Er, so when you WERE flirting, you'd just, uh, take your shirts off? That's probably clear enough....
hah! Yeah. The reverse problem happens too often as well.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Mar 20, 2008 8:36:00 am PDT #6194 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Glamcookie - Mar 20, 2008 8:36:33 am PDT #6195 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Still sending the ~ma for your niece, Scrappy.
juliana - Mar 20, 2008 8:39:00 am PDT #6196 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
So much ~ma for your niece, Scrappy.
bon bon - Mar 20, 2008 8:40:51 am PDT #6197 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I... don't know. Developing an investment strategy based on the TV series Flip This House sounds kinda dumb to me, especially if you develop the strategy after the show's been on a couple of years.
You must have made a killing shorting the "reality tv-based strategies" fund.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2008 8:43:53 am PDT #6198 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A lot of the subprime mess comes from mortagage brokers offering credit to people of very poor risk - in many cases they didn't even verify the applicant's employment. The mortagage broker would then get its commission (regardless of whether the loan went bad or not) and pass all the risk to the bank. The bank would then pass the risk on by packaging the loan with other iffy loans.
From this line of questioning and the guy's answer:
Q: This is your loan file. What do Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald do for a living?
A: I don't know. Open it up and find it.
etc...
I assumed that this was one of those mortgages with no verification of the employment of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald. If I'm right, then I think I could make the case that the mortgage broker is being mendacious in offering the loan to Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald without verifying their income. Certainly someone involved in the packaging of subprime loans was.
lisah - Mar 20, 2008 8:45:26 am PDT #6199 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Still sending the ~ma for your niece, Scrappy.
this
lisah - Mar 20, 2008 9:05:43 am PDT #6200 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Nutty - Mar 20, 2008 9:06:08 am PDT #6201 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You must have made a killing shorting the "reality tv-based strategies" fund.
Yes! When Survivor went on the air for the first time, I sold rats and snakes wholesale and made my first billion.
Typo Boy - Mar 20, 2008 9:07:19 am PDT #6202 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK - but the subprime crisis is not just about subprime. It is simply that the poorest get hit by this stuff first. In general assets were overvalued. A lot of people who are not poor, and who got good mortgages still owe more on their house then their house is worth. In the last month we have numbers for 40% of default notices went to be people either in the prime market, or in the various markets between prime and subprime. And lots of assets besides mortages are overvalued and overleveraged
Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2008 9:10:39 am PDT #6203 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There's a heart-rending story in the Times about people whose million-dollar homes are being foreclosed: [link]