Everyone I speak to feels as if we are living through special times. We are making history, in a very bad way, mind you. It’s not like “The Fly” to get all sentimental and shit; but I kind of miss the days of egregious excess, when people just ATM’d their houses and went long QUALCOMM, Inc. [[QCOM]] for shits and giggles.
Gone are the days of the cool new Motorola phone and it’s flamboyantly gay CEO.
Gone are the days when assholes went to Best Buy to purchase the new Garmin Ltd. [[GRMN]] device or better yet a TomTom.
Gone are the days when it was cool to buy Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [[SIRI]] because Howard Stern was an employee. Or, better yet, buy XMSR, because their satellite shit was better.
Gone are the days of homebuilders acting like dot coms and dot coms accepting egregiously high take over bids (YHOO).
Gone are the days when soda stocks were cool: [[JSDA]] , Hansen Natural Corporation [[HANS]] , Cott Corporation (USA) [[COT]] , [[REED]] .
Gone are the days of stupid post 9/11 security stocks and asinine bomb detection companies.
Gone are the days of Apple Inc. [[AAPL]] and Research In Motion Limited (USA) [[RIMM]] dominating Jim Cramer’s Mad Money program and people getting all giddy over the iPod.
Gone are the days of storage plays like VMware, Inc. [[VMW]] or NetApp Inc. [[NTAP]] . All we do now is store warehouses full with worthless CDO’s.
Gone are the days of people in India eating 1 1/2 meals per day, effectively making Ag stocks skyrocket. Now, those fuckers are back to starving again.
Gone are the days when T. Boone Pickens was a successful money manager and oil was going to $1,000.
Gone are the days of absurd pricing power for the mineral and basic resource companies. Now they just suck.
Gone are the days of greedy private equity ballers and takeover specialists—buying companies for $100 billion out of thin air.
Gone are the days of endless Chinese industrialization. More importantly, gone is the notion that Chinese stocks can go up forever because they are surpassing the U.S. as King Cobra.
Gone are the days of cool euro’s. Now, the euro is some sort of bullshit 3rd world currency.
Gone are the days of lunatic seminar stocks like iMERGENT, Inc. [[iiG]] and pyramid plays, like USANA Health Sciences, Inc. [[USNA]] .
Gone are the days of making money off fat fuckers, via NutriSystem Inc. [[NTRI]] , Buffalo Wild Wings [[BWLD]] , Panera Bread Company [[PNRA]] and other restaurant names.
Gone are the days of powerful Wall Street brokerage firms, who could move a stock 10% on a morning upgrade. Now all we have is third tier bucket shops, like Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (USA) [[OPY]] and Jefferies Group, Inc. [[JEF]] left.
Gone are the days of Mozilo and his kick ass tan. Add to that, his entire mortgage industry.
Gone are the days of BRIC.
Gone are the days when Carlos Slim from Mexico was the richest man in the world because his grotesque cellphone stock America Movil S.A.B de C.V. (ADR) [[AMX]] went up everyday.
Gone are the days of Google Inc. [[GOOG]] being cool. Now they’re just a bunch of dorks with a lot of free shit to give away.
Gone are the days of yoga and organic being “in.” Stocks like [[LULU]] and Whole Foods Market, Inc. [[WFMI]] can lick my dogs balls.
Gone are the days of “Jamba Juice” being a semi-cool place to buy a beverage.
Gone are the days of $200 jeans and $300 sunglasses, at least for Main Street. Now, all Main Street can afford is a pair of “Crocklers” from their local Walmart.
Feel free to add your own.
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Gone, all gone, faster than the last rail of coke off a hooker’s ass at Charlie Sheen’s house.
Sniff.
I’m tearing up the way I always do at the end of “Wall Street” when Bud goes to jail…
Nice post.
Gone are the days when a perm and a flashy spoon collection made you king of the Internets.
Gone are the days when there was a third tier. Now it’s a third of a tier.
-DT
Well the bailout has passed!!!
With all of this doom and gloom I want to get 200% long and start doing coke lines in the morning. For good measure I will start with a little meth to get me going. Time to bid, grab your balls and tickle your tonsils.
Gone, all gone are the days of medium rare Ribeyes. Pass the Spam, please.
Senate Passes Sweetened $700 Billion Bailout – CNBC
back are the days of guzzlin cheap but good Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer – oy yes the Senate passed the bill 75 to 25. Now what?
Soon to come, please
Gone are the days of CNBC and Cfamerica, replaced with 24 hours of Do-it-yourself bankrupcy and Suicide IS an Option infomercials.
Thanks, Fly.
Don’t forget it was the HOUSE that nayed it tonight was the senate.
futures didnt even budge
Gone are the days…of LEH,WB,WM,AIG,FNM,FRE,MER,BS
Gone are the days of Jim Cramer and his good buddy pal King Steele [sic]
At least Fat Mountain Bitches are still in style!
Great – Now we get a bullshit rally. Idiots will pile on -think that all is clear, then we go straight over the edge into the abyss. Hold on to your balls.
Gone are the days when a Chinese homemaker could go to the corner stock to place a stock order and double her family’s salary in an overnight hold ala; CBAK, CSUN, CNTF, CTEL, CMED, CPSL, and any other stock with a C in front of it.
And gone are the days when I could buy a stock and go for a workout in the middle of the day and have the stock not move 20% over the lunch hour.
