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the other thing the bob and tom show were talking about was the gay game they only started talking about it after pulling up the web site then after that it just got funny when they read off the tv listings the woman on woman show they had a lot of fun guessing what that was you can only amagin how far off they were

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**************4Art [Big Grin]

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What did you call me? [Cool] LOL

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**************4Art [Big Grin]


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Oh for crying out loud!

You don't happen to know Jennifer's brother? He's also a big time shareholder from LA who also gets to speak with Rene. Or perhaps you know AndrewAAB; his sister provided him with hot insider tips.

I have also been calling to speak with Rene. Funny, I'm told that he's in NY. Perhaps he visits a physician in NY just for the frequent flyer miles.

If all of this is going to unfold as you say, why should we have to pray about it? Surely you're not trying to "prey" on us?

And furthermore, a four-fold increase in the current price is hardly something to sound the trumpets over. That wouldn't be breakeven for some investors. It ran above .02 on no news. If this audit has such good results, coupled with the progress made by the company, it should reach it's previous high and use that for a base to higher highs.

So, dumpling, IF you actually know something, well that's insider information and people go to jail for that. And if you don't actually know anything, then STFU!


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FIRST OF ALL AS YOU KNOW WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR THE "AUDIT" . I HAVE TALKED TO RICHARD AND HE STATED THAT BEFORE THEY RELEASE IT HE MUST REVIEW IT SO THEY CAN GIVE THE GOOD PR STATEMENT..THERES NO QUESTION THAT THE AUDIT IS COMING..THE MANIPULATION IN PRICE IS DEFINATELY DONE BY DAY TRADERS..BUT THE MAIN THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT BESIDES THE DAYTRADERS WHO CAN FLUCTUATE MANY MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF SHARES..THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF STRONG SOLID INVESTORS LIKE OUR SELVES WHO OWN LOTS OF SHARES AND ARE NOT SELLING TILL WE SEE A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE...THE AUDIT IS ESTIMATED TO COME WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK .WHEN I CALLED Q TODAY I ASKED TO SPEAK TO RENE BUT HE WAS OUT ON A DOCTORS APPOINTMENT..THEY ARE FULLY AWARE OF WHATS GOING ON AND IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS YOU GUYS WILL SEE SOME BIG CHANGES. THIS IS NOT A "DREAM" ..ITS JUST A GREAT COMPANY THAT HAS BEEN DELAYED FOR A WHILE BUT IF WE ALL WAIT JUST ONE WEEK...WE WILL HOPEFULLY ALL SEE REWARDS...JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING ..WEVE WAITED THIS LONG..FOR THE NEXT WEEK ALL SHOULD PREY AND MAYBE THE GUT FEELING WE HAD ABOUT THIS STOCK WILL TURN BLESSED.. HELLO ARION AND MIKE



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Jonas Invest? Is that you? [Big Grin]
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Originally posted by vkgfan:
the other thing the bob and tom show were talking about was the gay game they only started talking about it after pulling up the web site then after that it just got funny when they read off the tv listings the woman on woman show they had a lot of fun guessing what that was you can only amagin how far off they were


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no im not jonas

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i've been watch this board for a year or so back when they were talking about choc pickles tee shirts and hats and wondering when q is going to air.i even remeber when u4 was pumping this stock. i'm not a fast typer or a good speller never have been and never will be. i have a small share in this company compared to some people but perty big for me. i do own enough to be in the qmillion club and that makes me happy and i think in the not to far future we all will be very happy just my thought on this stock

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HAHAHAHHAHAHAH - Bob , Rod .. missed you guys...


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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Penny-Trader:
your that much of a wimp that you have to wait till your wife is in bed to watch porn. god a real man watches it with his wife.


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Dillusion -Its a positive, the most talked about stock on the internet, endless supply of new investors, people have lost so much now they figure they better just hold on. Even the christians and bigots invest in Q, You know it's true! just like they view porn at nite when their wife goes to bed. the question for me is how much they make per day on stock sales ,, my guess 10- 20 , thousand per day,,





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Did anyone see this blog by one of Q's hosts?

