XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:19:33 -0400, William Hyde   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
   >In his first book on investing, "One up on Wall Street", Peter Lynch    
   >discussed SmithKline, whose stock had been on a tear because of the drug    
   >Tagamet.   
   >   
   >He commented that Tagamet is the ideal investor's drug, as patients have    
   >to take it forever, as opposed to antibiotics, which cure the underlying    
   >disease and are ideal patient's drugs.   
      
   Well, that's one way to not have to worry about what happens when they   
   stop taking it: they never do.   
      
   >Don't invest, in other words, in companies that try to cure disease.    
   >Invest in those that treat is.   
      
   Or treat some "condition" that their doctor doesn't like, at least.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)