HNZ…many, many others.
ew Katz deli. i used to live around the corner from there and was escorted out once by a big bully. why are their security guards all up in that restaurant? the food was disgusting too. i had chili. barf.
*rob*
“It means, literally, twisted bellybutton, and refers to people who are perversely contrary cranks.”
“contrary cranks”! ROFL! Sounds dangerously close to being a Crack Pot! : P
I do remember putting in my 2 cents. And said no need to give any gift at all. You said already had given shower/birth gifts etc.
Absolutely too much of this gift giving obligation.
Too much materialism.
I like it when a Japanese guy demands “mo ichi da” especially if ropes are involved.
“one more time”
^^^^^
would sound even hotter when uttered by a Japanese woman in a schoolgirl uniform.
“Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do Ha-mu-ba-ga”
Damn, that sounded HOT!
By rf on October 21, 2010 10:19 AM
Doesn’t Japan use a phonetic alphabet now? Chinese uses word-based characters.
The original Japanese language was phonetic (hiragana) and is still used in combination with Kanji (Chinese characters) which were imported with Buddhism (700s?)
There is also a phonetic alphabet for foreign words.
Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do Ha-mu-ba-ga
Macdonald hamburger (there is a corresponding character for each syllable.
Back to work….
Lech: We were quietly rooting for texas because we were hoping to watch the faces of 40,000 yankees fans as they watched their season end, but alas, the yankees live to see another day.
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Commenting on the above in light of discussion of Asian languages, the Japanese have an expression “heso mawari”.
It means, literally, twisted bellybutton, and refers to people who are perversely contrary cranks. ^^^^^^^^^^