What would you get Lizzie for Christmas?

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:44 am

Just for fun, I would love to know what you all would get Lizzie for Christmas if she was still alive and your friend. Don't know, don't think I'd get her anything sharp!! Maybe a dog or something like that.

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:40 am

that's a good idea snukkums, a puppy! I wonder why she didn't have one at 92 street. Having something of her own to love and take care of could have made Lizzie a different child. I think I'd get her, a good book to read. Mark Twain was writing during her time and I think she'd really enjoy his quotes.

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:31 am

Yup shakiboo, don't want to get something sharp, she might use it. Somebody else better cut the turkey!

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:21 pm

your right! nothing sharp for her! lol

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:18 pm

Yup, she might get a little happy with the turkey.

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:15 pm

or worse, the quests that come for dinner! She did like animals, apparently more then she did some people!

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:14 pm

Perfume- "My Sin" by Lanvin

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:47 pm

Oh aother good one!!! Angel!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:09 pm

I'd get her a Brownie camera and tell her to go to town!

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:28 pm

I'd take Lizzie to see Santa - perhaps she would axe for a whack or two!

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:33 pm

10 cents worth of Prussic Acid. It would save her a disappointing trip to the drugstore.

Smudgeman · Post by **Smudgeman** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:57 pm

Some fishing lures and a diary.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:49 pm

That's a good one Scott! Yes a Diary!!

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:36 pm

Yes, a diary is the perfect gift.

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:59 am

Yes it would be, and it would take an army decoder to read it!!! If she'd have left one, they'd probably still be trying to figure out what she said! lol

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:49 am

I think a diary would be good. And some prussic acid to, just to humor her.

RayS · Post by **RayS** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:15 pm

The address of a GOOD Public Relations Firm.

Look what they did for John D. Rockefeller!!

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:47 am

Yes a good public relations firm would be good, but no sharp objects lol!

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:50 pm

If I felt she was not guilty, and she was my friend, I would probably give her:

1. A small dog to keep her company,

2. A complete fishing outfit with plenty of sinkers,

3. Lessons on how to trade stocks for a living,

4. A season's pass for the Opera,

5. A big hug and a card that just says, "I love you, Lizzie."

I can't really think of anything else right now.

-1bigsteve (o:

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:23 am

Gee BigSteve! You'd give Lizbeth stock? When did the stock market start do you know? I had visions of her at least dying before she lost everything in the Crash!

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:28 am

Kat @ Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:23 pm wrote:Gee BigSteve! You'd give Lizbeth stock? When did the stock market start do you know? I had visions of her at least dying before she lost everything in the Crash!

I had the impression that Snokks ment if Lizzie was living in our day. The Market started in the 1700's. I wouldn't give Lizzie any stocks but I would sit her down in front of her own computer and teach her how to buy and sell her own and make a living doing it. People who lost their shirts in the Crash of '29 were the ones that treated the Market like a Bank and you NEVER do that! The Market goes up and the Market goes down. I get in and out on the short term runs. Thats how you make a living at it. $

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-1bigsteve (o:

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:36 am

Harry @ Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:36 pm wrote:Yes, a diary is the perfect gift.

Dear Diary:

I bought a hatchet today...

-Lizzie

-1bigsteve (o:

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:47 pm

A partridge (or maybe just pidgeons) in a pear tree.

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:01 pm

Angel @ Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:47 am wrote:A partridge (or maybe just pidgeons) in a pear tree.

OMG...too funny !

Tracy...

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:01 pm

A new set of nerves, I bet hers was shot!!!!

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:42 pm

Or a some nerve pills!!! Double doseage.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:41 am

There was a stock market c. 1700's?

I noticed most of the gifts mentioned would have been suitable for any century, including prussic acid- and a Brownie camera- so I guess we are all thinking of gifts that transcend time!

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:49 am

I don't know if there was a stock market (thinking maybe there was) but if lizzie had her fathers smarts for making money(?) she would have figured out how to play the stock market. But I am sure there were many things to give her that you could give a person today.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:13 am

"Wall Street" was a dirt path that ran along a wall of brush and mud that was built along side the path shortly after New York was founded as a Dutch trading post in 1609. It was built to keep cows and Indians out. Indians were allowed to come through and trade in about 1626 when they sold Manhattan for $24.00 and some beads. They traded goods but not securities in the 1600's. The first securities exchange took place in Philadelphia in 1790. In the 1780's-1790's Wall Street started forming into what it is today, with the help of Congress.

Now, does anyone know how to read a stock chart? It is a "must know" if you want to make a living at trading. Relying on "fundamentals" alone (as most people do) is not enough. That is why most people lose money in the Markets, or make very little. Learning "technicals" is like going to medical school with all the books and long hours studying but once you have arived you can do real good.

-1bigsteve (o: