Bondguy,

They was a house 

In New Orleans

They CALLLLLed

The Risin Sun

It's been

the ruin

of

many a po boy

And God

I know

I'm one!

So mothers

tell your children

not to DOOOOOOO

What I

ha' done!

Errr, I don't know how the rest of the words go... But you get the point. They best and only advice I can give is to stay far away from boards like these!

Maybe, go hire a Planner Coach!? I had a life coach pitch me one time. It probably could have been a good idea for me. It might (now that I think about it) be a good idea for one of my employees (where's that guy's card?)!

My expressed advice was, don't come at this business with a 'tude, it disrespects all of the people that have been crunched by this business' reality. 

And further, it would be a better way to go in the rookie section, which was where I directed him.

I thought I was honoring your Freudian fingers! 

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

I’m still him too. But I just registered him to close out the MrA.

DPR is a handle I use much more often, and I didn't want it to be overexposed here.

[quote=BondGuy][quote=Whomitmayconcer][quote=BondGuy][quote=Whomitmayconcer]

Hey, cLOSER,

You come into our house

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With all of 5 days of memebership under your belt that's a very funny comment.

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Hey, I'm a funny guy. I may have 5 days of MeMeMe bership but I have 20 years as a Registered Rep.

Also I  2Use 2b MrA. 

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OK, so you are a vet. By the way, not nice to make fun of someone's speech impediment.

With all that experience you could be a great resource to the young and directionless. Wouldn't you agree that would be a better way to go on this board?

Joe,

So let me get this straight.

You want me banned. I don't give a flying fandango if they do or not.

But you want me off'n here. Why exactly?

Because I don't agree with you?

In our latest conversation it was Me who stuck to the subject and YOU who kept up the personal invective, which I ignored.

I asked a simple, open ended, hypothetical question that was germaine to the thread and to the boards in general. You have devolved into a quivering jello mold of rage.

Internal thermostat? Please! Imax has nothing on you when it comes to projection!

[quote=Closer] Man, I am loving the keyword search on this forum.

Anything you want answered can be found in these archives.This place is

looking more like investment rep message board and less like a cheap

comedy club…Planrcoach, answer me this:There is a friend who runs a

very successful outfit in my town, “preys” on the elderly for estate

planning, but also dabbles in other areas. The only type of mutual fund

he uses are C shares, even for long-term investors. Some of the EDJ guys

are screaming UNETHICAL. Obviously, it’s easy to do the math and figure

out at what point A shares save the client money of C shares. The

question is, how hard is it to actually make a living doing mainly front-

end load A shares. When I crunch the numbers it looks like you need to

grab a obscene amount of new money just to make a decent living. I’m

not discouraged, I just want to know how to cut it while being ethical.

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Closer, you asked this question of someone else, but I will offer my

thoughts…



Though everyone would prefer all fee based business (including C’s), I

think if you are truly doing what is right for the client, and fair to you as

an advisor, you will have a mix of several types of business; A-share, C-

share, even B-shares in some cases, fee-based, SMA’s, commisioned

stocks and bonds, wraps, etc. There is no one structure that is

appropriate for everyone or everyone’s situation. I have talked people out

of doing things that would have netted me more money, but just didn’t

make sense for them economically.



Depending on your practice, you may have predominantly one type of

business (if you cater to HNW or UHNW, if you have very low average

account balances, annuity junkie, etc.) but the vast majority of us will

have a mix of business in different categories. And don’t get too wrapped

up in what someone else tells you is right (including your B/D). I work for

EDJ, and yes, they try to brainwash everyone to a degree (about A shares).

But they really do that to make sure newbies are not hurting anyone. Do

what you know is right and you can justify, and your business and income

will take care of itself. As you move along in your career you will figure

this out.



Hope that helps.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

Joe,

So let me get this straight.

You want me banned. I don't give a flying fandango if they do or not.

But you want me off'n here. Why exactly?

Because I don't agree with you?

In our latest conversation it was Me who stuck to the subject and YOU who kept up the personal invective, which I ignored.

I asked a simple, open ended, hypothetical question that was germaine to the thread and to the boards in general. You have devolved into a quivering jello mold of rage.

Internal thermostat? Please! Imax has nothing on you when it comes to projection!

[/quote]

Who is Joe - the whisleblower on this site!

BTW, so how much mail do you get in one day?

all oards need an entertainer or two

not just boring ass mules.

So someone is honest and admits prior names

who has a little rhyme, song - so what, there's nothing wrong

and he's not playing games

and joedabanner wants to boot him just the same.

Shame on Joe for being a so and so

and who is always saying no to anyone who doesn't walk the

line all of the time

Watchout 'cause big brother joe

will blow the whistle on you, too 

Carry on. And quit the whisleblowing joedabroker.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

V,

I got the feeling that Malcolm was trying to be sarcastic.

I could be wrong. BTW I made the front page of the WSJ one time too! They didn't know it was me, in fact they didn't know that the person they referred to was in the business, but THERE I WAS!

Did I ever tell you story of the time Johnny Carson told one of my jokes?

Cliff Pupkin!

I thought that was Rupert Pupkin.

Peace to all as we battle Hamas and Hezbollah...

Joe:

You are much better than all of this.  Don't respond to these bottom feeders.

Yes, it was Rupert Pupkin, but there was also the episode of Cheers, where Cliff wrote a joke for the Carson show that was rejected. In a rare show of simpathy, Norm altered the rejection letter to an acceptance letter. Cliff's mom and Norm wound up in the seat next to Johnny, Cliff was removed from the premises.

In more ways than one, I resemble both Cliff and Rupert. As to the joke, I told a joke (that I made up) to the comic Johnny Youn when he was in the restaurant where I was a cook. The next night, he was on Carson, a week later, Johnny Carson did the joke I told Johnny Youn.

It was a joke about cancer, and Johnny did get a laugh out of it!

Molly Ivins cited at least one of my jokes too (but she didn't know they were from me, let alone that I exist, she did note though that she did not know the origin of the line, she was very good at attribution generally).

George Carlin did a joke I made up, but I'd rather think that great minds think alike in that one. It was new material from him right after I had made the comment "publically." It was right after 9/11.

to whom it may concern:

tell us some or a lease one of the jokes! Don't leave us hanging.

Jerry Senfeld did a joke about cancer on his show but didn't get a laugh.  It's not normally a topic to joke about. 

The cancer joke was about Colon Cancer and the thing was that you should be check for it annually... As if there was another way!

The Molly Ivins jokes were anti administration so they won't go over big here.

The Carlin joke was along the lines of "we can solve this whole thing, we'll take the Jews out of Israel, we'll give them Cuba. We'll take the Cubans and give them Florida no big net change. We'll take the Floridians and give them Whitewater Arkansas. That way everybody's happy and the only guy who gets screwed is Bill Clinton, and we can all live with that!"

If you don't think its funny, take it up with Johnny and George, they thought they were funny, I'm willing to live with their judgement.