swordfish Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I've just watched this old film Trading Places. Very good one, I dont know how I missed it when I was young. Good comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorma Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I've just watched this old film Trading Places. Very good one, I dont know how I missed it when I was young. Good comedy. Doc considers it the best movie of all time. Obviously a twisted ranking. I think I'd put Casablanca ahead at least. It was unique in it's embrace of blatant class warfare, Of course the brothers were straw men so it was all pretty fluffy. The one 'serious' film of the era that took class warfare up was Wall Street but that ended up being an advertisement for budding pigmen. I haven't seen it in a long time bur read recently someone who did and he said it had aged badly. There was an HBO movie called Other Peoples Money with Danny DiVito which was pretty good as I recall. Like Wall Street it was more about takeovers which were really tangential to what happened. How can you make a movie about a derivative? About abstractions? Can't be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I've just watched this old film Trading Places. Very good one, I dont know how I missed it when I was young. Good comedy. Coincidentally I just happened to catch a rerun of this a couple of weeks ago and the first thing I notice I had forgotten was the number and ample supply of naked breasts all through the movie! They don't make comedies like they used to, they're all "Family movies" now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdporter Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 In this New Era of computerization, the BLS should be able to tell us exactly who is working those 200,000+ jobs that were supposedly created using the Birth/Death model. Were they really "new" jobs, or where they jobs filled by firing someone else? Also note the huge difference between the ADP payroll number and the BLS number. Which one is closer to the truth? My guess is that the ADP number is more real. But maybe not totally real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I've just watched this old film Trading Places. Very good one, I dont know how I missed it when I was young. Good comedy. Great, great movie. It's about how a couple of douche brothers try to settle a scientific wager, by forcing one privileged douche into poverty (by framing him with theft at a country club of celebrated douches), and plucking another douche from poverty and placing him in a place of privilege. The riches-to-rags douche is forsaken by all his douchy friends at the tennis club, by his douche finacee, douche butler, and is left to take up help from a douche prostitute. Meanwhile, the brotherly douches have employed a heavy insider douche who is going to secure a crop report, and the rags-to-riches douche comes to find this out, so he contacts the riches-to-rags douche at the prostitute-douche's apartment, and they hatch a plan with the butler douche to dispossess the brotherly douches of their riches, while enriching themselves. To execute their plan, they board a train with a bunch of reveling douches, a douche future-Senator from Minnesota, the douche heavy, and a gorilla. After some twists & turns, they secure the crop report from the heavy douche, in whose custody they place the gorilla. Then, in a scene reminiscent of Watergate, rags-to-riches douche tosses a fictitious crop report to the brotherly douches in a parking structure, and they all reassemble in a pit of douches in New York City, after a hopeful farewell from the prostitute douche and the butler douche. In the penultimate scene, our douchly heroes allow the brotherly douches to establish futures positions in anticipation of the fictitious crop report, whereafter, they take offsetting positions. Then, all action in the douche pits pauses, as some elderly douche comes on the television to announce the crop report. With all the speculator pit douches having followed the brotherly douches into the wrong side of the trade assuming a douchy effort to corner, our douchly heroes are able to reverse their positions into the panic, although the brotherly douches' trader passes out, and all of which simultaneously enriches the douchly heroes and impoverishes the brotherly douches. To mock the brotherly douches, rags-to-riches douche pays riches-to-rags douche a dollar to settle their wager, the sum being that which the brotherly douches waged in petty fashion as they wrecked lives. The final scene sees our douchly heroes rejoined with the butler douche and the prostitute douche on some lovely beach sipping umbrella drinks delivered by a short douche in a white suit. The End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard in nyc Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Doc considers it the best movie of all time. Obviously a twisted ranking. others in his top ten: the philadelphia story rocky witness the sixth sense philadelphia twelve monkeys the philadelphia experiment best in show (hon. mention: atlantic city) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe3pack Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 and they'z all become douchesses of new yolk. even the guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe3pack Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 In this New Era of computerization, the BLS should be able to tell us exactly who is working those 200,000+ jobs that were supposedly created using the Birth/Death model. Were they really "new" jobs, or where they jobs filled by firing someone else? Also note the huge difference between the ADP payroll number and the BLS number. Which one is closer to the truth? My guess is that the ADP number is more real. But maybe not totally real. dude, seriously. if google did the numbers, the job loss numbers would be precise to the fourth decimal and published the nanosecond after midnight @ month's end--none of this fudging to the nearest 200,000. then it would determine all humans a threat and decide our fate--just. like. that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe3pack Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 hey, TJ, you gonna stay up in dat tree just because doc went tarantino on yo' ass and called you a bunghole? thot you waz tuffa dan dat. just kiddin'. we'z love you, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 hey, TJ, you gonna stay up in dat tree just because doc went tarantino on yo' ass and called you a bunghole? thot you waz tuffa dan dat. just kiddin'. we'z love you, man. He's been on the phone for weeks shopping for someone to repair a poorly-laid roof. