Budget Controller Gifts

"This is Thompson, he has a black belt in budget control."

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

"I need to see your budget proposal."

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

"I can always tell when Philip is working on family finances. A 'cursor' appears on both sides of the computer screen."

"At $4 a dozen, it's hard to balance a career and a family."

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

"You need to justify your own existence first."

"Can you give me a haircut that says, 'If you mess with my budget I'll rip out your soul, wring it like a dish towel, and drink it from a teacup'?"

"At these tuition prices an acceptance letter is pretty much a denial."

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

Unable to afford scaffolding, Dave ties plungers on his feet to get up a wall.

Your energy bill is enclosed. You might want to sit down.

Smart card.

"What comes after zillion?"

And this is a little ditty I wrote called 'the third quarters profit and loss account' ...Colin often wished that he'd followed his first love and taken up a career as a musician

'We grow our food, have solar energy, use bikes instead of car...now if we could only stop buying knickknacks!'

Economy.

'Looks like we'll have to break into the piggy bank to find our endowment funding.'

Excess Baggage: Sooner or later all those vacation bills come due.

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

Keep the econoimy moving

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'It's a type of credit card that self destructs when it reaches the limit I've set for you.'

'Henry, I'm here to trim back your budget.'

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, especially with our advertising budget.

". . . We're being sucked into the UK national debt!"

"We're going to have to save some money...and one way is to rewrite the rules on expenses claim."

'Wow, my own desk!'

Economist!

'What if we televise government budget hearings and make them pay-per-view?'

"I asked my friends over to see how much the adults are leaving us to pay off!"