• 19 Oct 2009 at 9:25 AM

Caption Contest Monday

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Raj-Raj and Hank Paulson yuk it up at a business and technology conference, November 2004. [via]


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Workin’ it.
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Air-guitar-ing it.

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Comments (63)

  1. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    Hank… mind if I borrow your cellphone for a moment…

  2. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    we’re both unemployed!

  3. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM

    hank’s got a crush

  4. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM

    I knew it!!!

  5. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    you know what they say about guys who wear glasses…

  6. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM

    So then the bartender says, “I was talking to the duck!!” Ha Ha – that one never gets old.

  7. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:33 AM

    Hank, do you think you could pull some strings and get me in that new Shia LaBoeuf/Michael Douglas movie? I can do a cameo role.

  8. Posted by merkin capital partners | October 19, 2009 at 9:33 AM

    Hank: (chuckling) You know, I thought you were going to smell horrible! Like bad BO..I mean BO Jackson. I mean you know how you people are, with the curry.

  9. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:34 AM

    I think the Wall Street Journal said it best “Colleagues Finger Billionaire”

  10. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM

    “I like you so much more than Ken Lewis.”

  11. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    That lamb korma is still fucking with me hence the expression on my face. Hank, you’re a fucking GS storm trooper for being able to keep that shit in.

  12. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    10 ftw

  13. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM

    They arrested and charged the wrong guy, it seems.

  14. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:41 AM

    you see? I told you Goldman was in on this.
    -zh

  15. Posted by floor guy | October 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

    Wait, Hank, they only have call logs for you – no transcripts? Aww, man…

  16. Posted by floor guy | October 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

    Wait, Hank, they only have call logs for you – no transcripts? Aww, man…

  17. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

    Air guitar is for white people; colored folks play the air bass. I do it will spilling Opus One.

  18. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    For #2: The best HF managers get their news from the Yahoo Finance boards.
    For #2: If I put up these screens with painted on numbers, I might look all savvy and stuff.

  19. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    I loved you in Return of the Jedi…but how did you fit into the ewok costume?

  20. Posted by NakedShort | October 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM

    Gotta be honest Raj; Summers chins are built for speed and yours are built for comfort

  21. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM

    I think there’s a microphone planted in you r ear

  22. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM

    No one will catch up to my act if I am all bubbly and stick my pinky out while holding the wine glass.

  23. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM

    1) Jesus Raj, you even smell like Haratio Sanz

  24. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    I’d rather be homeless and have HIV than look like Raj.
    -JWM

  25. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    Hm, I still wonder why it takes five screens to calculate my caloric intake.

  26. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 9:59 AM

    The air guitar says I’m a swingin’ dude. The elegantly lifted pinky on the wine glass says I’m lubed and ready for a dude.

  27. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    @25 not cool.
    -larry robbins

  28. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    Maaaan, I hate it when I have take off my gold rings for all those pictures…I can never get them back in the right order…

  29. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    He looks like an Big Sri Lankin teddy bear with small pox

  30. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    No, make that two glasses of gravy.

  31. Posted by Lucy Woodcock | October 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    Photo # 2:
    Raj on the phone with Mark Klein, M.D.

  32. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM

    HP: Raj, did you just fart, again?
    RR: Shhh. A bit wet, Think I shat myself.
    HP: What a classic. You’re a legend man… [splits side laughing while trying not to breathe in]

  33. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    Yeah, are you ready to enter those? Ok, buy me 10k of Denny’s at market, 20k each of PF Chang, Cracker Barrel and Steak n Shake, 15k of Piligrim’s Pride Chicken, 30k of Hormel, 5k of Imperial Sugar, 15k of Sara Lee, 8k of Tasty Bakeries, 20k of Sanderson Farms… ready for the shorts? 20k Whole Foods Market, 50k Lifetime Fitness, 10k Nautilus, 50k Weight Watchers, 20k each Nike and Underarmour…

  34. Posted by mktmkr | October 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM

    AT&T Call Center Appreciation Day at the Treasury

  35. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM

    @33 awesome

  36. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    wearing a jacket and tie while trading is a dead giveaway

  37. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM

    @36 agreed. real traders wear fleece.
    -sc

  38. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM

    “The hammer and the hammered”

  39. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM

    Thank Visnu for Chipotlaway

  40. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM

    Hey Hank, I just sharted!!

  41. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    First yacht: $9 mm
    Mediocre food and finally access: $5,000 per plate (I’ll have two)
    16 oz Poland Spring Water: $0.99 + tax + dep
    …………………………………
    20 years on Wall Str. and still not getting the whole brown suit thing…priceless

  42. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM

    united scammers of benneton…

  43. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    Hank, lemme tell you… when you look like me, people somehow give you lots of personal space…

  44. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    Hey . . . hey . . . pull my finger . . . really

  45. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    Ghee whiz, Hank, come to our house for dinner. We make puri and butter chicken for you.

  46. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    Hank: This damn curry is making it so difficult to hold this fucking listening device inserted into my rear!

  47. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Misshapen. Definitely.

  48. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    Hank: Don’t worry Raj-raj, if you use GS as your prime broker, you’re good on my watch…

  49. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    Dharma and Greg.

  50. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    Dharmendra and Greg

  51. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    Hey! Who took KFC off the speed dial?

  52. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    “Raj,do you ever have trouble turning your head?”

  53. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM

    Raj: …and we used that inside information to a MINT!
    Paulson: heehee *snort* heehee that’s brilliant! *snort*

  54. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM

    if you squint hard enough his Outlook screen is displaying dealbreaker

  55. Posted by NotNasser | October 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    “So, what are you having?”
    “Squid.”
    “Do they serve that here?”
    “I was making a joke. Vampire? Squid? Get it?”
    “Oooooh. Hahaha.”

  56. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    Latika, make me a sandwich.

  57. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    Photo #3 – Magnum, P.I. Sri Lanka

  58. Posted by Anal_yst | October 19, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    Actually I think the outlook screen is displaying Light Reading, telecom industry site

  59. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    @56 excellent Bolly reference

  60. Posted by Alphaholic_Anonymous | October 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    Third photograph:
    “OH YEAH! SITAR HERO IS THE BEST!”

  61. Posted by guest | October 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    You going to eat your fat, Hank?
    Mitur Binisdirty

  62. Posted by guest | October 20, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    Dinner with the Treasury Secretary…$5,000.
    A Bloomberg terminal & six flat screens…$12,000.
    Heading up the river in a hideous paisley shirt…priceless.

  63. Posted by Bristol Airport Hotels | April 19, 2012 at 10:44 PM

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