Jun 22, 2009, 2:11pm
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Iceland abandoned the "131 to the Euro" peg it had been attempting to defend since... yesterday. That snickering you hear is inadvertent. We are actually crying on the inside. Really. I love Iceland. Some of my best friends are Icelandic.
Iceland takes over 2nd bank, currency defence fails [Forbes]
Posted by artie help, Oct 08, 2008 11:13AM
well iceland did give us LAZYTOWN.
Posted by Henry Ryecroft, Oct 08, 2008 11:25AM
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:33AM
Awesome, 600 ml/ 20.2884136 US fluid ounces beers are $4.
Partay in Iceland!
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:38AM
@2 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ElbUGT6ZQFc i thnk he says it best
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:40AM
Is Iceland like Alaska? I'm getting the impression that a lot of sex happens in Alaska.
Posted by FUNdamental, Oct 08, 2008 11:40AM
Even the Irish are making fun of how short the Icelandic peg is!
Posted by artie help, Oct 08, 2008 11:43AM
magnus sheving would never have let this happen.
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:49AM
The Icelandic only peg appears short because it's usually viewed in mid winter.
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:51AM
Per Google, 1 U.S. dollar = 192.344682 Iceland kronur.
Yesterday, 1 USD = 99 ICK.
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:52AM
Hi it's Ken Lewis - saw the headline, thought it said "shortest PIG" .... GOT ALL FIRED UP! SOOOOOWEEEE HOG Ahhhh luv short pigs, short ribs, even a short stack, luv all things short. It helps that my IQ is 12 and I am nothing but a wanna-be knucklehead
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:55AM
If the entire world is having problems then where do the overpaid CEO's have their cash?
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 12:00PM
@ 4 -- Icelandic beer is probably the WORST in the world -- at least GULL is, anyway, seeing as it's brewed with Reykjavik city water, which all reeks of sulphur on account of the entire country is essentially a lavafield.
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 12:00PM
@15
are you a MER employee who is pissed you got bought by BAC?
or are you a former LEH employee who is pissed you didn't get bought by BAC?
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 12:03PM
I'm not telling. But here's a hint on where my money is: When you walk up to the door , you position the fingers of your right hand like you are showing them you have an Amex card....but you are just holding your fingers in that position without a card. That's how you get in the "bank" set up for us.
American Express gives all celebrity CEOs like me "invisible Amex cards". Those of you behind the velvet ropes could learn from us.
~Overpaid CEO
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 12:09PM
Iceland was actually named that way to trick people like @1 into thinking it was actually cold, so the morons wouldn't travel there and fuck up the gene pool
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 12:37PM
@ 20
25% of the country is covered by a glacier;
50% of the country is bleak trackless desert
The remaining quarter of the country is buffeted continuously by north Atlantic and Arctic Ocean gales
Yeah, there's some green bits where you can raise sheep. And the midnight sun can be pretty neat.
The place pretty much blows.
NAS Keflavik 1990-1991. Do NEVER Test, son.
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 1:11PM
Iceland girls are pretty and like to party
otherwise you're leaving on a windblown, isolated island in the middle of nowhere
Posted by beentheredonethat, Oct 08, 2008 1:24PM
@26
Dear God, what did you do to pull that assignment. Was it a matter of class rank at the Academy or an incident with the Admiral's daughter (son)?
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 1:53PM
I met a couple dozen icelandic chicks in barcelona, all 20 y.o., very nice and some quite hot... enjoy!
Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 2:28PM
Reykjavik is a 3 hour flight from London, it's hardly isolated unless you're an oarsman on a Viking ship.
But what do I know, I've only been there.
Posted by american bandersnatch, Oct 08, 2008 6:10PM
A lot of isolated places are a 3 hour flight from London.
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Posted by guest, Oct 08, 2008 11:10AM
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