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12 Comments
I want my long service medal
I want my long service medal David...!!...if Walter doesn't show up for, ..er ..um a while, can I have his too...?
Silver eh...? it'll have to do I guess.
Oh....long service.....hmmm
Oh....long service.....hmmm that usually contains a good bahaviour element to it so that might count our Walter out with his bans and terrorist activities.
....... me too ... although
....... me too ... although Bernard knows I don't mean any harm ..... well , not much .... less harm than Al Qaeda ...... probably ...
What flavour are these silver medals ..... do they come in mango ?
GBH, he can't help you with
GBH, he can't help you with the flavour but you can choose your colour
Southampton scientists change the colour of gold
Prof Nikolay Zheludev, who leads the nanophotonics and metamaterials team at Southampton University, said it means gold can be made red or green or a multitude of other hues.
It can also be applied to other metals such as silver and aluminium.
Please let David know your prefared colour ASAP
The cry in some circles is
The cry in some circles is that applying it to Tungsten is old hat.
" Everything that is really
" Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom " ...... Albert Einstein ....
..... or was it Winston Peters ? ..... so easy to get those two muddled up , isn't it ....
Can I swap mine for a gold
Can I swap mine for a gold one ?
Nah...Ivan he's earmarked
Nah...Ivan he's earmarked that for Bernard as an update to the old goldwatch routine...hope it's a Bollard Commemorative Classic........................ ' Asleep at the Wheel ' pose.
Ivan, see above You can have
Ivan, see above
You can have a gold coloured silver one
Na....ya can keep it
Na....ya can keep it guys.
Don't need anything trivial.
I am waiting for the Diamond......JUBbbbILLEE....not someone coining it.
I alwasys suspect motives...being a doom and gloom merchant and never trusting any one in Finance with an ulterior motive.
Probably NPS....knowing these silversmiths.
(Knowingly ....Working for the Goldsmiths and the Rothchilds and the big banks of Mamon)
If it were gold, which has dropped this morning, would still look a gift horse...in the mouth.
Now something seems strange to me...why now they are trying to offload Silver for a few words of wisdom.
Maybe the traffic has turned....to finer things in life....now the sun is shining and all is all right with the world. (Yeah...right).
Who needs Financial Advice for keeping up their....-add-vice, when all is said and done.
Probably why Bernie is chucking in the towel and hedging his bets.
I could keep this up for years...and often did..........but summer is coming and I am going.
And will not be reading the doom and gloom...much longer.
Where else in life.... is work so hard and money is for someone elses BENEFIT.......not yours....and so little interest.
And a house of sorts and a farm of course... is not yours of course....but theirs to milk and pillage.
And some can sit on their fat behinds, take a monumental cut.....at every stage.....until they cannot....without going to jail and passing GO....and always getting a get out of JAIL FREE CARD. (And a knight hood...for the guys in the hood and a Dame for acting the same.).
Playing Monopoly.....Like Mitt and Obama....and our bleedin lot.
See...ya.later.....alligator.....DAVID, BERNIE, ROGER.......over and out.
I was wondering, does Bernard
I was wondering, does Bernard give himself a big payout, like all those overpaid CEOs get when he leaves ?
Like GMK the final bonus,
Like GMK the final bonus, following on from the golden parachute payout will be based on milestones, given the above bribe, sorry marketing hype, it may be linked to subscibers ;-)