Showing posts with label Buyout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buyout. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

DON'T MAKE BAD INVESTMENTS!!!


The lady (or effeminate man) in this picture cannot be the only person around with $89 burning a hole in their pockets. I imagine some of you are in the same position. Well, don't fall victim to the same poor investment practices that are ass raping everybody else in the market. Let's go through some things that you should not be investing in.


SCISSORS!

Don't invest in scissors! It's 2008, people, and as we progress towards a paperless society, the only people the will be left out in the cold before paper manufacturers are scissor manufacturers. The scissors sector has already begun to see minor losses, but expect that to just be the tip of the iceberg. Ha. I said just the tip.

Paper may still play a minor role in the future, but you can guaran-damn-tee yourselves that scissors won't. Seriously, if there isn't too much paper floating around, how many people do you think are going to be cutting it into various shapes? And the luxury scissors divisions? Yeah. Right. TOAST. People will be scraping by on old scissors for most of the foreseeable future and we'll be lucky if the climate is decent enough for one scissor manufacturer to beat the others and stick around to handle the dwindling scissor demand.

So, please, do not invest in the scissors market.


WIZARDRY

Please, people, stay out of wizardry. Sure, it may have been big at one point. But don't fall back on the feeling that magic and the coolness of wizard robes will always be around to stay. The economy has been hitting wizards harder than most, and thus they cannot afford to use their wands and cast a spell to right their financial ship.

Wizardry has always been a niche market, and very few wizards-in-training these days are finding both the time and the effort necessary to work a second job in order to support their wizardry. Thus, very few of these guys are able to make Full Wizard unless they come from a wealthy family of wizards that was willing to invest in them.

And, please, don't be swayed by the Wizards for Obama movement. This hollow message is just an attempt by wizards to sway people into making investments, as neither an Obama nor a McCain presidency is going to do anything positive for their craft.


Don't believe the hype, people.


THE STOCK MARKET IN GENERAL

Avoid things like "stocks", and "funds", and anything else of the sort. You'll probably lose more money investing in them than you would in both scissors and wizardry combined. The market has shown how it reacts to adversity, and the overwhelming response is curl up in a fetal position. The Dow Jones index has recently been laying all over Wall Street like a broad. And you don't invest in anything that lays anywhere like a broad. But you know that, right?

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But don't get down on the economy, there are plenty of places you can put your money that should not only be safe, but could also be hugely profitable. Let's look at a few of these.


JEANS

Jeans are making a big time comeback here. Jeans are cool again. Have you seen the Brett Favre Wrangler commercials? Athletic jeans! Jeans aren't just for rodeos anymore. All kind of athletes are wearing jeans in sport these days...not just Favre.







So there you have it. Invest in jeans.


MANATEES

These fat fucking sea cows...as more people catch on to the benefits of mass manatee rape, we will have more manatee products available in the market.

Manatee flavored popsicles!

Manatee sandwiches!

Decorative manatees!

The interior of this car?


STRAIGHT MANATEE SEATS, PLAYER!


So, to beat Joe Hedgefunds this season, you know what to do. Take your money out of scissors, wizardry, and the stock market, and throw it all into jeans and manatees. It's failproof, yo.

Friday, October 10, 2008

OMG, crisis!!!

Omg_jim_kramer

OMG! OMG folks, that's all I can say. OMFG. This is so much worse than Bear Stearns, this is like if Bear Stearns had not only collapsed but had done so while burning swastikas into newborn kittens. Bear Stearns was just a closet-gay congressman enjoying a high school wrestling tournament compared to this clusterfuck of dicks in asses that we have going on right now. I'm not even sure where to begin. That market is taking a nosedive like a dollar bill at Michael Irvin's house. But people, we have to remain calm. Let's open the lines...caller?

Vinceyoung

Hey, Jim.

Omg_jim_kramer

Caller what is your name? What do you do? What are you doing with your money?

