Well GWR, I'm with you but I have two problems:

1) my shoes are in being repaired;

2) I only have one pair (wore all the others out pacing the floor for the last year).

Maybe Krushev only had one pair. He never threw his shoes, he just hammered them on the table. Now there was a man of thrift and vision.

Speaking of being penurious (by necessity), permit me to suggest a little gem that I just purchased for a Canadian nickel; AXMIN, AXM:TSX. I'm sure some of you may have heard of it. A friend who has held it for years reminded me of it the other day so I checked it out. I think I even held some many ears ago. It was (still is) looked fondly upon by John Embry. It isn't an ECU by a long shot but I can't see it sitting around a nickel much longer. For any interested, check it out; solid management, properties, resource potential and staying power.