underpants gnomes.jpgThings are getting a bit heated in the Make Benefit Glorious Nation. Kazakhstan’s largest lender, BTA Bank, recently received an unexpected initial payment in connection to its lawsuit against the Alem Art Foundation and local newspaper Respublika. Having defaulted on over $12 billion in debt, BTA sued the newspaper in connection to a story which created a run on the bank; it is also trying to recoup a charitable donation made by the bank’s former management to the art foundation.

In response, artist Kanat Ibragimov and Respublika reporters tried to send seven pair of underwear to BTA’s Chief Executive Officer Anvar Saidenov and Chairman Arman Dunayev, Respublika reported. “I’m sending them my underwear in a desperate gesture during this time of blatant reactionism after a decade of peaceful life in Kazakhstan,” Ibragimov said by telephone today in Almaty…”The only thing left for artists whom the government’s actions have deprived of hope is to take off their underpants,” he said.

As long as BTA can solve for ‘?’, this underwear-based transaction initiative could be a real boon for the bank.

Comments (22)

  1. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:01 PM

    ? = Lindsay Lohan

  2. Posted by Jefferies Quant | September 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    dear god I hate you Greg

  3. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    ?=Market Trish Regan’s kush.

  4. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    ?=otaku shachiku.
    Just ask Nomura-san.

  5. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    Greg,
    Not too shabby, better than normal.

  6. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    I have never jumped on the bash-Greg bandwagon, but he has been steadily producing an abnormal number of boring posts lately.

  7. Posted by Grand wizard Gnome | September 3, 2009 at 12:38 PM

    Thanks for the mention. Its a thankless job being an underpants gnome, but somebody has to do it.
    GWG-In my underpants now!

  8. Posted by BSD | September 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    Are you guys serious? The first sentence is an epic fail of a Borat reference. I actually didn’t jump on the Greg bashing because I thought he needed time to acclimate, but the man just isn’t good.

  9. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    @BSD#8 It’s fucking Kazakhstan. It would be deficient not to include a Borat reference.

  10. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    Wow, I thought Cohen just made up all that crazy Borat stuff!

  11. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    This story had a lot of potential for DB. Sigh!

  12. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:59 PM

    I am not wearing underpants.
    -Sue Herrara

  13. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    @12
    I know you’re not, ’cause I stole ‘em.
    -CG

  14. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    @ 13
    I queefed in those all day.
    Sue Herera

  15. Posted by NakedShort | September 3, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    @13, Sue
    You are woman, hear you roar
    Queefing too loud to ignore
    Queef a little each day and let your soul take flight

  16. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    P.S., You’re next Quintanilla.
    -CG

  17. Posted by Tax Chick | September 3, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    @Naked
    Hats (or perhaps more appropriately pants) off to you!

  18. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    Worst post ever. This is horrible.

  19. Posted by BSD | September 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    @9, Yeah being original is clearly deficient. Borat is beyond played out.
    That being said, my point was that he fumbled the reference – not that he made it in the first place.

  20. Posted by american bandersnatch | September 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    Oh that’s right, Greg, don’t make any fucking effort to write good posts on DealBreaker. If God would have wanted you to be a succesful writer he would have miracled you some good material by now, wouldn’t he?

  21. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Gnome more posts Greg…please.

  22. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    @21 que sad trombone
    calgreedy

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