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Syzygy View Drop Down
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 05:08

And now it looks like the bail out won't be enough: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20081009/tuk-city-fears-bail-out-figure-falls-sho-dba1618.html

What we need is a Bankers in Need telethon presented by Ant and Dec - 'Just £250,000 will save this banker's Dordogne holiday home'.
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom


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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 06:02
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

And now it looks like the bail out won't be enough: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20081009/tuk-city-fears-bail-out-figure-falls-sho-dba1618.html

What we need is a Bankers in Need telethon presented by Ant and Dec - 'Just £250,000 will save this banker's Dordogne holiday home'.

that was to be expected. Brecht was absolutely right when he wrote your signature quote (though a better translation would be "breaking into a bank" instead of "robbing", the difference being that one is done at night, the other implies daylight robbery with people present)


Edited by BaldJean - October 09 2008 at 06:04


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