LOL du jour
Dearest all, I will be quick, because I'm in the thick, thick, thick of grading. But I saw this at the gym yesterday and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Vicky Ward's forthcoming book about the fall of Lehman Brothers, the Manhattan financial firm that went bankrupt in 2008, is excerpted in the April 2010 Vanity Fair (which someone had left at the Y). The article is specifically about "the plight" of the wives of these guys who pulled down $15 million annual salaries.
Describing the long-suffering, loyal wife of one philandering deputy to the C.E.O., it includes this immortal line:
So this is just a little shout-out to all of you who wouldn't consider the absence of window treatments to be "tough times," exactly, together with a wry little moue in the direction of Wall Street.
Vicky Ward's forthcoming book about the fall of Lehman Brothers, the Manhattan financial firm that went bankrupt in 2008, is excerpted in the April 2010 Vanity Fair (which someone had left at the Y). The article is specifically about "the plight" of the wives of these guys who pulled down $15 million annual salaries.
Describing the long-suffering, loyal wife of one philandering deputy to the C.E.O., it includes this immortal line:
No blinds? Gasp. The tragedy.She had stuck with him through tough times when they were so poor they couldn't afford blinds for the windows in their house.
So this is just a little shout-out to all of you who wouldn't consider the absence of window treatments to be "tough times," exactly, together with a wry little moue in the direction of Wall Street.
Faye said:
LOL
May 4, 2010 3:42 PM