I'm fuming over these gas prices but I REFUSE TO MAKE ANY SACRIFICES

> Scott en Aztlán:
> Headline news just ran a story about how people are hocking their
> valuables for gas money. They showed a guy with a Jaguar who used his
> car as collateral on a loan and hocked an antique watch; he drove away
> with $200 (maybe 4 tankfulls) in his pocket.

Local news station had a similar thing on a local pawnshop. One guy was
a lawn man. He was pawning his lawn mower for gas money.

> Looks like the pawnshops are about to be overflowing with
> bargain-priced merchandise...

> Scott en Aztlán:
> That one has got to qualify for some kind of award...

Maybe some type of "Corporate Darwin Award," for business people who put
them selves out of business in a spectacular and/or stupid way?

necromancer > wrote in
th.net:

>> Scott en Aztlán:
>> That one has got to qualify for some kind of award...
>
> Maybe some type of "Corporate Darwin Award," for business people who put
> them selves out of business in a spectacular and/or stupid way?

Hard to trumph Kenny Boy in that reguard. Maybe Bernie Ebbers.

Doug

> Doug:
> Hard to trumph Kenny Boy in that reguard. Maybe Bernie Ebbers.

Frank Lorenzo. How many airlines did he kill....