Living in Slang....Part I

Friends:

Living in Slang...
Part I

We live in a culture of idiomatic sayings, and sometimes it's interesting to take a number of these idioms and slang expressions, cobble them together with some current event, and come up with a coherent utterance. At least it is interesting to the bored and A-type nuts who find little opportunity in real estate these days. So, I've taken the credit crisis and come up with a few expressions that might serve to edify, or at least confuse, aliens from another planet or country. Try these on...

Finally the "moment of truth" has arrived, and our leaders have shown themselves impotent...but we knew that already, and it's "business as usual," whereby the bailout "deal on a napkin" has now morphed into a 400-plus document that attempts to solve the "whole kit and caboodle" of everybody's needs.

Of course, we're all being asked to "swallow our pride" as our future as a viable empire "hangs in the balance". The "flash-in-the-pan fat cats" have made off with billions, and "hung us out to dry” while they figured us for "easy pickens", saturated with "egg on our faces" for being so gullible. What nerve, to ask us to "hang in there?"

But "misery loves company," and there is certainly plenty of company to go around while "the fat is in the fire." Since lately "no news is good news," the leaders have assured us that we have "dodged the bullet" of the dire consequences of "the eleventh hour," and we should have no "bone to pick" with them when this is over.

Of course, we fell "so head over heels" for their "dirty tricks" as they "pulled the wool over our eyes" we are barely "hanging by a thread" and can now read clearly "the handwriting on the wall." The shifty Wall Streeters "ran circles around us," and about all the power we have is to be able to "run off at the mouth" and "eat humble pie" until the sorry mess has "run its course."

Well, you can "eat your heart out" if you sold Wachovia in time, but for the rest of us, we will soon "have to pay the piper" for being "penny wise and pound foolish." With "other things being equal, “it seems to be an "open-and-shut-case" of serious criminal behavior, and I hope they "throw the book at” the "movers and shakers" and "eat their lunch" while they still have some.

Well, in conclusion, and to "make a long story short," I guess we'll have to "make the best of a bad situation" and "make some hay while the sun still shines." So, "make no bones about it," my friends, I'm clearly "the low man on the totem pole" here, and while I'm getting pretty "long in the tooth," I intend to continue to "live dangerously". And now, the "long and short of it" having been said, I'm going to "lay low for awhile" and in the process, be certain to "let no grass grow under my feet."

See you soon, while I have "one more for the road..."scotch, that is, single malt, and a double ! Greetings from China.

Bud
October 9, 2008