Yo ho (never EVER shout that out in Brooklyn!!!) ho me hearties!...

Yo ho (never EVER shout that out in Brooklyn!!!) ho me hearties! From the depths of the oceans and the depths of share-price-despair come the PARates of PARadigm to Roger yous into shape!

We hears you say "excellent and excrement, we's been waitin' to slake our thirst on some good news". Well....slake, snake and shake - we have a bone-rattling challenge afore ye all this time around. It not be for the faint-hearted, nor black of soul (aka those on 'ignore' because they are cocks) because time be of the very essence...

International Talk Like A PARate Day be Thursday 19 September 2024, nary 10 weeks away. 10 weeks I hear ye say! I been wi'out a partner for longer (mainly because my missus - or mister - is withholding until the share price gets back to what was promised in an ale-induced haze o' optimism)!!!

But crewman Violin has been slack and ignoring the calm or rough seas to be provided by the Treasure Gulping Arseholes or the Fearsome Dirty Assholes (note linguistic talent there - even a dirty crewman knows the difference between the King's English and the strange idea from a bloke called Webster that spelling ought be modified between continents) in the near future!!

Anyhoo....there be such gnashing o' gums and spittin' o' complaints about PARate life - that the challenge before us be to predict now our share price in ten weeks time. Will we get answers from the a-holes? Will they be + or -? Will they change sentiment? How much? So let's be heroes, villains and general PARates and make our promises and predictions by Sunday - yes - Sunday 15 July. By the turn o' the clock at the black o' midnight ye shall have the predictions in.

All the normal rules apply (close of auction on PARate Day to win the bottla rum, nearest cent, no ranges and no double guesses. First in first guess - same guesses allocated next free price below the guess) and, by order o' the Cap'n, if Cabe be guessing the closest (and winning the third straight time) then he be keel-hauled and the bottle be delivered in person and opened by a special part o' his anatomy, not being his wooden leg!!

There be one other rule this time around the yardarm! No zero or negative guesses (for fear of the same fate to befall the pirate Cabe).

Best o' luck to you scurvy dogs. Be brave and true.

And, as be Violin's standard practice to have the first bid.......I bid a positive 62 cents worth of doubloons! This be So look much less than previous years but doubledoubloons from where we arggghhhh at now!

V