SIRI Weekly Thread 8-10-09

[JohnnyIrishXM]

suppose there's a double-dip recession and credit freezes-up again?

suppose rates begin to move-up from here as they are bound to do?

I called Mel every dirty, unprintable, name in the book when he didn't refi those Feb converts "sooner rather than later" as he said he would do at the Merrill Lynch conference

Ford refi'd their debt before the credit collapse and that is why they needed no bailout money

penny-wise and dollar foolish not to take advantage of current "known" credit environment and push back all maturities . . imvho . . although I respect the dissenting opinions of those who differ . .

Breathing room is never a bad thing!

Agree,s&P raised credit rating to B- from CCC+ today,this is why they are doing it..don't havea link,got it from Vanguard proprietary analysis..

[john]

looky, lookie, lookee, or what ever the hell it is.


Johnny I was actually laughing at it (and so were you). Dont worry Sirius Roadkill I got the joke.

[JohnnyIrishXM]

looky, lookie, lookee, or what ever the hell it is.


Johnny I was actually laughing at it (and so were you). Dont worry Sirius Roadkill I got the joke.

Oh i was Lmao,at the speed and where the hell he found it at...
that's why i posted it....forgot LMAO part..

[john]

Agree,s&P raised credit rating to B- from CCC+ today,this is why they are doing it..don't havea link,got it from Vanguard proprietary analysis..

If true that is great news. Boy it just gets better and better.

[JohnnyIrishXM]

here's another one,was on vaction and didn't check it when i got home,but Reuters upped SXM to out perform from neutral on August 7th...they upgrade or downgrade pretty regular on this stock with Vanguard,last time was before .63 move

[candleman]

You are not wrong . . that is an alternative spelling:

The expression has been (quotes date from 1710), and still is, in widespread use in the U.S. as well as England (U.K.). Today, however, it appears that, at least in news print (and in conversation too, for some), it is used more as an intentional folksyism than a genuine, straight-faced colloquialism.

LOOKEE / LOOKIE / LOOK(E)Y (imperative verb): followed by here, there, etc. look a, and by hypercorrection, look at. [Reduced forms of look you, look ye] (Dictionary of American Regional English)
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LOOK: Idiomatic uses of the imperative. a) Used to bespeak attention: = ‘see’, ‘behold’, ‘lo’. In modern colloquial use often look you (in representations of vulgar speech written look'ee) = ‘mind this’; also look here, a brusque mode of address prefacing an order, expostulation, reprimand, etc. looky here U.S. regional variant of ‘look here’; also look-a-here. (Oxford English Dictionary)
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LOOKY THERE: Look over there.”—Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalism, listed under 'Happy Trails' [Westsern regionalisms], page 518> [[see 1985 quote below]]


Quote:
<1710 “Look'ee, Jack, I have heard thee sometimes talk like an Oracle.”—The Tatler by R. Steele, No. 34, page 4>

<1744 “Why lookee Gentlemen . . . suppose a great stone lies in the street and you want to move it, unless there be some moving cause, how the devil shall it move”—American Speech, 1967, Vol. 42, page 217>

<1871 “Looky here, marm.”—Hoosier Schoolmaster. [southern Indiana] by Eggleston, page 63>

<1871 “Lookee here, squire, I didn’t take it, did I?” [central Georgia]—Dukesborough Tales (1892) by Johnston, page 74>

<1894 “Looky there!” [Indiana]—Amazindy by Riley, page 143>

<1925 “Looky here! Ye'd oughtn't t' said that, Eben.”—Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill, I. ii. page 20>

1943 “Looky here. . . Burn it all, all I was tryin' to do was see what she'd do flat out on an open road.”—She Died a Lady by C. Diskson, v. page 38>

<1960 “Lookee here what I got.” [Ozarks]—Response to Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. 20>

<1982 “Lookie—diminutive of command look ‘Lookie here.’” [central southern Pennsylvania] —Barrick Collection>

<1985 “‘Looky there,’ Pea said, ‘I reckon that’s the new cook.’”—Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, page 370>

<1993 “Hey, nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, she’s in such good shape.”—Having Our Say by Delany & Delany, page 17>

<2003 “. . . you aren't really supposed to notice when someone gets a facelift. Museums are no exception. ‘Well, looky here. Check out that new roof, fresh paint and better lighting. . . ’”—Washington Post, 17 January>

<2007 “. . . now we have the 2006 YouTube Video Awards. . . . So, oh, looky here in the winners’ circle. We’ve got the neato guys who dance on treadmills, Smosh, the Wine Kone and Ask a Ninja.”—New York Times, 27 March>

<2008 “But now looky here. This afternoon, at the ridiculous time of 12.30, Saracens face the Ospreys in the quarter-final of the Heineken Cup6.”—Sunday Telegraph London, 6 April>

<2009 “Well, looky here. Internet radios have been popping up like bailouts.”—The Online Reporter, 15 May>

(quotes from Oxford English Dictionary and Dictionary of American Regional English and archived sources)
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RoadKill, You put way too much work into this stuff!

[JohnnyIrishXM]

link to upgrade...


http://247wallst.com/2009/08/13/siri...-upgrade-siri/

[candleman]

Boys, and Julie, it really does feel good to be holding at these levels.

I don't like to rub things in too often.....but, where's ROMO I'm pretty sure he said we were going back down!

[JohnnyIrishXM]

Boys, and Julie, it really does feel good to be holding at these levels.

I don't like to rub things in too often.....but, where's ROMO I'm pretty sure he said we were going back down!

No Candle,romo was hoping to retrace,but Big Ben and Socal strutted that it would see high .30; again after run up..think it was socal,but know it was Big Ben..lol

[imromo24]

Boys, and Julie, it really does feel good to be holding at these levels.

I don't like to rub things in too often.....but, where's ROMO I'm pretty sure he said we were going back down!

don't count your chickens...

if i had played my plan out right it was out at .595 back in at .47 but i got greedy...now im punishing myself with the 30/30 rule i made up.

and anyone out in the high .50s had plenty of chances at .46 .47 and .49....