If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines 
one year ago, you would have £49.00 today. 
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have £33.00 today. 
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have £0.00 today. 
But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminium cans for recycling refund, you would have received £214.00.
  
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. 
A recent study found that the average Brit walks about 900 miles a year. 
Another study found that Brits drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. 
That means that, on average, Brits get about 41 miles to the gallon! 
Makes you proud to be British!!!