Thread: Stop the Bailout

Anyone up for a game of "Banker Bullsh*t Bingo"!

Originally Posted by JMS

No Jim, he's got it right!

Matter of opinion, I guess. Faith always is.

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Yea, there was darkness across the land, and pestilence was rife. The greedy lenders and traders had consumed all of the silver, and the peasants pockets were empty. The peasants went to the well to feed their families, but the well was dry.

‘What happened?” cried the Peasants.

“We have toiled and slaved in the fields every day….”

“We have paid our yearly tithes in silver to the almighty beast in Washington-Upon-the-Potomac, and watched as their demands have grown ever larger year upon year…..”

“We wait for some small dribble of silver to return to our towns and villages, but, nay, we wait in vain, while the cats in the Capitol upon the Hill get fatter and fatter….”

“And now we hear that the Earls and Squires want more of our silver…. much more…. More silver than any of us can even imagine in our wildest dream…..”

“Hundreds upon billions of pieces of silver….”

And the peasants were angry… and during the day, they gathered at the well, and found that they were all of one voice

And in the evenings, they gathered at the inns and taverns and found again, that they were all of one voice….

And so riders were sent to the Capitol upon the Hill…. And they came from far and wide across the land …. And their voice was one…

‘Do not do this thing!’ they cried… ‘for we have not the money, and the corpulent traders and lenders brought this upon themselves…. Let them spend their own money !!”

But the overfed felines that prowled the cold, dank hallways of Capitol-upon-the-Hill were found to have their hands and fingers in the pockets of the corpulent traders and lenders….

And when the peasants across the land cried “If you do this terrible thing, we will have no money, for you will have spent it all…. And our children will have no money, for you will have spent all of their money, too….and our children’s children’s money…. Nay, do not this thing, for if you do, what will we eat???!”


And then Sir Barney the Frank (a pox upon his house!), spokesman for all of the evil Squires and Earls in the Capitol–upon-the-Hill cried:

“Fear not!! For I have a solution!”































‘"Let them eat Pork!!!”






-whatever

-Lou

Originally Posted by Scarface

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He's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

What happened to Sir McCain the slayer of all that is pork?

Originally Posted by Hutch

What happened to Sir McCain the slayer of all that is pork?

Ah yes..... Sir McCain, Slayer of Pork, and hero of the land.!!!

Sir McCain, riding upon his snowy-white charging steed, returned to Washington-Upon-the Potomoc, to slay the pork and feed the people.....



.... but alas, his steed stumbled, and Sir McCain was pitched into the sodden street, and wound up covered with mud and dung, and instead of feeding the people, he only fed the madness.

.... and there was an angry murmur across the land.

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-Lou

wb Lou,

While you were gone there has been a cultural change. The new stories read like:

Vincent: "Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood."

Originally Posted by gugi

wb Lou,

While you were gone there has been a cultural change. The new stories read like:

Vincent: "Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood."

I know naught of what you speake..... I am only a teller of tales..... a mere bard upon the highway...


-whatever

-Lou

All I'm saying is that if you don't want do starve to death you may want to update the stories you're telling - the stories of old don't buy even (pan)cakes these days. If you want bacon and muffins you need to have a good market strategy.
Damn shame to loose a good bard to famine, just 'cause he can't adapt his stories

Originally Posted by gugi

...Damn shame to loose a good bard to famine, just 'cause he can't adapt his stories

Sir, I fart in your general direction!__



-whatever

-Lou.
(with props to Monty Python)