Secret
YOU FOUND ME!
Here’s the secret I mentioned on show #100. I appeared on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money on 30 November 2005 in his “Am I Nuts?” segment. I showed him my MAD MNY license plate and asked him if my all stock portfolio was “nuttier than last Christmas’ fruit cake.”
Separated at Birth? OR brothers from a different mother?
Jim Cramer is the one on the right 🙂
My hole in one story:
Back when I had intense golf fever, I would play golf each and every chance I got. (And I played even sometimes when I really didn’t have the chance…) So this was a Monday in July. July 29th, 2002 to be exact. When my son woke up, I carted him out to the course. I wanted to play Monday because the golf league (that I presided over) played on Tuesdays, so this was to be the warm-up. He enjoyed just riding around in the cart.
The 8th hole is a 170 yard par-3 that played more like a 150-yard par-3 (scorecard-creep I guess). Conditions were nice, clear, calm, sun still on the upswing, most other people working. The 7-iron was the right club at the time. Although today I’d probably hit a 6 or even 5 since I’m so out of practice. I swung. Looked beautiful heading right for the flagstick. Hole cut in the mid-front-mid-left part of the green. Bounce, bounce, disappear. I looked to my son and mutedly-excitedly said, “I think that went in!” We rode up to the green looking for it, and of course yet unbelievably, it was in the hole.
I told the guy in the pro shop, “I made a hole-in-one today.” He asked, “Did anyone see it?”
“Nope, just my son here.”
“Well, congratulations.”
I called my dad first. It is his turn to get one, he’s due.
Then I called my best friend.
My dad got me one of those trophys that has the number “1” beside a golf tee that you put the actual ball upon. And on it is inscribed,
PAUL BOYER HOLE IN ONE
NO. 8-153 YDS 7 IRON 7-29-02
WESTPARK G.C. LEESBURG, VA.
and on the back
WITNESSED BY SON
…and now you know the rest of the story.
The Rest of the Story on Jesse Livermore:
Through unknown mechanisms, he completely lost the fortune he had accumulated through 1929. In 1934, he declared bankruptcy again.
In 1935, Dorothy shot their son, Jesse Livermore Jr., in a heated drunken argument. The son survived, but the episode caused a scandal. He would divorce Dorothy and marry another woman whose previous three husbands had all committed suicide. This would prove to be a grim harbinger.
In 1940, his book had sold tepidly and he saw no hope in regaining his fortune. In the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on November 28, 1940, he committed suicide.
Books in my shopping cart:
Fiction:
Christ The Lord:Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Non Fiction:
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Number : A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life
The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
The Boyer Cat
“I’m just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe.” – Jango Fett
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