Grandpas Go Gaga Over Facebook Stock?

An engineer, two doctors, and a business owner, all now retired, are sitting around at a retirement home. Up shoots the topic of the Facebook initial public offering, and the crew chatterboxes on how to wrest shares at the initial price.

An engineer, two doctors, and a business owner, all now retired, are sitting around at a retirement home. Up shoots the topic of the Facebook initial public offering, and the crew chatterboxes on how to wrest shares at the initial price.

No, this is not the beginning of a joke. A reporter at CNN Money tracked down a group of casual investors within the grandparent generation at a retirement home in Boynton Beach, Fla., to gauge their thoughts on the prospects of the Facebook IPO.

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