I'm normally against posting the spam I recieve in email, but this one was just more entertaining than the rest.
If you bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. If you bought $1000 worth of Miller Lite (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel/aluminum deposit, you would have $79.
It is therefore financially prudent in these troubled times to drink heavily and recycle.