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First Two Bids In Warren Buffett Ebay Lunch Auction Are In
The first two bids in the Glide Foundation's annual Warren Buffett lunch at Smith & Wollensky are in. Both are barely enough to cover the minimum bid of $25,000. Of course, even that price is ridiculous, as this is a totally useless way to spend a day in which the Oracle says nothing of substance, regurgitates a few anecdotes about Benjamin Graham, and discusses the latest shade of red in Becky Quick's lipstick. Alternatively, it would be amusing if Zero Hedge readers can raise the required several hundred thousand (after Warren's numerous highly hypocritical appearances, the last of which under subpoena, this year, we doubt last year's $1.68 million paid by Courtenay Wolfe of Salida Capital will be matched) so that Zero Hedge can send a representative and actually ask Mr. Buffett the tough questions that he has managed to avoid for the entire second half of his multi-billionaire life, even better that no subpoena would be required. Alternatively, for those whose greatest desire in life is to hang out with the octogenarian, they can find the E-bay auction at this link.
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Maybe ZH readers should bid 1c.
Ha! A fool and his money......
You're right. Too expensive.
Exactly. If you know anything about the old crusty codger you'd realize that he would be sitting across the dinner table from you quietly thinking about what a dumb-ass you are for paying so much for a dinner date with him.
That being said, I bet Reggie Milton will provide the winning bid.
up to $51,000 now. I'd rather have the 41 ounces of gold I can get at $1,240 per for that price.
Put me down for a hun.
I'm sorry, I only deal in gold. Will ebay take that?
<moved>
Why waste something of value, if they will take paper?
Might be funnier to win the auction and then pull a no-show on the ole Oracle.
Even better!
What would happen if you won the bid, but refused to pay up?
Just run up the auction up to like 457 Quadrillion and then claim, no comprende.
You thought you were paying in AssHats and Pesos, or you're little brother logged into your account and was having a little fun.
What, will they do, ban you from eBay?
Could the anthropomorphic (multi/non)personification of my unspoken impulses pass the prequalification?
I think we should put Senators and Congressman on ebay, let the peeps have a chance at buying them.
They've already been bought by Dimon and Lloyd.
no....I believe JK is on to something here. Once we've purchased the Critters , they are our property to do as we wish.
Bring tar and feathers.
How about lunch with the Tylers Durden? How big a table would that need? Of course Marla is included too, if she will behave herself.
I can't imagine a more unpleasant way to spend lunch than with a bunch of people who spent a big wad of cash just to sit at the same table with this guy. What could they possibly say that would impress him. It'd be a total douche-for-all.
Warren Buffet?
I would rather spend my time with Benjamin Graham (with good light). Buffet is now on my shelf with Bill Clinton, "W" Bush and, yes, B. Obama.
I am in the stage of life where I don't want to waste my time.
Any donations of this type I make will go to ZH.
Just the facts, folks, just the facts>
Ode to Buffet:
You suck, Buffet.
You royally suck.
Go sit at the kids table, where you belong.
But please do not eat their crayons, as we are trying to increase their creativity.
You see, we are trying to make up for those lost during the years you ruled over the masses...status quo...fuck man, you did the status quo in!
Yes you Buffet, I blame you! Squarely and acutely.
You furthered all things bland and degrading by worshipping false idols.
Installing a sense of fear from thinking critically by chasing paper dragons ahead of us.
Yes you Buffet, I blame you! Squarely and accutley.
You fucked with us for way too long....
Do not fuck with us!
Oops, should of read the article better.
Comment rescinded
I'm not sure if I want to sit at the same table with a naked guy when the tide goes out.
I will contribute $25.00 and the ZH attender's favorite antacid & diarrhea medication, for if it was me I would need both.
Where do we contribute?
eBay? That's where I go to buy humidifier filters, tail light assemblies for my 73 Triumph, and 100' lengths of cloth-covered lamp cord for restoring some of my cool old fixtures.
I know you can buy dog toys and used Levi's there too. Should I be surprised the old felonious fossil wants to pawn-off lunch? Do they serve ramen noodles at this restaurant?
