Entry: Fun With Real Filings

posted by Novice

Apr 17, 2008 9:57PM

8:35, that's Turkmenbashi, of Turkmenistan.

Nazarbayev runs Kazakhstan as a president for life who knows who pays the bills. Business-friendly for Americans, though one Russian partner had a story similar to AJ's: he committed suicide on a one man hunting trip by a rifle to the back of the head. Despite them suspending drilling permits for three months because Nazarbayev's son-in-law bought a neighboring field, I like the place.

Entry: China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia

posted by Novice

Apr 22, 2008 10:24AM

@10:11 Vikings who extorted a duchy out of the Capetians =/= French.

Entry: China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia

posted by Novice

Apr 22, 2008 11:15AM

@11:02 Persistence gets you a history lesson

910 or thereabouts, Rollo and his merry band settle in Normandie and become Norman. Apart from language, they're no more French than Wolfram von Eschenbach.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth's family is only tortuously related to the Normans. Consider the English ruling dynasties:
Angevins (actually French)
Tudors (Welsh)
Stuart (Scottish)
Orange (Dutch)
Hanover (German)
Windsor (nee Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) (German)

And to finish:
Darling: I'm as British as Queen Victoria!
Blackadder: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German!

Entry: China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia

posted by Novice

Apr 22, 2008 11:39AM

@11:30 Second majors are for fun, economics pays the bills.

@11:33 Do you want us to applaud your ignorance, or just quietly nod in approval?

Entry: China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia

posted by Novice

Apr 22, 2008 11:56AM

We're making insults based on national heritage and you decide *now* to toss out the obnoxious charge?

Entry: China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia

posted by Novice

Apr 22, 2008 12:05PM

@12:02 Fair enough.

Entry: The Swiss And Disaster

posted by Novice

Apr 24, 2008 10:13AM

Courtesy of 9:31 I've got this image of Alan Rickman shouting "Orrinz!" across the empty desert.

Entry: Electric Press

posted by Novice

Apr 24, 2008 10:23AM

They make for a good one-off post in the style of Fake Steve Jobs. Plus, 'the Immer' is worth it all by itself.

Entry: The Swiss And Disaster

posted by Novice

Apr 24, 2008 6:40PM

Anal_yst, for the cause of why we "gave up our dreams of pursuing a field in which we're earnestly interested," my explanation was that we were born seventy years too late and in the wrong country.

Entry: Inmate 57

posted by Novice

Apr 25, 2008 12:18PM

to avoid the gun debate (and isn't human instinct to empty the magazine, and a damn fool thing to give every cop double mag glocks?), girl, were you making a Wire reference?

pink, in the south whites also call them the po po. Is it a regional thing that spread to all blacks, or a black thing that spread to all southerners?

Entry: Inmate 57

posted by Novice

Apr 25, 2008 12:48PM

ep, you struck me as an old-school type. I figured that meant an Old World classic like the 7.65mm Luger, or this: http://tinyurl.com/6d4ewb

Entry: Good News For Financial Humor

posted by Novice

May 02, 2008 1:06PM

12:08, 12:09: Mugabe decided the best people to receive the fruits of land redistribution were his major political supporters, and who was really going to say no with his North Korean-trained secret police killing political opponents as if it were Whack a Mole? The problem isn't land redistribution being a sucky idea, or even not paying white farmers, but that he gave the farms to people who were black revolutionary versions of Michael Brown.

Entry: The Riceman Cometh

posted by Novice

May 02, 2008 4:24PM

2:55 Maybe if Tom Wilkinson had more hair, he could do the Black/Melmotte role.

Also, if we were to hypothetically bomb Carney's plane, would EP stay longer? And would we receive bonus points for going long on General Dynamics and Lockheed immediately prior to doing so?

Entry: Hillary Clinton: The Anti-Wall Street Candidate?

posted by Novice

May 06, 2008 10:37AM

girl... thank you. As is, Hillary seems to be fond of the scorched-earth political strategy.

Entry: Yahoo’s Google Hug Defense: Is That Legal?

posted by Novice

May 06, 2008 2:11PM

Carney is probably the best one to answer this question, but what would have been the likelihood that the courts would have blocked the move? I don't have the slightest about the Unocal test that Bainbridge refers to, but broad readings of biz judgment have always been popular.

Entry: Write-Offs: 05.08.08

posted by Novice

May 09, 2008 6:12AM

I would put up Jose Mourinho as the next editor. Not only does he have proven success with newly-acquired properties, he has experience in handling foreign bosses who are hated by vocal minorities within the country.

Entry: Opening Bell: 5.9.08

posted by Novice

May 09, 2008 10:03AM

@9:54 the pe whipping boy window expired last week when ep left. Talk about something not beaten to death, like Caplan's poison pill op-ed.

Entry: Opening Bell: 5.14.08

posted by Novice

May 14, 2008 12:57PM

Thanks Cal, looks like interesting reading.

Entry: Write-Offs: 05.14.08

posted by Novice

May 14, 2008 11:01PM

6:05 is right judging from how strained the button looks on Schwarzman's jacket.