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Caption Contest: "Hope... Solid Value... Timeless"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/20/2013 15:52 -0400

From the cover pages of The Bank of Cyprus 2011 Annual Report...

or is this the view pre-belly flop?

And then there is this... All the gleaming shining awards for The Bank Of Cyprus...

(h/t Alex Gloy @Gloeschi)

- advertisements -

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:54 | 3353680 Sudden Debt

it's as real as this silver eagle...
http://www.ebay.fr/sch/reprap-fr/m.html?hash=item2ec6f3f36b&item=2009063...ècesMonde&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2562

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:56 | 3353694 Pladizow

You can HOPE we have SOLID VALUE, but you'd be a TIMELESS idiot!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:02 | 3353733 frenchie

LOL²

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:05 | 3353759 sunaJ

You mean: Lulz³

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:06 | 3353767 rcintc

Look Out Beloooooooooooooooow!!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:08 | 3353773 Pinto Currency

...because the EU took our watch.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:11 | 3353789 camaro68ss

"Hope... Solid Value... Timeless"

all under water

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:13 | 3353798 sunaJ

Hope.^? Solid Value.^$ Timeless.^*

^{?, $, *:} ^{What's a' mattah? You no like joke?}

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:18 | 3353822 eatthebanksters

Hope soiled, value less over time...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:28 | 3353874 wee-weed up

Sound of toilet flushing...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:48 | 3353947 akak

In Cyprus, no bankster can hear you scream.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 20:07 | 3354769 Half_A_Billion_...

the picture should have a white shark

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 20:08 | 3354775 TheLooza

"Are you ready to take a bath?"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 20:09 | 3354778 palmereldritch

The Bank of Cyprus: Come for the Panic, Stay for the Piracy!

http://blackpearlayianapa.com/article.php?id=89

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:20 | 3353835 resurger

lawlz⁴

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353746 insanelysane

We HOPE our bets on Greek debt have SOLID VALUE or we will have a TIMELESS stay in Siberian work camp.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:13 | 3353799 willwork4food

And some of those distigueshed bankers might be enjoying this timeless view -one last time- as they are flung off the cliff by two gentlemen from Russia.

Nothing personal, it's just business.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:10 | 3354046 SokPOTUS

If only...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:04 | 3353748 cifo

Probably by now they are counting Cyprus' gold in London to take it over.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:12 | 3353791 NoDebt

Solid hope

Timeless value.... not so much. Try gold.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:15 | 3353809 NoDebt

Everything past that rock..... that's our bad debt.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:23 | 3353839 NoDebt

It looks like a memorial marker for their soon-to-be deceased board of directors, doesn't it?

Below those words it further reads:

"It is on this rustic and desolate stretch of coastline where the dismembered remains of our board of directors and an unknown number of our politicians were disposed of by the Russian Mafia. They will be missed. (The Russian Mafia, we mean, not the other guys.)"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:48 | 3353949 LongBallsShortBrains

Lol. Literally

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:45 | 3353936 Never One Roach

Instead of forcing innocent depositors to pay, why don't they force the bankers to disgorge all those profits?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:49 | 3353952 Whoa Dammit

We once had hope the Greek bonds that Goldman sold our bank would be of solid value,.... but it seems instead we bought a solid turd, and now our bank closing is ....timeless.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:42 | 3354212 I am more equal...

Sounds like a line from the obama campaign

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:05 | 3354018 HardwoodAg

The HMS Bounty (II) was here.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:22 | 3354109 zorba THE GREEK

Can I trade my Greek Bonds for Cyprus Bonds?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:54 | 3353682 Arturo

... NOT.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353683 Croesus

Three things you believe, that we can't offer you.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:16 | 3353807 Cursive

@Croesus

Anagram: Used Sharpova Panties

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:20 | 3353834 knukles

Is that hard collateral?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:59 | 3354312 TheFourthStooge-ing

Only the crustiest bits.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353684 Pladizow

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353686 mickeyman

Hope your account still has value for a timeless deposit

Your assignment is to write a mission statement with the words on the cover

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353687 krispkritter

Appropriate that it's a cliff scene...is it too much to ask to add a couple hundred bankers/finance ministers leaping off it?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353689 Dr.Evil

Timeless?

More like

Priceless!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353744 Z'

Hopeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353690 GolfHatesMe

Translated from Russian retroactively

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:55 | 3353695 SilverDoctors

on the topic of Cyprus, anybody catch Bernanke's response to the question posed at 3:18pm as to whether Cyprus style bail-ins are possible if US worsens?
Bernanke stated they're possible if the Cyprus event or another event in Europe were to become contagious and the people lose confidence in the US dollar”!!

http://www.silverdoctors.com/bernanke-states-cyprus-style-depositor-hair...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:05 | 3353758 caimen garou

I watched it Doc, his voice sounded like a kid telling a lie!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:15 | 3353808 JR

“…if the people lose confidence in the US dollar”!! And who might have caused that?

