Our photog writes: This scene must have been created by God himself, for the Charlotte
haters on DB. A ten year old Lincoln Navigator with copious amounts of chrome, festooned with a NASCAR sticker on the rear window, parked outside of the Hearst Tower (where the BAC trading floor in Charlotte is located). The pièce de résistance is the vanity (NC) plate that reads "WALL $T".
Caption Contest Thursday: Ken Lewis's Ride Needs No Pimping
Posted by Bess Levin, May 14, 2009, 1:27pm
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Posted by wcburrs87 , May 14, 2009 1:28PM
They can't even trick a car right down in NC. And that Navi is not ten years old.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:31PM
@1- they definitely had those in '99.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:31PM
God you people are so stupid. Is this freakin TMZ of banking? Or rather National Enquirer? Tough to make out real news from bullshit that you nimrods make up while scouring Monster.com for jobs.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:33PM
@3 Welcome to DB, Ken!
Posted by Lowly Assistant , May 14, 2009 1:33PM
3,
Relax, Jose. It's funny.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:34PM
@3- um, really? dealbreaker is a business tabloid that covers the absurdity of wall street high and low, from something like this, to rentec's shitting the bed in march/april, complete with an investor letter, numbers, and conference call, covered by no other outlets.
douchebag.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:34PM
3 You have mistaken us for people who give a shit about what you think. Sorry for your confusion.
Posted by Investorcluzo , May 14, 2009 1:35PM
I believe it should read, "wall street or bust" or is it "wall street then bust"...damn hillbillies!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:35PM
@3 - I fucked your dad and he cried like a bitch.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:36PM
@3- as you can plainly see, the people who write this sight are gainfully employed and do not need to scour monster.com for jobs, unlike yourself. keep at it! you'll get another back office job soon!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:36PM
NAVICLOPS
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:38PM
Rollin down the street sippin' on Boone's Farm, with my mind on TARP money and TARP money on my mind.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:38PM
For once, I agree with cluzo on a CLT thread. This guy is 100% hillbilly.
-photog
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:39PM
@3- i know there isn't a lot of room in your head for brain cells, what with the dick in your ear, but, really, you should try and grow some. dealbreaker is a wall street gossip site, and it covers anything under that umbrella, better than anyone else.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:39PM
@12 ftw
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:40PM
@3- no really, kill yourself.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:40PM
10 Nice try. It would have worked had you not confused "sight" and "site".
Posted by Lowly Assistant , May 14, 2009 1:41PM
I think @1 is right.
http://www.cargurus.com/images/2008/09/03/15/25/pic-1564.jpeg
I think it's an '09.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:42PM
Clearly no caption necessary.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:43PM
@17- nah, it still worked. and you still need to choke on he dick in your mouth.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:45PM
That's just my ranch wagon come east. Eat shit and die.
KL
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:48PM
Gotta give him credit - excellent pin-point parking!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:49PM
@3- get a clue--people come to DB for entertainment.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:50PM
I am in Charlotte to personally oversee our secondary offering. Would you like to buy some stock?
(I'll through in my ride for an order of 1 billion shares!)
Ken Lewis
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:50PM
I am in Charlotte to personally oversee our secondary offering. Would you like to buy some stock?
(I'll throw in my ride for an order of 1 billion shares!)
Ken Lewis
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:50PM
KL is uptown WAY too early for Alive After Five. He needs to go home and keep pregaming the Boone's.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:50PM
That is a '98.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:51PM
Opps, typo. T'was the Boone's...
KL
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:52PM
You can find the owner on PublicData.com. I just checked and it ain't Ken.
Another North Cackylackeyian has "WALL ST" and "TRADER" plates as well. I wonder if he drives a new Chevy "Douchebag" too?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:53PM
12 wins
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:55PM
Not one person on this board is employed, so quit your bullshitting. If you were, you wouldn't be on this gay site. AND you'd be fired tomorrow since no wall street (or tryon street) companies allow dickbreaker.com anyway.
Demographics of DickBreaker.com users:
- Age 22-26
- Unemployed
- Overpaid out of college to do nothing
- Spent it all on blow
- Live in a walk-in closet sized apartment
- First ones to get laid off, b/c they had no experience or talent
- Very disgruntled and really nowhere to go, what with business school already conquered and no one wanting their "skills"
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:56PM
@6 - Are you signing off as Douchebag, or are you calling 3 a DB?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:57PM
Who the fuck are the loser doosh holes that get off on correcting misspells?
