i dont know dave. butternuts can describe a lot of the beatdown wig store shopping trannies who hang out in the west village. but if you want to name a store after that, all the more power to you!
Yes rob, any word that has “nut” as part of it is now found in the lame urban disctionary to represent teticles. 99.9% of the people in this country don’t consult the urban disctionary.
No one uses “butternut” in desribing the all-too-common “butterface” phenomenon. 🙂
“Some of the billions of dollars that the U.S. government paid to bail out American International Group Inc. stand to benefit hedge funds that bet on a falling housing market, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The documents show how Wall Street banks were middlemen in trades with hedge funds and AIG that left the giant insurer holding the bag on billions of dollars of assets tied to souring mortgages. AIG has put in escrow some money for at least one major bank, Deutsche Bank AG, whose hedge-fund clients made bets against the housing market, according to a person familiar with the matter. The money will be released to the bank if mortgage defaults rise above a certain level.
In essence, while the U.S. government is busy trying to prop up the housing market — by trying to limit foreclosures, among other things — it is simultaneously putting up cash that could be used to pay off investors who bet housing prices would tumble and many mortgage holders would default.
It’s unclear how much government money might eventually flow to hedge-fund investors. Overall, the government has committed up to $173.3 billion to bail out AIG. Of that amount, AIG’s housing-related bets have cost U.S. taxpayers some $52 billion.”
“Yes! What – we need a pic!
I was angling for age 7, but any age will do! C’mon, if you have 3 desktops, I bet you have a scanner, too!”
Those pictures are the property of The New State of Child Psychiatric Services…
The What (and a shot also???!!!)
Someday this war is gonna end…
rob…”butternuts can describe a lot of the beatdown wig store shopping trannies who hang out in the west village”
you live in a different world than most people. Most people only know butternut as a squash.
On another note, I’m ranting in the Vox Pop thread.
Here’s a link to the Baldwin piece:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/
books/2009/02/09/090209crbo_books_pierpont
[Sorry, one day I’ll learn to do tinyurls.]
Here’s my contribution to our collective amusement:
http://family.webshots.com/album/570581000uecKUN
i dont know dave. butternuts can describe a lot of the beatdown wig store shopping trannies who hang out in the west village. but if you want to name a store after that, all the more power to you!
*rob*
cobble–James Baldwin is pretty amazing as well. I know that Color of Water is being scripted for a movie now.
Yes rob, any word that has “nut” as part of it is now found in the lame urban disctionary to represent teticles. 99.9% of the people in this country don’t consult the urban disctionary.
No one uses “butternut” in desribing the all-too-common “butterface” phenomenon. 🙂
I can’t agree more that more so than any period in our history, politicians are a much greater part of the problem.
From the Wall Street Journal… Get your rage on:
“Some of the billions of dollars that the U.S. government paid to bail out American International Group Inc. stand to benefit hedge funds that bet on a falling housing market, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The documents show how Wall Street banks were middlemen in trades with hedge funds and AIG that left the giant insurer holding the bag on billions of dollars of assets tied to souring mortgages. AIG has put in escrow some money for at least one major bank, Deutsche Bank AG, whose hedge-fund clients made bets against the housing market, according to a person familiar with the matter. The money will be released to the bank if mortgage defaults rise above a certain level.
In essence, while the U.S. government is busy trying to prop up the housing market — by trying to limit foreclosures, among other things — it is simultaneously putting up cash that could be used to pay off investors who bet housing prices would tumble and many mortgage holders would default.
It’s unclear how much government money might eventually flow to hedge-fund investors. Overall, the government has committed up to $173.3 billion to bail out AIG. Of that amount, AIG’s housing-related bets have cost U.S. taxpayers some $52 billion.”