07-23-2010, 09:36
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: OK. Thanking Our Brave Soldiers
Posts: 3,614
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greenberetTFS
History is filled with bold predictions that completely missed the mark:
* At the turn of the 20th century, car makers produced only four million automobiles because the experts believed the world would eventually run out of chauffeurs.
* Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, made the bold pronouncement that radio had no future in 1894.
* Mark Twain refused to invest in Alexander Graham Bell's telephone because he didn't see a use for it.
* Thomas Watson, the President of IBM, once said the future world would need "maybe only five computers."
* And in 1899, the director of the United States patent office told President McKinley that "everything that can be invented has already been invented.
Big Teddy 
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Great Post, Big Teddy!
And Chef, I like the advice your post gives:
"Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to Drink heavily and recycle."
Holly
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