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ATTN: American Consumer, Tastylunch Has Sage Advice for You

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May 15, 2008 – Comments (19) | RELATED TICKERS: BBY , HOV , F

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#1) On May 15, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

yada yada Houses, yada yada cars, yada yada purchases made on credit cards yada yada yada....

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#2) On May 15, 2008 at 9:38 AM, EverydayInvestor (< 20) wrote:

hehe. That's good.

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#3) On May 15, 2008 at 10:22 AM, GNUBEE (24.57) wrote:

Had I seen this I could have saved myself from a personal rant.

Thank You SNL, and Thank you Tastylunch. Now to replay the clip one more time....

 

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#4) On May 15, 2008 at 10:53 AM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

Martin's face is the best. I always like the Jerk.

Great advice coming from actors. I wonder how much there mortgage(s) are?

yada yada yada :)

Nice post tasty. Thanks for all the comments the other day. good luck on the rbcaa call. 

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#5) On May 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM, wolfhounds (29.21) wrote:

Yo tasty, picked a good with Steve Martin. it's prompted me to write something too absurd I read about this morning.

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#6) On May 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, vicpicks (< 20) wrote:

lol...too funny, tasty!  :)

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#7) On May 15, 2008 at 12:01 PM, TMFDeej (99.47) wrote:

If only I had sound on this computer :).  I'll check the clip out later.

"Stay away from those cans.  He hates those cans!!!!"

Deek

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#8) On May 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

flydini anybody?

 

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#9) On May 15, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

everybody

thanks glad you found it funny as I did. Ain't Steve Martin great? I think I'm going to nickname the american consumer Steve  for here on out in honor of him.

I ran across this clip on Hulu last night. It's got me watching SNL again (through the site) as I don't have to sit 3 through skits I don't find funny to watch one that is :-)  Pretty neat youtube competitior , I believe it's the official palce to get NBC and FOX show clips now.

This reminds me of my daily moral quandry, as a retailer I am somewhat dependent on spending more than they probably ought to with me. I try to gently steer people towards things they actually need , but if they want to buy other things as well well I can't afford to pass that up. They'll just go somewhere else if I give them a hard time about it. It's just the way competition forces us to behave. I probably ought to upsell and crossell harder but I can't bring myself to do it sometimes.

_madcow 

 no worries mate, you help me out a lot. Happy to be of service. I try to give back to those aid me. Flydini is freakin awesome

 

 

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#10) On May 16, 2008 at 12:29 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

I love the two different acts he does on both videos offered up. In yours his facial expression is way overdone and in flydini he barely has one. 

You have done the same for me. I really appreciate the discussions and topics we have covered. I new GU was giving me a nice little re"treat" for a better spot to buy in. Thanks.

What was your take on RVCAA. I can't believe the run-up. I know they had a great quarter, but what gives. I didn't even really do any research:) before I put a thumbs down. 

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#11) On May 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Evlampius (< 20) wrote:

I couldn't agree more  :)

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#12) On May 19, 2008 at 2:07 PM, binv271828 (< 20) wrote:

Tasty,

That was hilarious! good times. Thanks man.

Also congrats on your meteroric rise out of negative territory and into near All-Star-dom. I am still trying to dig myself out of the hole I am in :)

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#13) On May 20, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

hey guys

glad you enjoyed it. :-)

binv271828 

thanks, ethanol kicked me in the allstar today, but I hope to be smarter about my oicks this time around. about ten picks out of 200+ have cost me over 600 points.My sucessful picks tend to be more broadly based. I really should be doing much better if I were more careful. :-)

 good luck to to you too!

MAdcow 

I answered you question on your blog, cause I figure you'll probably be more likely to see it there. 

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#14) On May 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

but, but, but, but, I always check prior blogs that made me laugh:)

Thanks.

Ethanol kicking you in the Hopper? 

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#15) On May 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

oh yeah dude. PEIX earning's nearly cost me my allstar ranking today. I think I'm getting the hang of how to score on CAPS. VSE and AVR all beat the snot outta me.

Big sector bets seem to be key, (which is something I've tried to avoid since it seems lazy).

Hopefully I'll actually a get a respectable score soon. :-) 

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#16) On May 21, 2008 at 9:47 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

The restaurants are making me look like a big dummie, but I knew that might be the case ahead of time. The regional banks are not treating me any better either. I think the red thumb of both those sectors caused a slight accuracy slump:) That is alright though, they have helped in other ways (not points).

Looks like you are doing better, best of luck. 

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#17) On May 22, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

Yeah I've had a couple nice pops of late. Indymac bank blew up which helped. And those garbage otc stocks really ahve come through thsi week. I plan to start shorting those in real life later this year once my high season calms down, now that I've got the hang of them it seems.

I think the restaurant bet is going to payoff for both of us.I think you are actually smart imo. In the last two weeks I've added 12  and over 90% of them have given me points so far . :-) I expect it will get better when high meat prices hit.

The regional banks are a bit tougher for me to evaluate because they play with the numbers so much . So I haven't gone full throttle into them. I'm pretty confident in RBCAA but I think it may be awhile before we really get points out of it.

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#18) On May 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

I was just too early on the restaurants. Plus, I didn't really look into most of them. I took a slew of different companies (smorgasborg) and just wanted to see what would stick. Not exactly a scientific method, but it was fun. The bdyt is killing it. You will have you gavel before the weekend:) Lately, I have been getting rid of the underperforms as they go to green. I am not sure what my reasoning is behind it, but I am doing it. I probably end stuff way to early after I follow it. I know I could have a couple that were in the 100+, but I like looking at all the companies. 

I knew IMB was going way down, probably since Nov. but I never acted on it. I have heard a few more than a few, bad things about their programs and finances. I still wish I would have stayed away from the housing and financial sectors. I don't mind being wrong about the restaurants, but I feel like I should have done better in the housing/financial.

PEIX is an interesting call. Even though the tech is on the outs, the buyers are still there. I have taken a look at ethanol some more and the only news I here that isn't biased (corn suppliers) is bad news. I have seen more E85 trucks (?) around in the Detroit area. I think people were a little too early to jump on that wagon, but as a consumer, you can never really know everything. At one point you are blind sided by pure want/greed:)

Your comment about the oil sands post that I did the other day was dead on. It is freaky how "aligned" we are. My main point about the post would have to be that we should have sunk all that money into an alternative that would have cut the pollution down about 3 times as much instead of the present situation. It is a little disturbing that the oil companies went this route. I have read a couple articles about what biofuel has in store and I always return to the question, why not hemp. It really does baffle me that the US doesn't want to build on a technology that is already there and less destructive than oil and ethanol.  

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#19) On May 24, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

naw I closed bodytel, wanted to profit protect. I expect the gavel to come from DCR. when it liquidates at NAV it's almost guaranteed. :-)

 Housing and financial look too cheap to me now, they are higher risk than they wer last year imo. Since I have no idea if the book value on banks means anything I can't trust making too many calls.

Yeah PEIX does make sales, but I think that's going to change once word on the fraud side of the ethanol gets out.  If nothing else their margins are going to get torpedoed. 

Re: Oil sands. you know what theys ay great minds think alike. :-) Maybe it's beacuse we're both midwestern and small business owners. I've always loved how pragmatic most SBOs I meet from Ohio and Michigan genrally are. :-) 

 

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