Yet again, Warren Buffett has gone the fuck out of his way to awkwardly marry aberrant sex fetish with folksy business wisdom. In response to a question about what makes people want to sell their companies to him, Buffet said:
You can sell it to Berkshire, and we'll put it in the Metropolitan Museum; it'll have a wing all by itself; it'll be there forever. Or you can sell it to some porn shop operator, and he'll take the painting and he'll make the boobs a little bigger and he'll stick it up in the window, and some other guy will come along in a raincoat, and he'll buy it.
Listen, we're all for a. fucking and b. analogies but time and time again Buffett bends over backwards to just get the sex reference in without even really illuminating the actual point and the best part is he doesn't give a rat's ass. He might as well have answered, "You know, it would be like putting a huge pair of cans on a mouse in a lab. Sure, they're fun to play with but at the end of the day, you're still fucking a rodent." But since he's old, set in his ways, and not going to change any time soon, let's place bets on when WB will drop the pretense and just start showing up to interviews with Becky Quick (but thinking about Liz Claman) in a bathrobe, answering questions with only one hand showing. We're going to go with soon.
Warren Buffett Says Sell to Me, Not `Porn Shop,' as Growth Dips [Bloomberg]
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:08PM
Bess you crack me up
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:11PM
best WB post this year
Posted by BSD , Jun 25, 2008 12:12PM
I'm just waiting on Claman's Walters-eqsque tell-all. The buffet of Buffet chapter will be scrumptious.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:16PM
BESS. I THINK I LOVE YOU
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:17PM
Warren is a dirty old man.
This guy seems to always pepper his "folksy" chats with some sort of sexual innuendo, but since he claims not to own a computer, we can be sure he doesn't spend his afternoons porn surfing and beating off at his desk.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:23PM
I think he was referring to mr crab hands as the porn shop operator.
Posted by mktmkr , Jun 25, 2008 12:28PM
Why does WB look like a little kid put in time out in that picture?
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:28PM
WB has massive Omaha orgies
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:28PM
@ WB
Play on player!
-Nominate me
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:29PM
WB has massive Omaha orgies
Posted by lemmerdeur , Jun 25, 2008 12:32PM
Hide the livestock, the Mormons are coming.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:50PM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4083455.ece
Buffett was the guy in the shadows at these parties....
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 12:52PM
For liberal Viagra mainlining Democrats like WB, it is ultimately and always about s*e*x.
Posted by girl , Jun 25, 2008 1:11PM
How insightful @12:52, I suppose for right wing Republicans it is ultimately and always about something more lofty, like Jesus. Or something.
Posted by a dead horse , Jun 25, 2008 1:27PM
Girl, if you don't like Jesus, you don't like America, and if you don't like America then you can giiiiiiiiit oooooooout
America: God's Country
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 25, 2008 1:35PM
Riiiiiighhhhtttt
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:38PM
Thank God for the Liberal Founding Fathers of this nation of Bush would be King.
Oh, and God Bless Warren Buffett.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:39PM
I didn't say America was "God's country". You guys did.
~God
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:42PM
omg...the rednecks figured out how to use computers!!! Time to invent a new medium.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:53PM
how ugly could bess levin be while still being bang-able. I go 4. very generous.
Posted by To The Hilt , Jun 25, 2008 1:55PM
SOLD!!!! to the porn shop operator with the highest price.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:56PM
@1:53--yup. and i hope this doesn't blow your load, but in reality: 8.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 1:59PM
1:56 - are you saying she's an 8 or 8 is the lowest you'd go?
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:02PM
@159-- the former. but posts like this would make me go to a 1.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:03PM
i heard she's 8 feet tall and shoots balls of fire from her ass. with is braggable.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:07PM
question: how low would you go for carney?
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:15PM
Kevin Depew at Minyanville wrote an article titled the "Pornacle of Omaha" on this. It also has his hilarious "Tips" from Warren Buffett to individual investors.
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/index.php?a=17725
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:20PM
i think Artie Help is spot on!Mayo makes everything taste better.Bravo Artie a man who knows what he likes.Glen Progy
Posted by blndebnker , Jun 25, 2008 2:24PM
I'd go as low as 5 on Carney
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 2:28PM
As we used to say in the USN: "I wouldn't fuck Carney with your dick."
On the other hand, Bess....
Kudos, young lady, this post goes on your highlight reel.
-- Commodities Desk
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 25, 2008 2:44PM
wtf is up with the mayo cartel spamming every post today?
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 3:05PM
"How insightful @12:52, I suppose for right wing Republicans it is ultimately and always about something more lofty, like Jesus. Or something."
Or boys.
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 3:17PM
Judging by the pic - WB either enjoys a)sitting in elevators or b)he has many leather-bound books and his apartment smells of rich mahogany
Posted by Finnegan , Jun 25, 2008 3:39PM
Jesus is okay. WB looks like he has to pee.
Posted by jerrydill , Jun 25, 2008 4:37PM
Oh what a way with words. He can definitely get people to listen with his analogies. Funny article!
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 4:51PM
His reasoning why people sell to Berkshire goes against a core investment belief; take your emotions out of it.
Why would anyone not take the highest bid?
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 9:13PM
Buffett is the luckiest man alive to have Liz Claman next to him all the time. Okay let me just say she gets the best stuff out of him but she is MAJOR DREAM MATERIAL, THIS GIRL IS SIZZLING, SMOKIN' HOT. I can barely hear the words coming out of those lips, those emerald eyes, that face... what did you say, Warren???
--Moneyman
Posted by guest , Jun 25, 2008 9:51PM
Yep, tell me about it. Liz got Warren to say "boobs" during the interview on Fox today. My entire trading floor stops dead in its tracks when Liz is on Fox Business. It's an added bonus if Buffett's there but either way, we'll take her. throw talk of boobs into the mix and forget it, all trades are off