Posted by
Charlie Bravo on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:32:31 PM
I worked on Wall Street when some nut case who got fired from Merrill Lynch walked into his former manager's office and shot the man dead. Within 5 minutes of the news hitting Dow Jones News Service somebody called the office and asked, "Hey, Did you hear about Merrill's stock of the week? It's Waste Management!" Gallows humor made poignant by the fact that Merrill had been pumping WMI for years.
It has been over 24 hours since news broke of Ted Kennedy's brain tumor and a Google search yields exactly one site that contains two jokes about it. One is that doctors were shocked he has a brain. The other goes like this: "As a Kennedy, he has already out-lasted his life expectancy. Don't most of these Kennedy's get assasinated by the time they are 40?" As of this writing, the blog is 20 hours old.