(I suspect that rg has something to do with this...)

I wrote you a wonderful item about supermodels, geology, knickers, an orgy, and a basket of currencies, and drugs--but I failed to put an angle bracket in the right place and my post collapsed.

So, er, I may have recommended to Gisele that she get paid in euros, though my recollection is that I was encouraging her to set up a new radio station...but like I said, what with the orgy, the drugs, and let's not mention the argument about feldspars, it's too painful (you see, I was wrong and she--a PhD in geology, but how was I to know?)

...well, like I said, it may not have been her--after all, she was dressed as an ostrich at the time...or was that Tyson Beckford?  It's so hard to tell when butterflies keep falling from the roof.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

although you may not have been a party to the discussion we had in the restaurant, I'm sure you were in the room. Ask around there were plenty of witnesses.

I'm sure a lot of people would be amused if the dollar fell through the floor, hubris, nemesis etc, but it won't be the people who deserve it who'll suffer. Cheney has already apparently moved a substantial portion of his ill-gotten gains into euros, Halliburton have moved to dubai.

No, as much as we might smirk (and yes I probably will a bit), it's people like us, the middle class and the poor, those with mortgages and jobs and paychecks and next to no savings who'll get it in the neck.

People died of poverty, cold and starvation in 1928, I desperately fear 2008/9 may see a repeat. I'm trying to be very careful what I wish for.

keep to the Fen Causeway

did I invent the meme 'lazy quote diary'?

or was that someone else?

if it was me, I'm just tickled pink to see other people using it, almost like a new ET tradition to join Shoe Blogging and Train Diaries...

as compare to inventing the paperclip it's small stuff, I know... but I always wanted to coin a popular meme or start a viral urban legend someday and thiw may be as close as I ever get :-)

but otoh, maybe I was just quoting someone else's catchy phrase...  what makes a meme or Ohrwurm catchy is that odd feeling of "rightness" that makes it slide easily into the back of the brain w/o any firm memory of where you first heard it...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

Supermodel Gisele Not in Buffett's Bear Camp on Dollar After All, Manager Tells CNBC

It turns out that supermodel Gisele Bundchen isn't siding with Warren Buffett as a U.S. dollar bear after all, her manager tells CNBC.

(...)  just a few minutes ago, CNBC Squawk Box producer Stephanie Landsman spoke by telephone with Anne Nelson, Bundchen's manager.  Nelson tells us reports that Gisele wants to be paid in euros are "false."   Nelson's take: "Some idiot in Brazil reported something just to make news."

Nelson points out that Gisele lives in New York City, and thus needs U.S. dollars for her big-city lifestyle.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes