• 28 Aug 2009 at 4:00 PM

Write-Offs: 08.28.09

By Bess Levin

$$$ Obama Pay Czar No Stranger To Big Paychecks [Reuters]
$$$ Deloitte Snagging Chrysler Audit from KPMG? [GC]
$$$ Mary Schapiro: “We Need Significantly More Money” [ZH]
$$$ Police baffled as dozens of ‘suicidal’ cows throw themselves off cliff in the Alps [Daily Mail]
$$$ Job of the Week: UBS needs an associate director. You. [DB Career Center]

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM

    I need significantly more money too!
    -DF

  2. 2
    Posted by NotNasser | August 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    Suicidal cows? Life imitates SOUTH PARK once again. Don’t let the nice tourist couple starve in jail, though.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    What does UBS Associate Director do?
    -Maxine W.

  4. 4
    Posted by NakedShort | August 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM

    Anyone who wants Handbridge Capital shit get it soon. Store is shutting down on Labor Day

  5. 5
    Posted by Cow Herder | August 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM

    A laptop was found at the top of the cliff. It was powered on with its web browser open. The opened page was a blog by someone claiming to be “Mark Klein, M.D.”

  6. 6
    Posted by e_anthony58 | August 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    MARK KLEIN MD IS THE FUTURE OF DEALBREAKER!

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM

    UBS sucks.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    A laptop was found at the top of the cliff. It was powered on with its web browser open. The opened page was a blog called Dealbreaker, with a post by someone claiming to be Greg Michaels

  9. 9
    Posted by Investorcluzo | August 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    @naked – wore the shirt w/t’s last night. only one girl got the joke (and loved it, but her twins were purchased) and 1 dude. it’s definitely a keeper. nice work.

  10. 10
    Posted by Anal_yst | August 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM

    I will be ordering one shortly, as soon as i get that damn $ from Mister Tariq Mohammed whatever from Libia in the mail

  11. 11
    Posted by NakedShort | August 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    @cluzo I am wearing mine (sans Ts) to a one year old’s birthday party tomorrow night. Once the handbridge is explained it should weed out the adults who I will enjoy conversing with from the ones I will not.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    Anybody wanna trade nudes?
    -CG

  13. 13
    Posted by Investorcluzo | August 28, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    @naked – full disclosure, I was at a bar in murray hill looking for that out of work banker so my audience was a little different. try not to get slapped by any of the moms. I’m sure the other dads will love it. good luck.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM

    How are the sales going?

  15. 15
    Posted by NakedShort | August 28, 2009 at 4:33 PM

    @cluzo I at least have one of the Mom’s in my back pocket she was inspiration for the “hand bridge”.
    She was complaining to my wife (then gf) 7 years ago about how her soon to be ex BF kept begging for her to get a tit job so he could TF among other things. I said the solution is simple “tell her to use the hand bridge”
    BOOM. DONE.

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM

    Cow’s throwing themselves off Cliff Assness? say it isn’t so! This is a sign that we’ve reached the bottom.

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM

    I don’t get any of this
    Mark Klein MD

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM

    @15/NS
    Wife, kids(?)
    I definitely had you in the wrong demographic.

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    @18
    This is the internet, we can be whoever we want to be, and you have no way of knowing the difference. I’m a PEB for whom the good times never stopped. Models & Bottles!
    -36 year old adult finance student at University of Phoenix from his Grandmother’s basement

  20. 20
    Posted by Nohm Diplume | August 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    @19 – I recognize you. In other places, you claim to be a former doctor turned financial blooger.

  21. 21
    Posted by NakedShort | August 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    @18 nope you got it right. Wife with kid
    -guy who got married at 22

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM

    Bess, you never cease to amaze me. Here I thought you were joking earlier about writing about suicidal cows, and you go and come through.

  23. 23
    Posted by James Cayne | August 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    Cluzo & Naked,
    Get a room, you lousy fags.
    -Jimmy “Floatin’ on an Aeroplane” Cayne

  24. 24
    Posted by Tax Chick | August 28, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    All this touchy feely shit. I need another G&T.
    - Tax Chick

  25. 25
    Posted by Tax Chick | August 28, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    All this touchy feely shit. I need another G&T.
    - Tax Chick

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    24-25 I see you got the shakes

  27. 27
    Posted by Tax Chick | August 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    It’s this new fucking posting procedure that is making me double post, not the alcohol… I swear.

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    Tax Chick – how many until you’re as Horny as Dennis Kneale at the helm of an Iditarod sled?

  29. 29
    Posted by Tax Chick | August 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    It’s this new fucking posting procedure that is making me double post, not the alcohol… I swear.

  30. 30
    Posted by Anal_yst | August 28, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    @Naked
    Sorry to hear, although that surely explains the passing out wasted in your kid’s playpen

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 5:37 PM

    It’s quite a procedure to double post-fuck after this much alcohol . . . wha??

  32. 32
    Posted by Tax Chick | August 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    @31. I’m drunk, but you’re an idiot. In the morning, I’ll be sober and you’ll still be an idiot.

  33. 33
    Posted by Winston Churchill | August 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    Madam, control yourself!

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your whisky.
    Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 6:49 PM

    For some reason, I found #33 funny.

  36. 36
    Posted by Investorcluzo | August 28, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    it’s good to share your experiences with others.
    -sigmund
    @taxchick – I’ll show you touchy feely. call me…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkiz1_d1GsA
    okay, time for me to get some drinks.

  37. 37
    Posted by trojan | August 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    my associate and i will take on any and all unemployed dartmouth challangers in a battle of true Pong fortitude at Hook and Ladder tonight. if you can’t get a job with that english degree at least prove you learned something at school.

  38. 38
    Posted by guest | August 29, 2009 at 7:49 AM

    You can stop linking to ZeroHedge now, the crisis is over.
    @34 Nice

  39. 39
    Posted by guest | August 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    Biff Basness, Ph.D. is profiled in this week’s Barron’s. He’s selling his new momemtum funds. Beth is not allowed to invest there, but all his wingnut friends are invited. Unfortunately for him most of his wingnut friends were short the Obama portfolio, and don’t have much money to give Biff anymore.

  40. 40
    Posted by guest | August 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    http://online.barrons.com/article/SB125149757049368027.html?mod=rss_barrons_this_week_magazine
    The comments are discussion points. No wonder the cows are throwing themselves off Biff.

  41. 41
    Posted by guest | August 30, 2009 at 6:51 PM

    I love blowing rails on Sunday

  42. 42
    Posted by Guest | August 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM

    I’m thinking of putting some money in Cerberus. Was waiting for the optimum time. Anyone know if they are doing well? I bet they are. My instincts say go!!

  43. 43
    Posted by guest | August 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM

    What’s up with Goldman’s new “PR” homepage?

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