You know I’m not the religious type, so it’s no midnight mass for Le Casa del Fly. However, there will be festivities. Aside from the seafood and wine, friends and family will gather around and tell tales of joy. If there is anything to be extracted from X-mas, aside from presents, it is to appreciate the limited time we have with loved ones. I knows it sounds very cliche and I’m not into that sort of thing. But, if you are busy like I am, you know how special a few days of blissful peace is with the kids.
I offer you three things on this Xmas, 2011.
1. I offer my services for another year, to help guide you through the coming nuclear detonations. You have my word, I will be here, for good or bad, with lots of shit to say.
2. I offer you this song and video, the only Christmas song worth listening to.
3. I offer Santa Norad to your children or immature adults who still wait up for Santa Claus.
Believe it Not: I prided myself as being pretty street smart as a youngster. However, I somehow got suckered into believing in Santa until I was mortified by my 4th grade teacher.
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I need cocaine in 2012
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Krokodil may be the answer.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-junkies-2300787.html
If you are hard up for blow (you know that shot will kill ya?) or any thing else you want (or need) can try this:
SilkRoad the website, is the place.
Only if you are very computer savvy.
You will need to get the Tor anonymizing software, because it’s deliberately forgettable URL is useless in your browser.
Once you find it, you can get just about anything you want. From fish scale pink Peruvian, to an entry letter from Harvard, to an M-16.
Also, you can’t use PayPal or an ATM or credit card, you’ll have to find out how to get Bitcoins (an unregulated virtual currency) to purchase anything.
Did I mention you can find ANYTHING there?
Good Luck.
Merry Christmas Senor Fly. As long as your blog continues, it’s always Christmas around here.
Kids today don’t believe in Santa because they read that he’s fake on the internet. Thanks Fly, for ruining another kids dreams.
Santa is likely empowered as a group thought form, also known as a tulpa. Which means he’s not something that can be “un-believed” in. Similarly, one cannot “un-believe” Obama, whereby he simply goes away.
You can kill Obama, but you can never kill Santa
Kill OSama– not obama.
Fly will be getting a request for your IP address very soon … GLWT!
how special a few days of blissful peace is with the kids.
hahaha … blissful peace and kids? oxymoron much? ..very funny… no, I am child free but appreciate the quiet after the roar of the chestnuts and the screams of the white tailed deer in a dreamy snowfall subside:)
Merry Christmas Neighbor Fly and all at iBC.
We will be dining on Christmas Day with the Greenbaums at the Chinese restaurant with the singing waiters. I have been practicing my Christmas carols- “Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra.”
Neighbor, I will bring you back some Kung Pao chicken and some Buddha’s delight.
The best to you and yours Mr. Fly. I have prepared a Blogger Network post at your request. While it may not live up to your gramatical standards I hope it is informative. Be well and cheers.
At age 7 I stayed up to catch the bastard in the act, just in case I could stab him with a fire poker and take his bag of infinite gifts for myself, having been sorely disappointed with my loot the year prior. Catching my parents red-handed was enough to ruin the next two X-mases.
Merry Christmas Fly. Too bad you stopped believing in Santa. Or more accurately, too bad your fourth grade teacher did. I needed to set another 49 year old father straight yesterday.
It’s never too late to believe again in Santa.
Glad you’ll be around for another year. Have benefited greatly from your insights and ideas. Merry Xmas and New Year to you and yours.
Just talk to Santa. He told starting next week everything is going, and I quote: “Fucking Higher”. HO HO HO
Merry Christmas to all!
I hope everyone can take the time to slow down a little and truly appreciate what The Fly mentioned …. time with loved ones is indeed limited. Don’t take it for granted, and be thankful to the deity of your choice for the good things you have, however meager they may sometimes seem to be in our material world.
Merry X-Mas Ibc. From Morro Bay, until ToMorroW.
Merry Christmas, Le Fly. May all prophesies come to fruition and may the sweet, sweet children of Norway never know another day without butter. (Just don’t steal it from my fra-re-fr-ra-fridgerator).
And there’ll be no more toymakers to the King, either!
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If you look into the Norway butter shortage, you will find that their butter is produced via central planning and imports are severely restricted. As the former Soviet Union discovered, central planning doesn’t provide timely delivery of needed products; rather, it provides chronic shortages and long lines of desperate buyers. Adopt Soviet methodologies, get Soviet results.
Some say The Fly is really the Spirit of Christmas Present, I among them.
