Investment Idea by a geek after the Recent financial crisis

I have seen Lot of my friends loosing huge sum in shares after the recent financial collapse in United states and Europe and this has affected almost all the countries who more or less depends on these developed countries recently i got the funny mail see the below lines

Investment Ideas!

• If you purchased Rs1, 00,000 of Morgan Stanley stock 1 year ago, you would have Rs 4,900 today.
• If you purchased Rs1, 00,000 of AIG stock 1 year ago, you would have Rs 3,300 today.
• If you purchased Rs1,00,000of Lehman Brothers stock 1 year ago, you would have Rs 0.0 today.
  
• But, if you purchased Rs1,00,000 worth of beer 1 year ago, drank all the beer, returned the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have Rs21,400!!!

So guys any of you guys reading this invested on beer? if so do leave a comment and tell us how did you forecast ed about the financial crisis.