Conseco Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

(AP) - In the third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Conseco Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection after four months of talks with creditors to restructure the $6.5 billion in debt. Although the filing was not surprising given Consuelo's recent woes, it marked a dramatic downfall for a company who was once a Wall Street darling.

Where have I been?
I didn't even know that consuelo had a company.
I didn't know that she had recent woes.
I didn't even know that she was a Wall Street darling.

I guess we won't be receiving our regular ceramic mug of gift goodies by ups this Christmas, Awaders. Bummer.

Here's what the story really says: Although the filing was not surprising given Conseco’s recent woes, it marked a dramatic downfall for a company whose stock was once a Wall Street darling.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/849003.asp?0cv=BA00

My good sir, you, of all people, should know that you should never judge another person's woes until you walk a milum in their moccasins!

Do you know the way to San Jose?

leaving on a jet plane...

or sitting on a railway station, with a ticket for my destination

You can't hop a jet plane the way you can a freight train.

freight train, freight train, goin' so fast....

Grandma got run over by a reindeer

...or:

"The Wreck of the Old 97..."


in response to Grandma flattened by that deer

Now youse guys, do any of those songs have a chorus that goes like this.....?

Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo

Now youse guys, do any of those songs have a chorus that goes like this.....?

Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo

She's a lady!
Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo
She's a lady!
Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo....

--Tom Jones

No, no, juan - you certainly don't seem to know the way - you are woefully short of a "wo."

Say! This thread is getting intellectual. Rhuby are you saying that juan is one wo short of a woo?

No way.

No - thank goodness he is still one woe short of total misery.

--- and which reminds me of how the father Owl prefaced his final advice to his Owlet sons before they finally left the nest:
"Now, boys, there is one thing I must tell you about before you go out into the woodworld - to wit, to woo."

No - thank goodness he is still one woe short of total misery.

Or one 'e' short of total misry.

"Isn't life a terrible thing, thank God."
--Dylan Thomas

"Isn't life a terrible thing, thank God."


Amen