Merger Maverick Gifts

Bank'n Burger - "I see there's been another merger."

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

It's okay Mom! As a broker, I'm under supervision of the SEC!

"Just one more thump. . . just one more thump."

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

'Uh - oh... this looks like an unfriendly takeover!'

Grandma's caf

'As I see it, our choices are 'no' and 'hell no'.'

We need to put more money into Lithuanian sardine futures...I think that warrants bonuses all around!

'I want ideas so bold, so wildly innovative, so undeniably brilliant that they retain a shred of originality after everyone picks them to pieces.'

Dow Jones drop

'I sometimes wonder if these endless meetings accomplish anything.'

His temperature appears to rise and fall with the FT index

"Apparently over 50% of people never look at their pension plans!"

'Can't he ever use a different kind of chart?'

Targets.

"He's not sleeping. He always dims his display while downloading data."

"Every now and then, I find myself in a room filled with people who are wrong."

"Since I am chairman, it behooves me to go first. 'What I Did Over My Summer Vacation,' by Wilson Rupert Hewes."

'Who wants the talking stick?'

'The market shifted on me.'

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

Corporate Recruiters, Inc. makes a HUGE mistake hauling up its drift net in full view of a Greenpeace International office.

"We must kill this initiative, so let's mainstream it."

'Frank is into D.I.Y...'Destroy It Yourself'!'

"I liked it better when you used gobbledygook."

"Anyway, we'd love to have You on board for the Creighton deal."

'First, the Rules of Engagement for this meeting ...'

"Who ordered the bravest tuna on all the seven seas, anointed with the spice of faraway lands, on wheat toast?"

"Anything goes today: I want this to be a free and open discussion of my entrenched positions."

"Which way up do you want it?"

The Contrarian funds

The two faces of capitalism.

'I say we try it.'

"Looks like the high tech shares have taken another fall."