The Fed is now buying consumers, taking the money and giving it to non-producers who generally do not use it for growth. The Fed is giving the economy the seed corn and the economy is eating it; it is not planting it. It is political architecture that gets the money; i.e., the $8 billion to Harry Reid for his high speed rail, and essentially the welfare classes on both ends of the spectrum ($78 billion in 2012 for food stamps; $85 billion a month that goes to “the Mayfair economy of the well-to-do people and boosts asset prices of Warhols …”).

As Marc Faber said in 2012: “The monetary policies of the U.S. will destroy the world.”

In short, the money is not reaching the middle class, the producers on Main and Elm.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:19 | 3353830 JR

BTW, you've named the The Bank of Cyprus 2011 Annual Report:

Bail-In...

Cyprus Style!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:56 | 3354288 YHC-FTSE

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:14 | 3354364 agNau

Our Golden Parachute.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:20 | 3353836 Element

Ta! .. that link was worth it, just to see this:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/haircut.png

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:56 | 3353699 TJ00

The Bank of Cyprus has had a boating accident.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:11 | 3353701 Pure Evil

Thank god for those rocks at the bottom of the photo, I was beginning to think my Cyprus cess pool was growing over with algae.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:58 | 3353703 fonzannoon

"the public sucks,, fuck hope"

George Carlin

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353727 pods

Love it fonz!

Reminds me of Bunny in Platoon:

"Let's do em man, let's do the whole fuckin village."

pods

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:06 | 3354026 ATM

No shit. Any company or person who pitches "hope" as a goal is almost a big a fucking idiot as somone who buys in to it.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:08 | 3354992 Carl Spackler

Agreed.

But look a the audience they were pitching to...Ripe for plucking.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:57 | 3353704 pods

Sorry, water is only 3 inches deep!

pods

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:57 | 3353706 darteaus

Dope

Zero Value

Hopeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:57 | 3353707 OptionNinjaNYC

All those who want their Money Back, please stand in line and Jump on the count of 3.

1......2......2.5......2.7.....2.8......3 ---- NOW !!!!

http://wallstreetfool.com/2013/03/20/dis-could-hit-60-in-the-next-couple...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:57 | 3353708 nonclaim

fill the blanks:

hope____

solid value____

timeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:58 | 3353709 Edward Fiatski

These 4 words contain the inverse essence of the Global UnRecovery.

P.S. Looks like a suicide ad/poster with those rock below. LOL

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:58 | 3353712 economessed

Why let facts diminish an otherwise great story?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:59 | 3353715 jmcadg

As a designer, I set this sort of shit all the time for some very big financial institutions, banks etc.

And I have to say, the typography in this is shocking!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:10 | 3353783 McMolotov

It almost looks like it's from one of those internet meme generator thingies. Cheap bastards — how can they be broke if they spent around five bucks on their annual report?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:27 | 3353869 machineh

the typography in this is shocking!

So is the random progression from two nouns to an adjective (timeless).

The descendents of Homer have no sense of parallelism or meter.

Hopelessness.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:59 | 3353718 Billy Shears

... and broke.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:00 | 3353719 Panafrican Funk...

Hope

Solid Value

Timeless

All words that are appropriately applied to the water pictured here.

Oh, shit, you were talking about our bank? lol Uhhh.... I think it can best be described as "Bunga Bunga".

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:00 | 3353720 InconvenientCou...

Please meet your investor relations liason, Luca Brasi

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:00 | 3353722 Black Markets

Can anyone see where our liquidity went?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:50 | 3354261 Sleepless Knight

We put an ocean on the cover - how much more liquid you want?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353724 marco1324

No sharks....honest!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353725 hooligan2009

i'm sure i put my gold there!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353726 Schmuck Raker

"Can you spot the Cypriot Minister, that pissed off a Russian Mobster, in this picture?"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353729 Jethro

No Hope
No Value
Times Up

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353730 WhiteNight123129

Hope

Solid value

Timeless

Hoops

Timeless value slides

(just cheated with 1 extra `s` letter otherwise same letters, different order)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:01 | 3353731 YHC-FTSE

Hopeless

VALUATION

Time

The Bank of Cyprus - your money pissed away in to the Greek sea of debt.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:06 | 3353760 WhiteNight123129

Hopeless Time

Value S lid

(Ok here we are cheating with the 'o' letter by erasing it in the word solid)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:02 | 3353734 semperfi