Merry Christmas to all at iBC.
This one goes out to you German fuckers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAMu36IoPU&feature=related
So how old we’re you when your 4th grade teacher told you? 17?
j/k Master
Can’t wait for the next year to begin!
There is nothing more warmer and fuzzier than roasting your nuts on an open fire!
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year!
Cheers!
Merry Christmas Fly,
I believed into the fourth grade too and argued with very kid who told me he didn’t exist.
A Christmas remix for the ages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF3cRi8bkA
Merry Christmas Fly, God bless you
There have been Christmas displays in Department Stores and Malls since BEFORE Thanksgiving. Is it too much to ask that we at least get Thanksgiving over and done with before being bludgeoned with all of the commercialism that “Christmas” has now become?
The “true meaning of Christmas” has been lost long ago!
Christmas has become just another “marketing gimmick” where people are willing to camp out for a week for the opportunity to buy some stupid pair of Jordan “vintage” Nike sneakers…or, beat you senseless and steal the pair your dumb fuckin’ ass just waited in line a week to buy!
We’ve seen it all before. Pet Rocks, Pokeman, Cabbage Patch Dolls…
Merry Christmas!
Bah! Humbug!
merry xmas ibankcoin. real busy passing out the holiday cheer as usual. america loves the holidays.
Christmas is an opportunity. Make it as good as it can be for the people you are near. Enjoy the day.
All the best to all. This is one of the best posts, especially about loved ones. Also, Thank You, Mr Le Fly, for writing in the most ponient writing style about market, people and life.
Merry Christmas, IBC people.
Mr Fly: I love and appreciate this site, and have been reading it almost every day since 2008. Thank you!
merry christmas and god bless, hope your holliday bring you joy and happiness.
Merry Xmas Fly. My wish for 2012 is that I escape the “You are Banned” chop that you hand out with gusto.
There is something missing from the 3 gifts from Bronx afar. But, that’s for another time and certainly another and different place.
Fly posted a most preeminent version of Nat King Cole’s performance.
Here are two more YouTube links of interesting versions, apart from Cole’s hit recording we all know so well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wXA6Lj5aLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjWQmtgxbMU&feature=related
3 Important Times in a Man’s Life.
1. He believes in Santa.
2. He doesn’t believe in Santa.
3. He becomes Santa.
Merry Christmas!
I think that completed a thought I was attempting earlier this week.
Blind, it worked well for my 10 year old, who unfortunately has miscreants at school with him. He asked me about a week ago if Santa was real.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all who read, contribute to and troll this egregiously magnificent site.
Even those who have been banned in a terminal manner.
Here’s hoping we all survive the coming year and the SHTF moment we all know is coming at some point. When that happens, relationships, friendships and “band of brothers” type partnerships will indeed matter more than bank accounts. May we all have taken the time to form those deep bonds of soul to soul friendship.
As for me and my family, we chose to remember the reason for the season. Without that, there really is no rationale for hope and meaning.
Dear Broker A, you have been an insightful wordsmith and charmer since before IBC and continue to be the best of these here internets, indued. The knowledge of space and time you share with us, the unwashed, is a Santa like gift you give all year long. In this season of Miracles may God Bless you and yours and provide you with another year of godly advice to his legion of followers.
Happy Holidays to all that visit this House of Fly, even those under 25 and over 47.5, but especially the staff, tabbed bloggers and regulars that make all of this possible to be the best Market Community in the World.
The birthday of Jesus is certainly a reason for everyone to celebrate. It’s not often that an enlightened being rises to such prominence in society, and functions as a living example of how to be in the world.
Yes, you’d think more people would take advantage of such an opportunity.
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Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays, to LeFly and everyone on the site.
Believing in Santa is not so bad. Santa is a metaphor for hope and joyful anticipation and good will toward others. And excitement over wonderful things that may happen in days to come.
Really, metaphorically speaking, Santa is one of the best ideas to happen to humanity.
Brilliant.
Le Fly is by far the best writer on the internet. Merry Christmas to everyone who writes for this wonderful blog.
How can you say Santa isn’t real, but then post a live NORAD tracking device on Santa?
Tell that to the kids in Australia that just received a visit from old St Nick.
By the way, don’t forget to watch the greatest Christmas movie of all time tonight… A Wonderful Life
Merry Christmas Fly!
Thanks for another great year Fly and crew!
Still the best site on the interwebs.
