Financial Soap Opera Fan Gifts

'Next on 'evening shouting match'...is it a bull or bear market?'

'Einsteiners.'

University Soapflakes

'Sue didn't watch soap operas all the time. She also reads books'

'-Not THE Queen Vic?'

"I'd like you to be the co-star in the melodrama that is life."

'It's not much of a soap opera with just that Adam guy.'

Lady throws dart to decide which soap opera she's going to watch.

Greek Crisis

'Time for my favorite soap opera, Nine Lives to Live.'

IRS: The country is broke, but your taxes cannot be construed as 'Charity to the Poor'.

"Oh Gregori! You tell such funny stories!"

TV: widescreen 16x9 versus 4x3.

'In today's market news, losers outnumbered those who were wiped out.'

She kept Dracula at bay with an episode of the Archers.

Golden bubbles

"The Lord brings people together for reasons only he knows."

"You inherited an extra toe from your father and didn't pay the inheritance tax on it."

'She got all the soap opera channels at a discount -- it's some kind of 'frequent cryer' program.'

"Sure, it may be great for us, but it's hell on the markets."

'We've had a marginal advance-decline on a near-term buy-out, but no one knows if that translates as a downturn or an up-tick.'

"Well, I can say if it wasn't for tragedy, I would not be here."

'On the contrary, soap operas are a great time-saver -- you don't have to get married and have your OWN problems.'

Bank Cuts Jobs. . . Employees in Need!

Black hole-in-the-wall at Jodrell Bank

Greece - The Black Hole

We're not picking you up from field hockey. Take the late bus. Ok then. I'll get home at 8:30, miss dinner and have no time to study. I'll fail my classes, never get a job and live the rest of my life with you. Not true! You have a bright future as an extortionist. Or soap opera star!

'The prince and the princess lived happily ever after on their profits from capital-appreciation funds.'

'It's a deal, for $15 an hour, I'll stand in front of your office.'

'I called you in here because your expenses and contributions appear to be quite elaborate!'

'You won't feel a thing. We make a small incision in your wallet and...'

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."

"In this company, GDP stands for gree, deception and profit."

'I need a loan or a bailout so I can evolve,'

IRS. That was a rough audit. They disallowed all of my deductions! You can't claim all these people as dependents ... The business expenses are not correct ... and the charitable contributions don't meet guidelines. You're shredding my return with that?! Wow! Ut was The Taxes Chainsaw Massacre!