# investment opportunities
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 21, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808 "2006-04-21T17:58:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/1 "2006-04-21T17:58:23Z")
INVESTING FOR YOUR RETIREMENT:
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth
$49.00 .
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With Enron,
you would have had
$16.50 of your original $1,000
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With WorldCom,
you would have had less than
$5.00 left of your original $1,000
* * *
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00
worth of Beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND,
you would have had:
$214.00.
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Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/2 "2006-04-21T18:01:00Z")
what if you’re drinking from a barrel?
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### Author:  [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/3 "2006-04-21T18:42:06Z")
> [@BlkP42E](#):
>
> what if you’re drinking from a barrel?
use the wood barrel in a burner and save on gas bills for heat…
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/4 "2006-04-21T19:28:57Z")
truth.
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/5 "2006-04-21T20:35:02Z")
l invested 30 seconds in this thread and ended up with nothing.
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### Author:  [@flyinglow57](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/flyinglow57)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/6 "2006-04-21T20:42:06Z")
> [@Darkstar](#):
>
> l invested 30 seconds in this thread and ended up with nothing.
you read too slow.
if you drink out of a keg… you would still have some money back out of it bye turning in the kegs. 🍺
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### Author:  [@turboTSI1320](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turboTSI1320)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/7 "2006-04-22T05:50:15Z")
wow this tread is worthless…
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### Author:  [@Bravada\_442](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bravada_442)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/8 "2006-04-22T09:26:41Z")
404
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### Author:  [@Slim\_06\_F-150](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slim_06_F-150)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/9 "2006-04-22T12:46:03Z")
if you would have bought a case of 86-87 fleer basketball cards for 200 bucks back then, it is now worht 80 grand
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### Author:  [@Slim\_06\_F-150](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slim_06_F-150)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-opportunities/181808/10 "2006-04-22T12:55:20Z")
or how bout a case of 1952 topps baseball cards 30 bucks back then now worth 3 million