(Note to reader: This is the actual story as created and told by Glenn Harrington of the Harrington Newsletter Company. Other renditions of this story are in circulation, especially in Western Canada. This is the original.)

Lynne and Dave are two successful retail investment advisors, both of whom used a Harrington newsletter, and one of whom remains a successful investment advisor.

Lynne issued a Harrington newsletter for five bull-market years, then stopped it when the stock market turned in a bear run. She retired a few months later. Dave