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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Mark ☼  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: Bill Ackman
Date: 04/10/26 2:38 PM
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It may seem like I have drifted way off course here, but I have not! As PART of building that data processing platform, I created a TMF archive with ~18 million posts... All of them, +/- from MessageID 10000000 in Oct 1997 through 28xxxxxx in 2010 or so.

Wow, that's impressive!!!

I just realized something. When I first started on TMF, I was single with no immediate prospects. Since that time (1995 or thereabouts when it was still on AOL), I've married, had 5 kids, have retired, and recently had 2 grandsons! Amazing how time flies when you're having fun!
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