It sounds like we'll be featured in the New York Times soon.

http://joebechely.blogspot.com/

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Director Tests Boundaries With 'Shortbus' By JUSTIN BERGMAN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Aug 24, 3:52 PM ET



NEW YORK - The scene inside the cavernous warehouse on the banks of the East River looks something like a bohemian circus. Perched in front of makeup mirrors are lesbians with dreadlocks, ripped jeans and knee-high boots, drag queens wearing violently colored wigs and a man in a fleshy fat suit covered with plastic doughnuts. A buxom blonde in a floor-length evening gown adjusts the pink flower pasties under her top, while members of a marching band mill about warming up their trumpets and trombones.

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It's just another day on the set for director John Cameron Mitchell, who glides through the crowd in a spray-painted leather jacket, kissing hellos and making final preparations for a party scene in his sophomore film, "Shortbus."

Regardless of what the actors are wearing on this day, it's what they're not wearing in much of the film that has generated all the early buzz. Four years after Mitchell put on a coifed blond wig and punk rock T-shirt as an East German transvestite singer in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the director is pushing new boundaries with an unfiltered look at sexual relationships that promises to make "The Brown Bunny" and "Mysterious Skin" look tame by comparison.

Despite initial problems getting money for the project and the prospect of being slapped with an NC-17 rating, the 42-year-old filmmaker says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision — to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible.

"I wanted to make a film about sex that had humor, emotional weight and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."

"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it."

To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors — "stars don't have sex" — and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.

The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities — or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "shortbus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.

Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist, has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.

"It travels the fence between tragic and comic, and that's where my life teeters," Mitchell says.

To make everyone comfortable from the start, Mitchell says he kept the improv sessions light, playing "spin the bottle" to help the cast open up. He formed the movie's couples by having the actors watch each other's audition tapes and vote on who they were most attracted to.

Although the cast knew what they were getting into when they signed up, some still had trepidation about having sex in front of a movie crew, let alone a camera.

One actress, who goes by the name Capital B and plays opposite her real-life girlfriend in the movie, says before shooting began earlier this year that Mitchell allowed them to state their own boundaries.

"It was an interesting quandary of mine," she says, adding that initially she didn't see a problem but then didn't want anyone to see her naked.

Adds PJ DeBoy, who plays part of the gay couple exploring an open relationship: "We're lucky because it is a small crew, and we've known each other for over two years, so there's a real great comfortability between all of us."

"Most people get self-conscious being naked in front of other people, but we're really concerned with the story, what's going on within these characters," DeBoy says. "The fact that we're naked having sex in front of each other, it's just a variable that's very easy to deal with."

It wasn't so easy for potential financial backers to deal with, though. Mitchell says he initially approached about 50 to 60 investors, with little luck. Even envelope-pushing HBO, which filmed parts of the audition process, eventually backed away from the project.

"Regular financing companies were scared because they have parent companies," he says. "A lot of investors said they were interested, but they didn't trust their guts."

In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at $1 million to 2 million, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television. The network, headed by Frank Olsen, will retain the film's cable rights.

The next hurdle will be finding a distributor, which Mitchell hopes won't be difficult after "Shortbus" premieres in 2006 at a film festival, such as Sundance or Berlin. He's going to allow the film to be unrated, rather than take a chance on receiving a potentially stigmatizing NC-17 rating.

But Mitchell believes there's an audience for his film. He says many people around the country are concerned about the recent influence of conservative mores on arts and entertainment and would welcome a movie to challenge that.

"This is an act of resistance," he says. "There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it."

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Anyone who would make a comment like that most likely looks like Danny Devito off taxi.(Sorry Danny) lol!

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jonas? LMAO! ok sry outta line. [Roll Eyes]

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You will be rewarded with cash an a option to go on a date with me. A 6'9'' German man with a hurrican tounge...




