If 12 people recommend this thread, a major financial institution will be insolvent within 2 weeks.

[Boojatta]

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

[JuniperLea]

1. But will I get dishtowels in the mail?

I need dishtowels, dammit!

:silly:

[givemebackmycountry]

2. OK, I'll bite...

Just kicked your ass to the front page with my 5th rec...
Now, you got to fill us in.

[Boojatta]

9. Now?

Wait until Thursday, August 7th, 2008. If my calendar skills didn't fail me, then that will be when the two weeks have passed.

[uppityperson]

3. seems like a major financial institution will be insolvent within 2 weeks anyhow.

but I'll play.

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. I think that may be the point.

I love satire!

k&r

[Salviati]

4. #11 baby... who's going to be #12? Do you has what it takes?

[girl gone mad]

6. "Come on, baby...

big money, no WaMu's!"

Oh...crap.

[femrap]

7. I'm betting Wachovia....

or it could be WaMu. I worked at Great Western Financial until WaMu bought it. And every company I have worked for eventually goes out of business. I seem to have that 'je ne c'est que' (I think I have forgotten most of my French) ability to kill Corporations.

I should go work for Monsanto!!!!

[Boojatta]

8. Don't you people know that the internets are connected to the economy?

It's all tied together with wires, tubes, feedback loops, and who knows what. Now I've got to decide whether I should

a) intervene in the markets to prevent the insolvency of a major financial institution; or

b) let the recommendations have the predictable effect just so that everyone will know that I wasn't kidding.
:dilemma:

[napoleon_in_rags]

10. I'm bookmarking this, boojatta.

It ought to be worth at least $50 when the corrupt conservative cronies in the next failed bank come looking for somebody to blame other than themselves... ;)

[Indenturedebtor]

11. That bit the goat that ate the kid, my father bought for two zuzim Hagadya ;)

28 One little goat, one little goat:
29 The Angel of Death came, and slew the slaughterer,
30 who killed the ox, that drank the water,
31 that extinguished the fire, that burned the stick,
32 that beat the dog, that bit the cat, that ate the goat,
33 Which my father bought for two zuzim.
Verse 10:
34 One little goat, one little goat:
35 Then came the Holy One, Blessed be He,
36 and smote the Angel of Death, who slew the slaughterer,
37 who killed the ox, that drank the water,
38 that extinguished the fire, that burned the stick,
39 that beat the dog, that bit the cat, that ate the goat,
40 Which my father bought for two zuzim. dizabin abba bitrei zuzei.
41 One little goat, one little goat.


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An old song ;) First written down in Aramaic thousands of years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Gadya

[Xenotime]

12. #12 Down

[JDPriestly]

13. See my post on the fall of the Credit-Anstalt of Austria in 1931

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x41641

For want of a nail . . . .

You are so right. When banks fail, it is the result of a lot of factors that converge just at a crucial time.

And bank failures have tragic consequences.

[Boojatta]

14. I was wrong!

It took about two months, not two weeks.

[HamdenRice]

15. Do you have to bring this shit to the Economy Forum?

Please just continue spamming the Religion Forum. No one cares if you do it there.

[Boojatta]

16. This is only one thread and it received 26 recommendations.

[HamdenRice]

17. And every rec is a joke

It's still a novelty and will where off real fast.

[Eurobabe]

18. Where's my FUCKING toaster!!??

:shrug: