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29 October 2008

CostumeFilter My friend wants to go as the Death of Corporate Greed. He already has a Grim Reaper-type cape. What other accessories should he have?

post by: Miko at: 22:16 | 10 comments

Ticker tape? Foreclosure notices? Old school HP accounting calculator with reverse Polish notation? A scroll with a list of lined-through company names:
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Merrill Lynch
Lehman Bros.
General Motors

How about $700,000,000,000 in small, unmarked, nonsequential bills?

posted by Joe Invisible 29 October | 22:29

oh those are great!

Or many copies of the invoice for the 700K? He could hand them out to bystanders.

posted by Miko 29 October | 22:32

An Uncle Miltie RIP tombstone?

posted by arse_hat 29 October | 23:05

Have him carry a black sack containing the souls of third-world children.

posted by MonkeyButter 29 October | 23:12

Then, occasionally, your friend could take one out and snack on it.

posted by MonkeyButter 29 October | 23:15

Shorts. With price tags.

The risk is that once he gets drunker he might be tempted into naked short selling. That's just wrong.

posted by qvantamon 30 October | 03:27

I hate to tell you my idea about "trickle down economy".

posted by taz 30 October | 05:01

The rumors of the death of corporate greed have been greatly exaggerated.

Someone needs to go as Paulson with his pockets absolutely stuffed with monopoly money, and he's handing it out right and left, roaring with laughter, to everyone and leaving a trail of fallen money behind him.

posted by DarkForest 30 October | 08:37

He could have fake stock certificates and currency cut in half pinned to his cape.

posted by halonine 30 October | 10:06

Big shiny scythe painted green, with dollar bills or money bags tied to it, airline tix to Aruba, and one of those big gold chains with a Mercedes logo pendant.

posted by casarkos 30 October | 10:20

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