Hate email!

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60016
    #1245548

    I was sent this terribly horrable email this weekend. I just hope it ends with me and isn’t some type of virus that sends out golf jokes through infected computers! What is this world coming to!?

    Ya gotta like this one.
    > > WHO WAS……..
    >
    > 1. President of the largest steel company?
    >
    > 2. President of the largest gas company?
    >
    > 3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?
    >
    > 4. Greatest wheat speculator?
    >
    > 5. President of the Bank of International
    > Settlement?
    >
    > 6. Great Bear of Wall Street?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > These men
    > were considered
    > some of the worlds most successful
    > of their days.
    >
    >
    > Now,
    > 80 years later,
    > the history book asks us,
    > if we know
    > what ultimately became of them.
    >
    > The Answers:
    >
    > 1. The president of the largest steel company.
    > Charles Schwab,
    > died a pauper.
    >
    > 2. The president of the largest gas company,
    > Edward Hopson,
    > went insane.
    >
    > 3. The president of the NYSE,
    > Richard Whitney,
    > was released from prison
    > to die at home.
    >
    > 4. The greatest wheat speculator,
    > Arthur Cooger,
    > died abroad, penniless.
    >
    > 5. The president
    > of
    > the Bank of International Settlement,
    > shot himself.
    >
    > 6. The Great Bear of Wall Street,
    > Cosabee Livermore,
    > also committed suicide.
    >
    >
    > However:
    > in that same year,
    > 1923,
    > the PGA Champion
    > and
    > the winner of
    > the
    > most important golf tournament,
    > the US Open,
    > was
    > Gene Sarazen.
    > What became of him?
    >
    >
    > He played golf until he was 92,
    > died in 1999 at the age of 95.
    > He was financially secure
    > at the time of his death.
    >
    > The Moral:
    >
    > Screw work.
    > Play golf!
    >
    >
    > >
    >
    > This joke is a work of
    > fiction. Any resemblance to
    > actual places
    > or people is utterly nonsense and wacko…

    sandbar
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 1045
    #339676

    Hey Brian, are you giving up that head lamp and cat fishing rods for a new set of Callaways?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60016
    #339693

    I think someone just want’s to keep me off the river so they have more fish for themselves.

    Besides, I hate Callaway Seeds.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    #339899

    I like your common sense Briank,

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