Everyone loves a good rant about how Gor-blimey-he-must-have-downs-syndrome Clown-shoes-because-we’ll-all-be-walking-everywhere-soon has ruined this economy by inviting in all the brown people and not paying off our mortgages for us as soon as it became obvious we’d overstretched ourselves. But sooner or later you find yourself panting and spent, the last dregs of your fury washed away in the cleansing fire of HYS and the empty white box still isn’t sated. It’s never sated. Can’t muster any more rage? Then let’s hear your poetry. Shit at poetry? I mean, shit on an epic, not-good-enough-for-HYS scale? Then tell us your credit crunch jokes!
What do you call 12 investment bankers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
Niall Davidson Petch, Lincoln, UK
An excellent repurposing of that joke about lawyers there. Which was originally told around the campfire by Cro-Magnon man about Neanderthals.
I’ve re-named my morning bowl of muesli at the desk Credit Crunch.
Robert Fulford, London, UK
I’m surprised you can find it on a desk full of gonks and “you don’t have to be mad to work here but it helps!!!” signs.
Masked man holding a bank cashier up with a gun. Says: ‘I don’t want any money - I just want you to start lending to each other…
David, Cambridge, UK
I think this is supposed to be a joke, but it could equally go in the straight-faced “how would you solve the credit crunch” thread and look like one of the saner suggestions.
Why did the Banker cross the road? - Because he stapled himself to the chicken.
Charles Brockley, Norwich , Norfolk, UK
Ha, those wacky bankers! That’s exactly the kind of thing they’d do while their entire sector is melting down around their ears. They’d staple themselves to a chicken! My zany mate Robert Fulford, that’s exactly the kind of thing he’d get up to! Wacky.
Following the problems in the sub-prime lending market in America and the run on Northern Rock in the UK, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last 7 days Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced that Karaoke Bank is up for sale and will likely go for a song while today shares in Kamikaze Bank were suspended after they nose-dived. While Samurai Bank are soldiering on following sharp cutbacks, Ninja Bank are reported to have taken a hit, but they remain in the black. Furthermore, 500 staff at Karate Bank got the chop and analysts report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank where it is feared that staff may get a raw deal.
Emma Ives, Dorking, Surrey, UK
While back in the UK, the Emma Ives Joke Bank reminds us that the credit crunch is definitely no laughing matter. Let’s see if we can help her out.
Q: What’s Brown and sticky?
A: Gordon!
Two goldfish in a tank, one turns to the other and asks “Why won’t the media talk about how Gordon sold our gold reserves? I want MY GOLD”.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: It needed to nationalise a couple of banks and they were on the other side. Nationalise in name only, obviously. There’d be no seat on the board or anything crazy like that. It’s only a fucking chicken.
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an immigrant go into a bar but only the immigrant and Scotsman can afford to buy drinks because the Englishman is being taxed out of existence by the Scottish PC mafia.