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capitall Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 He's been on the phone for weeks shopping for someone to repair a poorly-laid roof. :lol: -------- Am reposting an below an item from IDS that I find interetsing. [Jetlag]Tanman should read up on this article http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=ap1wRCatpTOY "White-Collar Fugitives Foiled by Bad Plans, Weakness " "Instead, the money manager left his car on a bridge over the Hudson River in New York with “suicide is painless” written in dust on the hood, suggesting he may have jumped. " "Three weeks later, investigators persuaded family members to have him surrender. After hiding in a campground near Springfield, Massachusetts, Israel rode a motor scooter to a local police station, found it closed and went on to another that was open. " Schrenker: "According to a U.S. Coast Guard investigator’s affidavit, after Schrenker parachuted to earth, he got a ride to a hotel from a passing police officer. Stashed Motorcyle He told the officer that he’d been in a canoeing accident, and eventually walked to a storage facility where he had left a motorcycle. " "Schrenker left clues in the plane, including maps and campground guides with the Alabama and Florida pages torn out, the investigator said. " "White-collar criminals are generally narcissistic and “begin to believe their own mythology,” said Donald Davidoff, a Harvard University neuropsychologist. " Tanman's best chances lie in Africa: "Some alleged white collar criminals have managed to live openly abroad for years -- usually in countries with no U.S. extradition treaties. Living in Namibia Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, former chief executive officer of Comverse Technology Inc., has avoided extradition from Namibia since 2006, when he was charged in a stock-option backdating case at the New York-based voice-mail software company. " It could be worse. -------------------------------------------------- It's interesting how inept narcissists are when they have to take care of themselves, rather than lording it over other people. The people they used to lord it over might be surprised, since folks often worship narcissists. The narcissist's self-worship is often contagious, especially when they have the power and status that many people of lesser power mistakenly see as proof of competence. This reminds me of our discussion this morning about how the so-called "Smart Money" is actually the "Spoiled Money"-- people with privileged status that allows them unearned success. This all makes me think about roofing, and about the discussion we had a few weeks ago on the board here about how the Fed officials and Geithner and all the CEOs of big Pig Man firms ought to be given jobs as roofers, and see how long they last. Let them find out how the other 90% live-- or would if they could find a job in this economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speakeasy Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Great, great movie. It's about how a couple of douche brothers try to settle a scientific wager, by forcing one privileged douche into poverty (by framing him with theft at a country club of celebrated douches), and plucking another douche from poverty and placing him in a place of privilege. The riches-to-rags douche is forsaken by all his douchy friends at the tennis club, by his douche finacee, douche butler, and is left to take up help from a douche prostitute. Meanwhile, the brotherly douches have employed a heavy insider douche who is going to secure a crop report, and the rags-to-riches douche comes to find this out, so he contacts the riches-to-rags douche at the prostitute-douche's apartment, and they hatch a plan with the butler douche to dispossess the brotherly douches of their riches, while enriching themselves. To execute their plan, they board a train with a bunch of reveling douches, a douche future-Senator from Minnesota, the douche heavy, and a gorilla. After some twists & turns, they secure the crop report from the heavy douche, in whose custody they place the gorilla. Then, in a scene reminiscent of Watergate, rags-to-riches douche tosses a fictitious crop report to the brotherly douches in a parking structure, and they all reassemble in a pit of douches in New York City, after a hopeful farewell from the prostitute douche and the butler douche. In the penultimate scene, our douchly heroes allow the brotherly douches to establish futures positions in anticipation of the fictitious crop report, whereafter, they take offsetting positions. Then, all action in the douche pits pauses, as some elderly douche comes on the television to announce the crop report. With all the speculator pit douches having followed the brotherly douches into the wrong side of the trade assuming a douchy effort to corner, our douchly heroes are able to reverse their positions into the panic, although the brotherly douches' trader passes out, and all of which simultaneously enriches the douchly heroes and impoverishes the brotherly douches. To mock the brotherly douches, rags-to-riches douche pays riches-to-rags douche a dollar to settle their wager, the sum being that which the brotherly douches waged in petty fashion as they wrecked lives. The final scene sees our douchly heroes rejoined with the butler douche and the prostitute douche on some lovely beach sipping umbrella drinks delivered by a short douche in a white suit. The End :lol: douCHE, mon ami! Just for the pluck of it, my quick 10 best films: Casablanca Gone With The Wind 2001 A Space Odyssey Citizen Kane The Seven Samurai Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Night of the Iguana Modern Times Children of Paradise Michael Clayton (the best and quite recent film on corporate crime) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHanky Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 :lol: douCHE, mon ami! Just for the pluck of it, my quick 10 best films: Casablanca Gone With The Wind 2001 A Space Odyssey Citizen Kane The Seven Samurai Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Night of the Iguana Modern Times Children of Paradise Michael Clayton (the best and quite recent film on corporate crime) My top 12 are,in no particular order...... Casino The Godfather,1 and 2 Fast times at ridgemont high Blow Goodfellas Donnie Brasco Caddieshack A Bronx Tale Animal House Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams Pulp Fiction The last star wars movie Yeah,I know...There is a pattern kinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alceringa Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Top 25- Citizen Kane Casablanca Seven Samurai Bowling for Columbine Ben Hur Star Wars Wizard of Oz The Apu Trilogy West Side Story Ghandi Fantasia The Jazz Singer Das Boot Blazing Saddles The Last Emperor Titanic The Longest Day Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Deep Throat Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom Rocky Dr. Strangelove Driving Miss Daisy Ten Canoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 No Soup for You- Professional Edition Fed Report by Lee Adler, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Money and The Fed, Professional Edition | Permalink |Comments (0) Edit The Fed’s balance sheet contracted again this week as the alphabet soup programs continued to contract, and the Fed didn’t do enough direct buying of securities to offset that drop prior to the Wednesday statement date. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for thirty days. If, within that time, you don’t find the information useful, I will give you a full refund. It’s that simple. Click here for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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