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{{a|glossary|[[File:Cyber Lehmans.png|450px|thumb|center|Cyber Monday for the folk with coal-fired internet!]]}}Not an [[investment bank]], since [[Lehman]] —''singular''<ref>You never say “[[Goldmans]]” either, by the way</ref> — as it once was, doesn’t exist<ref>Or ''does'' it? They are they who say [[Lehman]]  is [[Nosferatu]], and still spreads its ghastly blackened wings.</ref>.  
{{a|glossary|[[File:Cyber Lehmans.png|450px|thumb|center|Cyber Monday for the folk with coal-fired internet!]]}}Not an [[investment bank]], since [[Lehman]] —''singular''<ref>You never say “[[Goldmans]]” either, by the way</ref> — as it once was, doesn’t exist<ref>Or ''does'' it? They are they who say [[Lehman]]  is [[Nosferatu]], and still spreads its ghastly blackened wings.</ref>.  


No, [https://www.lehmans.com/ Lehmans] is an ''online'' hardware shop — ''online'', I say — ''for people who don’t use electricity''.
No, [https://www.lehmans.com/ Lehmans] is an ''online'' hardware shop — ''online'', I say — ''for people who don’t use electricity''. If you access the world wide web courtesy of a couple of mules pushing a horse mill, make www.lehmans.com your first stop.


We should rejoice that a website that started out serving the Amish community — being a group of traditional church fellowships known for simple living, plain dress and a diffidence towards the convenience of modern technology — ''online'' can, notwithstanding that fairly gaping flaw in its business model, have made a much better fist of surviving in business than its giant financial services conglomerate namesake did.
Meanwhile the rest of us should rejoice that a website that started out serving the Amish community — being a group of traditional church fellowships known for simple living, plain dress and a diffidence towards modern technology — ''online'' can, notwithstanding that fairly gaping flaw in its business model, have made a better fist of surviving in business than its giant financial services conglomerate namesake did.


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Not an investment bank, since Lehmansingular[1] — as it once was, doesn’t exist[2].

No, Lehmans is an online hardware shop — online, I say — for people who don’t use electricity. If you access the world wide web courtesy of a couple of mules pushing a horse mill, make www.lehmans.com your first stop.

Meanwhile the rest of us should rejoice that a website that started out serving the Amish community — being a group of traditional church fellowships known for simple living, plain dress and a diffidence towards modern technology — online can, notwithstanding that fairly gaping flaw in its business model, have made a better fist of surviving in business than its giant financial services conglomerate namesake did.

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  1. You never say “Goldmans” either, by the way
  2. Or does it? They are they who say Lehman is Nosferatu, and still spreads its ghastly blackened wings.