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I have some relatives who live near Victoria. They where here last week and brought a ton of pictures. Many being arial shots because of his business. Just beautiful out there.

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mystic CT, spa time for a couple of weeks [Smile]

rod- hit victoria on the island if u can, its lovely!

forfun- NNNC i didnt obey my own rules- if i sold in the first hour i would have been up 400% instead of 300%. dang!

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where are you hoteling to night BB?




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everyone hold on tight...this is going to be at .0060 by one week
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Date/Time of Last Inside Change: 08:00

What does this mean?
check out pinksheets.com

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now it says
Date/Time of Last Inside Change: 08:18!!!!!

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goodmorning yall qbidiots=)
what does "Last Inside Change" mean?? sorry if its obvious...hehe i have no clue?

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Polly Ester...nice find, sounds like Q is just flowing along. Little more time people...then I hope this bickering and making fun of people will stop cos everyone one will be gone!! (Going on trips, buying islands, getting massages in some other crevice of this world, flying to Mexico for breakfast then dinner in London).. [Big Grin]
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"last inside change"= MM's are moving around.
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ahhh so they are ready to let this move or what?
how are the L2's looking?
big blocks pre-hours about 25 mill @.0014, sorta like yesterday, this has to be a good thing right?

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quote:
Originally posted by stashu:
Did anyone see this blog by one of Q's hosts?

It sounds like we'll be featured in the New York Times soon.

http://joebechely.blogspot.com/

stashu, i commend you on your DD with this post...i sincerely enjoyed this article with lots of good info!!!great job stashu and for anybody who hasnt read it yet--read it!!!

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Don't have time to catch up to the thread, but I heard Jimmy KKimmel mention Q last night in his monologue. Hope it was not a re-run... thought it was cool and thought I would pass it along.
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wow, this was a gift from god!!!i have been explaining or trying to explain why those 9M share blocks that come through are neither buys nor sells because they do not fill any orders on the time/sales slip...but here at 9:32:16 check out the orders...

at 9:32:16, look back and you will see what i mean...from what i see, somebody put in an order for something like 6M shares...now on the time sales slip this showed up a whole bunch of random buys, but what it actually is, is that 6M share order filling all those little orders sitting on the ask at .0014 waiting to be filled!!

this is what i have been harping on, and when i get back in a little while, i will post the acutal sales to show you what i mean...in the meantime look at it yourself and you will understand why those 9M share blocks are neither buy nor sells

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quote:
Originally posted by mrgr8avill:
Don't have time to catch up to the thread, but I heard Jimmy KKimmel mention Q last night in his monologue. Hope it was not a re-run... thought it was cool and thought I would pass it along.

wow Q is mentioned everywhere...becoming huge with all the attention!!!

on another note---DANGIT---were upticking, now 14x15 and the orders are coming in at 15!!please dont start running, im looking to pick up 3.7M at 13 and 12!!!NO NO NO, stop buyin!!

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MT - looks like you are getting your wish...

quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by mrgr8avill:
Don't have time to catch up to the thread, but I heard Jimmy KKimmel mention Q last night in his monologue. Hope it was not a re-run... thought it was cool and thought I would pass it along.

wow Q is mentioned everywhere...becoming huge with all the attention!!!

on another note---DANGIT---were upticking, now 14x15 and the orders are coming in at 15!!please dont start running, im looking to pick up 3.7M at 13 and 12!!!NO NO NO, stop buyin!!


