If you've thought Wall Street is being run by a bunch of clowns, yesterday you were right on the money.
Members of the Big Apple Circus took the reins of financial power by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
The exchange invited Grandma the Clown and Master of Ceremonies Carrie Harvey to both honor the circus' 31st season of entertainment and perhaps bring a bit of Main Street levity to traders battered by a collapsing market.
After ringing the bell, Harvey and Grandma wandered the floor trying to spread joy and merriment, placing funny red noses on exchange officials to touch the funny bones of even the most shaken traders.
But by the end of a roller-coaster day of trading that saw the Dow Jones industrial average whipsaw from 300 points down to just above even and then right back down to finish off 337 points, good humor was in short supply.
"What can I say? The market ended down nearly 350 points. Even the Big Apple Circus clowns couldn't help," said Eckhart & Co. trader Peter Costa as he trudged off the floor.
5 comments:
Just suppose Hanky P. and Bernankeeeee of the Big Capitol Circus showed up....those clowns would have sent the market into a red-nosed dive of 1000 points!! Only the Clown in Chief could have caused it to dive lower!!! Maybe seats on the Exchange now cost $700 billion apiece these days!
Errr aaahhhh maaaaaahhhk can well remember the night that Grandma the Clown embarrased the Mrs. bokiemole while performing in Boston. We should have eliminated the clown back then!!
ARE YOU FREAKIN' SERIOUS..!!!!..You guys actually SAW Grandma the Clown...!!!!...I need to hear that story....any pictures for the BLOG..???
sorry, no pictures. But the clown really MOCKED the brown eyed girl.
Was very funny.
Hahaha! I can't believe that you guys know Grandma the Clown personally! I find myself having trouble imagining that old lady making fun of someone though.
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