1 Estonia - that's where Pauly Shore is from, right?

2 Hey don't laugh at The Baltic Tiger.

3 The Kroon?????  That is a joke right???

Right????

4 Uhhhh, can I change my mind about that?

5 Anybody want some of this?

6 3 The Kroon?????  That is a joke right???

Right????

Posted by: Vic at June 08, 2010 02:03 PM (6taRI)

Excuse me?

7 This is great for Euro exports.

8
Their mighty kroon Poon will reinvigorate the Euro......

9 The mouse that roared?

10 Don't worry if that doesn't work there's always the Slovakian Koruna!

11 It's a trap!

12 So now that the Euro is smothered in just enough weak sauce, little fringe players like Estonia get to pile on? 

13 What about the moron? maybe we should help them out.

14 Hey, what about my EU application? The Pornian Poon is worth a hell of a lot more than the Kroon. Definitely a hard currency.

15 Don't worry if that doesn't work there's always the Slovakian Koruna!


...wait, that happened last year. 

16 damn slovaks.

17

hey this euro business sounds like a ponzi scheme!

_{but of course it can't be; it's totally 100% honest.}

18 8
Their mighty kroon Poon will reinvigorate the Euro......

Posted by: Fish at June 08, 2010 02:05 PM (v1gw3)

not unless you also include me...

19  I suppose the peso will save us. 

20 What about the moron? maybe we should help them out.

That's moroon, buster.

21 It could be strait out of a Monty Python sketch.

22 The whole goddamn world has gone completely motherfucking insane.

23 But I don't want the Euro to be saved; I want a cheap vacation to Bayern in September.

24

Think of it; this implies Estonia thinks using the Euro is an improvement. 

Can't you just hear it now - "I soon as the boat sinks low enough we'll climb in and be saved!"

25 We'll bring the chips and salsa.

26 The Czech Koruna, now that's where the wise investor puts his money.

27

Think of it; this implies Estonia thinks using the Euro is an improvement. 

I bet they're gonna get a good return when if the euro _ever recovers.

28 They've had a flat tax for a while...and it worked. (Growing the economy, that is)

29 Hey you just wait until I bring my friends from Latvia and Lithuania in on this deal.  You will see how it is done, this punching up, not down.

30
Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas believes Estonia is the capital city of Mars.

31

Word is that the Maoris are thinking about joining the Eurozone with their giant stone discs with holes in the middle. 

32 Estonia would be a lot less populated if the cow could fit in the sauna.

33
When's Estonia gonna become the 58th state daddy?

34 ^{Great Success!}

35 The value of the American dollar vs the pound and the euro has gone up dramatically under Obama The Euro may go to par with the dollar and Sterling may fall to $1.25

36
Why do we use the Euro for monopoly money daddy?

37 This would be hilarious if the stakes weren't so dire.

38 What #23 said.

39 There's no way I'm going to carry a basket of 15 currencies to sell gas to Europe.

Get me Helicopter Ben!

40 Sell!! Sell!! SEE-EELLL!!!!!!!

41 You laugh, but you cowboy American imperialists don't qualify to join.

42

Why bother to try to 'save' euro? 

It's not likely you will be thanked as 'the hero'.

43 In domestic news, if you want to keep your insurance, tough shit.

44

The kroons should all go back to Estonia.

45 Did Estonia steal your plan daddy?

46 But thanks to the global recession, the country has finally met the eurozone's inflation criterion. So the world came to them.

47

Not a bad time for a European vacation, if that's what you are into.

My trip to England last week was a lot cheaper than it otherwise would have been, but it still wasn't cheap.

48 The Kroon????? That is a joke right??? Probably the local word for 'crown'. Crowns have been used in Europe for over half a millennia, at least, and are used as the currency of several European nations (pre-Euro). No, the joke is, "Estonia will save us!!"

49

Meanwhile, the Swiss National Bank has been buying up Euros. Either the yodelers think that Euros are an awesome investment, like, totally sweet; or else they've been trying to prop up the Euro's value (failing at it, but n/m that).

On the assumption that there's no saving the Euro - and most of us morons agree on that - why are the Swiss even bothering at this point?

50 Screw Estonia, we all know Molvania is the EU's savior!

http://tinyurl.com/yfnt4x

51

My trip to England last week was a lot cheaper than it otherwise would have been, but it still wasn't cheap.

Did you encounter trouble when you tried to buy stuff with Euros?

