At Random

Good old Roger Young of Criterion Investment Management in Houston came through this month.

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You might have seen this (if you by chance read the WSJ). We have taken the liberty of adding a few more lines.

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This month's winner was sent by Bob Alder, Colorado Capital Advisors. Bob also sent along considerable information on the Social Security surplus. We plan to again address this joke as well, but not until next month.

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This month’s winner could have come from a member of Wall Street’s Cable Cult. It didn’t...but it could have.

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Old reliable, Roger Young of Criterion Investment Management in Houston comes up with another winner. He originally told this as a Texas Aggie joke, but because this is the North Country, I have taken the liberty of changing it to a Norwegian joke.

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Walter Deemer came through with an old economist joke with a new twist. Unfortunately, nobody in the office laughed. The winner is an Ole & Lena joke courtesy of Dick Perkins of Perkins Capital Management.

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The Joke of the Month award goes to our friend Jim Arnold of Arnold Investment Counsel. It is an October Crash joke, but I like it anyway.

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This month’s selection comes from Walter Deemer, market technician extraordinaire. Walter swears he saw this sermon announcement on a church reader board in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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We heard very few jokes that were really appropriate for a family publication.

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This month's winner was submitted by more than one client so I suppose most of you have heard it.

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All in all, the October crash has not produced many, if any, particularly good jokes from Wall Street. Maybe it is too close to home. Most candidates were tired old Yuppie jokes from which I will save you.

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This month's winner requires a certain amount of explanation for non-Scandinavian readers.

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Over the past two years or so, we have kept readers updated on the movement to drive the forces of evil out of our high schools. The exorcists are broadening their horizons from Minnesota and Wisconsin, moving into “Big Red” country.

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Is the weather too hot? Are all our prime sources on vacation? Not a single good decent joke this month (although several good indecent ones). So, here is a classic jazz anecdote from the collection of Dick Gibson in Denver, Colorado.

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I can’t decide which of these is worse, so we’ll go with both. They come from two of the most prolific joke collectors I know, John Brooks at Marshall and Company in Atlanta and Roger Young at Criterion in Houston.

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My friend John Brooks at Marshall & Company in Atlanta has become increasingly disturbed because his jokes are never printed in this publication. Actually, for the most part, the Postal authorities would not allow John’s jokes to pass through the mail. But here are two recent entries that should make it.

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Our most prolific contributor, Roger Young in Houston, almost won again this month but was edged out by the Leuthold Group’s own Lorna Sorensen.

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A last-minute entry from academia wins this month’s competition. It is recognized that a number of our readers are sensitive about and tired of Yuppie jokes, but this obviously is not the case in Colorado Springs.

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This month’s joke comes from friend Walter Deemer, a former technician for Jerry Tsai, former technical analyst at Putnam, and currently providing his technical letter and opinion to a number of major institutions.

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