I think student loan debt is the next sub prime crisis. We encourage students to run up $40 to $50 thousand in debt and for that they get a BA in History or something equally worthless. They are not going to be able to get a good enough job to pay it off. Can you put lipstick on the student loan pig?
How appropriate that the Mortgage Pig wears lipstick, perhaps in recognition of Wall Street's success at marketing CDOs--which entailed putting a whole lot of lipstick on a whole lot of pigs.
Tanta, I just want to say thank you for all your efforts and happy valentine's day. I appreciate the depths of your posts, your writing style, and sense of humor.
The Fed may want to borrow the mortgate pig's flag to wave around...
Mortgage Pig, Mortgage Pig...
Doing whatever a Mortgage Pig does...
Amazon wish list excerpts;
Porky's II The Revenge
Babe II, In The City
The Butcher Always Rings Twice
Charlotte's Web of Lies
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sir Francis Bacon's Journals: The Rarest of Princes
More Than You Want To Know by CR & Tanta (pre-order only)
(Harrison)
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
I tell ya, the corruption of Valentine's Day in the USA to include all and sundry has always irritated me; especially the extension of the concept of specifically romantic love to some generalized stuff including mothers, sisters, grandmothers, for gawd's sake.
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. I just want to say that in this day and age true wit is in extremely short supply. I am in awe of your cupidity pun. Sheer unadulterated brilliance! OK, does that sound a bit breathless? Apologies.
Wow- sk,...I never knew there was a Valentine's Day Grinch.
sdtfs
Just to clarify, I was joking regarding the Mortgage pig, of course.
But I stand by the rest - perhaps next year they'll create Valentine Day cards to send to oneself ! Come to think of it that might be a true expression of romantic love - but, errr, seeing as this is a family style blog I won't go further and blind( ) the audience with additional clarification.
Amazon wish list excerpts;
Porky's II The Revenge
Babe II, In The City
The Butcher Always Rings Twice
Charlotte's Web of Lies
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sir Francis Bacon's Journals: The Rarest of Princes
More Than You Want To Know by CR & Tanta (pre-order only)
Awww... I want to pre-order the "more than you wanna know" book by CR & Tanta
it's the one about how to become rich flippin' houses in SoCal, right.....
And Amazon's Pork Cookbooks:
The Southern Heritage All Pork Cookbook
Roger Hong's Chinese Vedeo Cookbook Pork and Beef
Pork and Sons
The Crackling Cookbook: pork, bacon and ham
The New Pork Cookbook
The complete pork cookbook
The Magnetic Pork Cookbook Amazon.com: pork cookbooks
and happy valentine's day to you!
Funny that the first comment is from "bacon dreamz." My guess is that he eith has a crush on the mortgage pig or just wants to eat it.
Can't it be both?
Happy Valentine's Day Tanta!
Very nice, Tanta. Happy VD to you too.
I [heart] mortgage pig.
Paulson testimony forecasts that U.S. should dodge recession - Feb. 14, 2008
Liar liar house on fire.....
Thanks for the beautiful Valentine's Day pig Tanta. Hope you have a great day.
Now my valentines day card has coffee on it (snorted out through my nose).
Thanks Gary.
"Liar liar house on fire....."
Zac, There will be no recession as long as the gov't controls the economic data and can redefine recession whenever need be.
We are all Valentine pigs now.
OT Trade Deficit Falls After 5 Record Years
My favorite snippet...
The Bush administration credits its free trade policies for spurring strong growth in exports... Ya right.
Hoocoodathunkit that the fed chief would double as 'Trade Czar'?
I notice all the lines used to draw the Pig are convex. [ducks]
Worst day of my life
Thanks for the picture! Reminds me of:
Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Piggy, piggy, piggy. Oink, oink, oink.
"Happy VD"
Oy!!!!!!!
National Association of Hallucinogen Abusers reports prices fall in 77 metropolitan areas.
Home Prices Fall in 77 U.S. Metro Areas, Realtors Say (Update3) - Bloomberg.com
Happy Valentine from one of your little piglets. :>)!
Happy Valentines Day and thanks for the chuckle!
Zac writes: [re: Paulson] Liar liar house on fire.....
Ah, cut him some slack, he's only talking GWB's book...
(But he should learn to avoid giving that deer-in-the-headlights look so elegantly captured in the photograph in the article.)
And, it rhymes with stupidity. "Shut up, Max"
Little pigs Little pigs let me in.....Happy Valentines to you to Tanta.
I still think the mortgage pig needs an Amazon wish list.
I still think the mortgage pig needs an Amazon wish list.
I'm still not sure the Pig is entirely literate, but I'll ask him what's on his reading list . . . if you insist . . .
Happy Valentines! Can't wait to see what the pig hoists on St. Paddys
Can't wait to see what the pig hoists on St. Paddys...
