Thursday, May 12, 2016

Pop Quiz: 1150?

What's so special about 1150? Is it:

1. The year the University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, was founded?

2. The year the city of Ashkelon was fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers?

3. The year the temple at Angkor Wat was completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia)?

4. The number of pennies it would take to buy Sears stock at one point today?

All answers are technically correct, much to the dismay of Eddie Lampert's investors. Sigh.

2 comments:

mab said...

Apparently, you can have to much of a good thing!

Hey, you can't lose big if you bet big with other peoples money!

Stagflationary Mark said...

mab,

Hahaha!

Hey, you can't lose big if you bet big with other peoples money!

Big? Other People's Money? Hanks? DeVito? I'm game.

At this point, Saving Private Ryan's pension from Lampert will require even more Ruthless People!

Sears and Lampert. Twins. They're in A League of Their Own! (Cramer and Dykstra notwithstanding.)

He's The Man with One Red Shoe about to drop but One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Bad Mark. Bad! Bad! :)