Please dont mention Bear Stearns

[oraclesmith]

Naked bottom?

....some muscles and a leather jacket !!!

[Diver]

....some muscles and a leather jacket !!!

Sasguru???

[bogeyman]

Walking around the Square Mile this morning, looking for my usual chopped liver and bacon sandwich, I noticed a few stearn-looking bears huddling in the corners around the entrance to Liverpool Street station.

I couldn't really tell, but I had the feeling that they had a few sharp financial instruments in their pockets, so I didn't hang around and rapidly skittered over to the sunny side of the Houndsditch.

After following some well-stockinged, clickety-clakety totty down to St. Mary Axe, I tripped across a huddle of sad, soggy stearn bears who had obviously been out all night in the rain.

Normally I would have danced upon my way like Fred A. but this morning it was different. A sad little stearn bear grabbed at my trouser cuffs and coughed: "I'm dying mate - help me".

"OK" I said, what can I do? Do you want a bite of my sarney?

"Don't be so familiar", the bear retorted - "and what's your net worth anyway? - I'm a very stearn and important bear you know".

"Well sod you then" I said. I have an appointment in the West End with a Bear whose only requirement is marmalade sandwiches."

"Oh God. No! Sorry, I'm such an utter banker" said the bear.

I enquired "didn't you used to be 'George, the Hofmeister Bear' in the 1980's?

"Yes, mate, that was me!" he gasped, I could have been a contender!

He pointed to a thing on the pavement that looked like a cow pat and proudly announced "that used to be my hat, that". "Hurh hurh follow the bear, init".

I called an ambulance, but he died on the way.

[Bear]

Walking around the Square Mile this morning, looking for my usual chopped liver and bacon sandwich, I noticed a few stearn-looking bears huddling in the corners around the entrance to Liverpool Street station.

I couldn't really tell, but I had the feeling that they had a few sharp financial instruments in their pockets, so I didn't hang around and rapidly skittered over to the sunny side of the Houndsditch.

After following some well-stockinged, clickety-clakety totty down to St. Mary Axe, I tripped across a huddle of sad, soggy stearn bears who had obviously been out all night in the rain.

Normally I would have danced upon my way like Fred A. but this morning it was different. A sad little stearn bear grabbed at my trouser cuffs and coughed: "I'm dying mate - help me".

"OK" I said, what can I do? Do you want a bite of my sarney?

"Don't be so familiar", the bear retorted - "and what's your net worth anyway? - I'm a very stearn and important bear you know".

"Well sod you then" I said. I have an appointment in the West End with a Bear whose only requirement is marmalade sandwiches."

"Oh God. No! Sorry, I'm such an utter banker" said the bear.

I enquired "didn't you used to be 'George, the Hofmeister Bear' in the 1980's?

"Yes, mate, that was me!" he gasped, I could have been a contender!

He pointed to a thing on the pavement that looked like a cow pat and proudly announced "that used to be my hat, that". "Hurh hurh follow the bear, init".

I called an ambulance, but he died on the way.

nutter!

[milanbenes]

well if the experts get it wrong what hope do the rest of us have ?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...OL0&refer=home

'Joseph Lewis, Bear Stearns's second-largest shareholder, has spent more than $1 billion on the firm's stock since September, paying as much as $150 a share. Lewis, a 71-year-old billionaire, wasn't planning to reduce his stake, a person close to him said March 11. He's now entitled to $22 million of JPMorgan shares.

'

Milan.

[KathyWoolfe]

Walking around the Square Mile this morning, looking for my usual chopped liver and bacon sandwich, I noticed a few stearn-looking bears huddling in the corners around the entrance to Liverpool Street station.

I couldn't really tell, but I had the feeling that they had a few sharp financial instruments in their pockets, so I didn't hang around and rapidly skittered over to the sunny side of the Houndsditch.

After following some well-stockinged, clickety-clakety totty down to St. Mary Axe, I tripped across a huddle of sad, soggy stearn bears who had obviously been out all night in the rain.

Normally I would have danced upon my way like Fred A. but this morning it was different. A sad little stearn bear grabbed at my trouser cuffs and coughed: "I'm dying mate - help me".

"OK" I said, what can I do? Do you want a bite of my sarney?

"Don't be so familiar", the bear retorted - "and what's your net worth anyway? - I'm a very stearn and important bear you know".

"Well sod you then" I said. I have an appointment in the West End with a Bear whose only requirement is marmalade sandwiches."

"Oh God. No! Sorry, I'm such an utter banker" said the bear.

I enquired "didn't you used to be 'George, the Hofmeister Bear' in the 1980's?

"Yes, mate, that was me!" he gasped, I could have been a contender!

He pointed to a thing on the pavement that looked like a cow pat and proudly announced "that used to be my hat, that". "Hurh hurh follow the bear, init".

I called an ambulance, but he died on the way.

[KathyWoolfe]

who let you out? I thought the cell next to mine was quiet.

I didn't say a word

[BrilloPad]

well if the experts get it wrong what hope do the rest of us have ?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...OL0&refer=home

'Joseph Lewis, Bear Stearns's second-largest shareholder, has spent more than $1 billion on the firm's stock since September, paying as much as $150 a share. Lewis, a 71-year-old billionaire, wasn't planning to reduce his stake, a person close to him said March 11. He's now entitled to $22 million of JPMorgan shares.

'

Milan.

ex-billionaire.

How do you becoma a millionaire? Start as a billionaire and buy a bank.

[BrilloPad]

apparently if BS had not been taken over, they would have filed for bankruptcy today.

[BrilloPad]

and their bonus this year was 80% stock!

So just last few days has seen its worth go from 30$ to 2$. ouch!