Bailing out the Irish euro debt : worth a read!!

gazmufc78


Joined: 03/09/2009
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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 09:54

BAILING OUT THE IRISH - SIMPLE



Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.



On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.



The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.



The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.



The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.



The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub.



The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit.



The hooker then

gazmufc78


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 10:15

then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.



The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.



At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.



And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the bailout package works

dorothea


Joined: 28/06/2010
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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 10:53

The hotel proprietor is out of pocket by 100 euros. He does not keep the 100 euros the prostitute gave him.

walkerscott


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 10:59

Cassie



I really enjoyed that! Good and simple, well done.

John

eager


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 12:01

This Story was told by the Bard of 44 NN on the 3rd,........ are you just copying other peoples posts ?

gazmufc78


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 12:52

Eager, if you don't have anything positive to say keep it shut. By the way please let me know what a bard is?

eager


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 12:55

Yesterdays news i'm afraid !

Swany



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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 13:02

Re 6 Not sure if this helps: -

–noun

1. (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.

2. one of an ancient Celtic order of composers and reciters of poetry.

3. any poet.

4. the bard, William Shakespeare.



Loved the explanation of the Irish debt now put it to music and we will call you the bard of 44! Or has someone else got that title.

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 13:20

Swany, that very much amplifies Bard as poet. A Lombard (the well known financial business) is the title for those with "Loads Of Money But All Right D..heads" !

phylray



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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 19:37

I got a forwarded joke from Irish friend (don't know how to put it on here) entitled

"U.K financial crisis" and head "Somebody has to pay for the wedding.."

Picture of her majesty serving in MacDonalds. They have a nerve with their own situation!

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 21:14

As Ulstermen used to say "the Irish do not want The Crown but readily take the Half Crown".