olie
made a grand plus on prty last week....had nerve held would have been double. on the negative side i hold lgb at 81p.....4k down the swanee. still have hope for tad. my firsts real investment ( before all the hype took over ) bought 10k @ 30p....seems like a lifetime ago( must be 15 years ). dont have any at present....scares me to think i had 330k with circa 80p bid and came out with a VERY modest profit. lessons HAVE been learnt.

pach- ah you filled in the blanks, some memory you have boy!, I doubt if an honours graduate these days would be able to quote that theorem from memory

super
good man yourself- I shorted PRTY tonight with a tight stop-loss i.e. 20p, talking to a friend who said he and a dozen others are on line poker mad, but never use PRTY sparked me off.
Losses, blimey I am compiling this years I.R. CGT return,. and have put in two lots of MONI to reduce the pain ( now virt. zero)+Yorkshire Group (negligible value) and a couple of others; I had forgotten the shafting we got back in the early part of the millenium, still this year has been quite good on the Blue-Chips.

Turning to TAD, jaysus what a debacle, I find it amazing that people are still buying, that grown men really believe that a bunch of minority shareholders can not only sack board members,but can run the company, and that the share price has collapsed AGAIN.
Add to that the (to me) obvious GEM trade tonight, presumably obtained for the Xmas and other non-earned and agreed bonuses.
I really wonder about the sanity of some holders , yuff apart of course, no doubt about him.

yep,
you could buy that helicopter for just 2400 TAD shares, according to the gurus a while back 2400 TAD shares were about to buy a REAL one

lololol!!!!!!!!!!

Snappy - it all depends upon how busy the Magistrates court is in your area. With Christmas coming the driving problems increase so the MCs are almost set up to assume guilty pleas. I will keep my fingers crossed for you - but as I said before your argument is not open and shut. Best of luck and don't let the formal surroundings put you off - MC clerks seem to thrive on defendants squirming.

I see the City Slickers are about to be sentenced- for up to 7 years apparently, however plod is still looking for certain people who spread &ramped the rumours on bb`s prior to the "tips" being published, using multi-aliases too one hears???

hmmmmmm!!! Who on earth could these sort of people be?

snap

Are you representing yourself?

Beau

bling

Read that last night and had a little chuckle.

Beau

Beau,

Yes representing myself at the moment at this stage but may well appoint a good motoring lawyer if I can't get the CPS to drop the case shortly. I have a feeling that they will pursue it all the way to the final hearing just because they don't want somebody to 'get away' with exceeding the speed limit.

Home Office scientific branch will be providing me with an opinion shortly. It would be really nice if they agree in my favour and then a whole load of other cases involving this particular make and model of device and this particular firm that do the calibrations would therefor become unreliable. I know of at least one other case involving the same laser gun with the same serial number that is currently ongoing but there must be hundreds of them a week in the particular county where I got nicked.

super,
I have crossed my friend and his mates off my Xmas card list, it seems many millions think PRTY are brilliant- thank goodness for stop losses, closed out at the opening today, long FTSE from this morning, gained about 30 points since then.

The TAD barmy Army appear to be realising the truth I have told them for weeks -NO EGM-OK?
The main thrust of the` revolting ones` web site, has now turned from the poll to find out `who wants to do an EGM`( as if it was like starting a share-club)- 54 people voted, out of 40,000 possibles (their figs.!),30 people said yes.
Now these people are adament that they will....

1. Call an EGM
2.Carry their wants on an EGM
3.Sack directors ditto
4.Replace them with minority shareholders

hark!!!-CUCKOO-CUCKOO-CUCKOO,

and have now replaced their thrusting agenda with another poll,about how much a tiny portion of TSAD Group is worth.

Give up for goodness sake , before you look total fools, sell on a bit of strength and buy something simple -FTSE Tracker`s are for` cardies`.
Suits you Sir- suits you!!!!!!!!!

ps the "U.S. contingent" which wound you lot up , must be having a laugh.

TADPOLE SHAREHOLDERS TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND PUT REBEL DIRECTORS UNDER THE COSH

Tadpole Technology PLCs shareholders army organizes to fight Board coup

LONDON (December 7, 2005) The small shareholders of Tadpole Technology Plc (LSE: TAD) have had all they can take. For many years, Tadpole has been a favorite of the small shareholders who are extremely active on internet bulletin boards. They have had an unswerving, almost messianic, faith that the company will succeed. There are reputed to be 40,000 small shareholders and no big institutions. Now, the Tadpole Army has gone beyond just posting on discussion boards and organized to fight a Board and management shake up that would be the fourth in less than three years.

