Ok, we have heeded the call. We’ve opened up a very basic Cafepress shop for Anti-anti-short swag. We’ll leave the very basic, vanilla logo clad stuff up for now, but eventually we have to slop our logo on the stuff, Microsoftify the package and commercialize the entire operation. Get it before we sell out of the pure stuff! (Supplies are limited).
Since none of the shorts impacted by the ban will return our calls, all profits are going to the Dealbreaker lunch fund (used to fund lunches, flowers, condoms and the like given away to random readers for services rendered).
Update: Of course, if you have other tagline ideas you prefer, and they catch our eye, we’ll add them in a heartbeat!
Update 2: Ok, the speed with which mugs and shirts are flying off the shelves is frightening us. In a good way.
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- Use the Bloomberg command
NH BLG_DEALBREAKER <GO>
to access Dealbreaker
Can I get a:
“O cubed taught me to pierce my bag”
T-Shirt?
should be ‘heeded’ in the first sentence, unless you’re heading a conference call or something
I will be filing my letter to opt out of the anti-shorting provisions in about ten minutes.
In the meantime, I would like to see the entire female staff of DB with those thongs so I can select my premium. Thanking you.
What happened to the GS logo?
@#2 Indeed! Thanks.
@4: Dealbreaker is, of course, a huge operation. A trademark suit from Goldman, however, now flush with the Oracle’s cash? That we can do without.
Where are the quintessential “Mayo!”, “Sham-wow!” and “Too long, didn’t read” merchandise?
I want a T-shirt that reads:
“Can’t short me. I love the Cox”
I hope you give out the condoms before services are rendered, otherwise it kinda defeats the purpose
well-done, except for the fact that since wall street is heavily steeped in ex-laxers , most say “brah,” not “bro.” next time, next time.
well played team. can we get any wacky ‘hey paulson, where’s MY bailout’ swag?
Bess/EP:
I’ve been running a little operation on cafepress for a while (www.bsdcouture.com) – if you want/need any help enhancing your designs I’d be glad to pitch in my time for the cause.
-Arbitrageur
Here’s my favourite. I heard it on NPR yesterday afternoon.
“Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered”
@12:
Email me. ep@dealbreaker.com
“A spoonful of Cox makes the shorts go down”
since it’s a golf shirt, how about something like “chris cox-blocked my short game”
Shorts – Rubbing Cox the wrong way since ’08.
Here’s another favourite.
Erin Callan is so hot, that hens are laying hard-boiled eggs!
@15 — In the most delightful way.
-Warren Buffett
You need better designers. I’m not going to walk around looking like a bad photoshop.
@bank_teller– great idea. we’re adding that one.
I vote for @17!
What about “JO&C” or some variation of that?
Geed Job DB-I want the GS logo-maybe I’ll just put the number 799 on the back, er make that 1035, I mean 2132, I mean- oh WTF
@23– we’re just doing short-related swag this round, but I think JO&C would look great on a button or mousepad. We might do it for the holidays.
We are Goldman.
Resistance is futile.
@17 – awesome
@18 – put your cox in a blender for being so stupid
@17…thats good
“What Cox was saying was, Hey! You know, we banned these Shorts ’cause it was bogus; so if we don’t get some cool rules ourselves – pronto – we’ll just be bogus too! Get it?”
Cox Mocks, Knocks Stocks
Bess:
23 here – Capital idea. The holidays (and bonus time) will probably be the most likely time for JO&C’ing.
AP is reporting that Paulson has accepted the limits on executive pay packages
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93D8AAG3&show_article=1
Also Bush is expected to give some of his signature 9/11-style unifying rhetoric tonight in a public address to ensure swift passage of this bailout proposal
Fuck McCain: “I want to postpone the debate on Friday and work on a solution to the Economic Crisis”
You don’t know shit old man.
You can’t fix shit.
You could study this for days and not understand it.
Just give us your money and stay the f* out.
I Short You Not
my name is ron blarney. come see my mature 3 page blogs at cluster4uck.com
“Would you like some bonds with that burger, sir?
FYI — CNBC is reporting McCain wants to postpone Friday’s debate (on foreign policy) so he can “focus on the economic crisis” …
Comments?
No one on the corner has swagger like us
bess please add the suggestion from 33
I Found a new site with good info on the bailout scam:
“Liars, and the Lying Lies They Are Telling You”
http://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/liars-and-the-lying-lies-they-are-telling-you/
“Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses: How the Rich are Staying Rich”
http://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/privatizing-profits-and-socializing-losses-how-the-rich-are-staying-rich/
“Conspiracies and Headlines – What’s the Difference?”
http://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/conspiracies-and-headlines-whats-the-difference/
McCain – you have GOT to be f-ing kidding me.
Shorty was a thug.
short shorts and long goldman = happy camper
this is @32
can we have a thread dedicated to ranting about politicians and how much they f* suck?
thanks bess/ep.
@7
Don’t even try that shit. “Too long, didn’t read.” is beyond the bounds of this one site. Learn your history.
Shorty was a thug.
@33
I wrote it and it’s fucking awesome – put that shit on a mug.