Fly….you sound sad. Cheer up you pants by the ankles wearing green socks and running shoes goat molester, you are bring me down.
Gone are the days of hiding my strip club and escort credit card receipts from my now ex money grabbing wife. Jk. LOL.
Gone are the days of getting a good night’s sleep. Is it just me, or is anyone else out there having dreams of death, poverty, destruction and mayhem?
I dont think people are understanding the process. Now it goes to the House for their approval, then back to the Senate to approve if any amendments are added. This wasnt the big vote you dumb dumbs. I am not sure why you think stocks will shoot up tomorrow. Friday is back with the people that rejected it on Monday.
Gone is having some dude install Turbo HD on DISH so you can watch the monthly WWE pay-per-view.
Gone is the new Mac laptop expected in January, it’s been replaced by the new Mac Rib Sandwich.
Gone is people watching Don Harrold videos online. (Finally)
“Dumb dumbs?!”
We don’t cotton to language like that around here, fuckface.
futures down.
Gone are the days of owning RICK and investing in perfect racks, hot ass, and low self esteems.
“Gone are the days of owning RICK and investing in perfect racks, hot ass, and low self esteems.”
I’m RUINED!
Gone are the days of easy credit.
Just because there is money flowing does not mean your going to get any of it. Can you say “Buy Here Pay Here”
Auto Industry broken (fuck this shoe hasn’t even dropped yet, of course 50 Billion to Detroit will seem like a drop in the the bucket) How would you like to own the paper on the Luxury SUV’s in America)
Investment Industry broken with all of their bullshit etf’s Mutal Funds and the like. After Dot com and Banking bullshit the trust is gone.
Health Care broken
Mortgage Industry broken
I know I’m missing a lot more.
ahh the days of OPBL and TASR and STV going up up and away…
Gone are the days I go to the mailbox with a stack of credit card and mortgage refinance offers.
Gone are the days that DT blows his boyfriend… wait he still does that.
Gone are the plans for the honeymoon thanks to Bob Steal [sic].
Gone are the days I could hang out with my best friend(RIP).
Gone are the coastlines of Louisiana & Texas due to Ike & Gustav.
Gone is the month of September 2008, one of the worst months in History.
Anybody still long solar or wind? Subsidies for that got approved in this bill, too.
Maybe all thats true, and then some.
However, I look forward in the coming days to some free soup, at the local house of worship. Religion sells in depression eras and what better way to get folks to hear your path to salvation than a hot cup of soup to warm the old cockles.
Gone are the days when Mark Haines was the morning host of CNBC, berating everyone who came on his show.
Gone are the days of going to Chipoltes and ordering gourmet burritos,I’m headin’ for the border…gorditas anyone?
Sorry about your friend, RC.
Gone are the days of solar burritos. Now, burritos run on coal.
Shit Bruce, I thought that was Fly’s Holiday Party, serving meatball soup to Gio,RC,AD,WS,and Danny
Gone for Karl is several decades of forced celibacy and relegation of his life’s work to the intellectual dustbin.
But Commies are back in town tonight, bitches!!
Karl Marx get long on proletarian poontang!!
Grad student poontang!!
House intern poontang!!
Karl Marx looking good in shades and beard as he walks through Senate library!
Gone are the days of showing up sober for my bullshit show.
Futures selling off
Asian markets selling off
Europe putting together a $500bn bailout
Gone are the days when people had confidence the gummint could save the world.
Beardy on FIRE!!!!
Gone are the days of Liz Claman in tight sweaters on CNBC !
Now, to see…ah hem…Liz…you gotta tune into “FoxNoise” !
SIGH !!!
Gone are the days of the cool futures quote in the iBC sidebar.
By the way, futures down about 0.75%.
Gone are the days when Kudlow referred to the economy as “goldilocks.”
Gone are the days when Woodshedder didn’t bitch about everything and was happy with what he had.
Gone are the days of having sex with “genetically female” women.
Ah – come on now guys! It’s not that bad yet. So what – gone are the days of basking on a Caribbean beach while sipping bahama-mama’s and acting real cool. Big deal. We can still, well we can, uh, well… FUCK – THIS SUCKS!
Gone are the days of lying on your NINA and getting 2000 more sqft. of house that you could never afford in real life.
Gone are the days when Fly was the Robin Hood of the Internets. Now, the poor have no use for the Fat Cats who re-distribute wealth to those who are less fortunate.
Gone are the days when “The Fly” banked egregious coin. Now the fucker loses egregious coin.
Fuck you servant.
Why so fucking negative. May I suggest:
http://www.thesecret.tv/
Gone are the days that buying a Ford meant you were tough and loyal.
Also gone are the days that buying GE, AAPL and GS and blindly holding them meant you’d be a millionaire.
Gone are the days of thinking I was going to able to retire, silly me. Gone are the days when houses in my neighborhood actually sold instead of sitting there for years with a for sale sign.
Futures are down. I think it’s a good sign that the bill passed the Senate though. If it passes the House I will be devoting a lot of time to reading the entire bill searching for every edge, idea or advantage I can find. There will be plenty of opportunities, for a start there were a lot of “green” provisions in the bill.
RIP old style Wall Street. It may not seem like it, but we are a big part of the future for trading and investment — small groups on the Internet, decentralized control, pooling talent, sharing knowledge and trading their own funds.
Remember those old Smith Barney commercials, we make money the old-fashioned way, we earn it? GONE.
