I'm way out of my depth on anything connected with money -- I can't even balance my checkbook. But surely it's news of some consequence that those unruly Greeks, Zeus bless 'em, have actually forced the Lords Of The Euro to give their bondholders a modest haircut?
Look how relieved Christine Lagarde, the IMF honcho, seems in the picture above. Dodged a bullet, have you, Christine? (She also looks a lot like Harpo Marx, of course.)
The idiot Sarko, one imagines, has no idea what the two girls are talking about. Angela, representing as she does the biggest bag-holders, looks a little grimmer than Lagarde. Indeed, she looks like a German masseuse -- an East German masseuse, from the bad old days:
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Let the record show that GW Bush is the massage person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTSlOK2l78k&NR=1
Posted by Boink | July 22, 2011 9:08 PM
Posted on July 22, 2011 21:08
I think she was laughing at how seriously they'd taken their rehearsal:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mz3N6NuWdNM/TigMSZu1OVI/AAAAAAAABQ0/sfCv85lVFEs/s1600/kozy%2Bmerk.jpg
Posted by davidly | July 23, 2011 3:08 AM
Posted on July 23, 2011 03:08
Why, Basil, Harpo Marx and an East German masseuse, I tell you! Huff puff."
Posted by Mathmos | July 25, 2011 4:07 PM
Posted on July 25, 2011 16:07