grouchy old primitive not panicking

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The grouchy old primitive, who lives somewhere south of Chicago, in or near that one Illinois county that has the most screwed-up geographic boundaries one can imagine.

NNN0LHI  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 01:42 PM
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Front page of todays Chicago Sun-Times about 2 inches high: DON'T PANIC!
   
Well that was comforting.

DarienComp  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 01:44 PM
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1. Could you elaborate?

jojo54  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #1

4. My guess is, it was about the stock market.

Naturyl  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 01:59 PM
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11. I'm not panicking...
   
But maybe that's because like tens of millions of Americans, I don't own a scrap of stock and most of what happens on Wall Street has zero relevance to my life.

riverdeep  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 02:51 PM
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19. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose...
   
I'm kind of in the same situation. But it unfortunately will affect people like us down the line, jobs get harder to come by being the main negative effect.

[Chris_]

NNN0LHI  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-16-08 01:42 PM
Original message

Front page of todays Chicago Sun-Times about 2 inches high: DON'T PANIC!
   
Well that was comforting.

Front page of Chicago Sun-Times, dated 05NOV08, about 2 inches high:

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!