Tadpoles shareholders faith has been tested in the last few years with the sale of its original hardware group and the subsequent departure of two Chief Executive Officers and appointment earlier this year of a third to one of its groups, now known as the Streaming Division.
The current CEO of Tadpoles Streaming Division and Tadpole director, Steig Westerberg, along with his long-term associate and Tadpole Non-executive director, John Dilts, want to reorganize management again by calling an EGM with the intention of ousting the current Board Chairman, David Lee, and installing two new directors of their choosing after Lee and the rest of the board refused to support a funding package they put forward.

Mr. Westerberg came to Tadpole as a result of an acquisition in October 2004 of his company, Stream Theory, for approximately $25 million in Tadpole shares, making him and other associated employees and investors the largest block of Tadpole shareholders with about 40M shares. It seemed, given their position, that they reckoned imposing their will upon the company would be easy. What has happened, however, is that it has served as a rallying cry for small shareholders who have organized with the intention of giving Messrs. Westerberg and Dilts the boot if they cant resolve these board room differences and come up with a sensible funding plan.

The Shareholders Group has a number of complaints against Messrs. Westerberg and Dilts:

Mr. Westerberg has yet to deliver any revenue-generating deals beyond the one that was already expected with the acquisition of Stream Theory. This despite his statements at the EGM, held last year to decide on the acquisition of Stream Theory, indicating that several deals with a sales cycle of 3-9 months were in the pipe. In the fourteen months since then, nothing has appeared.

His share sales over a prolonged period earlier this year are also believed to have contributed to the large decline in Tadpoles share price. His calling of an EGM a month ago and then its subsequent postponement and the associated uncertainty and continued low share price have finally tipped shareholders over the edge.

Add these failings and others together with strong sentiment among shareholders about the proper constitution of a board and you have a growing group representing a surprisingly large number of shares to challenge the coup.

They do not want to see Tadpole become an American company or its successful Geospatial Division pledged as sureity again the success of Streaming Division. Messrs. Westerberg and Dilts and their proposed new directors are American and in many shareholders eyes, lack the independence and accountability expected of a UK NED.

Statements on the website of the Tadpole Shareholder group, say, in essence, The small shareholders are very angry at the failure to produce any deals during a period when the Geospatial Division has shown consistent success working within the same constraints. They are angry that the use of an EGM call as a blunt bargaining tool is damaging the share price and showing up the American Directors as inept negotiators at a corporate level.

This has motivated in excess of 200 of them to pledge their shares to block Mr. Westerbergs takeover attempt and have him and Mr. Dilts removed as directors by calling an EGM of their own.

It has been a challenge organizing so many shareholders, but these are a motivated group, angry at the decline in the share price and unwilling to see it evaporate completely without a fight. Their cooperation and participation is truly impressive. Hits to the website (www.in2tadpole.net) and share pledges supporting the action continue to grow, and they expect further support as other shareholders learn about what is going on.

Please... if you have not registered you support at www.in2tadpole.com, it would be a welcome boost. You can browse the site without registering, but if you are a shareholder and don't want Steig running Tadpole then login - member numbers also count. You can read in the above that only 200 shareholders, representing the largest voting group, have organised this so far, but that still leaves many shareholders unaccounted for. They/we/TAD is desperate for all possible support - don't give up, it's only just beginning!

rgds, P

P.S. Apologies to everyone who has received this already.

OK, OK, I agree. If you want me to run Tadpole, I'll consider it when asked.

At least I've run a couple of software companies . . . I could even sort out this mess.

Well good luck snap.

Beau

I see the "Press Release" had de-materialised, seems that the anti-American feeling was not acceptable, nobody picked it up, and it has been removed from the web-site.
Certain words in the release however may well be applied correctly to the "cardies", e.g. ` inept`,`failings` etc.
Someone is going to get a nasty bill for all this stuff before they give up, talk about an ego trip,
Unbelievable, but extremely amusing.
The Panto is about to start.

olie
how is yout prty short going?

Supper darling-PRTY long now dearie!,
hang on, just got the contract note today,2150@138.97 timed 08.26 09/12/05, you really must try to keep up with the traders - did you not realise you can go from long to short in seconds?-come on the `Rod ` MUST have some flexibility,well "post coitus karaoke nauseum" at least.
Just had that awful Geri Halliwell woman around,took her to the pub (can`t stand her - a nephew is interested!!) caused a stir though.

sorry olie
too much work to pay much attention.....got severely stung on the drop from 160.....bought a T10 at 87p....closed at 117p.....what a mistake....40ks worth....should have rolled it.

Ah,super`

playing "retrospective patience" (the `if only` syndrome)), not worth the candle, unless of course you look at these poor sods, and shout Hoozah!! at the fact that you didn`t roll TAD , long,at 12p, and some did,

g`luck