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Funny story: Greece to Buy BP Oil

Greece to Buy BP Oil

Greece has today agreed to buy 3/4 of the BP oil slick in a move which will ease the pressure on Louisiana. Greek PM Kostos Toomuchis explained the decision: "Petrol prices have risen so fast that some of our rioters are paying up to 1.6 Euros...

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Funny story: Draft Banking Reform given Green Light

Draft Banking Reform given Green Light

Vince Cable, the coalition government's business secretary, formally outlines his banking reform proposals today. It comes only a day before Prime Minister's questions, when he releases the draft in full and puts the bill before the house. An ano...

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Funny story: "You're more likely to get run-over than get a mortgage" admit banks

"You're more likely to get run-over than get a mortgage" admit banks

A leading high street lender has admitted you are more likely to be run over than get a mortgage approved with their bank, and only slightly less likely to die in the bath. Banks appear to be 'advertising their wares' more than ever but an insider...

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Funny story: Educators Flee From Financial Fate

Educators Flee From Financial Fate

In recent months, many schools across the UK are finding their historical build, and engraved memories - which may perhaps be recognised as Graffiti - to be frowned upon. Therefore, councils have deemed it absolutely necessary that a vast abundance o...

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Funny story: Top 2010 Investment Tips

Top 2010 Investment Tips

New York, NY: Expectations for significant economic growth are foreseen in the second half of 2010, according to a blue ribbon panel of financial, economic, and business leaders. Despite uncertain global economic conditions plagued by mounting i...

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Funny story: Pound goes missing

Pound goes missing

Markets were spooked this afternoon after Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England took 'the pound' out for lunch and forgot to put it back. Brokers, some of them sober, were incensed that the pound could not be traded this afternoon and asked...

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Funny story: Con-Dems to make savings to save the economy

Con-Dems to make savings to save the economy

George Osborne has been laying out his plan for reducing the six billion Stirling budget deficit in the UK, and it will be a bitter pill to swallow, in part because sugar is to be removed from all oral medication. The standard cuts of not employin...

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Funny story: Obama Announces Ways To Bailout U.S. Economy. Wasn't Aware Viagra Was In Health Bill!

Obama Announces Ways To Bailout U.S. Economy. Wasn't Aware Viagra Was In Health Bill!

"That's not to say that we are in bad shape", stated the President. "We've been in debt most of my lifetime but I inadvertently ran it up higher than I intended, because of some bad advice." (YOU LIE!!) "Ahem. So we must start raising the taxes...

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Funny story: Rats Jump Overboard at White House as Obama Pours More Water into Sinking Ship of State!

Rats Jump Overboard at White House as Obama Pours More Water into Sinking Ship of State!

Reporters were stunned yesterday during a Presidential address in the Rose Garden when even the Rats started to leave the White House as Obama began to speak about his newest scheme to control US Banks and tinker with the failing economy. With the...

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Funny story: Germany to join Sterling Bloc

Germany to join Sterling Bloc

The real reason for David Cameron's visit to Angela Merkel has been revealed. There has been a secret agreement that Germany will join the Sterling Bloc. Frau Merkel is reported to have said: "Ze Euro has got ze Swine Flu - Deutchland cannot supp...

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Funny story: Clients Worried About Goldman's Dueling Skills; Those With Highest Losses Demanding 'Time On the Mat' with Sachs's CEO

Clients Worried About Goldman's Dueling Skills; Those With Highest Losses Demanding 'Time On the Mat' with Sachs's CEO

"Questions have been raised that go to the heart of this institution's most fundamental value: how we service our clients." - Lloyd C. Blanketyblank, Goldman Sachs's C.E.O., at the firm's annual meeting and finger-pointing, held this month at an undi...

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Funny story: President Obama Explains Exactly How U.S. Will Pay Off Debts

President Obama Explains Exactly How U.S. Will Pay Off Debts

"I hope Greece, Italy and Britain are watching closely as I, President of the United States of Ken..America, Nobel Prize winner and other prize winner, some from my enemies, tell you how we will pay off all our national debt by November." With t...

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Funny story: The Big Fat Greek Bailout

The Big Fat Greek Bailout

Until a few weeks ago, most Americans were only dimly aware that Greece still existed anywhere other than that strange mythological place known as, "Ancient History." Today, as if by Zeus-like magical powers, Americans are now part owners in what som...

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Funny story: Thai Economy Is Fueled by the 'Soapie'

Thai Economy Is Fueled by the 'Soapie'

Chaing Mai, Thailand. The current violence in Thailand is seriously affecting the tourism business. Hardest hit are the bars, hotels, brothels, and assorted sensual services that earn millions of dollars for the local economy. Here in Chaing Mai...

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Funny story: Olympic Budget Slashed By Coalition

Olympic Budget Slashed By Coalition

After the smiles came the cuts. And none bigger than the cut to the Olympic budget. The new Coalition Government has wasted no time in making cuts to public expenditure. The Olympics were won at a considerable cost to the nation. Now George Osbour...

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Funny story: America To Join Euro

America To Join Euro

The United States of America has been given the green light to be the eighteenth nation to join the Euro. As soon as Estonia has surrendered its sovereignty and become a toady to European capital, it will be the turn of the USA. President Obama ha...

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Funny story: British tax payers refuse to bail out Greece

British tax payers refuse to bail out Greece

British taxpayers are refusing to bail out Greece. It was decided they should do so under a sneaky European Union deal. "It's just not fair," said one British taxpayer, Arthur Giblet, of Berwick Hills. "They did it in a bloody sneaky way wit...

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