Look away all those of a delicate nature, DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT…..

certain high profile alcoholic actresses who have been banned from consuming alcohol on-set have taken to inserting gin/vodka soaked tampons. Easy to prepare a box in advance to get one through a long hard, dry, day. (allegedly of course!)

and with that I bid you, and everyone else at Anoark, good night - god bless - and sweet dreams.

Of course, the old media has the incentive to keep it as opaque as possible, since otherwise we might ask what the hell the old media were doing in swallowing the claptrap and force feeding it to us.

We were told that these wonderful instruments had been created by the brightest and the best minds in the Western world, otherwise known as investment bankers. All of whom were apparently oblivious to the old maxim:

garbage in, garbage out.

If they’d confined themselves to betting on which raindrop would reach the bottom of the window first we would all be a lot better off.

And I am sorry to hear that you have Fresher’s Flu. The Offspring is rather past the Fresher stage but she’s currently doing a GP rotation, and is bemoaning the fact that she keeps meeting people who are ill. When I suggested that medics usually meet people who are ill she rather tersely pointed out that her previous stint on obstetrics, whilst hair raising in many respects, didn’t involve anything catching.

I’m not sure that Southern Comfort is ever a good idea, but this may be because of a traumative experience in my youth. Suffice it to say that taking the bottle with you when you go swimming is likely to lead to tears before bedtime…

Thanks for not mentioning Bulldog Drummond too. I haven’t seen a B.D. film is ages…

And you might at least have noted my comments on the shorters being caught with their trousers down; I worked hard on that…

Stop using my childhood memories as your drug paraphernalia Winehouse, you simple bitch. I mean it. I am about this far (holds thumb and forefinger apart to the exact width of a Pacer mint chew) from firing off an angrily-worded letter to your dad! Oh, wait…your hubby has the monopoly on those, hasn’t he?

My apologies, Amy. By all means do go ahead. At least you’re killing yourself in an increasingly amusing and demented way each time I look. Bravo and kudos to you, you doomed fool.

I think chenier is the reincarnation of Frank Richards (Charles Harold St John Hamilton),
author of Billy Bunter. He probably has shares in yahoo as well.

Mainly because I have been chortling* over Och-Ziff’s latest discovery of harsh realities; you may recall that this hedge fund threatened to sue the British Government because the shorts ban caught them with their trousers down, notwithstanding the fact that it was itself protected by the shorting ban on its own shares in the US.

According to Reuters, it had anticipated making lots of dosh on Chinese firms intending to become publicly quoted companies by buying up chunks of them beforehand.

Things started going wrong last year, but now the markets have completely ground to a halt, the scope to balance Chinese losses with gains elsewhere has become negligible. And there are an awful lot of investors who want to cash out of hedge funds.

The moral of the story would appear to be that the value of investments may go down, even if you are not shorting them and credit default swapping them in the hope of forcing them to go down…

*another word used only in Billy Bunter books

And real people haven’t thought things were a ‘hoot’ since the 1920s….