Þvörusleikir - spoon licker - silver of course; he was late and lackadaisical - he inherited a majority stake in an investment bank and decided to semi-retire to Surrey
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you know how sometimes a bank will just decide that it didn't like how the original term of its loan worked out and it will just change the deal to something better?
They can do that, it is all in the fine print.
Now they've done it again
and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
See, in…
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Happy Winter Solstice!
Gleðileg Jól!
Festive Yule.
I just wrote "Merry Christmas" in elvish.
You see, we found ourselves in a position where we have folded four separate winter solstice festival traditions into the season, much the the delight of the munchkins.
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An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican
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