Lenn...that was pretty funny...you have the humor like my dad did...I wonder if you are poker faced while thinking this stuff up but laughing it up in your head! And funny...but sad and true.

Lenn- and we wonder why the mortgage market is so screwed up.. Wall St  makes it easy to play money games.. which is fine as long as they don't expect he tax payer to bail them out when things go south..

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Lenn, That picture is worth a lot more than a thousand words.

Lenn: Hmmmm...NOPE, I think I'll pass on the parts procurement! You make the best graphics, though.

Jay 

This is much closer to the truth than it is satirical.  Pools used to be sold EXACTLY the way Lenn described.