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Everyone's Making Money Off BP (Including Us!)
As of today, we've made nearly ten buckson the one share of BP we bought as a gift for the lucky person who will have guessed its value on this coming Christmas Eve. We bought at $29.67 on June 23-and it's trading at $38.18 this morning. We're not the only ones making out like bandits: "anti-big-government" Wisconsin Senate candidate Ron Johnson plans to sell his BP holdings to finance his campaign! Nifty. BP reported major losses in the second quarter of 2010, unsurprisingly; in the 2009 second quarter, they reported a profit of $4.4 billion. Yes, that's right! $4.4 billion in three months.
I'm using my BP stock earnings to help finance Kevin Costner's fantasy oil cleanup whirlygig and then maybe he can also afford to buy a chin.
Gah, is it too late to submit to the contest? I was working out my guess but kept getting hungry :(
"Young maidens in countryside villages would divine the names of their future husbands by writing the names of all prospective suitors on separate pieces of cheese. The one whose name was on the piece of cheese that grew mold first was believed to be the ideal love mate. This also worked just as well for the opposite sex."
This is the best thing I'll read on the Internet all week. Amazing. MASH notes for the medieval set.
(Also: Hello Occultopedia, where have you been all my life?)
Things have come so far sense then–now we can consult an octopus.
im close!!!!!!
BP offsets spill costs to save $10 billion in tax
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38424553/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/