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2,500,000 shares of Carina

------My own private IPO
We invite your investment in our ill-defined but well-hyped venture.

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By Carina Chocano

July 26, 1999 | Carina Chocano (henceforth "The Company"), a California corporation, is pleased to announce she's going public. The Company is offering for sale ("Sale"), pursuant to this announcement, up to 2,500,000 shares at a price of U.S. $8 ("Cheap"). The offering is being underwritten by Morgan, Fairchild & Co. and Sayonara Securities.

The Issuer:.....Carina Chocano
Type of Security:.....Common Stock
Common Stock Offered:.....2,500,000 shares
Use of Proceeds:.....For expansion of our marketing activities, business operations and stuff.
Expected Price Range:.....U.S. $8 per share (OBO)
Expected NASDAQ Symbol:.....ITME

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information not described more fully elsewhere. This summary is not complete and may not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. Prospective investors should carefully consider, then disregard, the matters set forth in the section of this prospectus entitled "Risk Factors." This prospectus contains forward-looking statements based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates, projections, fondest wishes, wildest dreams, psychic readings and fraudulent intentions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties like you would not believe. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, as well as others which are none of your ("Your") business.

PROSPECTUS

Our Business:

Carina Chocano (henceforth "The Company") is a private concern focused on the manufacture and dissemination of her own unmerited celebrity and non-specific notoriety. The Company is uniquely positioned to become a premier e-provider of Carina Chocano-related products and services, including, but not limited to: concepts, works in progress, inconsequential notions, self-involved monologues, lengthy, circuitous anecdotes, drunken proselytizing and unsolicited, unwelcome advice. The Company does not otherwise produce salable goods or services of any kind, including, but not limited to: legal counsel, wart removal, feng shui consultation, shoe repair or the delivery of fancy fruit, regular fruit or lobster dinners.

Our Strategy:

The Company's strategy is to call undue and unwarranted attention to itself through use of a premier network of authorized and unauthorized Web sites, cameo appearances, magazine interviews, docudramas, product endorsements, record contracts, multiple marriages, lucrative divorces, flagrant drug addictions, soft-focus workout videos and other acts of shameless narcissism that will appeal to users with high-value demographics, surplus time and little contact with reality.

Our Market:

The dramatic increase in Internet use provides a tremendous opportunity for online advertising, electronic commerce and smooth-talking grifters. We believe the scope of our intended éclat ("The Product") and the high-value demographics of our user base ("The Marks") offer a unique opportunity to adequately simulate a mutually beneficial arrangement wherein The Marks receive valuable unspecified goods and vaguely defined services in exchange for cash.

. Next page | We shall consider risk factors like the collapse of the Ponzi scheme



 

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