52

My trip to England last week was a lot cheaper than it otherwise would have been, but it still wasn't cheap.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at June 08, 2010 02:20 PM (oIp16)

Did you meet any chicks with bad teeth?

53 The Swiss banks may be in even worse shape, who have they been lending money to.

54 This Euro situation is giving me and my crew nightmares. After long nights of binge drinking and beer pong, it's hard to get to sleep. We're thinking round-the-clock games of Quarters might help, I'll keep you informed.

55 What about the moron? maybe we should help them out. The Gold Moron will remain a stable source of value for as long as the Moron Nation maintains its taste for booze, firearms, and filthy-dirty pornography. Which means forever. Our Gold Moron will become the most valued currency in the world -- it is our destiny. Each coin is emblazoned with the immortal motto Ace Gratia Deus Rex Fatuus* *Ace: By the Grace of God King of the Morons

56

Did you meet any chicks with bad teeth?

Posted by: Fish at June 08, 2010 02:21 PM (v1gw3)

Shockingly, they all seemed to have pretty good teeth. Yes, I was looking for that.

57 The value of the American dollar vs the pound and the euro has gone up dramatically under Obama The Euro may go to par with the dollar and Sterling may fall to $1.25

We suck less!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!

58 If Estonia joins the Euro, it may capsize.

59

But thanks to the global recession, the country has finally met the eurozone's inflation criterion.

LOFL.

Estonia has adhered to all the EU rules governing budget deficits and total government debt

Yeah sure. Because they've been printing kroon and inflating it away.

What do you think is going to happen when can't print anymore? Cut spending?

Bwahahaha.

60 *Ace: By the Grace of God King of the Morons

Posted by: Monty at June 08, 2010 02:22 PM (4Pleu)

Heh, you and ace should start selling the Moron and get it into circulation. If I could ever get out of the stock market i would buy some.

61

Ace Gratia Dei Rex Fatuorum, I'd think...

(nominative / ablative <- genitive / nominative <- genitive-plural)

62 50

Meanwhile, the Swiss National Bank has been buying up Euros. Either the yodelers think that Euros are an awesome investment, like, totally sweet; or else they've been trying to prop up the Euro's value (failing at it, but n/m that).

On the assumption that there's no saving the Euro - and most of us morons agree on that - why are the Swiss even bothering at this point?

Posted by: Zimriel at June 08, 2010 02:20 PM (9Sbz+)

Buy low, sell high. I've made 11% in 3 months investing in UUP (US Dollar fund)

63

Wait, Estonia or Elbonia?

It's interesting that the stock market seems driven these days not by the success of individual companies, nor even America's looming debt, but the stability of the Euro.

64 Is "the moron" exchange rate tied to Valu-Rite 750ml jugs?

65 22 It could be strait out of a Monty Python sketch.
_________________

My hovercraft is full of eels to you, too, bub!

66 Should we give the english any credit for staying out of this?

67 *Ace: By the Grace of God King of the Morons

His other titles include   Lord of the Ewoks and The Terror of the Transient

68 Estonia - run the other way - save yourselves -

69 Heh, you and ace should start selling the Moron and get it into circulation. If I could ever get out of the stock market i would buy some. For those who missed my "new currency" idea in a previous thread, here's how it plays out. The Moron Nation puts out its own private currency. It is backed by a basket of commodities in line with the Moron lifestyle: liquor and tobacco, houses of ill-repute, pirate-hoards of gold and silver. The coinage (no paper money here) will be as follows: The Fool (Silver) = 1/10 oz silver (about $2) The Idjit (Silver) = 10 Fools The Cretin (Gold) = 10 Idjits (1/10 oz of gold) The Dullard (Gold) = 10 Cretins The Moron (Gold) = 10 Dullards The Buffoon (Gold) = 10 Morons, used only for large transactions and bribes, and the only Moron Nation money to exist in paper-based form (as a warehouse-receipt for actual Gold Morons in deposit)

70 62 (nominative / ablative <- genitive / nominative <- genitive-plural)
________________

My grammar's a bit rusty. Ablative is the case used when talking about heat shields, right?

71 It's only a matter of time before Guilder and Florin are admitted to the EU. Then we'll see some fun.

72
Daddy, can we go to Estonia instead of Kenya to celebrate your marriage to mommy?

73 Monty rocks.

74

Estonia has not only done what every EU member should have been doing all along, they've also implemented a flat tax and lately have been decreasing the tax rate. And their timing looks to be perfect. When they convert to euros at the end of the year, it looks like they'll be getting a lot of them.

