To The Lurkers

[MediumTex]

If you lurk here, you should join up and participate.

The people here are about as friendly and courteous as you will find anywhere on the internet.  You know you have questions and comments.

Today is the day. 

Now is your time. 

Join. 

Participate.

[Gosso]

Count me in!!

Just want to thank MT, craigr and all the forum members for the great information that is gathered here.

I'll do what I can to help chip in from time to time.

[MediumTex]

Count me in!!

Just want to thank MT, craigr and all the forum members for the great information that is gathered here.

I'll do what I can to help chip in from time to time.

Welcome!

[Alanw]

Thanks MT for all your thoughtful comments.  Thank you Craig for setting up this site and for all the valuable information.  Thank you other contributors for all of your input on this discussion forum (Sounds like an oscar recipients speech).  This topic has inspired me to register after following the site for the past year.  I would like to post on "How I found the PP" but not sure what topic I should use and will be happy to contribute whatever I can.

[AdamA]

I would like to post on "How I found the PP" but not sure what topic I should use and will be happy to contribute whatever I can.

Post it here:

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/in ... ic=1946.45

(I know it doesn't seem like the right topic, but somehow a bunch of us wound up posting our stories here.  If you read the whole thread, you'll see them).

I look forward to hearing it.  

[Odysseusa]

We need lighten up a bit so more people can join. We are just too serous in here. 

[Storm]

I'm afraid we scare too many people away with the smell of our chaps... 

[Ralphy]

We need lighten up a bit so more people can join. We are just too serous in here.  ;D

Don't change anything!  I've been lurking around here for probably over a year, and the intelligence and civility of the forum members have kept me coming back.  (Well, that and the nagging question of which ammo to stock for the zombie apocalypse  ;) )

[jediclampet]

.22 long rifle and plenty of it.. and don't forget the chaps to protect against leg bites...

welcome to the forum lurkers...

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom. 

[AdamA]

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom.  

JediClampet--

Will you please make this your avatar?

[Tortoise]

Yoda: "You must unlearn what you have learned..."

PP Padawan: "Okay, but I think I'd be more comfortable with a commodities basket instead of just gold, and maybe I'll substitute some ST bonds for part of the LT bond allocation since yields can't possibly get any lower."

Yoda: "No! Tinker not. PP, or PP not. There is no tinker."

[AdamA]

I I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value... 

That does not stop me.

[One day at a time]

It's been a great learning experience...wish I had something substantial to add but all of this has made me rethink a lot of what I thought I knew...

[jediclampet]

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom.  

JediClampet--

Will you please make this your avatar?

Thanks! Just what I needed! 

[6 Iron]

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom. 

We have some very bright individuals here, that have done considerable study on investing, economics and monetary policy. It can be intimidating for new posters to feel like they have to generate a post on the order of the unifying theorem. I love reading new perspectives, and concerns of individuals that are kicking the tires of the PP. So don't sell your "value" short. Stay here long enough, and a topic will come up where you will be the expert, and we all will benefit. In the meantime, I get a chuckle everytime I see your screen name and avatar.

[Alanw]

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom. 

Everyone has life experiences that others can benefit from whether financial or otherwise.

[stone]

I have been lurking.  I feel like I don’t know enough to contribute too much of value but I do enjoy reading.  Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom. 

I bet if all the lurkers joined in, everyone would benefit far more than you suspect. If you don't understand something, then you can be certain that many other people also don't understand it and everyone benefits from working it out in public. If you do understand something then you can be certain that your way of understanding would clarify things for many of the people reading.

Also I think what makes forums friendly, happy, reading material is that they just have people wittering without too much thought.  If we all wanted to read considered wisdom we would be reading books or scholarly papers not this stuff. Often other peoples' stream of consciousness wittering actually comes accross as more interesting than considered knowledge would. It often has more truth and value as well IMO.

Some of the stuff I have most liked reading on here seemed nuts to me. I'm really glad people wrote it. 

[kobe1]

Thanks for the invite MT.

I have been lurking/enjoying this forum for the past two years.  I went 50% into the HBPP in 2010 and 100% in 2011.

Thanks to all who participate in this forum, especially craigr and MT, for all of the great ideas/advice/support.  You guys make the DIY PP possible.

[AdamA]

Thanks for the invite MT.

I have been lurking/enjoying this forum for the past two years.  I went 50% into the HBPP in 2010 and 100% in 2011.

Thanks to all who participate in this forum, especially craigr and MT, for all of the great ideas/advice/support.  You guys make the DIY PP possible.

Wow, two new Jedi.  

That has to be good for the forum.

[Storm]

I'm just digging the avatars... Is that He-Man, AdamA?

[AdamA]

I'm just digging the avatars... Is that He-Man, AdamA?

Yeah, it's Prince Adam, He-Man's Clarke Kent.

I thought this might be a better one for Kobe1.

[kobe1]

Thanks AdamA, that is seriously funny!

[MediumTex]

Thanks AdamA, that is seriously funny!

Here is a good one for AdamA:



...or for the younger set:

[AdamA]

Thanks AdamA, that is seriously funny!

Here is a good one for AdamA:

Tempting...

[Tortoise]

I'm just digging the avatars... Is that He-Man, AdamA?

Yeah, it's Prince Adam, He-Man's Clarke Kent.

Is this what inspired your avatar, AdamA?

(Music video, less than 3 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu97XDIbyAE