HOPE - for your money's security
AND - all you will get back is...
CHANGE

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:02 | 3353736 OptionNinjaNYC

P.S: Moneyless

http://wallstreetfool.com/2013/03/20/dis-could-hit-60-in-the-next-couple...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353738 Sancho Ponzi

!hope

!solid value

!timeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353739 Hughing

No deepski, you swim

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353740 The big unzip

I bet you can make it to the water if you let me give you a push!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353741 Key-Rick

Hope - as in Hope you didn't deposit your money here

Solid - as in illiquid - perhaps permanently

Value - as in the Value of the bank is underwater

Timeless - as in the amount of time it will take to get your money back out.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353742 McMolotov

Soon to be re-typeset in Cyrillic for Mother Russia.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:07 | 3353769 Edward Fiatski

The Greek language shares some of the alphabet, so it's np. :)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:03 | 3353743 Seasmoke

We do not even know what these words mean.....

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:05 | 3353750 MsCreant

Go ahead Cyprus, take the plunge, leave the Euro.

Only then will you have a banking system with:

Hope

Solid value

(That is) Timeless.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:04 | 3353751 Confundido

The same waters that bathed Troy...anyone sees the horse behind the levy?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:04 | 3353752 ziggy59

Gold: Hope You Invested in Solid Value; Timeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:06 | 3353757 akak

The timeless stupidity of repeatedly placing hope in banksters maintaining the solid value of one's deposits..

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:05 | 3353761 insanelysane

Open 24 hours on days that don't end in "y". Closed all other times.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:10 | 3353781 akak

"You want money?"

"Come back, ONE YEAR!"

Cypriot banker

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:06 | 3353764 MsCreant

This way, Cyprus lemmings, this way, buy Greek bonds now!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:06 | 3353766 youngman

You used to take the Sears Robuck catalog to the outhouse..not anymore

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:50 | 3354263 negative rates

All the pretty colors are very, very, meaningful.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:08 | 3353774 Ban KKiller

Cement overshoes on sale now! (We only accept PM) Have a nice day!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:08 | 3353776 Golden_Rule

"Better returns even with a haircut"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:08 | 3353778 chdwlch1

The Bank of Cyprus...We'll Make You Wanna Jump Off a Fuckin' Cliff...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:09 | 3353784 epi_tis_thalassis

http://fortheisland.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/cyprus-mess-an-insiders-view/

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:09 | 3353785 IED

For everything else there's Mastercard

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:11 | 3353788 Piranhanoia

Boating accident instructions?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:14 | 3353801 jesusonline

Everything is transient. There are no "solid values" in financial world. Gold, precious metals are not either, if you come to think of it.

Now, 'Hope' and 'timeless'. Yeah. These features could well describe human spirit.

It is a shame greed's got the best of most of the people in the finance. It was bound to happen anyway, always been that way.

There is something wrong by default in our system - money. And we can't seem to get away from it. We are bound to reap the seeds of our own greed.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:41 | 3353922 LongBallsShortBrains

Long pussy.....short debt

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:15 | 3353802 Joseph Jones

Cash...it ain't all that.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:14 | 3353805 gimli

It's a simple Math problem actually using a communicative communist algorithm

(HOPE + SOLID VALUE + TIMELESS) - (SOLID VALUE + TIME) = HOPELESS

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:16 | 3353810 Smuckers

ANAGRAM:

OH, UPLOAD TIMELESS LEVIES.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:33 | 3353885 fuu

The Bank of Cyprus: Bather Fucks Pony or Phony Breast Fuck

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:16 | 3353813 mikmid

HOPE (WE ARE NOT BROKE)

SOLID VALUE (MINUS 10%)

TIMELESS (KGB WATCHING US)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:16 | 3353814 resurger

The bank hit the rock on the bottom right when they jumped in 2013...

how tragic

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:16 | 3353816 MsCreant

Folks, it has been a typo. Those awards. They really say:

Best (T)anking Organization in Cyprus for the Year 2012

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:17 | 3353818 Smuckers

If you take a leap of faith, you'll soon be underwater.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:17 | 3353819 Bingfa

When the pure defination of insanity is not enough.....

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:18 | 3353824 Joebloinvestor

Timeless is right, it ran out.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:18 | 3353825 ableman28

Wait, wait, I spotted the error. All three words were supposed to end in "less". Quick, reprint.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:19 | 3353827 chdwlch1

The Bank of Cyprus...Soon You'll be Underwater Too...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:19 | 3353829 RichardENixon

Appears there may have been some kind of boating accident by those rocks.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:20 | 3353831 Downtoolong

Outside Cover: Hoping for Solid Value

Inside Cover (Photo of Putin in a tank) : Time's Up

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:20 | 3353833 q99x2

No Signs of a Stock Bubble

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:27 | 3353837 Lunch is for Wimps

Hope. Solid Value. Timeless.

