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alphabassettgrrl 03-25-2012 07:46 PM

Cool!!!

cirquelover 03-25-2012 08:40 PM

Can you tweet from under water though?

Ghoulish Delight 03-25-2012 08:43 PM

So it would seem (though I'm kinda assuming he had someone on the surface through whom he was relaying the tweet).

Cadaverous Pallor 03-26-2012 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 358662)
Except in this case it appears to be human error (someone punched in the wrong number). Would have been better off if a robot were doing it.

If a minor typo can cause fortunes to fail then it's still a case of being at the mercy of bad systems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 358663)
And just as with nanosecond trading the circuit breakers can be that fast as well. The initial trade triggered the single stock breaker and trading was suspected for only 5 minutes.

It is being reported that only a couple hundred shares were traded at the depressed prices and NASDAQ has reversed those.

Thanks for the info - I didn't know they were on top of it like this.

lashbear 04-03-2012 04:29 PM

There's a restaurant called Wan-Q ??

Kevy Baby 04-03-2012 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lashbear (Post 359038)
There's a restaurant called Wan-Q ??

Was - it be closed now.

Am I missing something though?

Cadaverous Pallor 04-05-2012 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 359040)
Was - it be closed now.

Am I missing something though?

Wan-Q? I hardly know you!

Alex 04-05-2012 09:09 AM

What Kevy is missing is that the hyphen makes it look like the Q is anally penetrating the Wan.

Gn2Dlnd 04-09-2012 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 359040)
Was - it be closed now.

Am I missing something though?

Not really, it was a bit of a reach...

Ghoulish Delight 04-09-2012 03:43 PM

Headline for the ages:

Gravy-wrestling model suffers horrific facial injuries after being hit with monkey wrench when she interrupted a friend having sex


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