Gyroscopic Investing

I try to take a walk and think about something other than investing for a while...



...and that's what I see.
Is this what Medium Tex pulls up in to counsel you when you're considering an all-stock portfolio?

This truck was at Graceland in Memphis last Sunday....

You guys are following me around.

I thought I saw some suspicious looking characters checking out my ride.

Guilty as charged. 

That's the truck he uses when he tires of the law and goes carpet cleaning.

smurff wrote: That's the truck he uses when he tires of the law and goes carpet cleaning.

I also sell ice cream and frozen fish out of the back.

MediumTex wrote:

I also sell ice cream and frozen fish out of the back.
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That's okay, as long as you first clean up the leftover Live Canadian Night Crawlers that you sell out the back on weekends. They get kind of messy when they have been sitting in the sun, late
Sunday afternoons

BTW, for anyone who doesn't know what I look like, here is a nice pic of me:

I liked the Bruce Campbell avatar better.

You know you're really old when... you recognize "Mr. Haney" immediately.
Or maybe you aren't really old if you can still remember anything from that long ago?

Libertarian666 wrote: You know you're really old when... you recognize "Mr. Haney" immediately.
Or maybe you aren't really old if you can still remember anything from that long ago?

I was talking to my 13 year old daughter about something a while back and mentioned MTV.  She looked at me blankly and said "What's MTV?"

OTOH hand, over the years I have been turned on to things from the 1960s (movies, music, popular trends, etc.) and I am always amazed that my parents somehow managed to live through that era without noticing much of anything that was going on around them culturally with the exception of a very few musical acts and a handful of movies.

There are lots of things that I care nothing about that I still hope I can remember when I am old.  If my grandkids ask me about Britney Spears one day I hope I don't look at them blankly and tell them I don't remember anything about that.

I admit, though, that watching Hot Tub Time Machine was a little unsettling to me.  I don't remember the 1980s as that different from our world today.

A few other things that bother me a little bit are that Johnny Depp turns 50 this month, Mick Jagger turns 70 next month and Risky Business came out 30 years ago.

MediumTex wrote: OTOH hand, over the years I have been turned on to things from the 1960s (movies, music, popular trends, etc.) and I am always amazed that my parents somehow managed to live through that era without noticing much of anything that was going on around them culturally with the exception of a very few musical acts and a handful of movies.

When I was a kid, my parents were always talking about the 50's and about the future. When I asked why they never mentioned the sixties, and what happened during that decade, they shrugged. "Nothing."  :-)
Granted, they were in Japan for the latter half, but jeez, what a whitewash!

This just reminded me of the time travel in one of the Austin Powers movies.
(What happened during the 70s and 80s. What did we miss?)
Austin Powers: A gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.

dualstow wrote: This just reminded me of the time travel in one of the Austin Powers movies.
(What happened during the 70s and 80s. What did we miss?)
Austin Powers: A gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.

When it comes to the 1970s, I could talk for hours about nothing but the role of the various Trans Am models in popular culture.

As far as the 1980s go, you've got presidents and popes being shot, AIDS, space shuttles blowing up, heavy metal music, preppies, and baby boomers rationalizing their success and probable immortality.  There was so much going on, and I wasn't really even watching that closely.

MediumTex wrote:

dualstow wrote: This just reminded me of the time travel in one of the Austin Powers movies.
(What happened during the 70s and 80s. What did we miss?)
Austin Powers: A gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.

When it comes to the 1970s, I could talk for hours about nothing but the role of the various Trans Am models in popular culture.

As far as the 1980s go, you've got presidents and popes being shot, AIDS, space shuttles blowing up, heavy metal music, preppies, and baby boomers rationalizing their success and probable immortality.  There was so much going on, and I wasn't really even watching that closely.

All I can think of is Burt Reynolds going to make that second run at the end of the movie. This time for clam chowder. For some reason, I am heavily into the 70s. The music, the movies, the crime, world events, everything.
In the 80s, I think I was too busy doing my homework and generally being miserable.

dualstow wrote:

MediumTex wrote:

dualstow wrote: This just reminded me of the time travel in one of the Austin Powers movies.
(What happened during the 70s and 80s. What did we miss?)
Austin Powers: A gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.

When it comes to the 1970s, I could talk for hours about nothing but the role of the various Trans Am models in popular culture.

As far as the 1980s go, you've got presidents and popes being shot, AIDS, space shuttles blowing up, heavy metal music, preppies, and baby boomers rationalizing their success and probable immortality.  There was so much going on, and I wasn't really even watching that closely.

All I can think of is Burt Reynolds going to make that second run at the end of the movie. This time for clam chowder. For some reason, I am heavily into the 70s. The music, the movies, the crime, world events, everything.
In the 80s, I think I was too busy doing my homework and generally being miserable.

Burt Reynolds' movies made more money in the 1970s than those of any other leading actor.  He simply owned the box office in the 1970s.  Clint Eastwood had some good ones as well, but Burt Reynolds was The Man.

TennPaGa wrote:

MediumTex wrote:

Well, dang.  I guess this shows what *I* paid attention to in the 1970's (I was born in 1961).  I was a big Steelers fan, but had completely forgotten that Terry Bradshaw was in a couple of Burt Reynolds movies (I do, however, recall that he made a country record, and had his own brand of peanut butter).

You were probably parked somewhere in a custom van and just missed it.

I would see these cruising around and just knew that when I grew up I would have my own (in addition to my Trans Am, of course).

Imagine how many more Soviets would have defected if they'd had access to the picture above. ;-)