My Cox Ain’t Short
as long as we’re all playing along, how about:
No Shorts over My Cox…
get shorty
@blnde– we are!
Bernanke really combines the worst of all college professor cliches.
Can’t answer a simple question, has horrible facial hair, bad clothes, absolutely no possibility of student/hot professor fantansy and is boring as hell.
ps – Monday afternoon last oppurtunity to pass bill before Joe Liberman (and 2/3rds of wall street) have to leave for Rosh Hashanah.
@47, I got it out at @10 on that thread. thanks for the heads up.
How about…”Short Cox”
What is this fascination with shorting? What is it that gets inside of your heads? There are some regulators who look the other way at shorters. It’s a little game you both play. They pretend they don’t see you, and you pretend you don’t short! Now, in the end, who pays the price? EVERYONE!
Bess & EP – You girls are fabulous. Ab fab.
How about a pic of Bess in that thong to get sales going?
Wall Street: When the going gets tough the shorts get coxed
bumper stickers?
pens?
pint glasses?
Short yo mouth
Cox happens
2 Cox, 1 Cup
windbreakers?
big foam fingers?
“I’m short shorting”
“I’m short shorting and long Cox.”
Long Cox, Short Dollars.
Goldman & Morgan? A Cox on both their houses!
-Shorty
Goldman
How about “Team Cox” on the front and “I Short You Not” on the back?
Hanke-Penanke
“Don’t short my Cox, Bro”
Shorting is as Shorting doesdoes”
@ 54
Good point. However I have a question which HR at the firms which I’ve worked refuses to address: Why the hell do jews have to burn vacation days to sit (stand) around in temple for 3 days every fall? Vacation my ass.
54 2/3 of wall street? dream on. Maybe at Bank Leumi.
Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t get in a car, I don’t fucking ride in a car, I don’t pick up the phone, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don’t fucking SHORT! Shomer shabbos!
@79
For the same reason I have to burn a vacation day for Good Friday at my firm, God may have many holiday but capitalists will let you take 10 max.
Put Clay Aikens name on it.
with jo&c gone:
“We’re DealBitches,
We don’t need no stinkin’ Cox”
@82…nice response…and I’m part of the tribe.
I think we are pissed because x-mas is a holiday…
@ 85
And because fasting and standing around in a stuffy temple dealing with judgemental family friends sucks, pretty bad. Hell, I’d glady take ‘em as unpaid days.
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of Shorting, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Cox treats shorts like women, maaan.
You’s a long mutha.. short your mouth.
@85 if it were up to me I’d take Rosh Hashanah the same way you take Christmas, any day off to spend with my family is welcome – they probably thought about giving everyone a fixed pool of days and you just take the ones that mean something to you but just not practical because the numbers don’t work out, all the same, happy holiday
Fair! WHO’S THE FUCKING NIHILIST [IBank] HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?
L’shanah tovah tikateivu
Cox, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
Burnankke!!
Takin it in the Shorts
Short People have no reason to Short
and back
by popular demand
May the Short be With You
I told that kraut down at the league office that I don’t SHORT ON SHABBAS.
This cox isn’t short
Cuz im Long and strong, not gonna get the shorting on
Anal_yst i am with you.
Stuffy syngougue, competitive dressing (especially for the woman) standing around with the aunts, who spend the whole time judging and gossiping about who got fat, married, divorced, pregnant, fat, rich, poor, fat and then you go back to the house and start drinking to drown out the aunts.
And if god forbid you don’t eat enough…..
I love them all but by 4 pm on Yom Kippur – i am ready for a burger, a beer and no aunts for at least 2 months.
They are most certainly not vacation days. Vacation day means i can sit around in my robe for 3 days, watching bad tv and ordering take out.
If Cox sues a bunch of suckers who manipulated the markets would they be called Cox sucker suits?
@ 99
Amen brotha (sista?)
@99…oh and when people fast and they talk at synagogue…their breath can knock you over from across the bima.
Shorts: the very people who, uh, soiled your rug
Let’s short it out, bitch!
Cox blocks my short on stocks
Hug Me: I’m Long
(Cox ruined my shorts)
Tell Drama its on my list of things to do today right after sticking needles in my Cox.
How about?
“Wall Street Cox Sucker”
Who wears short shorts? Cox wears short shorts.
Who wears short shorts? Cox wears short shorts.
@ anaylst – sista
How ’bout “DealBreaker: Party Like It’s 1929?”
Is it too late to ask for a baby onesie that says “GNOM GNOM GNOM” ?
How about this?
“Don’t short the Dick”, says Cox
I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!!
Short Cox and proud!
Is it still swag if it is not free?
hese tee shirts are lame because they are designed for he usual bloated Wall Street types. Put them on good-fitting American Apparel tees in different colors and watch the fashionistas pile in.
I heard this recently in a meeting, no kidding:
“Is it too soon to drop your shorts and go long?”
The guy didn’t (apparently) even know what he was saying as he said it, but he (and all of us) got the joke immediately… Is this an old Wall Street joke/meme?
COX PWNED SHORTS
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http://www.cafepress.com/IShortYouNot
I see camel toe, bro!
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