You can’t dust for vomit

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Marty DiBergi: Your first drummer was —
David St. Hubbins: John “Stumpy” Pepys. Great great, tall blond geek with glasses. Good drummer: great look, good drummer.
Marty DiBergi: What happened to him?
David St. Hubbins: He died. He died in a bizarre gardening accident, some years back.
Nigel Tufnel: It was really one of those things. It was – you know, the authorities said, you know, best leave it — unsolved, really.
Marty DiBergi: And he was replaced by — ahh?
Nigel Tufnel: Stumpy Joe. Eric “Stumpy Joe” Childs.
Marty DiBergi: And what happened to Stumpy Joe?
Derek Smalls: Well, it’s not a very pleasant story, but — he died. He choked on — the official explanation was he choked on vomit. He passed away.
Nigel Tufnel: It was actually – it was actually someone else’s vomit. You know, there’s no real —
Derek Smalls: Well, they can’t prove whose vomit it was. They don’t have the ability—there’s no way of—
Nigel Tufnel: You can’t really dust for vomit.[1]

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You can’t custody cash. This is the banker’s version of Nigel Tuffnel’s famous dictum, and yes it is just a weak excuse to include one of JC’s favourite lines from one of JC’s favourite movies.

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jblhuMxEHw How they did this with straight faces is beyond me.