Economic Powerhouse Gifts

Tiger economy.

"Now that's a win."

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

Time Out For Teddy

Corporate Whore.

Business News.

Doctor to man: 'You're a workaholic - you tested positive for elbow grease.'

'Don't come too close - this baby will tear you to pieces, bite your head off and drink your blood... I've called him 'Fiscal Policy'.'

'He's under office-arrest.'

"You can't see a grief counselor just because you got a 'B'."

Super-Mario Draghi

'From the very beginning we felt that defeating the Big Bad Wolf would be meaningless unless we could parlay it into a book deal.'

"You've been so productive lately, I've decided to lay the entire staff off so you can do their work as well."

'This is the time when the University started to rank our research by the number of publications, not the quality of the publications...'

'Office real estate' lifting weights

"I tend to get more done when I leave self-loathing off the to-do list."

"Son, this is the key to success - it opens the room where we keep the money."

"This manuscript is unbelievably mature for a first novel but, sadly, we don't publish the unbelievable."

Hands off my IP!

Hey, This Way - the booming economy - good times...

'It has my horoscope, heart rate and cholesterol level...but I'm sorry, I don't have the time.'

'By the time we'd lobbied the government, got planning permission, raised capitol, put the job out to tender and built it we didn't need it any more.'

"Making money's eve more of a kick when no one else is."

"I've finished my New Year's resolutions, and now I'm going to get a running start on yours."

Malcolm's got a mind like a steel trap.

Buy- out specialist

Zorba the Greek: Beware Bankers Bearing Gifts

'We need to encourage growth in the private sector to generate the taxes that provide the revenue for us to fund the NHS to resist the inroads of the private sector.'

'Please help - I'm getting no bonus this year.'

'Welcome to the interview for our Post-Doc position, I hope you've brought your publication list...'

"I don't know why these people are complaining, we give them stimulating,challenging work...and we let them do it for 80 hours a week."

"We call it a 'correction' due to out puritanical history of punishing fun."

The Greek Prisoners

'I'm tired of foreign policy -- I think I'll go interfere in the economy for awhile.'

'Dad, you sold me on some bum investments.'