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    When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer

    The Gap's Attempt At Recovery Is Totally F-ed
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Isn't Dreamworks worth less than the cost of a ticket to a Spielberg movie these days?
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    This is kind of a weird criteria to use...


    I mean, a Corvette costs $80,000, so does it mean something any time GM's stock trades below that, other than that I still can't afford a Corvette?

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    03/11/09

    @badasscat: D'oh, I see you've sort of made fun of yourselves in the same way at the end of the post.


    See, this is what MTV has done to the attention spans of my generation.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    word of advice: stop buying shitty cigarettes in soho and you will pay less than $10 a pack for them. seriously! if you are paying $10 for marlboros of any stripe you are going to some kind of huckster bodega, stealing your precious $1.50-$2 to use for their own nefarious purposes.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    JOHN COOK HAIKU:


    Clouds appear for money

    and bring John a chance rest from

    looking at the moon.

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    03/11/09

    No blossoms, no moon,

    and John Cook drinking sake

    all alone with both!
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    03/11/09

    Scallops are tastey,

    John prefers cream sauce to the

    rancid stock of man.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    General Motors

    Whole Foods, more Baconators,

    Cook craves not these things.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    What is that Denton character up to? Much too quiet these days. Selling you guys to Rupert Murdoch?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Don't go betting against ATF stocks.


    ATF stocks are companies that fall under the aegis of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.


    You may not have enough money to buy underwear but you'll find the money to buy a pack of smokes or a flask of Wild Turkey.


    Booze, smokes and guns: three products that are recession-proof.

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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    03/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You forgot porn.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Four-pack of Scott toilet paper: $3.99 (Walgreen's).
    One share of NYT: $3.77.
    Getting close.
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    03/11/09

    @Kid Twist: "Newspapers- they're what you wipe you ass with!"
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    03/11/09

    @Kid Twist: Also, when I wipe with tp, I have fewer dingle berries on the paper.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/11/09

    @saythatscool: This thread is about shares, not overshares.
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    03/11/09

    @Kid Twist: That didn't come out the way I wanted it to. Uggh!
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    Image of AvenueOfTheStrongest AvenueOfTheStrongest
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Office Depot didn't counter the easy button when it had the chance. How about a simplicity lever? Or a convenience dial? Now it's too late.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/11/09

    @AvenueOfTheStrongest: knob of effortlessness?
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    I wonder if I can leverage my unsmoked cigarettes into a Whole Foods takeover bid?
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    Image of gticlutchburn gticlutchburn
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Not sure where you're buying your beer but you're getting ripped the fuck off.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    03/11/09

    @gticlutchburn: Agreed, unless by "case" you mean "of 64."
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/11/09

    @gticlutchburn: That's standard price for a case of 12oz bottles in NYC. Plus, you have to add tax and deposit. And you can't buy in the supermarket before 12:00 pm on Sundays.
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    Image of momo momo
    03/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You buy it at the bodega on Sunday mornings and say "shukran" to the dude at the counter.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: who is buying their beer in supermarkets?!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/11/09

    @momo: The bodega in my building is run by Pakistanis. So it's "shukria". And their beer is overpriced.


    The crappy C*Town where I go (with 6 types of jerk sauce and a variety of offal in the meat department) has six-packs of PBR for $6. Can't beat that price with a stick.

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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    03/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Six of PBR for $4.99 at Food Emporium and 12-pack for $6.99 at Whole Foods, of all places!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/11/09

    @SidAndFinancy: Do you smell that? Smells like a beer run!
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:

    Well the Pakistani guy might speak punjabi not urdu. So if you can't tell your Yemeni baqala guy from your Pakistani baqala guy it's better to just default to the language they probably speak most throughout the day: "gracias".


    And buy Heineken instead.

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