• 25 Nov 2009 at 2:13 PM

Write-Offs: 11.25.09

Kramer_turkey.gif$$$ Rogue Nomura trader [TIL]
$$$ Vintage Bill Griffeth [YouTube]
$$$ Over 52 Years, These Men Have Evolved Into Movers and Shakers–Together [WSJ via Daily Intel]
$$$ Best Buy: No Way To Sell Apples [The Big Money]
$$$ Jay-Z Was At Goldman Sachs Today. [GofG]
$$$ That’s it for us today. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a great holiday. Even you! Brief posting/moral support for those working on Friday. We’re thankful for taxpayer-supported Goldman bonuses, not getting killed, the Journal‘s headcut of Jim Simons, my friend who does the best impression of the lesser quoted GGR speech (and gets the inflection on “asshole” and “fairy” just right), this guy, and not having to eat cat food and huff glue to stay warm.


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Comments (62)

  1. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    I’m thankful for YOU bess.

  2. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM

    Bess, you still do it for me with the random ass Kenny Powers quotes and all of your other magical sayings

  3. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    You haven’t been killed YET.
    -SC

  4. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    WHO IS YOUR “FRIEND”?!
    -jealous guy

  5. Posted by CoveredLong | November 25, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    GS was looking for a Blueprint to help with their 99 problems. They really needed someone with an Empire State of Mind to advise them…hence Jay-Z.
    …after the visit, LB put his hands up and his butterflies flew away. In a gesture of approval, he nodded his head like yeah.

  6. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM
  7. Posted by NakedShort | November 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    @CL What did Lloyd do with his hips?

  8. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    Don’t you stare at me with those church bitch eyes cassie!

  9. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    Some peeps at GS manage Jay Z’s $$$. Dude is worth over $300 mill.

  10. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    @9 no shit he’s worth that much, the question is why he popped in to make a visit.

  11. Posted by CoveredLong | November 25, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    @7/NS – He moved his hips like yeah.
    It was good to see him like that, he’s been down lately, tummy was turned and he felt kind of homesick, just too much pressure, he was nervous.
    …you know how it is though when your girls are not around. It can be tough out there.

  12. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM

    How can CNBC put a chick anchor woman pregnant with twins on TV as a host? She makes Raj look svelte.
    Dennis K

  13. Posted by ComfortablySmug | November 25, 2009 at 3:16 PM
  14. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    @1 seconded

  15. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM

    for some reasons charlie (it’s always sunny charlie, not gasparino) is exactly how I imagine NakedShort (and bess as Sweet Dee).

  16. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM

    @10: can you read, ass wipe? His money is managed by GS. He’s there for something called a “business meeting.” This is not the first time he visited 85 broad so I don’t know why this is even news. Anyway, get off DB and go back to wiping the dust off HDs, you IT bitch.

  17. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | November 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM

    @15…nooooooooooo, way. I imagine Bess looking like The Waitress, hot and sexy, but acting like Frank. “I got my wad of hundreds and box of Magnum condoms….I’m ready to plow!”

  18. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    @14, thirded!
    Have a good one Bess.

  19. Posted by ComfortablySmug | November 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    Wow, 16 just asswrecked 10

  20. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    @16 take it easy. it’s (almost) thanksgiving.

  21. Posted by In-The-BL-Know | November 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM

    @beckybootfan- you’re correct.

  22. Posted by NakedShort | November 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    This is bullshit why the fuck isnt PornHub working?

  23. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    @21/ITBLK I imagine her more like Sasha Grey.
    Is that wrong?
    Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

  24. Posted by Anal_yst | November 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    @Naked
    What do I have to do in order to be able to get on such websites at work? Tell me, damnit!

  25. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | November 25, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    I also picture Bess waiting till the DealBreaker offices were empty today, then blasting Ludacris and doing the LesGrossman dance.