Gone are the days when a 777 pt. down day left Fly too mopey to donkey kick a cardigan-wearing stranger in the scrotum.
Thunderpup….wouldn’t it reason we go down about 1,000 leading up to the Vote? I’ve always maintained the market would dictate the vote in a nasty scary kind of way.
Gone are the days of the Asshole Dip Buyer!
What next are we going to have Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer writing billion $ checks to JPM,BAC, live on CNBC…maybe they could use one of those big fucking oversize ones like the do for Charity events or lotto. Ya thats right next time Buffet writes a check on CNBC I want to see a 4’x8′ size check to instill confidence!
The bullshit politicians aren’t gone.
The over $10 Trillion and rising with a bullet national debt isn’t gone.
The wars all over the world aren’t gone.
The decay of infrastructure isn’t gone.
The lack of investment and delivery or even a plan for more energy isn’t gone.
Mike Bloomberg isn’t gone. Sorry, repeated myself.
The need to figure out why this happened and how to improve things isn’t gone.
Paulson, Bernanke, Cox and Bush aren’t gone.
The need for another bailout after this one isn’t gone.
Gone are the days when there is a need for people like Maria, Becky, and Erin. The only people left with money are old fucks that get woodies watching people named Jim, Larry, Charlie and Mark. Yipppeeee!
Gone are the days I could get a natural erection.
Alan they don’t say how
they say how many…don’t sweat it sir!
Gone are the days I could pick a loser!
Gone are the days of cool features like “edit function” and “karma points” on Fly’s blog…
Welcome to the days of low rent bandwidth and Vincenzo on “flex time” and a paper route.
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Ump-ummmm Alvarii40!
Thunderpup….wouldn’t it reason we go down about 1,000 leading up to the Vote? I’ve always maintained the market would dictate the vote in a nasty scary kind of way.
Yeah, markets want more now…gone are the days when a Billion dollar bailout will do…they want a $T on this sucker and 10,000 pages or they’re taking this mofo down 10%. Europe’s getting $500B, we want $1.5T.
Shot across the bow…pass the $700B, then come back next week for $800B more or main street gets it.
Gone are the days that Fly kicked bearshitters down the stairs.
Gone are the days I was in the black. Now I am deep in the red and continue to spiral downwards.
Gone are the days when I could trust you assholes not to hack my site, allowing me to leave the karma and edit functions in place.
Gone are the days when MVIS was going to $100 by Labor Day.
Jake I use little green ‘thumbs up” cut outs I made…I taped one over your comment
Still up big. Shut your mouth, Duc impersonator.
Gone are the days when Elaine Garzarelli had an “afro” !
Oh wait… Elaine Garzarelli STILL has an “afro” !
SIGH !!!
Dawn of The Fly
Gone are the days of Reaganomics.
The Fly is God and He is here to stay. Continue to attend the Church of The Fly for He will heal you and your portfolios.
Gone are the days of a free market in stocks.
Gone are the days of the Kirks and the Spocks.
Gone are the days of the “sure things” and “locks”
Welcome the days of portfolio pox.
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Gone are the days…………….fuck it
Gone is the bliss and tranquility in their bullshit second chakrah.
Gone are the days of functional time machines.
Gone are the days of fat girls. And terms like BBW since no one can afford to eat.
Gone are the days when your rims were worth more than your car. Now everyone leaves the factory ones on while getting laid less.
Gone is my life. (I’m getting married next month)
NOT gone are the days I want to tap Liz Anne Sonders. Still schwinging after all these years.
Gone are the days that Donny isn’t expected to purchase his Oklahoma uncles egregious gifts for Christmas.
Gone is the hilarious link from Fly’s post to that yoga site.
That was funny as “downward dog.”
gone are the days I have sympathy for people who are simultaneously poor and made terrible financial decisions.
Gone are the days of people thinking I could be Veep, much less El Prezidente.
RC thats some sick humor
Gone are the days of gold teeth and grills.
Now, old candy corns are placed in empty sockets with a little used tin foil for bling.
Gone are the days of Kudlow and Kramer
Gone are the days Liz’s K’s big “girls” would shame’er.
Gone the respect for Constitutional Framer.
Come bailouts of the lamer and the lamer…
Gone are the days when JJ loaded 99% of his money and retirement into PAL and SWC.
Gone is my window, I’m fixing to jump out.
Gone are the days of my hair and hedge fund.
RC, if that is your true feeling, then you should run away, as fast as possible, never looking back.
Geeeezzzz,lets start over, no CNBC,no Cramer, no internet…just Louis Rukeyser on PBS Wall Street Week on Friday nights…THE good ol days
Ya know, I loves Sarah Palin. She makes me look like a regular genius. Like the father of nukular bombs – Alfred Einstein.
Hey RC
Marriage
Gone are the days that Donny couldn’t walk into a Sydney Tavern, and fraternize with a beautiful Australian female.
Gone is the day of Mustangs and Corvettes. Now we look forward to pussy cars like the Volt
Gone are powerful unions threatening strikes
Screw you bastards. Palin is the only one who knows how to kill her own food and field prep it. Think about that when you’re remembering the good old days of food in supermarkets and prepackaged single serving dead flesh.
Gone are the days of weekends on larks,
Gone go all family amusements at parks,
No longer will bright lads study muons and quarks,
With Obie and Biden, every class is “Karl Marx.”
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Question: “Barrack Obama and John McCain are on an airplane. It crashes into a mountainside. Who survives?”