Seriously, each and everyone of you spell-checking assbaskets must kill yourselves immediately. You really, really suck.
Go away.
Nobody liked you in high school either.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 1:58PM
@6 - Are you signing off as Douchebag, or are you calling 3 a DB?
Posted by Anal_yst , May 14, 2009 1:59PM
For those of you who aren't up to date with your Lincoln products, the one pictured is a pretty late-model, the late 90's had rear-ends like this
http://sandoautosales.com/pictures/99Navigator/99Navigator04.JPG
Posted by Mike_Oxbig , May 14, 2009 2:01PM
in the end, no matter how much TARP you take, you can't buy class
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:02PM
"Dickbreaker"....that was kind of funny even though it was probably written by a jizz mopper at Raleigh's "Diamond Girls" strip club.
Here is @31's review of "Diamond Girls":
"I am not from this area so I don't know how it compares to other local clubs, but I was not impressed. I like laid back clubs, but this club was way too laid back. There were people passed out drunk in corners, and you practically had to grab a dancer to get a dance. I was only asked if I want a dance once, and I took it. The dance was average. As with all places YMMY, but don't expect any extras in this place. The downstairs is well described in other reviews, but the upstairs is in need of a lot of improvement. There is very little privacy, and the couches are so old, sitting on a 2x4 would have felt nicer. Other than that everybody was very friendly, but its not my kind of place. "
http://www.tuscl.net/c.php?CID=215
Posted by american bandersnatch , May 14, 2009 2:03PM
@31 - Christ, that is me. May have to kill myself.
Posted by Bess Levin , May 14, 2009 2:03PM
@31 (also 3)-- you should stop projecting. Out of all the IP addresses on this thread, yours is the only one that comes from a residential address.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:08PM
I (We) love you Bess!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:08PM
Snap!! Bess, when you cracked that whip you could hear it all the way to Texas!
Posted by lieutenant winslow , May 14, 2009 2:08PM
in a strange twist of fate, the vanity plate business proved more profitable than Lincoln and BAC combined.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:09PM
Bess Levin, I love you.
Posted by Investorcluzo , May 14, 2009 2:10PM
@31 - which demographic do you fall under? back to the google finance boards (you don't even qualify for yahoo) or tending your pig farm...damn hick.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:11PM
@31 = Porter Stansberry
Posted by Pay It Forward , May 14, 2009 2:12PM
Awww, come on everybody. In Charlotte, a Lincoln Navi is as baller as it gets.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:14PM
@32/34
6 here. i was signing off as 'douchebag', my nom de guerre on these here internets. you can never be too careful when perusing the web...
Posted by Investorcluzo , May 14, 2009 2:18PM
bess, echoing @40/43...way to call the dbag out. damn piker!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:20PM
Bess...can I be your Shripboat Captain?
-BeckyBootFan
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:24PM
I'm on Tryon St. right now! I just pissed on the window outside McCormick and Schmick's! Give me a job!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:25PM
LIGHTEN UP FRANCIS.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:26PM
@ Anal - I stand corrected. I think the chrome and tint threw me for a loop.
-photog
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:34PM
3,31 = terminated H1B1
Bess promptly squashed the beef with that IP bit.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:36PM
I think that 3-31 was Charlie Gasparino...
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:39PM
@3 Sorry, when we started making fun of your car, we didn't realize you could read.
Posted by Investorcluzo , May 14, 2009 2:40PM
@54 - good point, no sleeves is at home on leave "sos" he can write his book...and post anon on db.
Posted by Anal_yst , May 14, 2009 2:41PM
@52/photog
Nice work regardless, just brush up on your whip-identification chops and you're $$
Also, is that a Jeff Gordon sticker I spy, or do my eyes deceive me?
Posted by wcburrs87 , May 14, 2009 2:41PM
@35, thank you. The old ones look like the Expeditions from the late 90's. Ford/Lincoln changed the back end styling around 2002 and again a few years after that.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:41PM
Bess, I love you. I'll toss your salad any time just wink.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:44PM
So google finance is now below yahoo finance. How does that work?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:45PM
While you all have been fighting, Ken Lewis still clearly wins and he is not even really a part of the discussion. I mean, do you have that license plate? I don't think so.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:47PM
@ 57 - it's not Gordon. I think it's Tony Stewart (20) or somebody with #28 (???). I mean ... what driver does Wall $t root for these days? Montoya?
