Bohemian Rhapsody

**reason** · March 20th, 2008, 11:45 AM

*** Intone to the tune of the classic song by Queen ***

Is this the real price?
Is this just fantasy?
Financial landslide
No escape from reality

Open your eyes
Look at your Buys and see
I'm just a poor boy now
A high-grade casualty

Because I bought it high, sold it low
When the rating was high, now it's low
Anyway the Fed goes
Doesn't really matter to me
To me....

Mama, just killed my credit fund
Quoted CDOs instead
Pulled the trigger, now it's dead
Mama, I had just begun
These CDOs have blown it all away
Mama, Owwwwwwwww
I still wanna buy
I sometimes wish I'd never traded at all

I see a little silhouette of a man,
Ben Bernanke! Ben Bernanke!
Will you give me liquidity?
Monolines & munis!
Very very fightening to me!
Super senior! Super senior!
Super senior CDO magnifico!

I'm stuffed with sub-prime, nobody loves me
He's long CDOs from the sub-prime family
Spare him the margin call, it's a monstrosity!
Easy come, easy go, will you give me float?

Margin call! No, we will not give you float!
Give him float!
Margin call! We will not give him float!
Give him float!
Margin call! We will not give you float!
Give him float!
No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
Mama mia! Mama mia! Mama mia give me float!
S&P put aside a rating downgrade for me....for me....for me!

So you think you can loan me funds to buy?
So you think you can margin call me and leave me to die?
Oh PB....!
Can't do this to me. PB!
Just gotta cash out!
Just gotta sell out right here!

Ratings don't really matter
Got no liquidity
No price really matters
Nothing really matters

Any way the Fed goes.

**gae** · March 20th, 2008, 01:21 PM

Wow. That's brilliant. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

None of us have ever seen that before you posted it.

I will ponder your new lyrics before I throw myself out of a high window. Thank you for your insight.

**reason** · March 20th, 2008, 02:02 PM

Originally posted by gae:
Wow. That's brilliant. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

None of us have ever seen that before you posted it.

I will ponder your new lyrics before I throw myself out of a high window. Thank you for your insight.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You're just trying to hide the fact you don't even understand it. Just like you don't understand current events. Or politics. Or geography. Or other cultures. Just like your husband, despite his frequent travels.

Go have a Guiness.

**Beachcomber** · March 20th, 2008, 06:32 PM

Here when I first saw the title to this here thread I automatically thought of Brahm's Bohemian Rhapsody. Typical redneck west side reaction.. Being from the "east side" BS, with all your "culture", you would know more about that than me. Funny thing is east side, west side it makes no difference: to the rest of the world you are just a backwoods Ohio hick no matter what side of town you call home. I tell you what.

**gae** · March 21st, 2008, 03:48 AM

I'm disappointed, Reason. You used to be so much better when hurling insults. You seem to have forgetten the invective about moving to Cheviot. (That was a true LOL moment, because I had to explain to Trav not only WHERE Cheviot is, but why effete east siders like you think it's the dregs of society.)

It's obvious that you've lost your edge. Too busy cashing out and burying you gold in the back yard?

You also forgot to insult me about my travel and you didn't throw in anything about our politics and how intolerant we are. Because, according to you, we voted for Bush.

Like I said, you've lost your edge. You can do much better.

No Guiness here. It's Lent.

**Lew** · March 21st, 2008, 01:34 PM

The only thing is, GL's true colors betray him. We were talking about it one time, and he pronounced it "chev-wah." Gotta be careful talkin' that way...

**travelinman** · March 21st, 2008, 06:13 PM

I know there is one culture I don?t understand and that?s the alternative lifestyle culture. While I have nothing against it and don?t care one way or the other as long as I don?t have to watch, I just don?t understand it. Kind of makes me think of Thomas Edison trying to screw two light bulbs together.