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Prospectuses; The Horror
Topic Started: Jun 25 2005, 08:44 AM (206 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
How Iraqi babies, opps I mean trees, have to die. . .

What percentage really read these intimidating, confusing, legalezey, annoying eco-hostile telephone books?

Fess up.
Do you even open them?
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Do you mean the 20 pounds of yellow and white pages that get delivered to my house every year, and sit on a shelf under my kitchen cabinet? I probably open them about 3 - 4 time per year. I get virtually all my telephone numbers and addresses on line.

However, I think these are of recycled paper, and then again recycled -- which DOES have environmental impact -- so maybe not a lot of trees are dying.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
kenny
Jun 25 2005, 08:44 AM
How Iraqi babies, opps I mean trees, have to die. . .

What percentage really read these intimidating, confusing, legalezey, annoying eco-hostile telephone books?

Fess up.
Do you even open them?

Did you just change the message AGAIN? :veryangry: ;)

Do you really mean the stock holder reports for your investments?
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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KlavierBauer
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HOLY CARP!!!
With the Internet as prevalent as it is in people's homes, I feel the yellow pages are almost totally useless.


And certainly a huge waste of resources, even when slightly useful.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
Sorry
I was not clear.

I am bitching about the reports about stock or mutual funds you hold.
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apple
one of the angels
prospectussi

I would love to take my house off the donation list.
it behooves me to behold
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
you should try writing one...


doesn't your broker let you sign up for electronic delivery of these things?
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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kenny
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I don't have a broker.
It is from my company's 401K's mutaual funds.

But thanks I'll see if they have it on email.
Then I can just delete the dang thing.
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BeeLady
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Middle Aged Carp
Jon, great idea....Since Mr. BeeLady has, many times, proclaimed that paper is obsolete, I should be able to pitch all the paper report he gets from the brokerage he never contacts! :clap:

We just finished going thru papers from....1987.... :crazy:
"My wheel shall sing responsive to my tread,
And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread
Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break"
"Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets by Mary Ashley Townsend" 1895
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QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Fess up.
Do you even open them?


OK, I'll fess up.

Like Jon, it seems, I write them. Or, more to the point, edit them.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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