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A spot of bother in the UK

· Health & medical

Oh dear… seems the EU is being beastly to us again.

I wonder if I can buy brain futures or it is just pork bellies?

May 21st, 2009 |

11 comments to A spot of bother in the UK

  • RAB
    May 21, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    Holy jumpin Jesus!

    They’re having a laugh

    Please?

    Surely?

  • mandrill
    May 21, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    lol, a friend sent this link to me a few days ago. I love it when memes are deliberately conjoined in a humourous way like this. 😀

    When I first saw it, I’ll admit that it did take a minute to register that it was a spoof. (the address was a dead giveaway however).

  • Laird
    May 22, 2009 at 3:39 am

    The source of zombie-ism in “Shaun of the Dead” (that was a documentary, right?) was never adequately explained. I guess we now have the answer.

  • Alisa
    May 22, 2009 at 8:38 am

    RAB:

    Holy jumpin Jesus!

    Pun intended? 🙂

  • RAB
    May 22, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Always my love!

  • Kristopher
    May 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Jesus was a zombie?

    Fast or slow one?

  • RAB
    May 22, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Well fast I’d say Kristopher.
    His whole career was briefer than the average one hit wonders boy band.

    But he had it nailed down by the age of thirty.

    (pun alert!)

  • Alisa
    May 22, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Ouch:-) Pity Mid isn’t around.

  • Laird
    May 24, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Perry, I’ve been thinking about the question you posed, and am having trouble seeing how a market in brain futures could develop. For you to buy them there would have to be a seller, and I can’t see how anyone who actually had any would be on that side of the trade. (Well, for the right price I suppose I could be persuaded to sell a little of my excess capacity, or Rush Limbaugh might sell the half he has “tied behind his back”, but that’s hardly enough to make for a truly liquid market.) And I certainly don’t think you’d want to buy them from a “naked” short seller; how could you expect take delivery?

  • Sunfish
    May 25, 2009 at 4:12 am

    A discussion of brain derivatives. Now if that don’t beat all.

  • Rich Paul
    May 27, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Hmmm … brain futures … I’d sell short. Why? Because brains tomorrow, in our dumbed down society will be worth even less than they are worth today.

    Never forget: The man who discovered fire was probably burned at the stake.

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