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Roland Francis wrote:
> There is a record on Goanet where a person or two have admitted to
> following Mervyn's advice on buying gold which at that time was a
> thousand dollars an ounce. Gold has been below that ever since.
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>
Please immediately produce the post where I advised anyone to buy gold at
$1,000 an ounce, or withdraw your statement.
Mario adds:
I have no idea how gold and Khapris are related.
Anyway, as the only real voice of reason, truth and peace on Goanet, I must
confirm that Mervyn is technically correct, in an "it all depends on what the
meaning of 'is' is sense". I hereby confirm he did not explicitly advise
anyone to buy gold.
The archives will show that what he did when gold hit US$1,000 an oz. was to
issue an excited Off Topic post predicting that gold would go to US$1,650 an
oz. sometime between now and when hell freezes over. He later insinuated that
he had made a lot of moolah by picking the lowest point in gold prices years
ago. As I recall, some other Goanetters expressed some amused skepticism at
the shifting explanations of precisely how this was done.
Anyway, there was at least one popular and perspicacious Goanetter who did read
Mervyn's excited Off Topic post that gold would rise to US$1,650 as advice and
thanked Mervyn in a post for providing this advice and confirming that he had
made a modest investment in gold on said advice.
It was this post - which explicitly referred to Mervyn's Off Topic post as an
advisory - that led to the impression that Mervyn had advised everyone to buy
gold.
Mervyn later wrote in a post that anyone who bought gold by reading his post
should have their heads examined - perhaps those were not his exact words but
at least that was the gist - which I though was a pretty cold statement for
those Goanetters who consider him to be the Guru of Gold.
So, now you know.
I hope we can now get back to the exciting discussion on whether the term
Khapri is derogatory and demeaning or simply old fashioned Goan slang for
Africans with no malice aforethought.
I know some Goanetters who think calling African-Americans "black" is
derogatory and demeaning when, in fact, many black Americans consider black as
beautiful and proudly refer to themselves as black. I know this is confusing
in the land of skin lightening creams:-))