There is a downside to all of this Estonian goodness, however:

http://tinyurl.com/24fww78

 

75
Daddy, were you ever a witch doctor in Kenya?

76

OOooohh looka, Godzirra! He come to save us fromu  YOUVEE skin cancah! We mustsu to stand in da protective shade of his footsu!

77 The Fool (Silver) = 1/10 oz silver (about $2)
The Idjit (Silver) = 10 Fools
The Cretin (Gold) = 10 Idjits (1/10 oz of gold)
The Dullard (Gold) = 10 Cretins
The Moron (Gold) = 10 Dullards
The Buffoon (Gold) = 10 Morons, used only for large transactions and bribes, and the only Moron Nation money to exist in paper-based form (as a warehouse-receipt for actual Gold Morons in deposit)

Posted by: Monty at June 08, 2010 02:30 PM (4Pleu)

Too metric.  This is America, dammit.

78

Hi-five...very nice!

 

 

79
Daddy, Aunt Zetuni told mommy she has a great job. 

80 The coinage (no paper money here) will be as follows:

I find this system excessively metric and therefore too French. 

The Moron should be 12 Dullards while the Buffoon is 8 Morons.

81 Dammit Herr.

82 Fools' Silver?

83 Monty, can you make change for a Dipshit?

84

Posted by: Monty at June 08, 2010 02:30 PM (4Pleu)

What is the face value for an Obama?

85

Too metric.  This is America, dammit.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 08, 2010 02:35 PM (5aa4z)

I disagree, what do most morons have 10 of. Toes, it couldn't be simpler.

86 Too metric. This is America, dammit. I guess we should go by weights rather than fixed exchange-rates between coins. (We want to avoid the bimetallism problems -- Gresham's Law). I would fix the Gold Moron at 1 oz fine gold, and the Idjit at 1 oz fine silver. The other coins would be issued at fractional weights of these benchmark coins, not at fractional values.

87 I think an Obama gets you 4 Hopes, 3 Changes, and a spot on the bread line.

88

The ablative case is a barbaric relic of the Bronze Age that somehow survived in Italic languages down to the point when Roman grammarians codified the Latin language. It was identified by the mediaeval Church as a torture device and banned.

The Greeks sensibly abandoned it, overloading the genitive for most of its functions.

Ablative is used after propositions like ex and ab, "out of" or "from"; also, after "de", which means "concerning" or "about". Mediaeval Latin later used the "de" construct to replace the genitive, I assume because they didn't want to do anything much like what those heretical Orthodox Greeks did.

Anyway, so I was guessing that "by the grace of God" would be an ablative.

89

I think an Obama gets you 4 Hopes, 3 Changes, and a spot on the bread line.

....4 Hopes, 3 Changes, 2 Empty Value-Rite bottles, and a spot......

90 Estonia? What about Freedonia?

91 and you learn something everyday ...

92
The ONT: backed by stompy boots and pudding futures. Its value allowed to float relative to boob pix, midget pron, chocolate shout outs and shocking YouTube videos.

93 Anyway, so I was guessing that "by the grace of God" would be an ablative. Dei Gratia>/i>? I never was good at Latin.

94

MONTY HOW DO YOU SAY THE "12 MONTHS" IN ESTONIAN?

 

The EU let them in for comedy's sake

http://tinyurl.com/c2hqpd

 

95

Wait until they admit Stankonia to the EU

96

How's about for Aµ for the symbol for this money?

(I figure "A" for Ace, and the greek "m" could be both for the unit and its developer. Put them together and it kinda looks like "Au," the chemical symbol for gold.)

97 Bless you for the econ posts, Monty.

98 How's about for Aµ for the symbol for this money? I endorse this idea. My photoshop skillz are negligible, but this is one of the cases where I wish I could gin up some decent mock-ups of the coins. The jokes just write themselves. Maybe Slu will indulge us?

99

Yeah, Dei Gratia is the standard church-latin way of doing it. Dei is the genitive which is the Latin way of signifying possession.

100 Posted by: Monty at June 08, 2010 02:30 PM (4Pleu)

Threadwinnah!!

101 We will need smaller coins too. I suggest the Shirt and the Knowledge, because the guys get Shirts, and you need to put me some f'in' Knowledge.

