[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

So, I guess you didn't even "get" my reference to infallibility. :roll:

No, I just don't really care.

Another wasted effort! Des regeur! (sp?)

Des rigeur

[golfhobo]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

No, I just don't really care.

C'est domage!

Des rigeur

Actually, we are both wrong! It's De rigueur. And it's the wrong idiom anyway! :lol: Just testing ya! And I'm a little rusty. I suppose I meant... C'est domage!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

Des rigeur

Actually, we are both wrong! It's De rigueur. And it's the wrong idiom anyway! :lol: Just testing ya! And I'm a little rusty. I suppose I meant... C'est domage!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Google says different. :wink:

[jnk2001]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

Google says different. :wink:

De rigueur:

rigorously required by convention. Google

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by jnk2001

De rigueur:

rigorously required by convention. Google

I wasn't talking about the definition. I was talking about the spelling.

Type Des regeur into google, hit search, and see this:

Did you mean: Des rigeur

[Jackrabbit379]

hahaha. That's just like Yahoo search :P

[golfhobo]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

I wasn't talking about the definition. I was talking about the spelling.

Type Des regeur into google, hit search, and see this:

Did you mean: Des rigeur

See... that's your problem, Rev. You believe everything GOOGLE says! google is a mess. I can type almost ANY word, and it will ask me if I meant the same word with a different spelling, while GIVING me 112,00 hits for the way I typed it! :shock: :roll:

My Cassell's French/English dictionary (considered the best on the market) has NO spelling for rigueur as YOU and google spelled it. [or as I originally msspelled it!]

De Rigueur means "customarily" or "the usual." or "according to plan."

Which is the same as "just as I expected" From you. :roll:

But, in all fairness, I should have said C'est domage! I wonder what you would get if you googled THAT?

Il faut qu'on etudier la langue avant d'on essayer t'il parler! Moi? J'ai l'etudier plusque cinq annee!

Google THAT! :roll: :lol:

Give the Rev enough rope, and he will eventually HANG HIMSELF! But.... he'll never admit to being DEAD!! :lol: :lol:

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

See... that's your problem, Rev. You believe everything GOOGLE says! google is a mess. I can type almost ANY word, and it will ask me if I meant the same word with a different spelling, while GIVING me 112,00 hits for the way I typed it! :shock: :roll:

My Cassell's French/English dictionary (considered the best on the market) has NO spelling for rigueur as YOU and google spelled it. [or as I originally msspelled it!]

Which is why I said:

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

Google says different.

:roll:

De Rigueur means "customarily" or "the usual." or "according to plan."

Which is the same as "just as I expected" From you. :roll:

But, in all fairness, I should have said C'est domage! I wonder what you would get if you googled THAT?

Don't know, don't care.

Il faut qu'on etudier la langue avant d'on essayer t'il parler! Moi? J'ai l'etudier plusque cinq annee!

Google THAT! :roll: :lol:

No thanks - I've got better things to do. Like pick my toes.

Give the Rev enough rope, and he will eventually HANG HIMSELF! But.... he'll never admit to being DEAD!! :lol: :lol:

Still waiting for you to actually come with some rope, rather than the thread that you are using now. :lol:

[ben45750]

3/1/2007 12:00 AM ET
Why Sirius is still doomed

The merger plan isn't going to rescue the satellite radio company or those who invested billions in it. Here's why the company is still in a death march.

The announcement of a proposed merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI, news, msgs) and its archrival XM Satellite Radio (XMSR, news, msgs) was treated by most of the media this week as if were just another financial event to be studied through the prism of balance-sheet analysis and the federal regulatory approval process.

But the merger plan actually amounts to the death of a dream for investors who came to believe that shares of Sirius -- propelled skyward for a short time by the hiring of snarky talk show host Howard Stern -- would make them rich beyond compare.

For while the merger might ultimately save the company from total oblivion, it is unlikely to save investors from billions of dollars in losses incurred over the past several years or, perhaps more importantly, from a loss of faith in stock ownership.

Millions of people bought Sirius shares at $6 to $8 for their retirement accounts, and rode them down to $3.50, never losing faith in Stern. At this point, they need to face up to the fact that they're screwed. Stern made half a billion. They will make nothing. They can file SIRI stock certificates away under "S" for stupid. They blew it.
World domination
How did this happen? It's a weird deal, it really is. For reasons that are little understood, certain public companies occasionally acquire an iconic status that inflates their market value light-years beyond real value. Optimism overpowers common sense, and investors pile into shares of an unprofitable but sexy company which they believe will surprise skeptics and dominate the world.

Sirius earned that status around 2003, after it was rescued from bankruptcy by the skin of its teeth. Shares had plunged from the mid-$60s in 2000 to less than $1 by 2002. They then gently tripled to around $3 when its "radio in the sky" service launched nationwide. Investors figured a dozen years of fitful planning and marketing, and the expenditure of massive amounts of money, were finally about to pay off.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...illDoomed.aspx

[Fredog]

Originally Posted by ben45750

3/1/2007 12:00 AM ET
Why Sirius is still doomed

The merger plan isn't going to rescue the satellite radio company or those who invested billions in it. Here's why the company is still in a death march.

The announcement of a proposed merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI, news, msgs) and its archrival XM Satellite Radio (XMSR, news, msgs) was treated by most of the media this week as if were just another financial event to be studied through the prism of balance-sheet analysis and the federal regulatory approval process.

But the merger plan actually amounts to the death of a dream for investors who came to believe that shares of Sirius -- propelled skyward for a short time by the hiring of snarky talk show host Howard Stern -- would make them rich beyond compare.

For while the merger might ultimately save the company from total oblivion, it is unlikely to save investors from billions of dollars in losses incurred over the past several years or, perhaps more importantly, from a loss of faith in stock ownership.

Millions of people bought Sirius shares at $6 to $8 for their retirement accounts, and rode them down to $3.50, never losing faith in Stern. At this point, they need to face up to the fact that they're screwed. Stern made half a billion. They will make nothing. They can file SIRI stock certificates away under "S" for stupid. They blew it.
World domination
How did this happen? It's a weird deal, it really is. For reasons that are little understood, certain public companies occasionally acquire an iconic status that inflates their market value light-years beyond real value. Optimism overpowers common sense, and investors pile into shares of an unprofitable but sexy company which they believe will surprise skeptics and dominate the world.

Sirius earned that status around 2003, after it was rescued from bankruptcy by the skin of its teeth. Shares had plunged from the mid-$60s in 2000 to less than $1 by 2002. They then gently tripled to around $3 when its "radio in the sky" service launched nationwide. Investors figured a dozen years of fitful planning and marketing, and the expenditure of massive amounts of money, were finally about to pay off.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...ls/WhySiriusIs


tillDoomed.aspx

regular radio is fortunate that they stiil have listeners who are gullible to believe their rhetoric. they are the ones on a death slide.. whether the merger goes through or not, both siruis and xm will be just fine. clear channel on the other hand may just dissapear... good riddance..