A(nother) Awesome FB Status...

[LaydeeBug]

If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today! If you purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG, you would have $33.00. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers, you would have $0.00 today. But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer, drank it all, turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. So, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. ;)

[MADem]

1. I've seen that one--I have a few friends in the airline industry. NT

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. an oldie but a goodie...

but I don't think that the recycling rate for aluminum cans is $.27 per can...I could be wrong.

sP

[hfojvt]

5. you are not wrong

I just turned in 100 cans, just to find out what the price per can was. It was 3 pounds, for which I got $1.65 or .017 per can. And five or six years ago, they were only paying 25 or 30 cents a pound.

They pay a nickel more if you bring in over 100 pounds. So twice I have saved up that much. It actually has paid too, because while I was accumulating the 100 pounds the price went up, so I not only got the extra 5 cents a pound, but an extra 10-15 cents a pound because of the increased price.

So I figure that $1,000 worth of pop at $3 a twelve pack (which is not always a price you can get, but not the cheapest price either) would net $68. And I think beer, which I never buy, is more expensive than pop.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company

So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. ...

[NightWatcher]

4. actually you'd only get $18-$40 dollars from $1000 worth of beer

http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/beer.asp

It sure sounds like more fun however

[SheilaT]

6. As if those are the only possible

companies to have invested in.

[alfredo]

7. If you bought one share of Apple last year for $262, you'd

have $380+ today.

If you bought one Microsoft share one years ago at $25 you'd now have $26.

If you bought one share of Dell at $24.48, you'd have $24.49 today.

If you bought one share of HP (HPQ) for $38.81, you'd now have $24.14.

Of course the market is open, so there might be some movement of all these stock.