Bonus Round: Which Investment Bank, Until Recently, Asked This Very Question Of All Would-Be Employees?

Posted by Bess Levin, May 14, 2008, 11:53am

doyourecognizethisstatue.JPGFeeling a little stupid or slow on the uptake lately? Kicking yourself for not seeing that subprime shitstorm coming from a mile away? Having belated regrets about keeping the lion’s share of your life’s savings in your employer Bear Stearns’ stock? Recognizing that going to that bridge tourney and refusing to take calls while the company you were supposed to be in charge of was pissing blood probably wasn’t the most prudent business decision you could have made? Have we got the pick me up for you—head on over to accounting firm MarksPaneth’s website and see if you can solve the brain buster they’ve laid on the table. I'm confident that most if not all of you can solve the puzzle, and guarantee it'll improve your sense of self-worth and, contrary to what everyone in the world thinks of you and your Wall Street colleagues right now, prove that you are not an idiot.


Is It... Italian Freedom Fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi? [Animal]

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Posted by Anal_yst, May 14, 2008 11:59AM

Saw this on the train last week, and that isn't even the dumbest one...I'll see if I can get a pic of some others

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:03PM

I bet every male trader/associate/analyst of Japanese ancestry knew what was in the pixelated image within a nanosecond.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:04PM

@12:03-- ya think?

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:04PM

@anal_yst...they're on the MarksPaneth site. ridic.

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 12:13PM

I don't get it. What is the point to this ad campaign?

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:17PM

to make you feel smart, blndebnker

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 12:22PM

@12:17pm - Well golly shucks wouldn't you know it worked.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:33PM

oh oh statute of liberty

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Posted by golden girl, May 14, 2008 12:46PM

I feel like I've interviewed some schmucks who wouldn't know the answer to this.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 12:56PM

I know some guys at Merrill who wouldn't recognize a DCF if it bit them on the ass, so this picture is probably a bit of a challenge for them.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 1:03PM

I'll bet this was the nock out question in the Bear interview process.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 1:26PM

Why is there a blurry picture of a statue of Vikram Pandit on an accounting website?

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 1:37PM

@ 1:03...i'm guessing you were 'nocked' out earlier for spelling errors on your resume

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 1:45PM

Know your audience. The LIRR crowd is not that swift. You would never see this on Metro North or NJ Transit.

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Posted by Anal_yst, May 14, 2008 2:14PM

Actually @ 1:45 it is on NJ Transit. Sigh...

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 2:38PM

@1:45 here. Another example of how irony doesn't translate well into text. I was joshing about the intellect of LIRR riders. (Hit a nerve anal? Seem to recall you have relatives in Bayside; that probably means more tribe out further east. No need to be sensitive. None of us can choose our families or where we're from). Anyway, the real answer is of course that everyone knows what the bull is and all MarksPaneth cares about is generating web hits. That said though, this week I saw another reference to this bull being in front of 140 Bwy. Wrong, there is of course another famous piece of street furniture at 140: the big orange cube. But certainly no bull.

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 2:45PM

Does anyone know what NJ Transit line it's been seen on? That could explain some things.

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Posted by Anal_yst, May 14, 2008 2:51PM

confirmed on montclair-boonton line and whatever line goes through short-hills (morris-boonton?)

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Posted by american bandersnatch, May 14, 2008 2:52PM

they're on the dover train line. as i sit there, wondering where the hell I went wrong, i wonder which are worse: these ads or the ones where Joe Torre explains the similarities between managing a pro baseball team and choosing JHCohen as an accounting firm.

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Posted by american bandersnatch, May 14, 2008 2:54PM

both the gladstone and morristown lines run through short hills

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:00PM

how big a loser do you have to be to know what trains go where in NJ?

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 3:02PM

Interesting. I would think those are some of the smarter lines.

@2:52pm hahaha that's awesome. I wonder where I went wrong when I stand adjacent to the adds on the PATH asking me to donate my eggs.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:08PM

@bb--i'd be happy to play hide and seek with your eggs and my sperm.

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Posted by girl, May 14, 2008 3:12PM

The only adverts I see on the subway say something to the effect of

"trabajo para los que no hablan ingles - $ 10 estadounidense cada hora"

and i get that fuzzy feeling that i've done something right.

