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Hibernation To Blame For Bear Stearns Collapse
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Hibernation To Blame For Bear Stearns Collapse

Humor – Markets were in an uproar this week as investigators concluded that the management of Bear Stearns was in fact sleeping on the job.

Tags: SATIRE, I Just, Dont Get, That Complicated, Banker Talk

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Rating: +17 (+17/-0) | 2008-04-14 01:34:20
ind06
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Bear Sterns has also been known to become dangerously irate when a person gets between it and one of its junior investors.

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Rating: +3 (+3/-0) | 2008-04-15 00:13:42
ETproductions
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If this whole thing could have only waited till the summer.

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Rating: +13 (+13/-0) | 2008-04-14 02:13:04
cowboygrandpa
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Yeah by golly. If they hadn't woke up to check their bonuses. Who knows where we'd be right now. LOL

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Rating: +11 (+11/-0) | 2008-04-14 05:45:44
Uncle Dave
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Man, I hope Winnie the Pooh and Tigger aren't involved in this!

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Rating: +7 (+7/-0) | 2008-04-14 18:46:00
ind06
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I heard Boo Boo planned the whole thing.

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Rating: +7 (+7/-0) | 2008-04-14 19:06:41
Uncle Dave
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I'll bet Ranger Smith had something to do with it, too!

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-04-14 19:37:48
icono1
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Hopefully Dino stayed out of this one.

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Rating: +4 (+4/-0) | 2008-04-14 23:44:58
Uncle Dave
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The only response from Mr. Flintstone concerning this matter was just, "yabba dabba doo"!

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Rating: +4 (+4/-0) | 2008-04-15 01:57:15
ind06
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That's a misquote, actually he said "Yabba Dabba Boo Boo!"

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Rating: +11 (+11/-0) | 2008-04-14 08:19:45
ranchhand
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They should have taken that bull by the horns. When they have to bear their sterns it makes then grouchy.

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Rating: +11 (+11/-0) | 2008-04-14 11:49:25
chevydog
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Ursala needs to make sure that all the Bear investments are ...just right.

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Rating: +10 (+10/-0) | 2008-04-14 12:26:06
marshx
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Don't hussle them, it is in their nature to hibernate!

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Rating: +9 (+9/-0) | 2008-04-14 13:25:49
itsme2
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That explains why he is so cranky in the spring!

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Rating: +8 (+8/-0) | 2008-04-14 13:41:10
2sidestoeverything
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Repeated phones calls have been made and messages left for the Bernstein Bears, at the time of this publication there was no response. LOL!

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Rating: +9 (+9/-0) | 2008-04-14 14:09:38
simonsez
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These may have been the infamous "bi-polar" bears ...

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-04-14 19:27:10
Dicax_Maximus
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***** NEWS FLASH *****

Christopher Robin arrested for insider trading.

Sources state that Christopher Robin sold his entire Bear Stearns stock just hours before the stock crashed....

Reuters - 00:30 GMT

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-04-14 19:41:14
icono1
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Gasp!

Scandalous!

Why that little bugger should be thrashed with a huny jar!

ASAP!!!!!!!

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Rating: +5 (+5/-0) | 2008-04-14 23:41:40
Uncle Dave
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The next question we should ask is "how do we loosen a jar from the nose of a bear!"

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Rating: +3 (+3/-0) | 2008-04-15 05:01:47
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Very carefully !!!!

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