Vinceyoung

My name's Vince. I have a pretty good job, man. Professional athlete. So I have a lot of money to like, put into the market, right? Or should I just keep it in my dresser like I do now? I mean, all of the guys on the team are trying to get me to invest my money so I get like, dividends and shit, but...ah, fuck it, man. I don't really care. They still payin' me and shit. I'm just gonna quit thinking about stocks.

*hangs up*

0205cramer

This man is crazy! Sir, are you insane? Sir...SIR!?!?!?! GET HIM BACK ON THE PHONE!

Vinceyoung

Yo, this Vince.

0205cramer

Vince, do you even realize what you are saying? I know the economy is bad but you can still make money if you are smart with your investments and you watch them like a HAWK!!! You have to do something with your money! You aren't going to be able to be an athlete forever! You need a portfolio!

Vinceyoung

Man, what's a folder going to do for me?

0205cramer

No, an investment portfolio, Vince! Vince, Vince, Vince...you can't just go around spending all of your money while you are young! Haven't you talked to anyone about managing your assets?

Vinceyoung

Yeah, I mean, this dude Kerry tried to set me up with his guy, but I don't trust that dude. Why's he all trying to get up in my life and shit, you know? He gave me some information about investments, but...I mean, I started reading it and...I just don't care, man. Whatever. I gotta go play some PS3.

Omg_jim_kramer

VINCE!?!? Do you even hear yourself? You are talking crazytalk! It's like you are speaking in retarded tongues! Stay on the line, I can't allow you do this to yourself!!!


Vinceyoung

Dude, you are the crazy one. Listen man, I've got to back to my franchise. I've got the Ravens coming up and I'm not benched in Madden. I mean, I was playing alright and I just...eh, whatever. I don't even care. If he wants to bench me, whatever.

Omg_jim_kramer

DON'T HANG UP!!!!!

Vinceyoung

Dude, you gots to calm down. What are you even talking about with this crisis stuff? I just looked outside and everything looks fine. Well...I didn't actually look outside, I just imagined that it was fine. I don't really care enough to actually...fuck, 'cuz! Lendale fumbled! I gotta use a rewind...I turned off rewinds? Fuck it, I'm turning this shit off. Why are you still talking to me, crazy dude?

Omg_jim_kramer

I'm trying to get you focused on your investments!!!


Vinceyoung

Alright, fine. I've got a few million or so laying around, I think. I mean, I could just...fuck it, dude. I don't even care. Gotta go, Ninja Turtles is on.

*hangs up*

Omg_jim_kramer

THIS GUY IS FUCKING CRAZY!!!!!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fed to buy out Max Starks' contract


WASHINGTON - The federal government allocated a portion of the recent $700 billion buyout Wednesday by purchasing the $7 million contract of tackle Max Starks from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Starks will continue to play for the Steelers in the private sector, however, he will officially be considered to be a government employee. "It's going to lead to a contract of interest, I imagine", said analyst Emmitt Smith. "You've got all of these representators in Congress from all over the country that route for differing teams. I would bet dollar-flavored donuts that some of them will try to influenza Starks' play".

Senator and Steelers fan Joe Biden (D-Delaware) disagreed. "I take a train to Washington every day. And I talk to people on that train about Max Starks, and I ensure them that we will not be meddling in Max Starks' affairs." Still, not all are happy about acquiring this debt. "Have you seen Max Starks play?", asked Dick Lugar (R-Indiana). "He fucking sucks. This is a terrible debt. We actually expect Max Starks to play his way into a long-term deal that we can somehow make this money back on? Max Starks couldn't block Steven Hawking in the Everglades."

Still, head of the Treasury's Office of Financial Stability Neel Kashkari defends the move. "We are buying up bad debts, bad debts between irresponsible people and shortsighted institutions. And I haven't found a debt yet that exemplifies this better than this terrible contract between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Max Starks". Pressed to elaborate, Kashkari simply remarked, "seriously...what the fuck were they thinking?".