Posts made in May, 2009
Don’t Break the Bank
Much debate, in the past, has been given over to Public Holidays. An old fashioned idea, introduced in England, in order for Bank employees to have the opportunity to play Cricket. They have been considered, by some, as a prevention of the ‘lunch is for wimps’ brigade working the obligatory 24/7 with others wandering from shop-to-shop confused by the some closed, some open policy...
Read MoreA Series : Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines No.7 – The Jam Maker – Sweet Success for the Young
No.7 – The Jam Maker – Sweet Success for the Young Financial markets upside down….. businesses challenged…….. you know the story…. Recalling a similar time, youthful anger and frustration was perfectly displayed in a “Billy Elliot” dance sequence, to a soundtrack from The Jam. Energy and drive oozed out. Actor Jamie Bell played Billy when he was...
Read MorePunch it Out
A well known economics law is that of Supply and Demand and, since real life seems to be taking on cartoon proportions, there currently seems to be plenty of material for the political cartoonist. Taken from the French word for “strong heavy paper”, as used by artists for preliminary sketches, “carton” was changed to “cartoon” and a new form of social...
Read MoreWhen Finance is an Animal
When Step-Up Finance uses Twitter we tend to use the word `Tweeples` for our followers and wondered why, and where, this word had come from …… then realised. …. Simples really …. ingrained from our current favourite of the moment, Aleksandr the Meerkat who has managed to do what all cute and furry animals do…. he’s overridden rational. Therefore we issue...
Read MoreScout’s Honour
Our favourite Scout, Homer Simpson, is slightly older than the recently announced youngest-ever Chief Scout, Bear Grylls Along with another one of our favourites, Ernest Borgnine, in an episode of the Simpsons entitled “Boy-Scoutz n the Hood”, we are treated to a very laid-back Homer giving us a classic line which seems to have been adopted by many in the current...
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