A tall frosty mug of Bernanke Brand Kool-Aid.
I think student loan debt is the next sub prime crisis. We encourage students to run up $40 to $50 thousand in debt and for that they get a BA in History or something equally worthless. They are not going to be able to get a good enough job to pay it off. Can you put lipstick on the student loan pig?
I wuz going to send a personalized Valentine card signed with my blue mechanical pencil, but haloscan is easier.
How appropriate that the Mortgage Pig wears lipstick, perhaps in recognition of Wall Street's success at marketing CDOs--which entailed putting a whole lot of lipstick on a whole lot of pigs.
"I'm still not sure the Pig is entirely literate, but I'll ask him what's on his reading list . . . if you insist . . ."
ah, the Mortgage Pig is male, that explains so much... and he's waving a little flag too, lol.
Happy Hearts Day.
I cant wait to check out the Mortgage Pig profile on Amazon to see his wish list.
Please link here if she(?) sets one up
he wears lipstick?
"I'm still not sure the Pig is entirely literate, but I'll ask him"
Didn't Mortgage Pig wear lipstick? Oh well, it doesn't matter, plenty of males are using cosmetics these days.
Send him/her food or money. That's what piggies crave.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Tanta, I just want to say thank you for all your efforts and happy valentine's day. I appreciate the depths of your posts, your writing style, and sense of humor.
The Fed may want to borrow the mortgate pig's flag to wave around...
Happy Valentine's Day to you, too! Hearts and flowers all around.
Can't wait to see what the pig hoists on St. Paddys
Well, if I could figure out how to draw a petard in Excel, we'd have that gag planned in advance . . .
ah, a pig for all seasons.... I eagerly await Colombus Day Pig.
kisses!
oh yeah.. because Colombus Day Pig sails upon the wide accountan-sea! [groan]
love from a poor lurker... Mwah!
I am looking forward to Colobus Day, myself.
Lemurs
Mortgage Pig, Mortgage Pig...
Doing whatever a Mortgage Pig does...
Amazon wish list excerpts;
Porky's II The Revenge
Babe II, In The City
The Butcher Always Rings Twice
Charlotte's Web of Lies
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sir Francis Bacon's Journals: The Rarest of Princes
More Than You Want To Know by CR & Tanta (pre-order only)
As Charlotte wrote in her web,"Terrific"
And as George Harrison wrote:
(Harrison)
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
YouTube -
Happy Valentine's day Tanta.
I tell ya, the corruption of Valentine's Day in the USA to include all and sundry has always irritated me; especially the extension of the concept of specifically romantic love to some generalized stuff including mothers, sisters, grandmothers, for gawd's sake.
But PIGS ? I must protest.
-K
Tanta,
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. I just want to say that in this day and age true wit is in extremely short supply. I am in awe of your cupidity pun. Sheer unadulterated brilliance! OK, does that sound a bit breathless? Apologies.
Ok, I can't stop laughing! Brilliant! And I like the edit for Peri,lol.
Wow- sk,...I never knew there was a Valentine's Day Grinch.
Wow- sk,...I never knew there was a Valentine's Day Grinch.
sdtfs
Just to clarify, I was joking regarding the Mortgage pig, of course.
But I stand by the rest - perhaps next year they'll create Valentine Day cards to send to oneself ! Come to think of it that might be a true expression of romantic love - but, errr, seeing as this is a family style blog I won't go further and blind(
) the audience with additional clarification.
-K
Luv the pig but is there a foreseeable bottom to this pig?
Luv the pig but is there a foreseeable bottom to this pig?
Rumor has that it has a very long tail.
Amazon wish list excerpts;
Porky's II The Revenge
Babe II, In The City
The Butcher Always Rings Twice
Charlotte's Web of Lies
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sir Francis Bacon's Journals: The Rarest of Princes
More Than You Want To Know by CR & Tanta (pre-order only)
Awww... I want to pre-order the "more than you wanna know" book by CR & Tanta
it's the one about how to become rich flippin' houses in SoCal, right.....
Happy Valentine's Day to y'all
Thread music: Dinah Washington - Mad About The Pig..uh.Boy
YouTube - Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy
And Amazon's Pork Cookbooks:
The Southern Heritage All Pork Cookbook
Roger Hong's Chinese Vedeo Cookbook Pork and Beef
Pork and Sons
The Crackling Cookbook: pork, bacon and ham
The New Pork Cookbook
The complete pork cookbook
The Magnetic Pork Cookbook
Amazon.com: pork cookbooks
Who does Perry in the lower right refer to?
Who does Perry in the lower right refer to?
Michael "We're Not Greedy and Stupid" Perry, CEO of IndyMac.
Calculated Risk: IndyMac: We Were Not Greedy and Stupid
awesome thanks; made my day
cheers and happy v-day!
Can "YouPig" be far behind?
Thanks for the card Tanta. You rock!