Friday, October 10th, 2008...10:46 pm
a big shout-out
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I would just like to say a hearty “thank you!” to the lovely financial advisor from the ANZ who cancelled our meeting 5 weeks ago, the one where I was to sign over all the secret squirrel money I have in the whole world to your “moderately aggressive” investment strategy. Love your work, Geoff!
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October 11th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Is that him watching you take the photo from the upstairs window?
The shopping trolley is a nice touch.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Niiiiice.
And to think the superannuation man scoffed when I ticked the “extra safe, cash only, paranoid, stuff it under the mattress” investment strategy.
Now to dig up all the survivalist stores I had left over from Y2K…
October 11th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Priceless!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Paul was just saying this morning, ‘What should we do to protect ourselves from this whole financial crash thing?’
To which I replied, ‘Since we don’t have any money or superannuation, we really don’t have to do anything…’
BTW: On a completely different issue: has anyone actually borne ‘Teh Mark of Teh Troll”? I would dearly like to see it.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:39 am
The Bloke saw a Finance Guy on the half past seven show saying that the best position to be in right now is without debt. The Bloke cheered up no end and danced around the house announcing that frittering away our 20s without Proper Jobs* or Savings or Mortgages and blowing the lot on travel, tertiary education and booze had been a Wise Strategy.
I reminded him that we are also without assets, which is a less cheery position, given the Rental Crisis.
* I really could hear the random capitalisation in his voice.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Awesome. My super has dropped almost a third since June, but it’s all imaginary money anyway.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Zoe, I’m so relieved to hear that!
Sometimes doing nothing has really benefited me. (I’d like to say I’m a cunning Ninja-like strateregist, but I’m just lazy.)
October 11th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Heh, the name of that apartment block always makes me laugh. It’s going to get shabbier and shabbier too, and I can’t wait until the letters start falling off.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Pav, I think he may have been standing at the top of the stairwell next door at “Biarittz” (fully sic).
And Duck, they have started falling off. The “M” and “T” in the street address have a pronounced lean.
Cristy, I’ve only ever used Teh Mark of Teh Troll here once or twice, although it gets a more frequent airing at Hoyden About Town.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
It also gets an airing at LP now and then.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:21 am
It also gets an airing at LP now and then.
Has anyone else noticed that the WordPress/Technorati indications of when another blog has linked to your blog have suddenly gone all skew-iff?
November 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
And so what does a bloke have to do around here to get a poofy red mohawk too?
November 27th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Ya has to know the seekrit, Nabs. Although I’m not quite sure how I managed to post twice last night.
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