On Tue, May 3, 2011 10:36 am, Levi Pearson wrote: > Also, here's another reference to a saying implying gullibility: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampland_in_Florida
Interesting story I've heard about that actually... (that the article briefly mentions) Disney used a whole collection of shell companies to buy up the land for Disney World, so that other investors wouldn't catch on and beat them to the punch, thus inflating the cost of the land. >From what I've heard, they managed to get ~80% of the land before someone >caught on, but they still saved a LOT of money over what would have happened if they'd started buying individual plots directly as Disney. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
