The chairman has a giggle about acronyms that spell out naughty words
"OK – I agree it was pretty funny but I'm not sure it was necessary to give your staff the whole afternoon off as a mark of celebration," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat drinking pints of Predictable Name Gag in the Curt & Custard. "Nonsense," wheezed the chairman who apparently hadn't stopped sniggering since he'd seen the announcement the day before. "I haven't laughed so much since the Financial Services Authority set out their vision for the industry – took me weeks before I realised they weren't joking." "What I'd like...
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