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Thanks for posting some memories of the Yellow Brk'ers to this board, Tex.
For me, they were such intense and happy memories, mainly because everyone in that group were such nice people.
Unfortunately, because of time, we had to experience, one by one, the passing of so many members of the group. Gartmann was our leader for sure... and one of the first to pass. Charlie Page (Pagewrite) was another leader. I think he lived in Monterey or Carmel. I remember there were months long discussions or how we were going to celebrate when BRK/a hit $100,000. Charlie said we could come to his home. I was really trying to get that to actually happen. I wrote multiple posts on the AOL board about how all the Yellow Brkers would come and spend a epic joyful carefree weekend at Charlie's house. Everyone agree how great that would be, and I am so certain it WOULD have be so much fun. But, it never happened. Charlie passed a few years after that, can't remember how many years later.
And now Charlie Munger is gone. And people here are saying that Warren in going to resign this week. And people here are posting about how Berkshire as an investment isn't the same anymore. Not really any better of an idea than having a few broadly diversified mutual funds. And it's overvalued, so maybe it makes sense to sell. Either this week or next week.
It is all very sad and frightening to me.
Oh, and one more thing that Tex mentioned was that Susie
Buffett posted on that AOL board as Doshoes.
I remember in 2003 (or so, I'm too old to remember exactly) MsSherrie hosted a Yellow BRKer party the evening before the BRK AGM. WEB was supposedly going to come, but didn't.
What I do remember was that Sherrie made a cake and placed little figurines Of Wizard of Oz characters on popsicle sticks in the cake, and she associated each character with a AOL Yellow BRK'er. Susie (Doshoes) was obviously Dorothy. I think Gartmann was the Scarecrow. The Wizard was WEB.
I,(BBMD) was the Cowardly Lion. I didn't particularly like that assignment, but MsSherrie was dead right.
This week, I sold covered calls, lots of them, on my BRK shares. The shares I held so dearly and associated with all the joy an happiness of being a member of this group for such a long time.
Cowardly Lion...yeah that's me. I'm scared.
And I really wish Pagewrite threw that party at his house all those years ago.