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Price Size Exch Time
0.0014 400000 OTO 09:48:20
0.0014 25000 OTO 09:48:13
0.0014 500000 OTO 09:47:52
0.0014 1000000 OTO 09:47:50
0.0014 100000 OTO 09:45:59
0.0014 350000 OTO 09:45:36
0.0014 65600 OTO 09:44:46
0.0014 357142 OTO 09:44:46
0.0014 440000 OTO 09:44:45
0.0014 2400000 OTO 09:44:44
0.0014 85500 OTO 09:44:42
0.0014 1000000 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 200000 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 200000 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 9999999 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 7000000 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 700000 OTO 09:44:41
0.0014 349292 OTO 09:44:27
0.0014 9500000 OTO 09:44:27
0.0014 461270 OTO 09:44:27
0.0014 50000 OTO 09:44:24
0.0014 7500 OTO 09:42:09
0.0015 933000 OTO 09:42:09
0.0014 2500000 OTO 09:39:54
0.0015 4000 OTO 09:39:41
0.0015 130000 OTO 09:37:35
0.0015 29000 OTO 09:37:33
0.0014 265000 OTO 09:37:32
0.0014 220000 OTO 09:37:21
0.0014 250000 OTO 09:33:53

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quote:
Originally posted by davidjanas:
everyone hold on tight...this is going to be at .0060 by one week

why do you say that?
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Anyone seen this yet?

http://members.cox.net/pootpoot/q.htm

Letterman's Top 10...

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That Letterman was quite a while ago, but it's still very cool! [Cool]

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Anyone seen this yet?

http://members.cox.net/pootpoot/q.htm

Letterman's Top 10...


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quote:
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Anyone seen this yet?

http://members.cox.net/pootpoot/q.htm

Letterman's Top 10...

yes I believe that is a little old, but great!
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Its freaking HILARIOUS!

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/12464871.htm
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http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/12464871.htm

quote:
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Director Tests Boundaries With 'Shortbus' By JUSTIN BERGMAN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Aug 24, 3:52 PM ET



NEW YORK - The scene inside the cavernous warehouse on the banks of the East River looks something like a bohemian circus. Perched in front of makeup mirrors are lesbians with dreadlocks, ripped jeans and knee-high boots, drag queens wearing violently colored wigs and a man in a fleshy fat suit covered with plastic doughnuts. A buxom blonde in a floor-length evening gown adjusts the pink flower pasties under her top, while members of a marching band mill about warming up their trumpets and trombones.

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It's just another day on the set for director John Cameron Mitchell, who glides through the crowd in a spray-painted leather jacket, kissing hellos and making final preparations for a party scene in his sophomore film, "Shortbus."

Regardless of what the actors are wearing on this day, it's what they're not wearing in much of the film that has generated all the early buzz. Four years after Mitchell put on a coifed blond wig and punk rock T-shirt as an East German transvestite singer in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the director is pushing new boundaries with an unfiltered look at sexual relationships that promises to make "The Brown Bunny" and "Mysterious Skin" look tame by comparison.

Despite initial problems getting money for the project and the prospect of being slapped with an NC-17 rating, the 42-year-old filmmaker says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision — to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible.

"I wanted to make a film about sex that had humor, emotional weight and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."

"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it."

To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors — "stars don't have sex" — and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.

The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities — or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "shortbus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.

Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist, has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.

"It travels the fence between tragic and comic, and that's where my life teeters," Mitchell says.

To make everyone comfortable from the start, Mitchell says he kept the improv sessions light, playing "spin the bottle" to help the cast open up. He formed the movie's couples by having the actors watch each other's audition tapes and vote on who they were most attracted to.

Although the cast knew what they were getting into when they signed up, some still had trepidation about having sex in front of a movie crew, let alone a camera.

One actress, who goes by the name Capital B and plays opposite her real-life girlfriend in the movie, says before shooting began earlier this year that Mitchell allowed them to state their own boundaries.

"It was an interesting quandary of mine," she says, adding that initially she didn't see a problem but then didn't want anyone to see her naked.

Adds PJ DeBoy, who plays part of the gay couple exploring an open relationship: "We're lucky because it is a small crew, and we've known each other for over two years, so there's a real great comfortability between all of us."

"Most people get self-conscious being naked in front of other people, but we're really concerned with the story, what's going on within these characters," DeBoy says. "The fact that we're naked having sex in front of each other, it's just a variable that's very easy to deal with."