Answer: “The Country.”
You tells’em Thunderpup!
Gone are the days when the free market was the best path to prosperity.
gone are the days when Nortel does a 20 for 1 reverse split and kicks several thousand Canadian grannies down numerous steps while they are looking up the word spinoff at their local library while nt’s executives bank metric tonnes of coin while drinking earl grey….oh wait…those days are still kinda here…oooops
Gone goes the relevance of states that are “key”
Gone goes pols’ promise to tax every’un but me.
Welcome the days when “smart Veeps” all agree
They saw Delano Roosevelt — in ’29! On TeeVee!
(You see, reading much Seuss does come in handy!)
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Gone are the days of Libor under 5%.
Gone are the days when I believed the Nikkei would eventually exceed what it was in 1990
Poof! Goes your portfolio, they told you to hold it?
Poof! Goes your integrity, you shouldn’t have sold it.
Splat! Goes the easy answer, “We shoulda just rolled it!”
Drat! Goes your last poker hand, I told you to fold it
Gone are the days when the arrogant assholz from NYC thought they owned the world & that their shit didn’t stink.
Gone are the days of Peak Oil (supply)
Welcome to Peak Oil demand
Gone are the dayss when anyone gave a crap about global warming
Gone are the days of the Imperial Presidency,
Gone are the days of Carl Rove in residency,
Gone are the days of “nukular” threats,
Gone are the days of four-Iraq-tour Vets,
Gone are the days of seeing the soul of Putin,
Gone are the days of school lunches with gluten,
Gone are the days of NeoCon elation,
Here come the days of Jake Gint’s re-education.
-Don’t worry, buddy, I’ll tell the Obamanauts you’re “one of the good ones.”
Hunnit?
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I plan to go into hiding with my gold and guns.
Work on the meter, that’s not a bad start, though.
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Gone are the days when people shook their head said, “That Ron Paul is crazy,” when he would speak on the house floor.
Gone are the days when “The Fly” would repeatedly shitcan Ducati.
Gone are the days of posting comments as Broker A.
Gone are the days of sub $10T debt:
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 Oct 2008 at 02:29:46 AM GMT is:
$ 1 , 0 0 2 , 8 0 0 , 6 4 3 , 9 3 9 1 . 4
The estimated population of the United States is 304,831,460
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $32,896.89.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.76 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
I hope you’re ok RC. Actually you will do well, because you have the brains to figure out new ways to make money in whatever situation comes our way. If things never changed, we’d all still be riding horses to work and the store.
I always figure God gave me a brain to invent new ways around all the things our government decides to throw in my way, and kick some ass while I’m at it.
Not gone are the days of reverse splits.
Not yet gone are the days of asshole dip buyers in a bear market.
Not yet gone are the days of Joe Six Pack opening internet brokerage accounts to buy financial stocks because “ya know these can only go up after the bailout.”
Anton…listening to Palin, all I can think of is Frances McDormand in Fargo.
yeah mrkcbill that accent really gets on my nerves
Relax, Max
Your nerves are just like jumpin’ jacks, Max
Your heart is thumpin’ with a crazy sound
Hear it pound
Bumpin’, bumpin’, bumpin’
Jumpin’ up and down
Stay cool, fool
Just take it easy
That’s the rule, fool
Gone are the days to buy more stocks when things look this bad….
Gone are the days when I could buy one bag of donuts and get another bag free.
Now I have to lose weight.
Life’s a bitch. Then you die.
Gone are the days of good Mexican food in my neighborhood.
Gone are the days of betting on obscure China stocks like CPSL and SDTH.
Gone are the days of Art Cashin tap dancing in the morning.
Gone are the days of GOOG popping 100 bucks after an earning’s report.
Gone are the days of tax exemptions for wooden arrows made for kids in the latest Rescue Plan. Wait those days are just beginning.
Jake, that was as perfect as a golden statue of you and your favorite president.
The imperfection of the meter was a conscious, ironic choice. Ah, but such is the difference between the artist and the art teacher…
http://library.thinkquest.org/20868/ico/gal/s468.jpg
mrkcbill–
whatthefuckyamean?
Being a currency trader i could care less about the “good ol’ days”. America prospers… I still shove coin in my pockets. America dies.. I still shove coin in my pockets. It’s pretty much a win win situation for me. 😉
Gone are the days of MVIS and ARWR.
I saw Fly today waiting on line at Dunkin Donuts…Odd No?
He had a coffee cup from yesterday and asked the little girl for a refill….the small hustle is back.
Another egregiously brilliant posting.
Gone are the days of arrogant sub-slime mortgage brokers driving stupidly expensive vehicles and buying up egregiously overvalued real estate because real estate only goes up. (I could name 1/2 dozen of these ghoatclowns that either just “short” sold their house or went into foreclosure on multiple properties. Poof, your bullshit six or seven ethereal mortgage blowjob has vanished and now you are struggling to make mid 5 figures when you could have had it all had you been more prudent with your bullshit vanished dollars.
On a more serious note, my US Bank in Del Mar, CA was robbed yesterday just minutes before I arrived to make a deposit. I stopped by today and chatted with the nice but emotionally shaken bank manager asking her what actually happened. She told me 3 fuckfaces entered the bank in Friday the 13th Masks shooting mace in all directions and successfully split with bags of cash.
I kid you not.
You fockers are all living in the past. Get real.
