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I wonder what this world is coming to When we have to overcomplicate everything All I hear on the TV of late Is ‘bare craic’ as my northern Irish friend would say – “I can’t understand this credit crunch,” she said Poignantly, (neither could I) “I think I’ll take A dander down to the shops.” And so she did We were out of milk And living off salami I picked up the paper And I realise nothing is without a price Or a fate They are the two certainties So is death And the price is not so hard to see either. The American bigwigs sit round a table Complaining what is to be done about the financial crisis? Each eating a $16 dollar muffin with their $8.48 coffee Wondering where oh where can money be saved? And they’ll get back in their private limos Drive past their second addresses Back down to Bel-air Lock themselves in their villas Count their bonuses And sleep happy After doing jack **** While Greece is going down the crapper. I can see the solution Can you? Or is it just me? Or can you see it to?
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011 at 3:06 PM UTC
A Confederacy of Dunces
I wonder what this world is coming to When we have to overcomplicate everything All I hear on the TV of late Is ‘bare craic’ as my northern Irish friend would say – “I can’t understand this credit crunch,” she said Poignantly, (neither could I) “I think I’ll take A dander down to the shops.” And so she did We were out of milk And living off salami I picked up the paper And I realise nothing is without a price Or a fate They are the two certainties So is death And the price is not so hard to see either. The American bigwigs sit round a table Complaining what is to be done about the financial crisis? Each eating a $16 dollar muffin with their $8.48 coffee Wondering where oh where can money be saved? And they’ll get back in their private limos Drive past their second addresses Back down to Bel-air Lock themselves in their villas Count their bonuses And sleep happy After doing jack **** While Greece is going down the crapper. I can see the solution Can you? Or is it just me? Or can you see it to?
dan-hinton
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011 at 3:06 PM UTC
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