my remarks were not meant to be joking about at your forecasting of the ASX Mower - more a play on words, "puppets" and "pull a few strings" - get it ?
anyway while we are forecasting the Melbourne age (fairfax) carried out its very comprehensive annual economic survey of 25 market economists, academic economists, and consultants the average forecast for the ASX 200 is for dec. 2014 - 5676, and for june 2015 - 5805 - no big crash forecast there...
by the way only joking about the wife's drinking, although I did have them bafflled at the RSL bar yesterday when I ordered an irish coffee for her (black coffee, a nip of irish whiskey with cream on top) - its one to warm the cockles of your heart on a cold Melbourne winter's day...