Friday, September 19, 2008

Top Ten Cloves: Names considered to rename Wall Street

By J. Thomas Duffy

As part of the government's pending, unprecedented, massive, enormous bailout of Wall Street, a component of the proposed plans is the renaming of Wall Street to commemorate the crisis:

10. You Say Bailout, We Say Loan Place

9. Trillion Dollar Turnover Turnpike

8. The McCain-Hoover Highway

7. The Economy is Fundamentally Sound Street

6. Subprime Causeway

5. Sucker Street

4. Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion Dollar Bailout Boulevard

3. Bush McCain Policy Promenade

2. Dewey Cheatem and Howe Highway

1. And You Thought the Keating Five Scandal Was Bad Boulevard

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(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)

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