^^^Poof, your bullshit six or seven figure ethereal mortgage blowjob income has vanished
Edited
MrKCBill,
I’ve described Ms. Palin’s interviews as sounding like a bootleg copy of “Fargo” with all the Coen Brothers’ best lines cut out. Really disappointed in McCain for the gamble, but I don’t think he could have imagined a governor could be this retarded. Of course, that’s why you vet them. I actually feel sorry for her.
Gone are the days of Europussy smack talk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3118994/Financial-Crisis-So-much-for-tirades-against-American-greed.html
COF is up 8.8 % YTD. The consumer is alive and well (sic.)
Bill Macy,
I need to see those inventory reports…can you fax them to me please?
Gone are the days when i gave a fuck.
RC, GO TO THE LSU GAME INSTEAD!This way five years from now, you want lose HALF of everything you own.Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Market Fool, Del Mar as in next to the racetrack Del Mar? I used to live very close to there.
Gone are the days of cheap gas, $4500 hookers, and Hummers.
Gone are the days my husband would make love to me. Now he spends all his time on that stupid website of his.
I don’t feel sorry for her Anton. I feel kinda sorry for the American people though because we have such godawful politicians who make lousy choices.
Gone are the days I could skip a tumbler of scotch before dinner, so “see ya.”
This was cathartic.
There are some funny motherfuckers here.
And some plain ol’ motherfuckers, too.
Fly throws a good party, but it’s BYOB.
Gone are the days when Larry ‘Asshat’ Kudlow used his bullshit line ‘ Free market capitalism….’. Fuckin idiot
Gone are the days when the slime ball realtor spent his weekends having an open house in the 1.25 million dollar wooden shit shack across the street from my wooden shit shack.
Understood, Boca. But to live out the rest of your life, and have your kids live out their lives, as a punchline? That’s a uniquely American form of hell. And since she isn’t going to be VP, it’s more than she deserves.
Listen to you, arguing niceties with a serial killer!
You’re one tough broad, Boca.
You’re in the right place.
and BYOG … bring your own gun.
Do you clowns realize that the vote tonight was the congressional vote that had already passed once?
The House is the market mover.
You thought you’d seen a crash on -777.777 day?
If these worthless politican blowhards fail to pass this one for any reason whatsoever you will wish it never happened even if you are short in spades.
I’m stocked up on guns, protein bars, and surf wax 🙂
Idiota re they all!
RC,women change after you marry them.Not to late to go to the LSU vs BAMA game.Does the word HALF mean anything to you?Why buy the the cow when you get the milk for free.
Fly – go tend to your wife, and all of the romantic niceties. Fuck these asshats – i am making love to my misses as i type! Oooh.. Aaahhh. Yes! Ohh.. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh,
Gone are the days when “Technical Analysis was for the lazy and ignorant”. TA is now for the active and literate.
OK my above post is not 100% accurate.
That being said I will now have another 1/2 glass of Grand Marnier because I honesty don’t fucking care!
oh yeah, I’m in the right place all right LOL. We have a similar sense of dark twisted humor Anton.
Seriously I don’t believe in crying in my beer/drink, I believe in putting on my old pair of Doc Martens with the steel toes (puts me in the right frame of mind), mainlining caffeine and figuring out a unique way to triumph over current obstacles, emerging victorious with plenty of coin.
I’m pressing the Eject button without even faking an orgasm this time.
This sure isn’t how my “IT” guy does it.
Having prematurely declared victory, I’m off to let the dulcet sounds of Bloomberg Asia lull me gently to sleep. I got work to do tomorrow.
Gone are the days when I could voice my opinion about financial matters at Orange County dinner parties hosted by real estate perma-bulls. (I think I got black listed last weekend.)
Gone are the days when I would hear the rebuttal, “Factional reserve banking is what made this country great!”
Gone are the days when said real estate perma-bulls would feel compelled to tell me how much their McMansion had appreciated in the last week. Thank God!
Asshats.
Gone are the days when Batapaglia could move $300 stocks another $50 – $100 and Fleckenstein was always wrong!!!
Gone are the days when I was paid based on ‘Mark to Market’ .I just demanded a raise based on ‘Mark till Maturity’.
With all this pessimism you would think the DOW is headed to 400. I see the glass half full, not half empty. Call me a cheerleading, rah-rah, Kudlow-ick type optimist, but i draw the line at DOW 4,000. Cheer up folks –
Gone are the days that I actually functioned properly.
Now when the Fly uses me, I emit an odorless gas sending the Fly into a delusional state that causes him to believe he’s ‘seen the future’.
You could start by cheering ME up…
May I suggest starting with a longer ORAL argument for your point of view?
OK honey, get ready…
Here’s 777 again….
What a rigged game
Tomorrow we’re going up
I am glad you fools slowed down your posts. Now my big, strong man ‘what’s up’ can focus his attention on me, and not you dumb ass internets guys. Ooooh. Ahhhh. More. more…
Gone are the days when Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen would just shut the fuck up and sing.
Now they hold a fucking benefit for Obamie at $500- $10,000 a clip.
Who finished the Glenlivet???!!!!
Gone are the days of betting on the fucking Cubs.MF
gone are the days when a bowl of oatmeal was good hot or cold
Gone are the days when stocks were for fuckers like me. Nowadays stocks are for assclowns like ducati.
