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The Dog and the Butcher
Jun 10
“There’s something wrong with the telephone!”
My mother is hard of hearing, so my dad installed a very loud ringer on our phone that she could hear even from upstairs. Unfortunately, the system seemed to have a defect. The phone rang, but sometimes there
was only a dial tone on the other end of the line. Strangely, my mother was the only person to experience this problem.
“Perhaps she doesn’t come to the phone quickly enough and the caller is hanging up before she answers,” we thought. So my mother began to hurdle down the stairs, leaping over obstacles and arriving at the phone in seconds, even from the farthest reaches of the house. Despite this, the mysterious phenomenon continued. Could it be a prank caller? Was the phone really broken?
seattlepi.com
A five-year-old female parrot called Strawberry has proved to be smarter than human investors in a stock investment contest.
The parrot from Papua New Guinea finished third in the six-week
challenge, said Paxnet, an online stock market information provider.
Ddalgi (Korean for Strawberry) competed with 10 stock investors in South Korea.
Each started with 60 million won (£29,000) in cyber money and traded 10 million won (£4,860) worth of stocks in each transaction.
Human investors picked any stocks they wanted but the parrot, using its beak, made random choices from balls representing 30 blue chips, including Samsung Electronics.
“The outcome of our contest was amazing. Ddalgi stood third with her investment return standing at 13.7%,” Paxnet general manager Chung Yeon-Dae said.
Human investors averaged a 4.6% loss, with only two outperforming the parrot – one by 64.4% and one by 21.4%.
sky.com
Unlikely BFFs
Jul 10
To win a state contest, four Wisconsin fifth graders took a hypothetical $100,000 and more than doubled it in 10 weeks, according to an AP story. The kids focused on financial stocks, which they correctly figured had bottomed out. Out of the 15 stocks they fantasy-invested in, 13 were profitable, the biggest winners being Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. The kids won a trip to the New York Stock Exchange, where they were surely viewed with utter exasperation.
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