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  1. Day may be "over", but love seeing folks checking @CNBC app on their #iPads on Montauk-bound LIRR.
  2. "A move in the Euro [like this week's] is like tectonic plates moving." -- Simone Hobbes @CNBCSquawkSt
  3. Dow has four UP days this month. Last time a month closed with that few? Oh, never. (h/t @peterschack) @CNBCSquawkSt
  4. Tomorrow's show: we make spanikopita. RT @TheStalwart Rick Santelli putting butter on bread. On TV. #Greece
  5. Carly Fiorina, who led Lucent's IPO: $FB "should be listening" to NYSE, but "I wouldn't advise them to switch just yet." @CNBCSquawkSt
  6. A LOT. RT @The Stalwart What'd I miss?
  7. Opening music today for @CNBCSquawkSt? "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies. $FB
  8. Mark Hulbert on @cnbcsquawkst at 1020a ET: His report: Facebook’s stock should trade for $13.80 on.mktw.net/LxgI2o
  9. Convergex's Nick Colas has good note on the IPO rules $FB broke: create illusion of scarcity, make mgmt available, treat IPO as "first date"
  10. On this date in 1977, #StarWars was released in theatres. (h/t @srussolillo) #TheseAreNotTheDroidsYoureLookingFor
  11. S&P on track for best gain in 10 wks. (Assuming it survives today.) $$
  12. The Dow was up yesterday for the 4th time in May. (It's May 25th.) $$
  13. Key lesson of $FB: retail investing still a relatively new phenomenon; democratization of mkts still work in progress. (cc: @EvelynRusli)
  14. On this holiday wknd, I was literally able to say to someone: "Meet me in Montauk." #EternalSunshine (cc: @OfficialWinslet)
  15. USAToday decides to state the obvious in headline: IPOs are "risky and can decline". $FB