  26. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 4:05 PM

    @25 -
    You need to get a life.
    Ken Lewis

  27. Posted by NakedShort | November 25, 2009 at 4:14 PM

    @anal www dot gotomypc dot com. Best. Invention. Ever. (at least for accessing off color websites at work)

  28. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    Maria Bartirromo is on CNBC with a helmut on her head. I thought it was usually in her mouth.
    Warren B

  29. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    Greg,
    I’m going to find you on the Metro-North Harlem line this evening, duct-tape your hands inside your pockets, put a kazoo in your mouth, and hide you in my duster coat. It’s a long ride to Wassaic, in which I’ll eat laffy taffy, and tell you a myriad of jokes, ranging from, “Where did the kittens go on the class trip — to the meow-seum,” to “Where does a penguin keep his money? — in a snow bank.” You will giggle at a few of these, which will sound-off the kazoo. I will slap it off your mouth, and replace it with a rape whistle. You will be the boy with the rape whistle, and duct-taped hands in your pockets, inside my duster.
    We’ll finally exit the train, at which time I’ll walk you up the adjacent mountain side. I will duct-tape earphones to both sides of your head, open your ipod, and play, on repeat, “Get Down, Make Love” by Queen. I will then make you Tofurkey, watch you eat it, and tell you (repeatedly) how upset your father was upon learning your mother was absolutely, positively not going to venture down that alley-way to visit the “Dry Cleaner.”
    I will then duct-tape ice skates to each limb, and leave you on the mountain to live as Skeletor on “He-Man.”
    -Jeff Macke
    P.S. Happy Thanksgiving, you bag of fucks.

  30. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | November 25, 2009 at 4:39 PM

    @26, don’t I know it, love!

  31. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM

    On this Thanksgiving Day,I would like to thanks – from the bottom of my heart and scrotums – makers of condoms!

  32. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    I will be spending this weekend feeding the hungry. I hope you will all do the same. Would it be wrong if I rubbed one out in the mashed potatoes?
    Lloyd B

  33. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 5:01 PM

    Bess- I don’t see it under B.
    Mac- Did you look under E? Here it is, “Editor, Dealbreaker” 1 Star, not good.

  34. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM

    Bess: Shazar, you’ve got a lot of balls, stealing my money. This shows leadership, I am promoting you to management.
    Shazar: That’s why I did it.
    Greg: That’s why I did it too, Bess! I stole lots of your money, what do I get?
    Bess: You get dick, because you are a follower and a thief.

  35. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 6:33 PM

    I’ll be spending my thanksgiving smoking PCP and servicing a group of cross dressers in Astoria.
    ~DK

  36. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 6:42 PM

    I will be spending my Thanksgiving trying to get a job as a Salvation Army Santa Clause. I just hope I can ring a bell better than I can write. Bess, can you spare a quarter? You bitch.
    Miss you guys,
    Greg

  37. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 8:10 PM

    Bess, in all sincerity, I’m thankful for you and DB. You get me through the misery that is work. Thank you.

  38. Posted by Lowly Assistant | November 25, 2009 at 9:26 PM

    Carney: Hey…hey…hey…you got turd?
    Greg: Yeah, we got turd.
    Carney: I’ll take a look at it.
    (Group sighs relief)
    [Cut to Carney's apartment]
    Carney: Okay…well…it’s definitely poop.
    Equity Private: Uh, yeah. We know that, guy.
    Carney: Whoever it was seems to have been eating newspaper.
    Bess: Alright, now we’re getting somewhere. Which one of you idiots was eating a goddamned newspaper??
    Greg: It’s gonna go both ways, Bess.
    Bess: Really??
    Greg: I’m sorry, yeah. What else?
    Carney: This appears to be a piece of a credit card.
    Shazam: Inconclusive.
    Bess: How is that not specific to one of you!?
    Greg: I wish it was, Bess…but that’s inconclusive.
    Carney: Alright, there’s a good deal of blood in this stool.
    Greg: Of course there is.
    Carney: Whoever’s it is should see a doctor.
    Greg: Well don’t give us judgments. Just…just tell us what’s in there. What else.
    Carney: This is wolf hair?
    Greg: Wolf hair. Mm hm.
    Shazam: Also inconclusive.
    Bess: Jesus! Christ!
    Greg: There is so much wolf hair in our apartment right now…
    Bess: But why are you eating it!?
    Greg: Well…you…it gets in everything.
    Equity Private: Both of you are eating wolf!?
    Greg: Have you tried it before?
    Bess: You know what…
    Equity Private: Guys, this is getting us nowhere. Can we go on to the DNA test, please?
    Greg: Yeah can we do the DNA test?
    Shazam: DNA test.
    Carney: I…yeah, I can’t do that.
    Bess: What do you mean?? Aren’t you a scientist??
    Greg: Yeah, do it!
    Carney: I’m an Econ. major. I just wanted to look at some poop.
    Bess: Ugh.
    Greg: What!? You’re not a scientist??
    Carney: I never said I was a scient…
    Greg: Bro! You have wasted our time, you have ruined our turd.
    Bess: That’s the only piece of evidence that we have…
    Carney: Okay, I did not…
    [END SCENE]