I love to listen to Barney Frank talk…. It reminds me of that episode of the Brady Bunch when the kids at school make fun of Cindy for the way she talks BABY TALK BABY TALK
*FED MULLS RATE CUT AS RECESSION FEARS INCREASE – WSJ
tradethenews
RC – seems to me you are having pre-marriage jitters, and the end of the world stuff around us isn’t helping any.
If you are really really having second thoughts, better to tell your girl, or ride off, whatever.
Just know a number of us picked up on your thoughts and care. Keep us updated.
Me – my hedge fund informed me they are down 48% and funds frozen at Lehman.
My old dog had to be put to sleep two weeks ago – (much harder to take than the hedge fund!)
But we will prevail! The game isn’t over Fly.
Memo to self – when one has made the money don’t give it to idiot hedgers to manage.
citi is cutting targets on chemical names tonight:
CE
ALB
DOW etc..
Gone are the days when USSA’sians thought it would be cool to nuke all the commies
Gone are the days when politicians could utter phrases like “Operation Iraqi Freedom” with a straight face.
Gone are the days when people said real estate couldn’t go down because it was real and they aren’t making any more of it.
Gone are the days when use of the “R” word was verboten.
Gone are the days when I never used the same alias twice
Cheer up, Fly – from the WSJ tonight:
The latest wave of financial turmoil has crippled $27 billion London-based investment fund Sigma Finance Corp., raising concerns that a messy sale of its assets could weigh on wobbly markets.
In a sign of the repercussions of last month’s demise of securities firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Sigma faced imminent liquidation Wednesday after a drop in the value of its investments, which included Lehman debt, forced it to default on its borrowing agreements.
The default will likely leave investors in some $6 billion of Sigma’s own debt holding paper worth as little as 15 cents on the dollar, …
Fiona,
I share your pain on the hedge fund front. Not quite that steep a decline, but close.
My dog, from the age of seven, had to be put down when I was 23 and away from home. My Dad, a decorated combat vet, took him to be put down and couldn’t talk about it for a year. Still hurts, but you remember all the good stuff, too.
Funny, the stuff that’s really important over time.
They cannot hurt us, for we have already lost our dogs.
Here we come, fuckers.
Gone are the days when I let my fellow Dems write like pussies and not call them on it.
Nut up, D word.
“Elliot Spitzer Says:
Gone are the days of cheap gas, $4500 hookers, and Hummers.”
Hummers will always be in demand. Trust me.
ooxxx
Jenna
Gone are the days—in the past.
Gone are the days when we thought SBUX tasted good, and their growth would be endless
Gone are clown shoes with holes, and CROX “croslite” innovations
Gone is SHLD
Gone is the moral foundation of our nation
Gone are my iPod’s secret messages
Gone, like yesterday is gone
Like history is gone
Just try and prove me wrong and
pretend like you’re immortal.
Gone, like yesterday is gone
Like history is gone
The world keeps spinning on
You’re going, going
Gone, like summer break is gone,
Like Saturday is gone
Just try and prove me wrong
You pretend like you’re immortal (you’re immortal)
You’re immortal (you’re immortal)
We are not infinite
We are not permanent
Nothing is immediate
We are so confident in our accomplishments.
Look at our decadence.
Gone, like Frank Sinatra, like Elvis and his mom,
Like Al Pacino’s cash, nothing lasts in this life.
My High School dreams are gone,
my childhood streets are gone
Life is a day that doesn’t last for long.
Life is more than money, time was never money.
Time was never cash, life is still more than girls.
Life is more than hundred dollar bills and roto-tom fills.
Life is more than fame and rock and roll and thrills,
All the riches of the kings end up in wills
We’ve got information in the information age
but do we know what life is outside of our convenient Lexus cages?
She said he said live like no tomorrow
Every moment that we borrow brings us closer
to the God who’s not short of cash
Hey Bono, I’m glad you asked.
Life is still worth living, Life is still worth living.
gone are the days when…..
you could safely get confused between suppository and lozenge
Gone is the regular season when the Angels beat the Red Sox 8 of 9
Gone is the day of trips across country via Rt 66
Gone is the day of Neil Caputo hosting NBR … damn!
Gone are the days of getting your SBUX stained teeth whitened by BSML
“Elliot Spitzer Says:
Gone are the days of cheap gas, $4500 hookers, and Hummers.”
Hummers will always be in demand. Trust me.
Red Sox win!
These are the days.
Anton Cigur
Long solar/wind??
I have a miniscule amount in an Alternative Energy Fund which was up 11% September – 118% YTD.
My other good news fund is a hedge fund in water and water rights – almost doubled my money there so far- but have not heard the September results yet.
I could sound brilliant here, but of course my largest position is in the well known, down 48%, assets frozen at Lehman one, which nicely takes care of any profits here and in the future!
Your words of your Dad and your dog touched me.
Funny how I can manage my thoughts of Dougal during the day, but come 4 am…
It’s like a fucking funeral up in here. Wake up people! There is money to be made!
I’m calling it the Ibankcoin bottom. God Praise Amerrrrika!
Message for Wall St from the Man on the St.
The self pity here is almost unbearable. Grab your bootstraps and buckle down, the market is putting you through the school of hard knocks, but nonetheless you are gaining priceless experience.
Check out the close in Hong Kong. Did they pass a bailout, too??
Our futures have promptly shed about 100 points in losses as well over the last hour or so…
Bullshit Fly, Those fucking days are not gone at all. If you’re making money this market like I have been in currencies these are fucking salad days. Recession are fucking ace if you have money.