All my best to you and yours, Fly, for the holidays. It’s been a great ride on iBC for two years now, and I look forward to many more even though I’ve been largely out of the market and too busy to partake in recent months.
thanks to all for sharing ideas, psychological gyrations ANE MORE!
merry xmas.
Senor Fly, all the best to you and yours.
Just Fo Mo days for this market to give it back, in a Santa sort of way. I figure since I loaded up on DECK Friday, that it should see $100 by the end of the week.
Also, a jolly good time, and Happy New Year, to ChessnWine, RaginCajun, JakeGint, and I.T. Jeremy, and all you others who keep things humming around here!
Peace.
I forgot, I also bot GSVC at 14.01 (I should have bought some sooner)
Oh yeah, and I locked in a 30 year home refi @ 3.87%
Hoe Hoe Hoe!
http://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network19496.html
le fly whats your opinion on that?
My Dear Fly,
A lot has transpired since I emailed you from rural western China more than 4 years ago.
Your site has matured and developed into a sustainable business. I admire and respect you for your tireless effort and the ensuing success. Glad your not the religious type. It’s a big a hustle; but what isn’t? I was shattered to find Santa was a mythological figure as is dog (misspelled).
In closing I wish you new inspiration, new awareness and peace in 2012 and beyond
mike
I humbly offer the IBC version of the Christmas song with apologies to Mr Cole;
Chex Mix roasting in the microwave,
A line of blow up in my nose,
You Tube playa’s belting out a good rave,
While folks in blue blazers got no dough….
Everybody knows some turkey’s gonna bring his ho,
She’ll show them how to do it right,
Zecco traders with their screens all aglow, will find it hard to bank coin tonight.
They know that Fly is on the way,
his “sled” is loaded with things that are not gay,
and every piker’s gonna stay up to spy,
to see if the Time Machine really truly flies,
And so I’m offering this simple phrase,
To kids from forty seven and a half to twenty five….
Although it’s been said many times on these interwebs…….
f.i.g., …and that’s no jive.
Nat King Cole’s version of Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song” is pretty good, but it’s not even close to the best Christmas song sung by a pop singer (I’m leaving out the best shit, which is Bach’s Christmas Cantatas).
You want close to heaven? You gotta get Johnny’s “Holy Night.”
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The Christmas Song Indeud!!!
May you continue to roast the chestnuts of your foes good Doctor … Merry Christmas to Le Fly and iBC!
Merry Christmas to my friend the Fly, and his faithful cohort Jeremy, not to mention my fellow bloggers, Woody, Rage, Scotty, Cain, Chess and Green-Cronkite.
Perhaps it’s metaphorical, that this Middle Eastern kid was said to be born on this bleak mid-winter day, as a sign unto us that hope can break through even the frosty despair of a hardened heart.
Perhaps.
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Don’t let the kids remember the reason for the celebration.
Forget, lol…
I offer you Billy Squier and the MTV crew singing “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You” in the 1980’s:
http://youtu.be/fzYa5Z1VNnY
Enjoy the VHS transfer and 80’s hair styles.
=^.^=
Nice flashback video.
Here is one from the UK- Wherever You Are by Military Wives-tear jerker warning.
http://youtu.be/0hR6O7VxKaQ
Very touching, very nice.
I find all the DECK love to be puzzling. The P/S ratio alone is an alarm bell for bulls. For Christ’s sake, it’s a shoe company. CROX circa 2007? Are bulls fighting the tape? What does the PPT calculator say about DECK? Is somebody expecting hedge funds to step in and buy the crap out of this stock, just because it dipped?
Merry Christmas senior Fly may you and your family be blessed with great stock picks in 2012. I appreciate that you have given us the PPT the gift that keeps giving.
If you didn’t get what you wanted….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4RQyzypiKQ
Happy Holidays!!! Stores were packed on Friday…maybe there is hope for us all.
Merry Christmas Everyone !
Raging Rudolph, Scorcese Style:
http://youtu.be/icjh6wGUUfE
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That is awesome.
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Behold, the HFT software for black box trading:
http://www.amib.com.mx/appUsuario/Publicaciones/Presentaciones/4_Progress.pdf
Scary, but true.
Looks like we can all just sit back and read a book after getting that system running.
(BTW — you should provide a “download warning” before posting links w. automatic downloads like that. If I find a virus on my computer I will know who we need to perma-ban)
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got a great deal on a christmas tree today! i will be throwing out the biggest tree on the block
How’d you get it on the boat?
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