Subtle like the Sphinx

[Tripp]

boozhy boozhy boy!

[Just Some Girl]

I'm having a bourbon nightcap on top of all the white wine. Whee!

Getting cold out there... I could see my breath tonight when I went outside for a smoke. Brrrrrr.

Off to beddie bye soon. Been a long day....

[Bizarro]

Sadly, that Ann & Nancy Wilson letter to McCain was a spoof.

[Bizarro]

Another fine letter from the same series of spoofs:

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[Bizarro]

Awesome:

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

[Bizarro]

Also: Quincy saves a girl from depraved punk rockers:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DpYd7bOn52M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DpYd7bOn52M</a>

[Bizarro]

I have to go install a dishmachine today. It is easily the dirtiest, most stressful, most time consuming, least rewarding thing I do.

[captqitn]

oh dear sweet god, no...

[Tripp]

BuRROWWLLPH!

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

What's really happening with the Treasury?

They're just printing more money, aren't they?

[captqitn]

Yep.   thank god we don't have to have any gold to back it up anymore.   thanks nixon!!!


wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!


The only part that sucks is the US dollar is going to be so worthless, that NY is going to be totally overwhelmed with European bargain hunters.    I don't mind the hott ones.   But thats a suprisingly small percentage.  :-/

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I went to see Burn After Reading last night.  Very good, but very weird.

The plot is aimless in a lot of ways...mainly because it's driven by obsessive idiots.  The schemes in this movie make those in Fargo look brilliant by comparison.

BAR is not as slap-sticky as the trailer had me believing, but that's good.  Darkly funny, but sometimes sick and sad.

Quality Coens...not the best, not the worst.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Oversight is a funny word.

Despite oversight, oversights can still be made.

[captqitn]

Just heard a linguistic guru on the radio talking about those types of words that can have two nearly opposite meanings.   Damned if I can remember what you call them, but they are a fun breed.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Awesome:

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

I just did the math...if every American would give just $3, we could raise the $1tril for these chariti...er, financial institutions.

That's right.  For just the price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you could adopt your own fat cat.  Won't you please help?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/fBOazSjvFG8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/fBOazSjvFG8</a>