Here's a step-by-step.

1.) Buy a controlling interest in a well-reputed but modestly-successful business.
2.) Replace the board of directors with your own employees.
3.) Replace the officers with people who will do whatever you say (i.e. "suckers.")
4.) Order the company to sell bonds. Instead of investing, order the company to issue dividends out of the bond sales.
5.) If you are successful, you will have made a profit by this point.
6.) Continue selling bonds until the business is insolvent. Thanks to the limitation of liability, you have now successfully stolen money from the bond holders.
7.) Deduct your capital losses to offset your dividend taxes.

hmmm. i dont think i can make it past step 1... so i think ill have some soup.

No, that's all wrong, Jon`C! The period goes after the parentheses!

(Celebrate national punctuation day.)

Heil Webster!

Reverend Jones, you've just made yourself a marked man.

So it does. Hm.

Only if it's not a full sentence though. Then it goes inside.

Alright, gigs up, since you've been corrected I want more. You have demonstrated a level of intelligence beyond any member of this forum, I request the following information from you if you don't mind

1) Basic Residence
2) Age
3) Occupation

Who are you? What are you?

mold-gutted hovel in the projects/13/investment banker

Couchman never asks me about any of these things. I think he's having an affair.

im still maintaining that this is pretty much the answer your looking for.

I've been here awhile and suddenly feel like I have nobodys background