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Zero Hedge: Paging Ben Dover To Provide Taxpayer Funded Workplace Humor

  • chindit13 · 5 months ago
    Okay, here's my application video......

    "Goldman Sachs is a force for good"

    And I can do a great impersonation of Ben Bernanke pissing into the wind.
  • Morpheus · 5 months ago
    You are one of the funniest guys on the web, Tyler! It may perversely undermine your argument here, since humor really does make more possible, but still . . . FUNNY!
  • bergsten · 5 months ago
    It's actually funnier than it looks. The RFP says it was posted July 9th but has a "submit proposals by" date of July 6th.
  • Ruth · 5 months ago
    Wait is this a bad joke out of WV? I'm from WBGV, no comments from the bleacher sect. Tyyyyyyy, is this true? Are we too late?
  • deadhead · 5 months ago
    this has the potential to outdo the Air Force One buzzing over Manhattan fiasco of earlier this year.

    I'm looking forward to Obama being forced to cancel this one. Not before Joe Biden speaks out about what a great idea it is and the stimulus is working.

    Nice intro, TD.....maybe you should complete the rfp..
  • roadranger · 5 months ago
    This story tops the recent $671,000 SSA junket to the AZ resort.

    I guess our government is now into "stress relief" mode.
  • H · 5 months ago
    What they need is a self actualization counselor. The place is full of clowns, only thing they need is to recognize the inner clown.

    Apropos the 3pm stick saves. The two nights ago, I witnessed an instant 100 pips spike in the E mini's on Globex. Last night, it was 100 pips on the CL on Nymex.
  • djchill2 · 5 months ago
    Fuck You, pay me!...is that funny? Shit I might have a new job...
  • Al · 5 months ago
    this is more funny:

    July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair told lawmakers that 500 more banks are at risk of failure “unless something dramatic” happens, Senator Jim Bunning said.
  • JohnKing · 5 months ago
    Call the drama team!
  • Ben Dover · 5 months ago
    jeez that'll be sad. good thing i've already taken most of my cash out of the banks. not that it matters, since they'll just print print print away and destroy the value of my FRNs anyhow.
  • jzamoras · 5 months ago
    unbelievable!
  • DebtorShredder · 5 months ago
    Looks like the bubble blowers might be out of air.

    July 17 (Bloomberg) -- China’s finance ministry failed to sell as much debt as it planned at an auction of 182-day bills, falling short of its goal for the third time in two weeks.
  • dvolatility · 5 months ago
    lol
  • Gman · 5 months ago
    Take a look at the actual RFI. There's a tab listing the details of "Interested Vendors":
    https://www.fbo.gov/index?&s=opportunity&mode=f...

    Thoughts:
    1) Nice rogues gallery of piggies trying to latch onto Uncle Sucker's teat.
    2) Some sly fella signed in as:

    Maximillionaire Laughs-a-Million
    STOP WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY AND INFLATING THE CURRENCY. Obama wanted $787,000,000,000 for THIS?! Every contractor on this list should be ashamed to be fleecing the American taxpayer with this worthless contract. Hard working people are being forced to give the government the sweat of their brow...to fund this joke on the taxpayer. Every single one of you should be fired.
    Washington DC 20001 US
    Email: fakeemail@hotmail.com

    If I wasn't such a coward and afraid Rahm would backtrack my IP address, I'd have some fun setting up vendors for laughs.
  • steve_from_virginia · 5 months ago
    "Paging Dennis Kneale! Dennis Kneale, please! We have the perfect job for you."

    The Treasury Department is looking for a fool ...

    (Uh, the Treasury thinks this guy is for real ... )
  • steve_from_virginia · 5 months ago
    "Responses to this request must be submitted no later than 2:00 p.m. ET on July 6, 2009 and may be submitted electronically to PSB2@bpd.treas.gov to the attention of Angala Zoller."

    Too late ...
  • Assetman · 5 months ago
    I thought the "Mike Kunert" at Kunert Electric was a gag as well, until I visted their website. It appears to be a legitimate business.

    Poor bastard.

    We can only hope he didn't name his son Mike Kunert II.
  • kimjongil · 5 months ago
    comrades... all you fat, stupid, lazy, complacent and apathetic americans just kill me... hahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahhhahahahha.... court jester for tim... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah... please, i've been telling you for six months now... hahahahahahahaha... YOU HAVE TO BURN DOWN 85 FUCKING BROAD... hahahahahahahha... court jester... hahahahahahahahahhaaa.
  • texpat · 5 months ago
    That is fucking nuts. Let the bastards burn-out and go begging on their knees to China.

    Here's a suggestion for humor. Get Arnie in to beg for a California bailout. That should have them rolling in the aisles.
  • sam · 5 months ago
    Well, I guess Geithner is watching too much The Office.

    Or maybe he want to become a new Michael Scott.
  • Ben Dover · 5 months ago
    Hi, I'm here! Who wants to get fucked in the ass next? I brought Crisco!
  • IMA5U · 5 months ago
    What is going on is comedy

    Especially if you have a sick sense of humor

    This is one sick joke
  • ano22222 · 5 months ago
    Wow! Y'know, my business is hanging on, at the moment. My employees are a bit stressed, a bit worried that I'll have to cut back their hours or sack a few of them. Hmmm...what should I do? Hell, hire Billy Krystal!!! Yeah, what a freakin' great, waste of money that is!

    These clowns live in a bubble, don't they?
  • imapopulistnow · 5 months ago
    Does this qualify?


    Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department

    Sister Entities to Share Employees, Money

    In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

    According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and so are we."

    The Goldman spokesman said that the merger would create efficiencies for both entities: "We already have so many employees and so much money flowing back and forth, this would just streamline things."

    Mr. Hestron said the only challenge facing Goldman in completing the merger "is trying to figure out which parts of the Treasury Dept. we don't already own."

    Goldman recently celebrated record earnings by roasting a suckling pig over a bonfire of hundred-dollar bills.

    - Anonymous
  • Butchie · 5 months ago
    I thought all the late night comedians already were on this admin's payroll? Aren't the jesters in place already.
  • GOLD MAN SEX · 5 months ago
    A pedophile and an investment banker walk past a little boy. "Would I like to fuck him" says the pedophile to which the banker replies, "Fuck him out of what? He just a kid."
  • Amazed_and_Confused · 5 months ago
    But the banker fucked him anyway - just for the practice
  • MobBarley · 5 months ago
    ...THE ARISTOCRATS!#&*!....
  • Jim_Rockford · 5 months ago
    Drudge is carrying this story now .... item #1 on his page
  • Leeannethethird · 5 months ago
    well ---they went for 'smile' and 'have a good day' -now we can look forward to ha ha ha
  • Leeannethethird · 5 months ago
    as in

    have a good day ha ha ha
  • Name · 5 months ago
    Well this no way to reduce unemployment:

    Synopsis:
    Added: Jul 17, 2009 9:58 am



    Bureau of Public Debt has determined that it no longer has a need for this requirement.

    https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=fo...