Bet that guy has no fingernails or hair left.
Johnny? This is Pinch. How do we pay Slim this month?
Uhhhhh I *know* you're "N.TheKnow".
I've seen the wisdom in action, myself.
But wouldn't it be infinitely easier to get the sot sober? Aside from that though, the guy's been unloading plenty on us for a very long time. (am I mixing my metaphors?)
"Bet that guy has no fingernails or hair left."
HA!!
My bet's on his liver. :^)
"Johnny? This is Pinch. How do we pay Slim this month?"
BWWWHAAAAAA!!
Something like that, I'm sure. :o)
Kidding aside (well, moved over) Pinch boy has to be one helluva basket case. He's single handedly destroyed the family business. Precisely as I'd (you, too?) heard he'd do when his father stepped down turning the reigns of the business over to 'em.
All of us who frequent abb's threads know full well how the paper's structured insofar as common stock, stock exclusive to the family etc goes.
Sulzberger and the entire extended family have been feeding off the carcass for yearrrrrs.
But soon dinner will be over; and, they've Pinch boy to thank for that.
Now wouldn't you just love to be a fly on the wall of "family meetings" where the family business of The NYSlimes is discussed?
Wow.
Threatened Ferarris, CC memberships at Hampton clubs, being thrust unceremoniously in with the unwashed masses?
Yes make no mistake, he's panicked stoopid and the family in a state of abject terror.
They may wear poker faces, decline question(s) from any --with stones enough to ask.
But we know better.
These times are ugly & getting uglier with the passing of each & every day and THEN there's the ordinary stockholders. ;^)