Building Buster Gifts

"We already demolished that!"

No, I didn't know they were going to cut the office furniture budget in half.

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

'How many studio apartment construction projects did you say you'd worked on before?'

'Going...Going...Gone! Sold to the lady with more money than sense.'

Turkish Democracy

I'm not making enough money to like you.

Warning that Inflationary Policies Could Lead to Crash on Wall St

Budget Bureau. Ernie, spilling something from every food group on it, does not make it a "balanced" budget!

"Hey, honey, the credit card company increased our debt... I mean our credit limit!"

Dave cut costs and now realizes that in order to pass inspection, he may have to arrange a marriage between his daughter and the building inspector's son.

'We're cutting back on our legal expenses and going with the violence instead.'

"This is crazy! We've been here only 10 minutes, we've spent all our money, and we've got nothing to show for it!"

'My firm has scrutinised your budget and determined you could save a fortune by sacking us...that'll be £300,000 please!'

'Uh oh. I can see another few hundred will be added to your bid.'

Showing gardening tools to a tower block.

'The buildings are merging.'

Basketball Tourney. Ernie, you're crushing everybody in the office basketball pool! You've picked the winner of every game so far! It's amazing because you don't know a thing about basketball. For you, picking the winner of every tournament game is like correctly guessing a coin flip sixty seven times in a row! No, I have a system! It seems everybody has an opinion about the tourney so I listened to what my investment advisor thought about the teams. And with his record of picking winners

Oil shock.

Horror Theater. Now Playing. Return of the Deficit.

Yes, dear, I remembered the coupons and saved a few dollars. The Adventures of Marriedman.

"I don't mind out of control spending as long as it's on stuff I like."

'Times are tough, Smith, but I don't want to lay you off. So, to keep you working, I want you to wash our building. That should keep you busy for the next decade.'

Osborne's Tax Cuts

'Please excuse the mess - we've been busy throwing good money after bad!'

"They're spelt differently!"

"I've been told to go through all our expenses...cut out any fat, get rid of any costly perks!"

Put it in petty cash.

Celebrity endorsements? I thought you said celibate endorsements. No wonder we're coming in under budget.

'What ever happened to that persnickety inspector?'

'Ok, we've rented the whole building ... oops, they just put on another floor.'

"Where do you come up with your rationalizations for not writing?"

'This has to be the longest course I've ever played!' (Sign with Gas/Food/Lodging Next Tee)

"Did you have any problems at the design stage?"

"According to this analysis, Gibbons, last year your department spent forty-five thousand dollars on candy alone."