Comments on: Wall Street circa 2008

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:10:08 +0000

I imagine soup kitchen stock is soaring…

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:08:09 +0000

That’s the wisest choice, but if a good deal comes aong, breaking a lease is a relatively small expense.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:04:37 +0000

*wails and sobs*

By: Chal

Chal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:52:26 +0000

Some of the greatest increases in the Dow occurred during the great depression. There’s just no stability and a general downward trend.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:26:37 +0000

One of my favorite jokes: (Just so we’re clear, I’m a country raised white boy)

What’s a redneck’s last words?

“Hey! Lookie what I can do!”

By: stevie w

stevie w — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:51:31 +0000

No, this is when the hyper-inflationary effects of the Fed creating $10,500,000,000,000 hits the markets. Spring 2009.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:47:42 +0000

Or, “Hey Bob, watch this!”

By: AtlasShrugged

AtlasShrugged — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:27:37 +0000

Is that Indiana in a refrigerator ?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:03:50 +0000

If you start getting more of my thoughts, get help, or at least REM suppressors.

I’m used to being in here with me and I’m not keen on it…

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:55:27 +0000

The metaphor I probably would have come up with is “circling the drain”, or “down the toilet”, but an explosion is much easier to represent with a visual image.

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:53:07 +0000

“(Of course he didn’t say Jersey, but a suburbian area, and I can’t think of any in the US”

New Jersey (in the US) is often referred to as “Jersey”, and a lot of my relatives live there, and at least some of them could be debatably considered “crazy ladies”, so you and the cartoonist were right, after all.

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:49:13 +0000

Assuming he still has a job (meant as a slam on the job market, not jules).

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:21:00 +0000

Ooooh, pretty! (As long as they aren’t coming towards you, I guess!) Thanks for posting that.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:29:09 +0000

Now that’s the best use of “in bed” I’ve seen yet! ; )

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:28:12 +0000

I spent about 2 years working in the Marshall Islands on Kwajalein, and while I didn’t get to see nukes going off, I have seen warheads coming in from California (click on name). It’s pretty damn cool to watch these coming in!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:27:47 +0000

That’s what *she* said. D’oh!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:24:41 +0000

Win!

By: Konamali

Konamali — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:42:21 +0000

um, in bed?

By: Orlana

Orlana — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:37:32 +0000

I certainly hope so. I was forced to buy a new car at the beginning of August and I work retail. All this talk about Depression is freaking me out because I know just how unstable my job is at this point. My company’s doing decently as far as I know and our share prices are slowly crawling upward, and I know my district is doing decently, but we’re about 20 stores out of roughly 750.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:37:22 +0000

that was possibly the only thing i liked while living in arizona. the storms at the horizon where the air was right so you could see all the lightning arcing around the clouds, but where you were it was still nice, maybe even sunny.
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As for the hiroshima/nagasaki thing. I suppose that’s why I stick to scientific tapes. wonderful footage and I’m terribly detached about it. It’s just that bomb, no attachments to the terrors of humanity. I can’t watch real explosions where terribly things happen to people and still have the same feeling.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:58:21 +0000

I’m sure the rates will be low for awhile, you should start looking a few months before your lease is up.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:56:53 +0000

I like watching things like tornadoes and lightning, extreme weather also can kill you but still so awesome to watch (from a distance!).

By: jules

jules — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:54:00 +0000

Hah! I love it!

By: jules

jules — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:52:02 +0000

I wish I could buy a house while it was this low. Unfortunately I signed a lease a few months ago.

By: Konamali

Konamali — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:25:44 +0000

I didn’t find it funny either, but only because it’s too easy, and it’s been done to death here.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:22:12 +0000

I agree, it has aesthetical beauty, but I can’t help but think about Hiroshima/Nagasaki when I see those films. I always have thoes double emotions about awe-inspiring weapons, though. Death looks good, but isn’t all that much fun, or something.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:57 +0000

When i did live out west we were travelling, i forget where, part of the southwest desert. there was a missile test area on the horizon, it was beautiful to watch the explosions at night from far away
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I do love watching the scientific tapes of the explosions, to just see the blast wave travelling over the ground, or seeing the initial wave hit a subject like a house and it just turns to dust, then on the backdraft disapears. pity they are so dangerous.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:43 +0000

I was just wondering how close you can safely get to one, they must have some sort of mechanism for getting those photos… I can’t imagine it would be safe to stand so close.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:13:03 +0000

Funny!

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:12:15 +0000

Oops! Wrong button!! (might have been a good alternate caption)

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:11:24 +0000

I know, I’ve always thought it would have been amazing to live out west when they were doing the testing. Of course I’d probably be dead from some bizarre cancer from the fallout….so there’s a downside. I would love to have been able to see it, though.

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:09:58 +0000

If it would just go up and stay up…

By: ema

ema — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:09:19 +0000

I think you’re right and that’s a real nice photo of one.

By: charro

charro — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:08:17 +0000

That was very chuckle-worthy. I agree.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:58:54 +0000

Hehe, yes. )
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There’s a Swedish cartoonist who made something like this once – you see a mushroom cloud and in the foreground a somewhat shoddy living area, and the caption is:
That “crazy” lady up in Jersey who keeps everything in control, suddenly lets go.
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(Of course he didn’t say Jersey, but a suburbian area, and I can’t think of any in the US, at all. P Anway, that cartoonist is great, all his work is a bit like lol captions, and often somewhat absurd. One sample: http://www.art-bin.com/art/gjan8.html )

By: mothergoose

mothergoose — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:49:34 +0000

That one kind of reminds me of those “famous last words” jokes…”Hey, what’s this button do?”

By: Gnome

Gnome — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:38:20 +0000

Perhaps it should be Detroit as well!

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:31:53 +0000

See now, that one was quite, quite chuckleworthy. )

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:29:08 +0000

There were so many better captions for this one. Link in name to what a friend of mine had to say about it.

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:15:59 +0000

It’s a shame nukes are so dangerous. The mushroom cloud from a big one is one of the most majestic things created by man.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:15:03 +0000

My very first thought was “I wish”. P

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:14:10 +0000

I thought it was wishful thinking…

By: ack154

ack154 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:10:11 +0000

I find it amusing that the day this makes it on the front page, the DOW is up over 100 pts (as of this typing anyway).

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:08:08 +0000

However, disregarding my trollz-tourism, I didn’t really find this funny. Maybe it’s because, while it’s an exaggeration, it isn’t figuratively speaking that much of an exaggeration?

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:04:27 +0000

Not funny. Too soon. ( (