Erin and the gang at CNBC are absolutely floored by the fact that today Tim Geithner used the word "searing," twice, to describe the situation we've gone through vis-a-vis the economy (sayeth Geithner: "We've had a rather searing experience," "We've had a kind of searing experience getting things wrong"). Hey now! they said over in Englewood Cliffs, nearly falling off their chairs. What a descriptive word! It must mean things are really bad! Erin's guests were asked to come up with an even crazier adjective, the first one going with "boiled," the second one failing to answer the question. Obviously, you people can do better. Please do so at this time, and use it in a sentence. Mine's in the tag.
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Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 18, 2009 2:27PM
rectal fissure
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:27PM
"Chafing..."
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:28PM
unlubbed
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:30PM
scalding = searing + boiling
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:31PM
bleaching
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:33PM
"The economy has been as troublesome as my Pink Sock."
- Hank Paulson, 10/13/2008
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:34PM
Fileting (like a fish)
-Andy
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:35PM
The economy has reacted like a 'Cleveland Steamer' on our collective chests.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:35PM
T-Geith is my Valtrex baby.
-US Financial System
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 18, 2009 2:36PM
@3/barney frank...it's pronounced unloved, sir.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:36PM
Use it in a sentence you idiots
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:37PM
Mexican coke shark secretarial ass pounding
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:38PM
Geithner, "Bernanke is intoxicated with his facial merkin".
Posted by NAS Keflavik boi , Jun 18, 2009 2:39PM
Looks like some of youse never learned the parts of speech!
Since this involves Erin, I would say
"enhancing"
"enlarging"
"boobalicious"
"succulent"
"luscious"
"biteable"
"tapworthy"
as to the credit mess:
"flaying"
"seppuku-like"
"'nad-wrenching"
"urethra burning"
"women's-prison-laundryroom-broomhandle- attack-to-the-new-diminutive-blonde-convict's-cooter-like"
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:39PM
Erin also said that use of the word searing gave Geithner "character." Really? She's pretty easily impressed.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:39PM
We've had a rather DVDB experience.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:40PM
@15- break out a thesaurus and her panties will drop.
Posted by cowtippincricket , Jun 18, 2009 2:40PM
The experience has been worse than a revision of Section 182, clause 17 of the Greenwich town code.
Posted by NAS Keflavik boi , Jun 18, 2009 2:40PM
I ain't got time for that many full sentences, 11
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:40PM
We've had a rather taxing experience, We've had a kind of taxing experience getting things wrong.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:41PM
We've had a rather enriching experience. We've had a kind of enriching experience getting things wrong.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:41PM
@20 nice work.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:42PM
"nodding"
~JM
Posted by Bess Levin , Jun 18, 2009 2:42PM
CTC@18- you deserve a medal.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:42PM
Experience not unlike running naked backwards through a cornfield.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:43PM
We've had a rather enriching experience. We've had a kind of enriching experience getting things wrong and some have certainly been enriched more than others.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:44PM
"We've had a rather lost in the backwoods of Georgia on a canoe trip kind of experience" sayeth Timonethon Geithnerous Maximus.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:44PM
Anyone know when the 30 under 30 issue of Trader Mag is coming out?? I bet its a scorcher.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:45PM
Anyone know when the 30 under 30 issue of Trader Mag is coming out?? I bet its a scorcher.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:46PM
That rape scene from "Irreversible" came to mind. That kind of experience. Thanks bess
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:47PM
It's as if the Treasury has been on the wrong end of a blumpkin.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:47PM
"It feels as though the economy has been nearly hacked to death."
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:48PM
Dude - I think we did fairly well considering I don't have a fucking clue what I'm doing in this job!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:51PM
"They call you lady luck
But there is room for doubt
At times you have a very un-lady-like way
Of running out"
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:53PM
a sorkin experience
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:53PM
Short-a-licious.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:54PM
Everything buttaface.
Posted by Becky Boot Fan , Jun 18, 2009 2:55PM
Nobody would have predicted how badly the stock would get munson'd.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:56PM
We've had a rather John McCain in North Vietnam kind of experience
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:58PM
An experience similar to bleaching your anus with hydrochloric acid.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:58PM
Fried.
- James E. Cayne
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:58PM
We’ve been treated like a 12 year-old Thai hooker on Fleet Week during this experience
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:59PM
"We've had a kind of blue-veiner experience gettings things wrong".
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 18, 2009 3:00PM
It was an experience like imbibing a brompton cocktail.
(save you lazy bums the trouble, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail)
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:01PM
We've had a Cayne-when-his-stash-is-empty experience
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:02PM
"This is as bad as my last rusty trombone experience"
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:09PM
In this Bolge the Grafters, those who stole from people who trusted them, or those who acquired money or gain in unfair and dishonest ways, lie in boiling pitch, hardly daring to bring their heads above the surface, for fear of the "demons, who tear them to pieces with claws, pitchforks and grappling hooks" if they see them. The sticky pitch is symbolic of the sticky fingers of the Grafters. The demons, too, suggest symbolic possibilities, for they are armed with grappling hooks and are forever ready to rend and tear all they can get their hands on. Perhaps he who takes in life, will be forced to give in Hell.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:11PM
I think the economy has been Obama'd...
Posted by fatsdomino , Jun 18, 2009 3:11PM
The market has been circumcised... without anesthesia.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:14PM
We've had an experience similar to Bernie Madoff after dropping the soap in Cell Block D.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:15PM
"we've had an unprecedented experience"
KG
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:16PM
Ho-lee crap! @14 FTW. (though I perhaps detect Bess's hand with the "burning urethra" analogy)
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:16PM
@47
FTW!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:20PM
We've had a 12-pack of Boones kind of experience. Mr. Lewis would you agree?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:20PM
"I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong, and I believe they will remain strong."
-John McCain
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:22PM
inflanaltory - an inflamation of an anal kind.
ie:
We've had a very in inflanaltory experience, vis-a-vis the economy.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:28PM
We feel like a white woman after doing anal with Kobe Bryant.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 3:31PM
Geithner: "I've been a rather KEEBLER elf"
TRB
Posted by InfiniteGuest , Jun 18, 2009 3:46PM
We've had a rather careless, avoidable and unintentional experience, and we apologize to the committee for putting you in the position of having to spend so much time on these issues.
Posted by NotNasser , Jun 18, 2009 4:23PM
"We've had a rather eviscerating experience."
Or (nod to #47) a Dantesque experience
Posted by SausageOfDoom , Jun 18, 2009 8:14PM
Bess: I thought you would have gone with "we have expeinced economic Full-Thickness Rectal Prolapse", but ass-rape-y works.
Posted by bateman , Jun 18, 2009 9:26PM
"We have to go return some videotapes."
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 10:04PM
We've had a rather delusional experience," "We've had a kind of delusional experience getting things wrong"
We've had a rather delightful experience," "We've had a kind of delightful experience getting things wrong"
We've had a rather fornicatory experience," "We've had a kind of fornicatory experience getting things wrong"
We've had a rather Satanic experience," "We've had a kind of Satanic experience getting things wrong"
"We've had a rather 'shit what the fuck did we just do' experience," "We've had a kind of 'shit what the fuck did we just do' experience getting things wrong"
Posted by EvilBuzzard , Jun 18, 2009 11:35PM
We've had a cheese-grater run up and down our nads, taint and bunghole sort of experience with occassional blinding flashes of having a glass tube inserted into our collective penis and shattered with a ball-peen hammer.