The Zimbabwean dollar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNqIdiuoV4

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:21 | 3353838 BrigstockBoy

Despair

Liquidity Crisis

Urgent

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:25 | 3353840 ebworthen

"hope?

solid value?

timeless?"

Yes, the question mark, the new international symbol for all currencies and bank depostis.

?Dollar

?Euro

?Yen

etc., etc., etc.

"Your current account balance is ?X"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:28 | 3353866 bloostar

Wasn't that reserved for the artist formerly known as Prince? Sorry, no, he was a ! I owe you ?1 billion.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:24 | 3353843 bloostar

Hope, solid value, timeless. Above all, priceless!

Opening again for business on March 26th 2493

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:22 | 3353844 slackrabbit

100 Bankers dead.

Did rhey jump or were they pushed Sergie?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:23 | 3353848 Obchelli

Russia showed finger to Cyprus

http://www.gazeta.ru/business/2013/03/20/5109597.shtml

Us google translate although it's shitty

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:36 | 3353901 MsCreant

Interesting. Still looks like show to me the double tax protest. They want to do this and they are trying to get it all their way. Cyprus WILL BE Russia by the time this is over.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:23 | 3353851 CrimsonAvenger

HOPE those Russian mafiosi can't find me, as I place a SOLID VALUE on my knee caps. If they do, the pain will be TIMELESS.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:23 | 3353852 Bastiat

"Go Fish"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:24 | 3353853 little buddy bu...

this has to be an ad for PMs. the words don't synch with any bank.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:25 | 3353858 AndItsGone

Wow, Bank of Cyprus won the prestigious Top 5% of the Web Award in 1997! KEWL!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:28 | 3353875 CVfriendship

"Take a dive" - Bank of Cyprus

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:31 | 3353881 Catflappo

fuck you bernanke

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:31 | 3353887 FLUSA.com

Bank of Cyprus: Where your money is safe as the City of Atlantis.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:35 | 3353896 mercenaryomics

nope

sold values

dimeless

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:38 | 3353913 Catullus

Underneath the water is a bottomless trench.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:38 | 3353914 phraseshifter

Hope

Solid Value

Timeless...

Sunken Treasure!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:38 | 3353915 LongBallsShortBrains

Time

Solid value

HOPELESS

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:39 | 3353916 mkkby

Our new service includes shave and a haircut while you wait in line.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:41 | 3353920 phraseshifter

Carnival Cruise Lines!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:57 | 3353987 BlueCheeseBandit

When I'm in Cyprus, I can't keep it in my pants long enough to enjoy the water.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:58 | 3353993 Arkadaba

Come on into the water!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:02 | 3354002 michael_engineer

At speed it's no different than concrete, just wetter but no better.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:03 | 3354009 Monedas

"I have a deposit for your accunt !" .... Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad World Tour

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:05 | 3354021 eaglerock

Hope

Solid Value

Timeless

Don't look down, just go and jump for chrisakes!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:09 | 3354037 Doubleguns

Obviously there are sharks in those waters.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:20 | 3354087 GubbermintWorker

Nope, not the view "pre belly flop" but the view of "pre on the rocks".

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:21 | 3354099 Lampooka

Shark infested water.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:24 | 3354118 Dr. No

"The illusion of safety"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:38 | 3354193 NoTTD

"...Worthless..."

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:43 | 3354213 conspicio

Funny how this "vision statement" from the 2010 report DID NOT make it into the 2011 document...Hmm, could it be because YOU WERE FUCKING YOUR MUPPETS THE WHOLE TIME?

Vision To be the choice of premium quality and an important banking institution in the markets we operate, distinguished for our drive, our pioneering, creative and innovative approach, the trust we inspire to our customers, the profound sense of pride we instil in our people, the consistently high returns we provide to our shareholders and our substantive contribution to society.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:51 | 3354267 MS7

Politicos better HOPE they don't touch the SOLID VALUE of Russian accounts; otherwise they'll be in a TIMELESS sleep with the fishes.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:05 | 3354329 howenlink

Hope yesterday $35

Solid Value today $1615

Failure of Fiat Currency...Timeless.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:31 | 3354420 Wave-Tech

Hope

Solid Value

Timeless...

...As we Breach the Fiat Cliff

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:38 | 3354472 sadpanda

Jump on in lemmings. Your body is made of over 80% percent water. Where just gonna hold you under till those percentages are to our liking. We'll pull your ass out just in time. You won't drown honest. Got a spiderman towel waiting for ya.

Caption Contest: "Hope... Solid Value... Timeless"

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