Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Dan Scanlan
This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often starts his board meetings with a uke and song performance. This according to a friend, a lawyer, who once sat on his board. In 1998 I took the ukulele back to the island of Madeira (from whence came its ancestors) in a project

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Carl Remick
From: Dan Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often starts his board meetings with a uke and song performance. ... The ukulele is on the rise. Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the current state of the world :) Carl

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Coyle
Today's Wall Street Journal has a front page story on Jimmy Buffet and Warren Buffet and their DNA. Dan Scanlan wrote: This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often starts his board meetings with a uke and song performance. This according to a friend, a lawyer, who once sat

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Carl Remick wrote: Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the current state of the world :) The front page of today's WSJ has an article on how Warren Buffett may be related to Jimmy Buffett. They, like, um, jam together and stuff. Wonder if he's as bad as Mark Crispin

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Jim Devine
Dan wrote: Too bad. The ukulele is on the rise. it's too bad that the ukulele is on the rise? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Daniel Davies
oh yeah baby http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,854230,00.html -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: 02 May 2005 21:36 To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Buffett's lament redux Dan wrote: Too bad. The

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Carl Remick
Re the Guardian: George Formby comes down to us, in 21st-century Britain, as a squeaky voice with buck teeth playing what many regard as the musical world's most potent weapon of mass destruction, the ukelele. In fact, as Formbyites would hasten to correct us, it was a more singular type of

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-02 Thread Ralph Johansen
The ukelele, as WC Fields said of Wagner, is not as bad as it sounds. Ralph Doug Henwood wrote: Carl Remick wrote: Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the current state of the world :) The front page of today's WSJ has an article on how Warren Buffett may be related to

[PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

2005-05-01 Thread Autoplectic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1474579,00.html Buffett turns from picking stocks to plucking strings David Teather in New York Monday May 2, 2005 Guardian Warren Buffett, whose stock-picking prowess has made him the world's second richest man, admitted over the weekend that he