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I've got 100,000 shares in CRND and it's high risk in most peoples eyes, but i'm prepared to lose the lot because I see potential where most other people see negativity. Yes there is an issue with AMD, Yes the BoD's have been utterly useless, but the fact remains that there is substantial gold reserves that modern techniques can exploit. You talk about choosing an area and i've long been interested in precious metals and it's my view that even when investors no longer require bullion as a safe harbour the slack will be taken up by India and China. I don't see the spot price continuing to rise at the current trend, but I don't see it falling back at all, but continuing to rise. If there is a double dip, or contagen spreads in the Eurozone it'll remain bullish. In short this is the area still with potential and in CNRD I see a company with realistic market cap based on past incompetences, but should they get their act together (and I think they are with their more realist statements of late) and get the equipment in and working (and they are now at that stage right now) then 2011 will be prosperous year. The company is moving into production very soon so that will get the worms biting early in 2011 imo there will be opportunities to jump early with a tidy profit, but like I say I'm prepared to lose a couple of grand on this punt so I won't be taking any carrots. Evolution securities (who happen to be their broker and adviser - ha ha) rate this as strong buy with a target price of 100p. For all their vested interest they do have a duty of care - look at panmure gordon, they are jjb's broker, that did not stop them cutting jjb's price target viciously, and putting a warning and review on the system! This is all my opinion and it means absolutely nothing, but in 12 months time we'll see.

I'd like to take your word for it, but will wait for Super Mikey to confirm if this is correct.

As a fraction please.

I've just been reading about the weirdo arrested in connection with the abduction of Jo Yeates. Apparently he's a retired teacher and a Liberal Democrat activist. He sounds just like you.

Can you be more specific? e.g 19 1/4, 19 1/2, 19 3/4 or just 19.

I didn't think you were old enough to drink let alone be an authority on the subject of NYE's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQURvNNSJvU Here's to a happy and prosperous new year to everyone.

You try too hard. I bet you laugh at your own jokes too.

A bit of info: http://www.im-mining.com/2010/12/01/central-rand-gold-making-progress-beginning-stoping-and-refining-its-techniques/ And it's going up nicely already... My Target price is 80p by the end of 2011.

You're not as funny as you think you are.

Don't forget jonah, manji, once bitterne and the rest of the gang.

My Hot Tip for 2011 I've been scouring the mining sector for s company that hasn't done well, but with real potential to do well. I still fancy Arian silver to keep progressing (up 70% since I tipped them) but I really like the potential of CRND. Whilst we all know the forthcoming news for the early part of 2011, regarding production increase / installation of equipments at the main pits, some may have overlooked the rest of the companies other potential for the latter part of 2011 - cmr east, city deep, village main, crown mines , Kimberley and white reef. Independent Scoping studies into the feasibility of developing CMR East are currently underway and results are expected early in the new year. If these studies show that cmr east has good resource we could have a significant sp rise. 2011 is going to be this company's year IMHO. You can thank me for this tip this time next year. I'm in at 2.3p and I expect a significant profit. What are your high risk (potential high gain) tips?

All the best Big Ron. Hopefully the club will one day bring you over for a holiday so we can all meet you and say thanks.