-charlotte photog
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:47PM
Rollin down main street, smokin cubans, sipping on crystal champ...just because we can.
-Wall Street
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:48PM
I cannot believe how embarassed I feel for 3,31.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:48PM
63 here *Cristal
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 2:55PM
Bess - you are now my hero.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:03PM
Bess just beed an elle on @31's greasy forehead.
well played
back to the sim city dvd, pickle-sniffer
-tgwwbh
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:10PM
Can we just focus on the fact that this photo is hilarious. This really solidifies my belief that people in the south especially nc, are effing clueless. Can anyone please let me know if they know any cool people from north carolina. Duke/unc/wake/davidson all extremely lame dbags
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:16PM
68 Can't we all just get along? Imagine what the Carolinians would think if they spent an evening trolling around Meat Packing District?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:16PM
Muffy would clearly have rocked this whip during a bull market, albeit without the NASCAR flare.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:19PM
This just goes to prove my theory: RICHARD SIMMONS IS GAY.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:21PM
plenty of d-bags in every part of the country #68. hopefully you would not exclude the vast incubator of new england in your "analysis"
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:23PM
@31 Very much employed. Forgotten more than you will ever know and NOT at some shitty bank run by an inbred halfwit and his mafia sidekick MOZ.
Who defends Ken Lewis? Really?
BAC is the biggest example of failed corporate governance in the history of America.
It is one thing to be a shitty bank to begin with but to go out and overpay for another shitty bank and then blame on it Hank and Ben is hilarious.
God forbid they fire this idiot - his daily fuck ups make the recession more palatable.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:24PM
@68/69 Wow...that's adult. So you must also believe that all New Yorkers are assholes and all people from NJ are guido dbags? All people from Florida are almost dead, all people from California are vain tree hugging hippies, and everyone from Arkansas/Alabama/Louisiana/West Virginia are inbred?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:27PM
It may not necessarily be a residential ip address. 3,31 could be using a wireless service.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:29PM
@74 what?!?! you mean TV lied to me?
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:32PM
Would pay 3 paychecks for a sweet sweet redtube IP addy.
Jovi+boss+PRU*Jonas bros='s killin it jersey style
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 3:47PM
@20 Nice try. It would have worked had you not confused "he" and "his".
P.S. I'm not 3 or 17.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 4:12PM
Bess Levin is the new killin' it.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 4:19PM
@3
This shit is funny, and you know that is Tryon Street. It probally belongs to some 5'1" needledicked bond trader with a UNCC degree.
Now get back to work....and make my sandwich.
With love,
The Bass Boat Banker
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 4:19PM
I live in NC, but work in NYC (Mon-Thurs), in fact, I have a flight back home @ 7:30...You can have it here.
If the south sucks so bad, then please, don't retire there...
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 4:23PM
@76 lol
The Blabloo From Delaware
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 5:03PM
@82: WTF is a blabloo?
THe Other Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 6:22PM
love you bess...know you want a 100+ comments every day so, lets go DB!!!
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 6:26PM
Agree with 81. PLEASE STAY IN NY. Why do you insist on leaving your perfect city?
Look at what you did to Florida.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 7:11PM
@68 - www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com - pretty sure these guys didn't go to unc/duke/wake/davidson..... more your tri-state area type. Thanks for coming out, tosser.
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 8:02PM
In RealLife K to the L rocks a black Merc CL63. Lived in his hood for a bit and saw him around.
And yes, even board members frequent this board. Its not all loser MBA students...
Posted by guest , May 14, 2009 11:13PM
@68,
if you knew wtf you were talking about you'd know duke/wake/davidson have been overtaken by northeastern/jersey douchebags.
