When news comes out tomorrow - up, up and away in our beautiful balloon!
posted on
Apr 24, 2008 07:47PM
There's some song that goes like that last part - probably dates me as being an old geezer. I could have used the lyrics to "Rocket Man", but - you really want to hear my impression of Elton John? - OK - my impression is "He's gay!" Of course, that's just my impression, and I borrowed that from Larry the Cable Guy - for those of you who have been subjected to crude, deep south, redneck comedy shows. Seriously though - this stock price is going to take off tomorrow, like a jackrabbit with a hound on his tail. It's like when a some good-tracking coon dogs chase a raccoon down to the local tank (that's a 'pond' for you northern folk). The hunters are following, way behind, listening to the howling of those hounds. They think they are going to put an end to that coon that night (kind of like shorters in the stock market harassing a greatly undervalued stock - and planning on making a 'killing'). Then all of sudden they hear the voice of their hounds changing - instead of the familiar, cheerful baying (indicating they are hot on the trail of the coon and will soon have him cornered to be dispatched) - they start hearing lots of panicked barking and howling, and it gets to where they are hearing fewer and fewer of their dogs voices. Well, it's a familiar tale to your fellow coon hunters, but for those city slickers or tree huggers who hate hunting, or those moose hunters who've never hunted coons with dogs, here it what has happened. The dogs ('shorters' in our case) have, in their eagerness and greed have, one after another, gone into the water after Mr. Rocky Raccoon. But the coon (Noront, in our case) has a lot more than what they are expecting. He lets them get close, then, deftly swims quickly around their neck and plants his feet and claws into the top of their heads and drowns them, one after the other. Pretty soon, no more dogs, and the raccoon goes merrily on his way, to a richer and happier life - with less dogs (or none at all) chasing him. Any experienced coon hunter who has hunted for years with dogs will tell you that this has either happened to him or some other hunter he knows - I'm not just making this up, folks! Well, Noront Raccoon is getting ready to lead the coon dogs (shorters) into the deep water and pay them back as they richly deserve for their bad behavior towards Mr. Noront Raccoon. Those who don't know, or can't estimate, the power of some great press releases, and don't respect the surprising speed with which that can turn the tide and change fortunes - they will be, as our mafiosos say in the movies: 'swimming with the fishes'. Glad to be a NOT long!