Northern Rock Banking Collapse
Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007The phone rang. It was Limehouse Dick, and he was worried. I could hear him sweating.
Northern Rock, he said. They’re in trouble.
Yes, I said. I know. In fact the entire world knows, you cretin!
No, he interrupted, You don’t understand. I was burgling Alan Greenspan’s house last night while he was out launchin’ his book, wotsit, about how the Yanks invaded Iraq by mistake or something –
Get to the point! I barked. Limehouse Dick needs to be kept on a short leash, estimable fellow though he might be for other tasks of a delicate nature.
Well, see, I was lookin’ through this ‘ere filin’ cabinet, all right? An he’s got all these files in it, right? And they’s all about these banks —
What banks? I demanded, sensing a chance to increase my vast personal fortune.
Well, you got Northern Rock, right? And Greenspan’s got their file stamped FUCKED! And then he’s got lots more. All stamped FUCKED!
Which ones? I could feel my chest tightening.
Consolidated Heavy Metal. FUCKED!
Good God, I ejaculated. Surely not!
Yup. And First National Sea Shanty. FUCKED!
I was stunned. FNSS were one of the finest financial institutions it had ever been my pleasure to asset-strip.
Deutsche Jazzbank?
FUCKED!
Anglo-Scandinavian Punk?
FUCKED!
Transylvanian Psychobilly?
FUCKED!
Go on, I urged, defeated. Read out the list.
OK, said Limehouse Dick, but you won’t like it.
Read, damn you!
Well, we have ‘ere Southern Folktronica, FUCKED! First European Techno, FUCKED! Trancebank, FUCKED! Blues Group International, FUCKED! First Bank of Bottleneck, FUCKED! HendrixPageClapton GMBH, FUCKED! And of course Allied Alt.Country. FUCKED! too, I’m afraid.
I had to sit down and light a small cigar. Good God. Tell me this, Limehouse Dick, are any banks still sound?
Well, yeah, Mister Bock, but you ain’t gonna like it. You won’t like the takeovers.
Why not, Dick?
Because, Mister Bock, the only banks left are United MOR, Western Easylistening, Nippon Baroque, Federal Light Opera, First Fusion Bank of America and Streisandbank. Oh, and of course, MuzakAssociates.
This was worse than I thought. Surely there’s one, Dick. Surely you can find a single bank with credibility?
Well, there is one more, agreed Dick.
Which one?
United Bank of Reggae. They’re not marked FUCKED!
They’re not?
No. They’re marked STONED!
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Stumble it!
September 17th, 2007
Not First National Sea Shanty!!! O dear Posiedon! Oh, wait a second, I pillaged that last week.
September 17th, 2007
I’m still laffing Bock…….Fer de last five minutes…
September 17th, 2007
I didn’t take out a subprime loan. Thanks for spelling out the bank name for me. On the BBC, it sounded like Iraq Bank. I was really confused.
September 18th, 2007
jeebus , that is funny…
September 18th, 2007
Cap’n: I forgot how hurt you’d feel.
Mobydickler: “Laffing”?
Sassy: It’s all the fault of trailer-park people. Fat, burger-noshing bastards.
Hardy Drew: What does “jeebus” mean?
September 18th, 2007
Yay, for the United Bank of Reggae!
Stoned and fabulous.
I’ll put my money there. Oh wait. I’m unemployed. Fuck.
September 18th, 2007
No mention of Skaville National Bank then?
Are they still OK or have they been ranked full stop?
September 18th, 2007
Ha Ha Ha .. excellent.
September 18th, 2007
Bock, those effin TradBanks are all still in business. I’m particularly concerned about Tulla Céilí Consolidated. Can you send in the receivers?
September 18th, 2007
So the fog on the Tyne is now belonging to whom, exactly?
September 18th, 2007
As a demonstration of Homer Simpson’s reading of the bible being particularly superficial, the show has him refer to a well-known New Testament character as Jebus in the episode Missionary:Impossible.