Here's a new Boglehead post.... Someone needs help solving a riddle.

[The answer, by the way, is Dan Wiener...]

Petrocelli 

Post-pad.  (That is what this thread is about, isn't it?)  There goes another 5 minutes, down the drain.

Petro, I think you're getting cranky!

But, you could post questions concerning the proper amount to pay your butler (or is he a valet? I can't keep track. What is the technical difference, anyway?)

These are questions that are of burning importance to those of us on minimum wage !

How can I hope to hire/engage a butler/valet if I din't know what the baseline is?

Inquiring minds want to know!

pjstack

FWIW, I'm someone who started on the M* forum and now rarely visits, spending the majority of my forum time on diehards.org.

Why? Not because of content or participation by certain individuals.

Rather because the M* forum software/format/features suck. I still can not understand why in this day and age the M* programmers insist on creating their own forum software, which then doesn't work. For example, I still can't print a thread properly from IE7, nor can I figure out how to "watch" a thread.

 Just my $0.02.

tdhg566:  Good one!  I think this is the kind of thing Petrocelli has in mind.

Another idea would be to repost "classic" posts by Diehard Legends from late 1990s.

Or a "favorites" contest with a big prize.

Or maybe a "Guest Poster" series, where famous investors like Warren Buffett or Ken Heebner would be invited to spar with with John Bogle.  Or even a visit from the man himself?

 

I was thinking of "Lawn Service To Kill Those Dandelions Or Not".

Oh, but wait.  It could still fit at the other forum if the title was changed just a little.

"Retiring Poor Because You Used A Lawn Service To Kill Those Dandelions?"
 

 

I'm a Boglehead and I have a very comfortable job. I'm really sorry that other Bogleheads have been mean to you, but you don't have to continually act like an ass to... what? show them? I'm not sure. I hope you get this out of your system because I've found you to be a pretty up and up guy when talking fantasy hoops or other non-incendiary topics.

zhiwiller:

I'm really sorry that other Bogleheads have been mean to you, but you don't have to continually act like an ass to... what? show them? I'm not sure.

First of all, I like to refer to myself as a "jackass", rather than an "ass".  I think it is far more descriptive.

Second, my spate of posts making fun of the Bogleheads is simply to give everyone a chuckle.  Now admit it.  Isn't it pretty funny that that as of this moment, there are 54 posts in the past 24 hours about whether to pay a $14 charge at a garage, and there are only 59 posts on the Diehards forum total?  (Also, the "riddle thread" is up to 35.)

Third, you may recall that Andy was in here a few days ago reminding us that we had no posts, and that we were the Molokai of Vanguard forums.  I figure that a good way to get posts going is to make fun of the Bogleheads.  It always seems to work. 

Now Zack, please blow off that forum and join a real forum.  Although we have no published authors in finance, and no DFA salesmen, we can discuss the Masters without having the thread locked.

Petrocelli