Too Good Not To Share

[don]

When my friends call, usually to discuss the latest train wreck, I increasingly attempt humor, laughing at least to myself, though often with accompaniment.

In 2006, a federal jury indicted Jacob (Kobi) Alexander, an Israeli-American business wunderkind, on charges of wire and securities fraud. Mr. Alexander and his family flew to Namibia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States.

The fugitive more or less tried to buy Namibia. He sponsored scholarships and built low-income solar-powered buildings, and he lived in a spectacular home in Windhoek. Last summer, according to The Wall Street Journal, he apparently felt confident enough to throw a four-day bar mitzvah for his son — and charter a jet to fly in 200 friends from New York City.

Then there’s Sholam Weiss, whose run is the stuff of hallucinatory poetry. A plumbing supplier from Brooklyn, he proved brilliant at financial fraud. In 1999, while on trial in Florida on charges he defrauded a large insurance company, he took off for Brazil, where he acquired a girlfriend and once was spotted cavorting with 10 prostitutes, 5 dressed up as parochial-school girls.

from Tips for the Sophisticated Fugitive

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22powell.html?scp=1&sq=tips&st=cse

[metalman]

Re: Too Good Not To Share

When my friends call, usually to discuss the latest train wreck, I increasingly attempt humor, laughing at least to myself, though often with accompaniment.

In 2006, a federal jury indicted Jacob (Kobi) Alexander, an Israeli-American business wunderkind, on charges of wire and securities fraud. Mr. Alexander and his family flew to Namibia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States.

The fugitive more or less tried to buy Namibia. He sponsored scholarships and built low-income solar-powered buildings, and he lived in a spectacular home in Windhoek. Last summer, according to The Wall Street Journal, he apparently felt confident enough to throw a four-day bar mitzvah for his son — and charter a jet to fly in 200 friends from New York City.

Then there’s Sholam Weiss, whose run is the stuff of hallucinatory poetry. A plumbing supplier from Brooklyn, he proved brilliant at financial fraud. In 1999, while on trial in Florida on charges he defrauded a large insurance company, he took off for Brazil, where he acquired a girlfriend and once was spotted cavorting with 10 prostitutes, 5 dressed up as parochial-school girls.

from Tips for the Sophisticated Fugitive

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22powell.html?scp=1&sq=tips&st=cse

let's say i steal a few $$$ mil. my options are...



...or...



tough one. hmmmm. hmmmm.

[don]

Re: Too Good Not To Share

M-Man:
I know you respect the importance of being earnest, but depending on your marital status, you appear to be less than the ideal husband And with the youthful figure you cut, at least facially, let us not dismiss a self-portrait I suspect you may be keeping in safe storage.

[Fiat Currency]

Re: Too Good Not To Share

And with the youthful figure you cut, at least facially, let us not dismiss a self-portrait ...

Ah - not to burst your bubble there Don - but Metalman's picture is non other than the legendary Oscar Wilde.

If that was really him - I don't think there would be ANY women in his dream photo

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[don]

Re: Too Good Not To Share

Ah - not to burst your bubble there Don - but Metalman's picture is non other than the legendary Oscar Wilde.

If that was really him - I don't think there would be ANY women in his dream photo

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All of those references are to the works of Wilde's.

I know you respect the importance of being earnest, but depending on your marital status, you appear to be less than the ideal husband And with the youthful figure you cut, at least facially, let us not dismiss a self-portrait (Dorian Gray) I suspect you may be keeping in safe storage.

Sorry, pal :rolleyes: