Please use it Jeanette (I'm flattered!). By the way, it is estimated that by the year 2000 we will have one billion teenagers on the planet.... Now there's a t-shirt market to tap into self -sufficient PD fundraising.) Here's another 'Bill fact'... According to CNN FN http://cnnfn.coom/markets/commodities.html today's price of gold is $298.00 per troy ounce. There are $147 million troy ounces of gold in the American Fort Knox Repository for gold reserves. All the gold in Fort Knox is worth $43.81 billion dollars. Bill is worth $29 billion dollars more than Fort Knox. Perhaps Mr. Gates would appreciate being known throughout human history as the man who funded the cure for PD. Joan U. (still descending from a caffeine overdose) On October 29, 1999 6:13 PM Jeanette wrote... >joan carol urquhart said in part: my note(this is about Bill Gates, I >think) > > >OR... if Bill can maintain his current fiscal growth rate of 52.04%, it is >estimated that by February of 2006, Bill will become a trillionaire. >How many PD research centres would that fund? > >Oh......wait a minute...did I get my Bills mixed up...ooops...nevermind. > >By the way here's a t-shirt slogan to consider..."pass the bill or pass the >buck on PD research". > >Joan U. >(I think I've had tooo much coffee) > >Joan, I love the t-shirt slogan and as a resident of Pres. Harry Truman's >state of MO who had on his presidential desk a plaque with "the buck stops >here" engraved on it, I think I'll recommend that one of the two groups I >belong to(GKCPA or St. Joseph Support Group) should make and wear and even >sell shirts with joan's slogan. Do I have your permission, Joan? Proceeds >for Parkinson's research is my plan. Or maybe Mette Adams, Joan Samuelson >or Michael Claeys have a better idea? > >Jeanette Fuhr 49/47/44? ><[log in to unmask]> >