If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
$49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer/wine one year ago,
drank all the beer/wine, then turned in the cans/bottlesfor the
recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to Drink
heavily and recycle.
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ok - SO the numbers for the last "investment" seem to be inflated a tiny little bit; but if the others are accurate, I'd still go for the last one!