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Old 12-15-2008, 07:33 AM   #1
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Any comments about Mr Madoff?

and his Ponzi scheme?
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Old 12-15-2008, 07:41 AM   #2
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Old 12-15-2008, 09:23 AM   #3
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Any comments about Mr. Meoff and his porno scheme?

(That's Jack Meoff)
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Old 12-15-2008, 09:46 AM   #4
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You just have to shake your head. How much worse can it get? 50 Billion in fraud? WTF? Were there any regulators at all? Or all they all surfing the web when they should be regulating?
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Old 12-15-2008, 10:07 AM   #5
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They've all been spending too much time in the Cellar.

They're sorry, it won't happen again.
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Old 12-15-2008, 10:22 AM   #6
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They've all been spending too much time in the Cellar.

They're sorry, it won't happen again.
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Old 12-15-2008, 10:24 AM   #7
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I think it's funny that his name is Madoff. HA HA. He really 'made off' with their money, huh? This is why I chose to spend all my money on magazines and candy--no one can hurt me that way. I'm bullet proof.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:01 AM   #8
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At the risk of sounding like tw, the foxes have been regulating the henhouse for a while, and the hens have been thinking "Holy smokes! look at all the corn we've been getting! Much better than when that miserly Farmer Brown was looking after us." And as the nearby hens fell to the foxes the remaining hens just watched and said to themselves "It can't happen to me..."
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:14 PM   #9
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Ahem...since we're all in here together right now...why the hummus quote? Of all the funny damn things I've said and you quote me on a salad bar issue?

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Old 12-15-2008, 12:14 PM   #10
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When someone wears your quote, that means you're going steady.
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:16 PM   #11
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So foot's like, a dating Mormon?
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:28 PM   #12
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YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN DUMPED?!
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:31 PM   #13
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foot's given you the boot. (Did you see his sole?)
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Old 12-15-2008, 01:24 PM   #14
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Old 12-15-2008, 05:03 PM   #15
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foot's given you the boot. (Did you see his sole?)
Just don't spit on my sole...
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