102 Now write out Ace Dei Gratia Rex Fatuorum 100 times or I'll cut your balls off.

103 Semper Ubi Sub Ubi

104 44 In domestic news, if you want to keep your insurance, tough shit.

Posted by: HeatherRadish, Ugly-American at June 08, 2010 02:17 PM (mR7mk)

From your link:

A cadre of employers and trade associations, including 7-Eleven, LoweÂ’s, the National Restaurant Association, the National Retail Federation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have asked the administration to allow the plans — at least through 2014, when the insurance exchanges are set up and tax credits become available for low-wage workers. 

[. . . ]

If the ban is strictly implemented, “this population would likely be left with no coverage until 2014,” employer groups wrote last week in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. “While it surely was not the intent of Congress or the administration to increase the number of uninsured, this provision will likely produce exactly this result for some of the most vulnerable of our population, e.g., lower-wage, part-time, seasonal and temporary workers who can only obtain and afford limited-benefit medical insurance coverage.”

LOL that was a good one! Everyone knew that was the very purpose of the bill!

105 I think you should use ace's logo with the au on the forhead

106 We will need smaller coins too. A Fool is only 1/10 oz of silver (about $2 currently). Smaller coins would be too small to handle, and I don't want to muck things up by introducing copper coins into the mix. If there is a market for such, it will materialize -- remember, our currency-market is privatized. Any company can jump in with their own (asset-backed, of course) currency.

107 also what demonination would be flaming skull be?

108

Meanwhile, the Swiss National Bank has been buying up Euros. Either the yodelers think that Euros are an awesome investment, like, totally sweet; or else they've been trying to prop up the Euro's value (failing at it, but n/m that).

On the assumption that there's no saving the Euro - and most of us morons agree on that - why are the Swiss even bothering at this point?

Because the Sikhs shouln't be having all the fun. That's why!

109 23 The whole goddamn world has gone completely motherfucking insane. is falling into chaos. 

FIFY.

110

also what demonination would be flaming skull be?

Zoroastrian

111

We will need smaller coins too.

A Fool is only 1/10 oz of silver (about $2 currently). Smaller coins would be too small to handle, and I don't want to muck things up by introducing copper coins into the mix. If there is a market for such, it will materialize -- remember, our currency-market is privatized. Any company can jump in with their own (asset-backed, of course) currency.

 

Smaller denominations could include the chump (1/50 oz) used for making change. An alternate smaller denomination is the skittle, used for paying off  the 'other' type of Moron.

112

Meanwhile, the Swiss National Bank has been buying up Euros. Either the yodelers think that Euros are an awesome investment, like, totally sweet; or else they've been trying to prop up the Euro's value (failing at it, but n/m that).

They are just pissed by the public reaction to Helen Thomas's comments. They were hopeful the jews would come back to Poland and Germany. For whatever reason they seems to see it as profitable...

113

Smaller denominations could include the chump (1/50 oz) used for making change. An alternate smaller denomination is the skittle, used for paying off  the 'other' type of Moron.

Actually I think the Iraqi Dinar is pegged to the Skittle.

114

"His other titles include   Lord of the Ewoks and The Terror of the Transient"

Don't forget - Hammer of the Hobos

 

 

115

Moron related: Jules Crittenden has on his site a survey of naughty language usage on web sites. This is broken down into left and right wing sites. My fellow Morons, we are #1, at least on the right. I chose not to besmirch myself looking over at the left.

116

"Actually I think the Iraqi Dinar is pegged to the Skittle."

So are we having Skittles for dinar?

117 Jean-Claude Trichet

the name Trichet looks and sounds way too much to me like tricher, which is the French verb to CHEAT.

118 What does Estonia have against itself?

119 Don't make fun of Estonia, it's probably the most capitalist free market country in Eastern Europe and about as anti-communist as Europeans could get. The EU is in such desperate financial shape that they want as any countries with relatively stable currency, like the Kroon, piling into the Euro to prop it up.

120

That 'cocks taste good' link above has me rethinking all my criticism.

I am moving to Estonia.

121

122 Holy shit!
When Larry Kudlow says the economy is screwed, we truly and utterly screwed.

123 As someone who enjoys vacationing in Europe, I support the Euro's current position. The hotel rates in U.S. dollars are sweet right now.

124 That Kudlow is off the pipe is chilling. His unrelenting optimism is fun to watch. "Kudlow! We've hit an iceberg!" "OmiGod! Titanic stock will be unbelievably cheap tomorrow!"

125 xxx