My old man grew up outside of Winchester and used to speak about Lord and Lady Docker and their son Lance (who wasn't particularly liked by the local lads as he'd be seen driving around in his flash cars when they were very poor - rural Hampshire wasn't the reserve of stockbrokers and accountants in those days!). Does anyone else have any memories of these famous "locals"? HE died, blind and Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity in a quiet Bournemouth nursing home 27 years ago. And so ended one of the 20th Century's truly great double acts. Nope, they weren't a stage partnership, although they made the whole world their stage. They would have been naturals for I'm A Celebrity - although for them it wouldn't be ``get me out of here'' but ``we're being kicked out of here''. They weren't fussy. They were just as likely to be kicked out of Morecambe as glitzy Monaco. And they had a let 'em eat cake style that today's C-list celebs can only envy. Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist. In May 1978 made head-lines, bringing rivers of reminiscences from all who knew him and wife Norah, especially those tabloid hacks who happily chronicled their lurid life and times. For they lit the Fifties with laughter. They had it. They flaunted it. And austerity Britain loved 'em for it. They paraded their wealth with a sort of endearing innocence. Not for them any old Daimler. Their Daimler had to be gold-plated with zebra skin upholstery, ivory inlay. Their yacht, the Shemara, cost £800,000 at a time when a tenner was a fair week's wage. They owned a 3,000-acre Hampshire estate and a castle in North Wales. Meanwhile Lady Docker could have given Posh Spice lessons in conspicuous consumption. But it wasn't what they had that made them gossip column darlings. It was what they did. Sir Bernard Docker was chairman and managing director of the mighty British Small Arms company when they met and married in 1949. He was 53, son of a super-rich industrialist. The 44-year-old Norah brought more money to the partnership from her former marriages to a wealthy wine merchant and to tycoon Sir William Collins, always described as "The Salt King''. It was as moment-ous a meeting as whisky and soda - or maybe nitro glycerin. Explosive? You bet. We've heard lately about ``shock and awe''. That described the BSA managers and shareholders: awed by their boss's extravagances including that gold-plated Daimler, shocked by his sudden playboy lifestyle. It couldn't last. Sir Bernard was bounced out of BSA in 1956 and from then on the Dockers carried on doing what they did best - enjoying life. The country loved 'em. Norah, already a Conker Queen, became first Ladies' Marbles Champion of Yorkshire, winning her matches in Castleford while kneeling on a gold satin cushion, wearing a £300 gown of peacock-blue satin, diamond bracelets up to her elbows. Naturally, the Dockers arrived in their Daimler and the town turned out to welcome them. No welcome in Monaco, though. When Prince Rainier told Norah she couldn't take her son Lance into his palace for a christening, she announced: "I am at war with Prince Rainier.'' Then she tore up the flag of Monaco. The furious Rainier banned her from his postage stamp-sized principality and 125 miles of Riviera coastline but consolation came immediately: an invitation to open the Canvey Island carnival. She did it. In style. The Dockers returned to the Riviera, of course. Without them, it was Blackpool without the Tower. But it was in Blackpool's neighbour Morecambe where Norah next made headlines. The couple switched on the town's illuminations, but at the end of a long, Champagne-fuelled night, Lady Docker announced to the mayor and self-important civic dignitaries, "You obviously do not appreciate me...and tomorrow morning you can all jump into Morecambe Bay.'' Not content with upsetting Morecambe, Lady Docker delighted her fans by insulting Italy's police. Benito Pellegrino, an officer on the Isle of Capri, told a Naples court that a drunken Lady Docker hopped out of her car, ripped off his official cap, jumped on it then embraced him shouting `"Kiss me.'' She was cleared. Such behaviour, observed the magistrate, was not unusual in Capri at four in the morning. As the Sixties slipped into the Seventies, the Dockers' life became less frenetic. And then after Sir Bernard died, Norah lived on alone. She was 78 in 1983 when she died in London's Great Western Hotel, her home for much of the year. Remember them as a middle-aged Posh`n'Becks. But much more fun...

I don't think Mikey knows what right/left wing means.

What is that? (btw i know you're being silly but i'll humour you)

Should I say "wobble"? Would that be really funny?

Where did you read this study Deppo? Or is this another of your legendary rib ticklers?

To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. Dune is not for turning!

Fox hunting is the most humane method of controlling Foxes. You are clearly ignorant if you are against it.

I'll put forward a relevent argument to a given situation.

Please explain this hilarious word.

I do not follow a party line. I support both the UKIP and the Conservative Party. UKIP represent my views perfectly on all issues though.

Not at all, but it's good to see you're not acting as silly today after our discussion.

Of course that wasn't deliberate.