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I thought we agreed on a 7'2" Persian.

... or there is a substantial amount of tacit looking-the-other-way as Mr. Golden Boy flouts the rules and makes huge piles of money, and then, if things go south, his actions were "rogue"

Well, you've got it pretty close,... at least according to a broker who told me his story,... on his way to jail. "His" losses weren't in the billions (shy by an order of magnitude), but he gave me was he hadn't flouted the rules *initially*, but had brought in some very nice money, consistently. He bet the market was going up, but it went down. He believed (and wanted to believe) the wonderful things management had been saying about him. He "doubled-up," to make good,... but lost, again,... and again,... and... well, he lost 5 years of freedom, is what I heard.

I can be gullible, but his story felt a lot more right than wrong. Joke below is, in so many ways, no joke... [i'd substitute ceo's for engineers, but...]

http://www.jokes.com/funny/whatever/accountants-and-engineers-on-a-train

One day Bill complained to his friend that his elbow really hurt. His friend suggested that he go to a computer at the drug store that can diagnose anything quicker and cheaper than a doctor.

''Simply put in a sample of your urine and the computer will diagnose your problem and tell you what you can do about it. It only costs $10." Bill figured he had nothing to lose, so he filled a jar with a urine sample and went to the drug store. Finding the computer, he poured in the sample and deposited the $10. The computer started making some noise and various lights started flashing. After a brief pause out popped a small slip of paper on which was printed: "You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water. Avoid heavy lifting. It will be better in two weeks."

Later that evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was and how it would change medical science forever, he began to wonder if this machine could be fooled. He mixed together some tap water, a stool sample from his dog and urine samples from his wife and daughter. To top it off, he masturbated into the concoction. He went back to the drug store, located the machine, poured in the sample and deposited the $10. The computer again made the usual noise and printed out the following message:

"Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener. Your dog has worms. Get him vitamins. Your daughter is using cocaine. Put her in a rehabilitation clinic. Your wife is pregnant with twin girls. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer. And if you don't stop jerking off, your tennis elbow will never get better."

* Cribbed from some dumb site

Very old news.

http://comedians.jokes.com/pete-holmes/videos/pete-holmes---privacy-is-uncool

Or the Least obese state in America.

Exactly what I was thinking - here's the video.

You know how many sugar laden pitchers of Kool-Aid I drank waiting for a massive jolly anthropomorphic red pitcher to burst through the side of my house?

OH YEEAAHHHH!!!

Coating the inside of your heat transfer pipes with a thermal insulator is like masturbating with sandpaper - it might work, but it doesn't work well.

Tell that to Pinocchio.

One day Little Sally got her "monthly bleeding" for the first time in her life. Having failed to understand what was going on and being really frightened, she decided to share her trouble with little Joey.

When she found Joey she told him what was happeing, but he didn't quite understand so she showed him what her problem was.

Joey's face got very serious and he said, "You know, I'm no doctor, but it looks like someone ripped your balls off!"