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Posted by Anal_yst, May 14, 2008 3:14PM

@ AB
hahaha I've also wondered about those, namely, how desperate Torre is for $ (guess he had the same addiction as Spitzer?)

@3:00
I dunno some of us might be from/have family in/unfortunately have to do stuff in NJ?

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Posted by golden girl, May 14, 2008 3:17PM

What are you guys doing on the trains anyway? Don't tell me you are ... gasp ... commuters!?

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:21PM

Don't you know, everybody is originally from NJ. Its like everyones dirty little secret.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:25PM

@3:21 Thank you, the great cultural mystery has been solved! This explains why eveything is so fucked up.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:33PM

@3:21 Not everyone. girl, as I recall, is from IL. Like Obama. That may be why things are f-u.

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Posted by girl, May 14, 2008 3:39PM

@ 3:33, good memory on you little one

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 3:54PM

I'm surprised that the "Guy from Delaware" and the "Other guy from Delaware" haven't chimed in by now to let us know that they're from Delaware.

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 3:57PM

@3:21pm - It's so true.

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Posted by blndebnker, May 14, 2008 3:59PM

And btw if anyone wants to pick on a terrible state, Delaware would be a good choice.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 4:09PM

Don't mess with Texas!

~Jimmy Krack Corn, East Texas Gas Trader

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 5:17PM

guest@3:54PM...

I'm still here. Haven't posted for a while, just monitered the drone from time to time.

blndebnkr@3:59PM...

What the fuck do you know about Delaware? Last I saw, you couldn't decide between "douchebag" and "dimwit" as your new moniker.

The Guy from Delaware

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Posted by Anal_yst, May 14, 2008 5:29PM

@ Guy From Delaware

I don't think you're exactly helping your case buddy.

Also, do you remember that scene in Wayne's World, when they "go" to Delaware? Yea...

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Posted by american bandersnatch, May 14, 2008 5:35PM

Gotta give Delawarians credit. They're smart enough to fund a big portion of their state budget by charging high tolls for driving the 3 miles across their state when you want to get from NJ to MD or vica versa. Any they seem to get the rest of it by being the place to domicile. Now if only Wilmington wasn't a soul-sucking wasteland that my firm makes me visit 4 times a year.

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 6:11PM

BB - Now that wasn't very nice!

The Other Guy From Delaware

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Posted by guest, May 14, 2008 6:12PM

Anal_Yst@5:29PM...

I don't have a case that requires help. Also I don't watch trash movies like Wayne's World. They are for you to watch.

absnatch@5:35PM...

There must be something important in Wilmington for your firm. Otherwise they wouldn't pay your bus fare.

The Guy from Delaware

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Posted by counterclockwise, May 14, 2008 6:22PM

@3:54pm -- Why did you have to bring up the Names That Must Not Be Spoken? It's like postings supporting a certain Presidential candidate who's a Congressman/obstetrician from Houston. Don't bring up TGFD or TOGFD and perhaps they (or he) won't feel compelled to reappear.

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Posted by Investorcluzo, May 14, 2008 8:57PM

@cc - you're confusing the TGFD and TOGFD with your acronyms, didn't you see that hsbc cut all that out...

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Posted by counterclockwise, May 15, 2008 12:03AM

Hey, Cluzo! Consider: if I'm confusing TGFD and TOGFD with my acronyms, isn't that a good thing?

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Posted by guest, May 15, 2008 2:34AM

CC=a**hole

The Other Guy From Delaware. Of course!!!

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Posted by guest, May 15, 2008 3:19AM

Yo, cc...boy. You're not confusing anyone from Delaware with your fancy acronyms, putz.

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Posted by guest, May 15, 2008 8:20AM

Everyone likes Delaware.

yet another guy from Delaware

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Posted by guest, May 15, 2008 8:43AM

Curse those damn pixelated images and the instinctive masturbation response they elicit. They should be banned from public transport, especially on the morning commute. And, um, excuse me, I have to change into my emergency pants. Hope I didn't leave them at my PA's apartment again.

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Posted by Covey01, May 21, 2008 9:49AM

I wonder if the bull is for sale. Can you imagine what you could get for it in E-Bay? Set for life I say (except if you put your life savings into Bear Stearns, then you are back to break even!)

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