If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, 
it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 
of the original $1000.00 With Worldcom, you would have less than 
$5.00 left. 

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Budweiser beer, not the stock, 
one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the 
cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00. 
My current investment advice is to drink heavily and be sure to 
recycle.