OTish: JKR is making me incredibly rich (virtually)

[Neil Ward]

Hi everyone,

I just checked my Celebdaq portfolio and dividends on my JKR shares 
made me £42985.92 this week (and most of those I only bought 
recently).  Hurray!  I've just bought another £10,000 worth of JKR 
and that should set me well on the way to my third million!  

Pity it's all pretend.  

For those of you wondering if I'm completely off my rocker, Celebdaq 
is a game run by the BBC. They give you £10,000 in virtual money and 
you buy shares in celebrities (mostly British).  The prices of the 
shares depend on their popularity with the players and once a week 
you earn dividends on the number of column inches your people receive 
in the press.  

I built up a ton of money on Keanu Reeves as his price rose, but this 
week his column inches brought me only 76 virtual pence.  
Alternatively, Prince William was rather slow on price, but boy did 
he have inches in the press!  I made a mint (a Royal mint, I guess).

I made my first million mostly on the back of Kylie Minogue. Now I've 
piled a total of £17500 into JKR, as I think there might be a word or 
two about her in the press over the next week. What do you reckon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/

Neil

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