Taking your own grandpa out for dinner is much cheaper.
And your Grandpa is probably honest too. Mr. Buffett is not.
Lunch for 8. That's him and six Tylers and one Marla. Hmmm....
Would love to send Max Keiser and Matt Taibbi as proxies. Major indigestion for the Coke-swilling Buffett.
I could listen to Max all day.
He'd probably shit in his Depends if Max cozied up to the table. Taibbi tries to be funny but he comes off as smarmy.
Awesome. Warren has stipulated that Marla must wear the slacks that you sent her when you out grew them. You know, the pants marketed as the front-butt concealers. Warren heard that they fit Marla like a granny glove.
The minimum bid would be higher if Warren wasn't flatulent.
I don't know, before I go bidding that kind of scratch on some buffet with warren lunch i think we need to get a few things straight...
do u get free refills?
and what about silverware... i don't want to be using any of those spork thingys either.
gotta keep an eye out for that kinda thing on ebay i'm told.
Ask him what he did with Hitler's brain, and JFK's and why he needed them both, the greedy greedo.
Tyler, what is "the question" that you reference that needs asking of Warren?
hell, i bet warren couldn't even answer the math question i just had to tackle before posting this.
Yea, those things are wearing me out.
It would almost be worth it.
Eat beans and pancake syrup for the week leading up to the "amazing event" then gas the old bastard to death and puke on his corpse.
Surely Mr. B, upon finding that lunch will be
at the ZH Grill will find that he has another pressing engagement.
Be nice to show up as the grim reaper,
tell him not to bother ordering dessert.
I'd galdly pay $25K to waterboard the crook.
i hate to b simple but -
fuck Warrent Muppet...
I would pay $2 million not to have to have lunch with that smelly old fart. If he want to have lunch with me the asking price is $2 million, however it will not be at S&W, that's a bourgeois shit hole.
Regards,
Econolicious
Where's the auction for lunch with Marla? And the first bid is......?
-100?
My Dear Friends,
Power Lunch for 8? No wonder its so expensive. The old guy must be able to pack away the food.
Warmest regards,
H.
I might pay the $25,000 per plate if Tyler Durden would be allowed to converse with Mr. Buffett before CNBS etc camers.
I think the Federal Reserve is running up the bid.
"Zero Hedge can send a representative and actually ask Mr. Buffett the tough questions "
ZH should solicit donations for this, it's brilliant! If you do it, I will donate!
Only a fool will spend millions to have lunch with a hypocrite.
I want to know when the Soros lunch auction will take place. Now, there's a guy I'd like to sit across from and ask him one tough question, "What was it like, as a teenage Hungarian-Jew, to have lined shoulders with Nazis, posing as a Christian, when you sided with them and shared with them, the possessions and wealth of the Jews you watched get sent off to die in death camps and may very well be the reason that you're as rich as you are today?"
And if he went 'Mum' on me, I'd whip out the transcript from a December 20, 1998, 60 Minutes interview. Small excerpt:
KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros' father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)
KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew...
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
KROFT: (Voiceover) ...who escaped the Holocaust...
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
(Vintage footage of people getting on train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) ... by -- by posing as a Christian.
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
KROFT: In what way?
Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and -- and anticipate events and when -- when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not -- not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't -- you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c -- I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets -- that if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would -- would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
nice. add him to the list of unregretful jews: Blankfein, Madoff, Rubin, Greenspan, Summers, etc
I would actually pay $25K to witness Tyler having lunch with and destroy the hypocrite of Omaha!
archive search on Salida
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Salida+Capital&scoring=a&sa=N&sug...
and its CEO "Courtenay Wolfe"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Courtenay%20Wolfe%22&sa=N&hl=en&tab=nw
http://www.spoke.com/info/p6KgnmG/CourtenayWolfe
Maybe the Oracle will joke on steak!
Haha. They are trying to HFT pump him.
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6 bidders. It's like a bachelor auction in a kentucky hay barn out in the woods.