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$1.8 Billion in Canadian National Railway stock tranferred from Bill Gates to Melinda Gates.

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$1.8 Billion in Canadian National Railway stock tranferred from Bill Gates to Melinda Gates.
Posted by CMStPnP on Sunday, May 16, 2021 11:31 PM

Huh, all that stock in CN?   Go figure.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, May 17, 2021 9:22 AM

One-point-eight billion?  I can barely even think that high.  

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Posted by CMStPnP on Monday, May 17, 2021 10:29 AM

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One-point-eight billion?  I can barely even think that high.  

He chartered a private passenger train and ran it from Twin Cities to Seattle about 10-15 years ago.    Mostly with AAPRCO equipment, some Amtrak.   TRAINS reported on it in Newswire with a small photo back then and said he was on a vacation.    Curious if that might have been a look at BNSF via Berkshire Hathaway sponsorship.    But then again if that was the case they would have used the BNSF Business train.

 

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Posted by williamsb on Monday, May 17, 2021 12:31 PM

Bill Gates already owned CN shares. He told Buffet he should invest in railraods so Buffet bought shares in BNSF, UP and I think NS, when he bought all the rest of BNSF he had to divest the others.

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Posted by Shadow the Cats owner on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 4:55 PM

It's coming out he got caught dipping his wick into his office secertary and his wife is going to be taking him to the cleaners in the divorce.  His advice on railroad investing may have worked for BH at the time.  Now all his money is going to end up in his wife's bank account along with the lawyers.  This divorce will make Bezos the founder of Amazon look like nothing in the media.  Why well someone that was connected with all kinds of powerful people in the past until he was found dead in his cell was the one giving Gates advice on how to hide his affair from his wife.  

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 5:07 PM

Strange.  I though Bill and Melinda were breakin' up because he like to sleep with the Windows open and she likes to sleep with the Windows closed!

Turns out sleeping's involved but it's got nothing to do with Windows.   Wink

Jeez!  With all his dough Bill should have taken up a worthwhile hobby like steam locomotive restoration, he'd have done a lot of good and stayed out of trouble.

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Posted by CMStPnP on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 8:06 AM

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I though Bill and Melinda were breakin' up because he like to sleep with the Windows open and she likes to sleep with the Windows closed!

That was the cover story but it is starting to fall apart.    I could care less and had no respect for the guy after he stole DOS.   Then there were repeated slams in the press made by Bill Gates against older technical workers over the age of 35.    He was getting defensive about Microsoft's abusive labor practices which he was in court for at the time (most of the cases he lost to the government).

My only interest is in how much railroad stock he owns and in what companies.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:28 PM

Shadow the Cats owner

It's coming out he got caught dipping his wick into his office secertary and his wife is going to be taking him to the cleaners in the divorce.  His advice on railroad investing may have worked for BH at the time.  Now all his money is going to end up in his wife's bank account along with the lawyers.  This divorce will make Bezos the founder of Amazon look like nothing in the media.  Why well someone that was connected with all kinds of powerful people in the past until he was found dead in his cell was the one giving Gates advice on how to hide his affair from his wife.  

 

Just the other day I wondered if anyone still had an active subscription to the National Enquirer Mischief

If you have more money than you can ever spend and you lose half in a divorce, you still have more money than you can ever spend.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, May 20, 2021 3:44 PM

Murphy Siding
Just the other day I wondered if anyone still had an active subscription to the National Enquirer

Well I don't know about you, but I really miss the "World Weekly News!"

I mean, how am I supposed to stay informed as to what Hitler's up to in his secret Paraguayan compound with his alien flying saucer technicians?   

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, May 20, 2021 3:51 PM

Flintlock76
 
Murphy Siding
Just the other day I wondered if anyone still had an active subscription to the National Enquirer 

Well I don't know about you, but I really miss the "World Weekly News!"

I mean, how am I supposed to stay informed as to what Hitler's up to in his secret Paraguayan compound with his alien flying saucer technicians?   

Todays media out weirds the National Enquirer. 

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by SD70Dude on Thursday, May 20, 2021 4:01 PM

Flintlock76
Murphy Siding
Just the other day I wondered if anyone still had an active subscription to the National Enquirer

Well I don't know about you, but I really miss the "World Weekly News!"

I mean, how am I supposed to stay informed as to what Hitler's up to in his secret Paraguayan compound with his alien flying saucer technicians?   

I think he married Bigfoot and they started a family.

Greetings from Alberta

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, May 20, 2021 4:28 PM

BaltACD
Todays media out weirds the National Enquirer. 

Of course!  National Enquirer has jounalistic standards you know!  Wink

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