Sald days to me anyway if I keep this up
Gone are days of busy fucking airports full of (like Americans) fat fucking Australian holiday makers.
Gone are the days of having not getting any flights
Gone are the fucking days of stores charging full fucking price without fucking sales.
Gone are the days you had to wait a month to get into a decent fucking restaurant
gone are the days when hotels could charge a fucking arm and a leg
Gone are the day when Apple computer thinks it shit doesn’t stink and no discount.
Gone are the days when dickhead brokers thought they were smart because a stock went up
Gone are the days when a real estate broker tells you he has 3500 buyers for that shit box near the water
Gone are the days when couldn’t buy expensive wine at a discount.
Recession….. Bring it fucking on and fuck Main street or in my case the out burbs of the city where I live. I hppe this one is a humdinger of a recession. Poor people need to be taught a fucking lesson in terms of where they stand in the pecking order. Fuck’em all.
Gone are the days when I used to be able to stay awake after 9:00 PM as that is when Fly posts best and the resulting comments are A-1.
Gone are the days when the Fly had MoJo. I want ideas. I want witty retorts. I want the fly back on his game…not pathetic lamentations.
The sun is still going to rise, and the world is still going to turn. And so it goes….
Yeah my retirement account took a hit, but I still get paid the same amount and still spend the same amount as I use to.
IF I WAS ALIVE I”D SLAP YOUR FACES!
STOP YOUR BELLY ACHING!
BOOT UP! THIS IS AMERICA DAMMIT!
What is meant by the post is not belly aching… It’s meant to say ‘Times are a Changing’.
Was that Bob Dylan or the Byrds (something about Times are a Changing)?
but Bob Dohl from blackrock said we bottomed in march and abby cohen says we’re hitting 15k on the dow by the end of the year. gone are the optimist asshats that led many fools astray to believe everything was ok, fed intervention was good, Bear Stearns was a positive, and we bottomed in March. I’d like to have a show dedicated to identifying every moron money manager and analyst that said such things.
You sentimental phuckers give up too quickly. There are exciting days ahead as well. Who knows, maybe Becky Quick shows up at your doorstep, strips naked, and hops on your pecker.
My preference would be Michelle Caruso-Carbrera. She’s a real woman, not a stick figure with a whiny voice.
MOS POT MON
Death to frakenfoods
I bet Michelle is a latin freak in the bed.
FCX is going straight to zero!!!
Fly this is one of your worst trades of all time!
boca…
yes.
Well I take that back, WLT and FCX are neck and neck for the worst.
If BOOM breaks 22, 18 comin
MON is gonna be a sweet buy here soon.
All aboard shit eating organic food Luddit mofos!
(cough, cough BOOMER!, cough!)
MON is gonna be a sweet buy here soon.
All aboard shit eating organic food Luddite mofos!
(cough! cough! BOOMER!, cough!)
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Donny buys DIG @ 55.85
OK, Donny. Let us have it. What are you doing ?
Bring it ON Donny, my main man, you are unstoppable.
Donny: That is amazing, you read my mind and beat me by ONE minute.
Gone are the days when chitterlings was not a word that nobody knew.
Gone are the days when 50% of the meat section at the supermarket does not contain horse meat. 40% pork and only 10% beef.
I was absolutely amazed to get a small limit order on MON filled around $79. Very nice. Makes up for the fact that I stupidly sold it last year just before the big runup.
OMG!! C is down…. lifeboat has a leak … abandon ship …. whoap whoap whoap (siren sound)
Bob Toll on CNBC::: sold his $130M shares 2 1/2 years ago. Easy for him to say now is the Depression but it’s OK, it will get better again.
Jake you should get that cough looked at 🙂
Might be some esophageal cancer from drinking Posilac!
ACI just called, they are now paying you $20 per ton to haul away their dirty coal
buying a very very small position in DRYS. I’m waiting until it comes down to 25 to really buy a normal sized position.
It’s also hard not to like BNI. if it comes down some more, I might have to buy a small position here as well.
Mmmmmm…. Posilac! Smack! Smack!
Deeeeee-ricious!
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Boomer: Fuck the third world, let ’em eat worm turned soil burgers!
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Wait, when were these days that are gone now?
Chartchompers attend:
Take a look at GG from August 15th on.
Is that a reverse head and shoulders forming, or is this pressure I feel on my posterior a large purple hominid’s procreative organ?
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Grape Ape Rape!
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Jake:
It’s a reverse head and shoulders. You have the chart upside down. Wake up.
Just to review the original question, for the literate amongst you:
(On GG) Is that a reverse head and shoulders forming, or is this pressure I feel on my posterior a large purple hominid’s procreative organ?
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Gone are the days of the American middle class, the mega-rich elites raping our country’s wealth are sending us the way of Mexico.
Is it illegal for Americans to cross over into Mexico to look for jobs?
better hurry up and get that bill with all those hidden clauses and stuff through FAST! before people can actually take their time to make sure they get it right. Quick, there’ws a small small leak in the boat, lets panick, and put a 700 billion dollar bandaid over it, and forget about it completely.
Zen, almost. As of recently, they put the US on lockdown, and it’s illegal for people to go outside of north america to look for jobs and in the process take all their money with them. You have to leave your money behind.
Canada is okay, due to Nafta, and I would assume Mexico is too, but I haven’t looked into details.
