"Mister Softee" is the officially accepted
nickname for shares of
Microsoft (symbol:
MSFT) on the
NASDAQ. An investor or equity trader can phone their broker and say:
"Sell 1000 Mister Softee at 30!" Click.
and it's a
legally binding contract.
Source
"Memo From Marketing",
The Wall Street Journal staff, Nov. 12, 2004, Page C4.
This is a nodeshell rescue, which as Bones points out, makes it a Red Herring. Yum.