Irish financial joke

[ChrisGreaves]

(can be translated to Canadians visiting Newfoundland, French visiting Belgium, Belgians visiting Friesland, Friesans visiting Australia, etc)

It is a slow day in a damp little Irish town, to be sure.
The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one in which to spend the night.
The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub.
The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him ‘services’ on credit.
The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.
The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.

[Rudi]

It reminds me of the fact that the water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank in their heyday. Simply recycled over and over again.

[ChrisGreaves]

It reminds me of the fact that the water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank in their heyday. Simply recycled over and over again.

nah. Think Oliver Cromwell or Sir Isaac Newton.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "current-cy"

[Leif]

It reminds me of the fact that the water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank in their heyday. Simply recycled over and over again.

That reminds me of the old saying about the River Thames: "What Reading drinks today, London drinks tomorrow."

[IMNetUser]

Too complicated.
United States Congress has a simpler idea, just print more money.

Can anyone spare $5,800.00 USD for a loaf of German BREAD ?

[ChrisGreaves]

That reminds me of the old saying about the River Thames: "What Reading drinks today, London drinks tomorrow."

Here's a snapshot from page 103 "Eating the sun" by Oliver Morton:-

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A great read, IMHO.

[ChrisGreaves]

... "Eating the sun" by Oliver Morton:-...

Speaking of "Eating the sun" by Oliver Morton, here is a chunk from the foot of page 103:

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[Rudi]

Gosh, there are some unusual philosophies out there....but believable since its the same as the water scenario...