It wasn't so easy for potential financial backers to deal with, though. Mitchell says he initially approached about 50 to 60 investors, with little luck. Even envelope-pushing HBO, which filmed parts of the audition process, eventually backed away from the project.

"Regular financing companies were scared because they have parent companies," he says. "A lot of investors said they were interested, but they didn't trust their guts."

In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at $1 million to 2 million, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television. The network, headed by Frank Olsen, will retain the film's cable rights.

The next hurdle will be finding a distributor, which Mitchell hopes won't be difficult after "Shortbus" premieres in 2006 at a film festival, such as Sundance or Berlin. He's going to allow the film to be unrated, rather than take a chance on receiving a potentially stigmatizing NC-17 rating.

But Mitchell believes there's an audience for his film. He says many people around the country are concerned about the recent influence of conservative mores on arts and entertainment and would welcome a movie to challenge that.

"This is an act of resistance," he says. "There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it."


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quote:
Originally posted by BlackWidow:
Oh for crying out loud!

You don't happen to know Jennifer's brother? He's also a big time shareholder from LA who also gets to speak with Rene. Or perhaps you know AndrewAAB; his sister provided him with hot insider tips.

I have also been calling to speak with Rene. Funny, I'm told that he's in NY. Perhaps he visits a physician in NY just for the frequent flyer miles.

If all of this is going to unfold as you say, why should we have to pray about it? Surely you're not trying to "prey" on us?

And furthermore, a four-fold increase in the current price is hardly something to sound the trumpets over. That wouldn't be breakeven for some investors. It ran above .02 on no news. If this audit has such good results, coupled with the progress made by the company, it should reach it's previous high and use that for a base to higher highs.

So, dumpling, IF you actually know something, well that's insider information and people go to jail for that. And if you don't actually know anything, then STFU!


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Originally posted by davidjanas:
FIRST OF ALL AS YOU KNOW WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR THE "AUDIT" . I HAVE TALKED TO RICHARD AND HE STATED THAT BEFORE THEY RELEASE IT HE MUST REVIEW IT SO THEY CAN GIVE THE GOOD PR STATEMENT..THERES NO QUESTION THAT THE AUDIT IS COMING..THE MANIPULATION IN PRICE IS DEFINATELY DONE BY DAY TRADERS..BUT THE MAIN THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT BESIDES THE DAYTRADERS WHO CAN FLUCTUATE MANY MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF SHARES..THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF STRONG SOLID INVESTORS LIKE OUR SELVES WHO OWN LOTS OF SHARES AND ARE NOT SELLING TILL WE SEE A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE...THE AUDIT IS ESTIMATED TO COME WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK .WHEN I CALLED Q TODAY I ASKED TO SPEAK TO RENE BUT HE WAS OUT ON A DOCTORS APPOINTMENT..THEY ARE FULLY AWARE OF WHATS GOING ON AND IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS YOU GUYS WILL SEE SOME BIG CHANGES. THIS IS NOT A "DREAM" ..ITS JUST A GREAT COMPANY THAT HAS BEEN DELAYED FOR A WHILE BUT IF WE ALL WAIT JUST ONE WEEK...WE WILL HOPEFULLY ALL SEE REWARDS...JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING ..WEVE WAITED THIS LONG..FOR THE NEXT WEEK ALL SHOULD PREY AND MAYBE THE GUT FEELING WE HAD ABOUT THIS STOCK WILL TURN BLESSED.. HELLO ARION AND MIKE


BlackWidow, I think I love you.

Of course, no way would any smart man look to act on that with a woman of your name. [Big Grin]

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LMAO ligge...

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Don't forget to send your letter to Echostar/DISH Network. 20 letters a day gets Q some play :)

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Yes we seen this Pootpoot is amember here


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Anyone seen this yet?

http://members.cox.net/pootpoot/q.htm

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This is a non reporting pink sheet with very high risk. From high risk comes high rewards.
Dont invest more then you can afford to lose.

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this needs to down tick to .0013 already!
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