Posted by guest , May 19, 2009 12:09AM
KENNY THE BAILOUT MOOCHER
(Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway)
WilliamBanzai7
Sing along link: http: KENNY THE BAILOUT MOOCHER
(Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway)
WilliamBanzai7
Sing along link: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE&feature=related
Hey folks here's the story bout Kenny the bailout moocher
He was a low down Charlotte BAC hoochie coocher
His was the roughest toughest banking sob tale
But Kenny had an appetite as big as a securitized whale
Hidehidehidehi (hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodeho (hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehedehe (hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehideho (hidehidehideho)
One weekend he messed around with a bloke named Thain
He wanted the Merrill Bulls or he'd go completely insane
Thain took him round the block to Chinatown
And showed old Kenny how Wall Street gangstas kick the gong around
Hidehidehide-LEVEL 3 (hidehidehidehi)
Whoah (whoah)
Hedehedehede-GREED (hedehedehedehe)
A hidehidehideho CDO (hidehidehideho)
Kenny had a dream bout yet another financial supermarket
It would give him things that he was needin
It would give him a home built of gold and steel
A diamond studded learjet with platinum wheels
A hidehidehidehidehidehidehi (hidehidehidehidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho (hodehodehodehodehodehodeho)
Thain sold Ken a herd of sick cows and a boatload of subprime losses
Each meal Ken ate was full of surprising new derivative courses
Had a billion dollars worth of taxpayer nickels and dimes
He sat around and counted them all a million times
Hidehidehide-LEVEL 3 (hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehode-CDO (hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehede-GREED (hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehide-HOSED (hidehidehideho)
POOOOOOR MAN
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR MAN
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR MAN
Hey folks here's the story bout Kenny the bailout moocher
He was a low down Charlotte BAC hoochie coocher
His was the roughest toughest banking sob tale
But Kenny had an appetite as big as a securitized whale
Hidehidehidehi (hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodeho (hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehedehe (hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehideho (hidehidehideho)
One weekend he messed around with a bloke named Thain
He wanted the Merrill Bulls or he'd go completely insane
Thain took him round the block to Chinatown
And showed old Kenny how Wall Street gangstas kick the gong around
Hidehidehide-LEVEL 3 (hidehidehidehi)
Whoah (whoah)
Hedehedehede-GREED (hedehedehedehe)
A hidehidehideho CDO (hidehidehideho)
Kenny had a dream bout yet another financial supermarket
It would give him things that he was needin
It would give him a home built of gold and steel
A diamond studded learjet with platinum wheels
A hidehidehidehidehidehidehi (hidehidehidehidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho (hodehodehodehodehodehodeho)
Thain sold Ken a herd of sick cows and a boatload of subprime losses
Each meal Ken ate was full of surprising new derivative courses
Had a billion dollars worth of taxpayer nickels and dimes
He sat around and counted them all a million times
Hidehidehide-LEVEL 3 (hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehode-CDO (hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehede-GREED (hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehide-HOSED (hidehidehideho)
POOOOOOR MAN
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR MAN
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR MAN
Posted by guest , May 19, 2009 12:36AM
BANZAI7 ORGANIZATION:
We asked Ricardo Montalban (is he still alive?) to help describe this fine example of four wheeled Charlotte/Wall Street banker wannabee vanity.
Ricardo:
He knows his own needs, and what he knows he needs from an automobile, Ken "Screwless" Lewis gets from this pimped out Lincoln Navigator Custom Bailout Special. I Ricardo (Fantasy Island) Montalban could ask for nothing beyond the quality of a timeless Chrysler Cordoba. But, for a two bit bailout bandito like Ken, much more is necessary to satisfy his manly desires.
Behold, the Bailout Special. Notice the lack of fine Corinthian leather, notice the tacky chrome detailing, the sky bailout blue finish and truly pitiful vanity plate which announces the arrival of a triple AAA CEO dimwit who thinks he is a true swinging Wall Street "cahone" but whose brains are barely the size of my trusted friend Tattoo's left cahone (sorry Tattoo).
What more can I say, the man's taste is as questionable as his judgement as a CEO, and is rivaled only by the caballero who keeps a commode in his office.
Posted by guest , May 19, 2009 11:21AM
BAC will be worth $48 by 3Q 2011 and Ken will be a hero.
TARP $ is not yet fully digestible.
@90 is the winner. "Fine Coreenthian Leather" reference is priceless.
one quibble, it's "cojones."
Questionable indeed.
Posted by guest , May 19, 2009 11:24AM
@89, didn't read, too many syllabic anomalies.