Time for some Friday afternoon fun:
It started with this New York Magazine column: Fox Business Network: Full of Foxes!
Of course, anything on Wall Street must be pushed too far, and Radar magazine doesn’t disappoint with this quiz: Fox News Anchor or Porn Star?
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click thru for Anchor/Porn Start quiz
Perhaps I shouldn’t reveal this, but I got a 10/10 — you can conclude that I either know know my media anchors — or my porn stars!
They’re just copying CNN.
9/10
Then again, Fox News reporters and porn stars both suck.
Barry we both the know the answer to that one!
Jenna Ritholtz?
I am disappointed that you posted this. I am a longtime reader of your blog, and have found it informative, lively and provocative intellectually. You crossed the line when you elected to introduce someone else’s idea of sexually provocative entertainment for men.
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BR: Longtime reader, 1st time caller huh?
I think you are being overly sensitive, but I guess an apology for doubting you is in order.
10/10 here too.
I’m guessing Longtime reader to be a none-too-attractive woman. Pretty girls might roll their eyes at boys being boys, but they don’t tend to bitch and whine about it.
Leftish humor. Ha Ha.
got an 8/10…
FOX should hire Bianna Golodryga…
I wonder if “long time reader” is “million dollar watch”???????
This isn’t the first irreverent post you’ve ever made…lighten up audience…
Would have been more difficult if all the porn stars had been put against a flashy stock ticker background.
c’mon longtime. this blog may be a vast improvement over fox, et al. but BR does have his target market.
you can conclude that I either know know my media anchors — or my porn stars!
And the difference so we can tell which is which?
10/10. And I didn’t recognize even one of them. Not so difficult, as Andy says, because the porn stars were not against a stock ticker background.
“FOX should hire Bianna Golodryga…”
NO! I would never be able to watch her again!
And I got 8/10 on the quiz.
I never claimed to be politically correct. I started out on a trading desk, so I have to edit out all of the colloquialisms — the F&^%s and $h%ts — that tend to slip int my speech.
I once used the term “Bitch Slap” and the word police came out to whine.
BTW, if you were a long time reader, you woulda/shoulda complained about the YouPorn post.
Lighten up, its Friday.
Perhaps to some it is informative in an unusal sort of way, and others just amusing! A sheep is just a sheep to some, but to others? Why they are wool!
BR,
No one would read this blog if you didn’t know your Anchor/pornstars. Honestly, is there a difference? If Erin, would come out in an Actual “Cheer-leading” outfit, and Lap dance, … Maybe I could watch CNBC without it giving me a migraine.
Go DOW!!!
Rough’em up!!!
Chew’em up!!!
GO Naz!!!
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Alright I can’t take it anymore. I’m bullish on everything. Milk is going to $10, Oil to $150, Dow 20,000, Gold $2000.
I can’t figure out if it’s capitulation, a sign of the top/reversal, or just good sense.
Like everything else, picking the top of irrational exuberance is a suckers bet.
Wow, never seen FBN, but I do likes my porn, and I got a 1/10.
Well, I’m a pornographer and I got 9/10. Screwed up on Rebecca Gomez…
It’s a bit too easy, though- the backgrounds of the photos give it away.
Longtime reader: Come on, now. This is funny and light-hearted and it is difficult to imagine any serious person being offended. Me thinks a troll you are.
7/10. I think it is pretty funny. It’s obvious Faux hired these women hoping guys would tune in. Did any of them ever work on Wall Street before? I don’t see how they can be more orgasmic about the market than the Money Honey anyway.
Darn, I only got 8 out of 10. Mistook a couple of the anchors for naughty girls. In my defense, it’s probably better to eroticize money than to monetize sex.
Barry:
I have to agree, you crossed the line. How DARE you direct me to something with a hint of porn that doesn’t show actual nudity!! You, you c*ck tease!!! I want my quarter back!
*LOL*
>> I’m guessing Longtime reader to be a none-too-attractive woman.
C’mon, bro, that’s a cheap shot. Whether the woman is attractive or not — or even “a woman or not” — shouldn’t factor into a discussion about whether BR’s post is sexist.
Barry, maybe this post belonged more on your “Essays” page. Yes, it’s debatable. (Well, and it’s your blog. So, there really is no “debate”.) But, it seems more like the kind of ha-ha amusements and diversions you place on “Essays”.
I got 6 out of 10…that’s indistiguishable from random selection and proves the converse to BR’s statement: I neither watch enough “pr0n” nor watch enough TV business news.
uh, not to spoil the fun or anything, but am i the only one who is appalled that NONE of these women have any experience or training in business or economics?
one of them was a stewardess for goodness sake.
Barry,
I felt like writing an article just like that. I out and out quit watching, “Cavuto on Business”, when he went from having individuals like Jim Rogers who retired early by making millions in commodity trading and instead started putting on women like Tracy Burns, who is accountant and Rebecca Gomez. I got many excellent ideas and insight from Jim Rogers on that show, but have gotten absolutely nothing from Tracie. Where is her record of ever making money or successfully managing money. There are tons of successful female money managers, but they are seldom to never on the show, because they are not “HOT”. If I wanted to watch model, I would watch the show, “Top Model”, but when I want stock advice I want to hear from successful individuals with a track record of successfully investing money. Having said that, I must admit I will be the first one to buy the Playboy issue that has Rebecca Gomez in it. She is HOT HOT HOT!!!!!!!!
rwbil,
thats funny, Rebecca is very hot, I dont even hear what she is saying when she is on the Sat shows, however, you are right, give me some credentials from her or Dagen (whatever her name is, screaming in the mic when she gets upset), I haven’t seen Jim on the Fox shows in a couple of months, the only one I respect is Wayne Rogers, who you can tell trades everyday. It doesnt matter really, trading advice from these shows are to be taken with a grain of salt.. besides the great ‘BR’, Joe B… good luck and tread lightly, it will be a great next 12 months!!!
Well, one certainly cannot help noticing a pattern of male-adolescent-style remarks e.g. on female TV presenters among commenters. While to my knowledge nobody has stepped outside the general-fun into offensive territory, it does speak of something.
No offense taken. Cheap laughs are cheap laughs. Hope you guys don’t mind if I do a similar set-up on Katie Couric and CBS.
Alexis Glick talking bonds. Hell, man… for us trader types, that IS porn!!!
I got a 8/10 I must not be that into the porn as I thought I was….haha