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is going to have a word with the moderators about the quality of this cove Leeson's jokes.

this morning someone has taken my sage advice and snapped up a modest 18,000 shares here. I remind one and all, these bargain basement prices will not prevail forever; now is the time to throw caution to the wind and invest the money that you have put aside for that care home for yourself and the wife. And in what better company that XEN?

1. US listing news within four months, news on that much sooner. 2. Oncohist results from Russia due September (with luck). Indications so far - outstanding. 3. Mystery Lucky Dip news from US to stimulate US investors prior to our corporate seat moving to Boston. 4. Unrivalled bonhomie and joie-de-vivre available only on this thread, thanks to Snooty. 5. So do what Snooty tells you to do: buy, and do not waste my valuable time with a footling £5k - think Bentley. 6. Leeson has been seen off.

Do you realise that the total value of trades so far today amounts to just £11,000, or about 0.00055% of MCAP?

I have repeatedly called for all hands to man battle stations and follow Snooty leading from the rear. Put your hard earned, meagre wages into those last few shares of this gem, I have said again and again. Some may think that Snooty is one to cry wolf. But I say, the hour draws near, the hour when we depart these dank, gloomy shores and move to the sunlit uplands of the New World where, it is said, nectar drips from the trees into the coffers of junior biopharmas. Hasten I say, time is short!

Time to look under the floorboards and in the attic. Not many shares available and this little baby will rocket like a hot amoeba on a Bunsen burner when the time comes.

last word was September.

that Jimmy skates on thin ice, but I know he doesn't give a puck what people think.

Contrary to the extravagant fantasies of the only bullish extraterrestrial on this thread, I am interested in neither ramping nor de-ramping, I merely state the situation as I find it after more than eight years in and out of EPD, KDD and FDI.

Indeed I have done better, far better. And, dear Sir, I make no assumptions of your expertise; to the contrary, I salute your cunning trades. Would that the other ninety percent of investors had had the prescience that you clearly had, to see this company for what it is.

I'm glad you are able to see the situation for what it is. As I have repeatedly said, the only tenable option once financing proves impossible (and that is my view), is for the institutional investors to take the company private. As I said in my post below, FDI is now valued at just $18m, and with its only decent asset having soaked up millions of dollars, yet still to be proven commercially viable, raising eight times MCAP will be impossible, in my opinion. After more than a decade of soaking up investors' money, Liqhobong is still, even if by some miracle they manage to raise necessary finance, many years from being profitable, if ever. This has been clear to all (or almost all) for some time now. Best popped in your ISA if it is your misfortune to still be invested here; your grandchildren may one day be able to sell the share certificates as collectors' items along with those attractive Congo Railways ones you may own. inherited.

has been buying a few biotech shares on the NASDAQ, where we are headed shortly: from the FT today: <b>US biotech stocks ride wave of investor euphoria ...</b> So far this year, 22 companies have raised $1.7bn from initial public offerings in the US and several more are scheduled to list in the coming months, according to Dealogic. ... The jump in demand for fledgling drug developers searching for cures to the world?s most serious illnesses is reflected in the Nasdaq Biotechnology index, which has risen 43 per cent this year, outpacing the 18.6 per cent gains on the S&P 500 and all major industry groups on the US benchmark."

this is good news indeed; a delicious respite from incessant golfism and peanutism. Stay away a month, old boy - nay, a year!

Could be a slow rise in anticipation of news.

300k shares, not 330k.

another 330k at the mid before the close. Presages some action next week, perhaps.

again today - what looks like a 400k crossing, late reported.

Application has been made to AIM for the admission of the 198,500,000 Placing Shares, with trading expected to commence at 8.00 a.m. on 2 August 2013. Following the Admission of the Placing Shares, the Company will have 745,352,396 Ordinary Shares in issue. Directors' salaries secure, shareholders diluted to virtually nothing. Way to go.

it was Nanny Scruggs that took me in my sailor's uniform to visit her family home on the Thames estuary. I believe the year was 1926, because we travelled from London in a coach and four due to the General Strike. After our stroll along the promenade (and the delicious Mr Whippey to which Nanny treated me) we enjoyed high tea in Nanny's parents' front room, among the aspidistras and antimacassars. It was there that the young Snooty learned of the world of service and forbearance. Indeed, even at such a tender age, Snooty made a vow to always treat those less fortunate than himself as well as circumstances may permit. This is why, even in my extreme old age, I refuse to allow Her Ladyship to take a horsewhip to the staff below stairs when they transgress; further, it is the reason I personally ladle out an extra spoonful of pottage to the serfs at Hacienda Snooty at Yuletide. As for the innuendo of sordid practices implicit in your post below, I can only say that Colditz, where I was incarcerated for four years having been captured on the retreat to Calais, saw nothing of such deviance, though the guards' uniforms did sometimes seem to provoke a certain tumescence among some prisoners.

Marvellous! Reminds one of enjoying a Mr Whippey at Leysdown-on-Sea when one was a nipper.