Theme song! Give me a sign! Unh!
Cut to Roger "Uncle" Bender's office. He's getting some stock info. Oh great, a really boring "B" story. He's fussing and getting info (ticker symbol AQZ, trading at $26.25, so five thousand shares will cost about $5,250) until he decides to buy: "Oh, what the hell." Ah yes, such a cavalier attitude is appropriate when putting over $5000 at risk. The phone rings and he answers, all pissy about being interrupted (um, you weren't doing WORK, Uncle Roger. Slacker) until he learns it's Lisa come to visit. He changes his tune real fast and leaps up to greet her. Roger's always happy to see Lisa. She comes in and thanks him for referring some friends of his to her so they can buy a house and she can get the commission and...hey? What's that you're doing on that there com-pu-tor? Buying stocks? Oh my! Isn't that what people living in a modern age do? Why yes indeedy! Lisa mentions Roger's broker and Roger calls him a "dinosaur." Ouch! Roger says, "Twenty-two-year-olds are becoming millionaires overnight." Just like our Wing Chun! ["Hey, I'm twenty-five! And I'm more like a thousandaire." -- Wing Chun] Roger attempts to give Lisa a lesson on trading stocks online: "All you do in enter the ticker symbol [type type type], put in the number of shares you want to buy [peck peck peck], and voilá!" Lisa asks, "What's AZT? At $5250?" What? Jumpin' jehosephat! Roger checks and it's the Advanced Bowling Design. And the five thousand was supposed to be the price, not the number of shares bought! Hey! Maybe this is how twenty-two-year-olds get rich overnight -- by old geezers like Roger making blunders like this! Roger tries to sell it back but the market has closed for the day! Cue the tubas (tm xix)!













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