  39. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 9:52 PM

    @38
    You are a loser. Dog food. No turkey.
    Warren B

  40. Posted by Lowly Assistant | November 25, 2009 at 10:17 PM

    39,
    Yeah? So what. My family died in a fire. I’ve got no one. Be nice.
    -Fan o’ Your Oreo Blizzards

  41. Posted by guest | November 25, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    I want to marry Greg.

  42. Posted by guest | November 26, 2009 at 12:49 AM

    @39 or an Always Sunny In Philly fan, a-hole.

  43. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 5:45 AM

    I wanted to make some racist comment about those turbaned camel fuckers but I stopped and examined my motives.

  44. Posted by CoveredLong | November 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    @29/JM – Quality stuff right there…TBS would approve. Very funny.

  45. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM

    Good morning to all the Friday-working drones! In the Department of Not News to Anyone With a Brain, a shiekdom in the middle of nowhere has been found to have insufficient cash flows to cover the expenses of building a city the size of Manhattan. In the Department of the Stunningly Obvious, Wall Street has been caught by surprise by said default.
    And now, back to your regularly scheduled non-sequitur comments.

  46. Posted by NakedShort | November 27, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    @45 Shocking isnt it?

  47. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 9:18 AM

    @45 @46 Apparently they don’t have much oil either – just alot of debt in the sand

  48. Posted by Investorcluzo | November 27, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    @Naked – what happens to this market if abu dahbi comes to the rescue? is that priced into this market drop or do we bounce?
    @45 – I’m no drone – I took wednesday off to play golf b/c the weather was supposed to suck today (and it’s getting there).

  49. Posted by NakedShort | November 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    @cluz…Thats hard to say. Even if they do come to the rescue we’ll find out that some other place fucked up bad in a few months and have to digest that as well.

  50. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM

    Is there no DB today? No comments from management about the “turbaned camel fu*kers” in DooBuy?
    WTF is going on, anyway?
    The Guy from Delaware

  51. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | November 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    Nah, nah, nah, nah,
    Abu Dhabi,
    Hey, hey, hey,
    Dubai

  52. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    @50 -
    I would have worked today. But that little bitch fired me. Something to do with the writing, I think.
    Greg

  53. Posted by NakedShort | November 27, 2009 at 10:59 AM

    Take that NY!
    -Diehard Broncos Fan

  54. Posted by Investorcluzo | November 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM

    take that raider nation…
    -cowboys fan (not missing t.o.)

  55. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM

    I have several investment grade properties for sale on the palm islands.
    Get in now – at the ground floor.

  56. Posted by CoveredLong | November 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    @53/NS – I’d normally take offense to that and then come up with some statistic or reason why the Giants are awesome and the Broncos suck. Unfortunately, I, like many other Giants fans this year, have given up on them. In fact, I probably hate them more than you do.
    In fact, I think they should call them the Dubai Giants…a nice combo of suckage.
    Then again, you can only hate what you love (maybe).

  57. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | November 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    @56, cheer up Naked, you could be here in St.Louis…and have the Rams as your team.

  58. Posted by NakedShort | November 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM

    @BBF that is brutual. Never too early to start looking forward to the draft.
    @CL Last nights game was a match up of total suckage. I can’t believe I let the Broncos get my hopes up with the 6-0 start only to realize that they will be 9-7 or 8-8 and either miss the playoffs or get bounced Wild Card Weekend (probably by a large margin). At least the Cutler trade worked out nice.

  59. Posted by ComfortablySmug | November 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    How bout them Broncos?
    -Born in Denver

  60. Posted by guest | November 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    @54 racist. Examine your motives.

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