It could be because this nation is in much worse shape financially than people realize, but also, it’s quite possibly the process of a one world ogovernment, and global domination, but I won’t get into conspiracy theories.
Jake, I would decide end of day. I’d like to see a close above 29.30 to call it an inverse H+S
And in reality, you need to see the stock BREAK ABOVE like 35 for the pattern to complete, as of right now, if you wanted to buy it here near close above 29.3, you’d be anticipating an inverse H+S, as it has not formed completely yet.
But it does look pretty good.
Just kidding Jake. Settle down.
Normally, you’d like to see the peak of the 2nd shoulder be HIGHER or the same as the first in an inverse H+S, and lower or the same on the H+S… but with the volitility as high as it is, it doesn’t concern me.
Thanks fellahs.
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Gone are the days of Mexicans hanging out in front of Home Depot looking for day work. Now its white guys.
Donny, i wanted to talk to you about yesterday…
Gone are the days when stuttering was for losers… obama does it, it must be cool.
I know my wife would not take to kindly to that “sex” remark yesterday.
I think this market is going to rally before the close.
Gone are the days of “The Fly” with five posts.
Gone are the days of champagne and two roasts.
Stick ye, to eating ‘nut butter and burnt toasts
Especially real estate owners — both coasts!
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Gone are the days of the strong and the bold
Back in their bunkers with their guns are they holed
Sniffing so covetously over their gold
Whilst “grasshoppers” knock plaintively, outside in the cold.
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For boca:
http://www.kogo.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=125548&article=4327770
Suspects Sought in Del Mar Bank Robbery
The three men are wanted for robbing the U.S. Bank on Via de la Valle Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Police say three men in Halloween masks sprayed tellers with pepper spray during the robbery at the U.S. Bank on Via de la Valle in Del Mar Tuesday.
The suspects were described as wearing dark-colored clothing and dark hooded sweatshirts, and left the scene in a beige or gold-colored car.
At least one bank employee was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The thieves entered the U.S. Bank branch office in the 2800 block of Via de la Valle about 4:30 p.m. and ordered employees into a vault, according to San Diego police.
They fled with an undisclosed amount of money, possibly in a beige or gold Pontiac Grand Am.
A witness said one of the robbers was carrying some sort of long, thin object, possibly a rifle or baton.
jeff immelt is an asshole
“Fuck You!” yelled the Fly (whom all here should thank).
“This shit is for free, and let’s all be frank!”
“There’s many on board here for whom coin I did bank!”
“Without me (let’s face it), you’d be covered in stank.”
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Police say three men in Halloween masks sprayed tellers with pepper spray during the robbery at the U.S. Bank.
Say “hello” to an extra ten years on your Federal prison sentence when you’re caught, asshat.
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Those guys won’t be caught.
All of the federales are dedicated to finding all of those evil Wall Street bankers who stole all of “our” money.
Thanks Market Fool, right on Via De La Valle, amazing.
I’m wondering if the Nasdaq will break 2000 today.
Slightly off topic, my book sales often give me an idea of what the general public is thinking about. This morning I sold a copy of “Stock Investing For Dummies”. You can’t make this stuff up.
I liked 10500, think I’ll go back for a bit.
Gone will be the days of the two party dictatorship.
Gone are the days of shorting stocks
Gone are the days when the little guy could make money
Gone is the site of alaska from my house!
Gone is my stock, my money and presteige.
Gone because the leverage brought me too my knees.
Gone are the days when I made the come back, in come the days when I’m on the street hustling crack
gone are the days of the gold digging wifes, gone are the days of my employers lives.
Gone is the Trump, the Mirage and the Wynn
Gone is Vegas, the city of sin.
Gone is the fun, with the money that I play
Gone is capitalism, like the hair under my toupee
Gone is the site of alaska from my house!
From your mouth to God’s ears, Ms. Palin.
The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
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I understand that the House will pass the bailout due to a provision to include government cheese in exchange for the toxic assets.
Gone is the misfortune cookie, but the misfortune stays
…gone is being considered regular people….now we are considered mainstreet.
…gone is my ability to day trade because the clearing house is screwing up my transactions. gone are the days that I would consider that a mere glitch in the system.
…gone are the days that a good credit score meant something. The circumstances for not paying your bills now are what? A bad credit score? I’m scared….it’s like using harsh language as a defense when someone has a bazooko pointed a your head.
All I hear is blah-blah-blah I’m a dirty tramp
Where’s my f-ing earplugs?
I figured this shit out. How could I be so stoopid?
This is the same old central banker rape that’s been going on for centuries. Inflate, expand debt, then deflate and seize all the worthless assets, repeat again.
The Goldman/Fed empire is on it’s biggest rape mission yet. Sure they’re milking Americans for what they have left, but they’re on a much bigger mission: kill the fucking Euro and screw China. Europe is in debt for generations, way worse than we are. Anyone making the Euro their reserve currency is crapping their pants in fear right now. This won’t stop until the Euro is defeated and Goldman hoovers up all the assets they sold to China for a humongous profit. Bailout happened when GS was looking into the abyss.
Thunderpup,
Yep, same ole shit. Diff’rent century.
Thunderous small dog speaks the truth!
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I’m taking a quick break and just had to check in.
Thunderpup is right. Our greedy fucking globalists in the U.S. trump all other countries greedy fucking globalists.
We rule!
USA! USA!
Back to the bailout……