Joke in Place of a Joke

If you're looking for the Morgan Stanley alert, check the comments of this post. It was a 24 hour notice. Now, I'm sharing a different joke for the weekend. Enjoy!

Max: So Maurice wants to be a popular artist?

Monty: That's right, and for his first exhibition, he drew a line three blocks long.

Max: Wow!

Monty: Then he ran out of chalk.

Ha! Thanks Megan!

Comments

[Martin]

That's funny. If it is any consolation, I am the one who has been visiting TAA via the link on MAN's blogroll, and will continue to visit.

Tell me, is it better to have linked and lost than never to have linked at all?

[FakeName]

Everything has an asshole... even the artworld... and through the magic of thin skinned wannabe art critics, we have found the digital art world's asshole and it's a green asshole (too much guacamole or too much verde salsa???? ... more likely too much self-importance!)

Screw Mr. Dick Puddings...

[Scott]

Yeah, I think I read about this in Bloomberg News . . .

[J.T. Kirkland]

The three comments above pertain to this post which I moved to comments:

I received the following statement from Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors:

The analysts of Morgan Stanley announce to its investors a critical investment tip: sell your stock in Thinking About Art (ticker: TAA) immediately.

A new development has gotten the attantion of our analysts: Modern Art Notes (ticker: MAN) removed TAA from its blogroll this week. For those uninitiated to the artblog world, this action is analogous to the DOW Jones 30 dropping Coca-Cola, or Warren Buffet dropping stock XYZ from one of his mutual funds. We cannot stress this enough, this move spells the end of TAA, eventually.

Financial Analysis

Our research indicates that, on average, 1-2 links to TAA occur via MAN each day. Projecting this statistic into the future, we conclude that in 587,329 years, TAA will see a reduction in site traffic totalling between 587,329 and 1,174,658 visits. It does not take an MBA to recognize that this is a very large number. Morgan Stanley cannot foresee a viable future for TAA in the long term. In the near term, we anticipate that TAA will operate in the black for the next 12,346 years at which time the company's earnings will begin a precipitous decline. If you have not sold your TAA stock yet, please do so in the next 12,000 years to be safe.

Corporate Response

Morgan Stanley could not reach MAN CEO, Tyler Green, for comment. However, when TAA CEO, J.T. Kirkland, was reached via phone, he stated, "Nuh uh, oh no he di'int!" When pressed for clarification of that statement, Kirkland stated, "Well, I mean, dude, it's just that... you know, man... I just can't believe that... um, that this has, happened. I am in shock and need to clear my head. I'm sorry. I've said too much as it is. No further comment."

Industry Expectations

Without a doubt this move will have a ripple effect across the artblog industry. We forecast that approximately 60% of artblogs will follow the path set forth by artblog leader MAN and remove TAA from their blogroll. The cascading impact of this will be quite damaging to TAA's earnings.

Investor Advice

It goes without saying that you should sell your TAA shares. And by all means, please stop reading the site. Seriously, do yourself no more harm and stop. Now.

Future Analysis

Morgan Stanley takes its responsibility seriously to protect your future by monitoring your investments and providing sound advice. We will continue to watch how this story develops. We expect a formal statement from TAA within the next few days.

Though I find it incredibly insensitive of Morgan Stanley to forward this statement to me, I figured I might as well share it with my readers. Take it as you will. I'll keep writing.

[Megan]

Glad you liked it!