Last night, I asked what the letters “U B S” stood for — using “U Better Sing” and “Unreliable Bankers Swiss” as examples.
Readers responded with dozens of examples of possible other names that worked well. In fact, there were quite a few fantastic suggestions, which I culled down to a Letterman style short list of my favorites:
Top 10 Things the Letters “UBS” Stands For
10. Uncle Broke Sam
9. Unlocked Banking Secrets
8. Untaxed Bastards Suffer!
7. Uber Blown Secrecy
6. Untrustworthy Bankster Swine
5. Used to BS (the IRS)
4. Unconcealed Banknote Storage
3. Unlawful Benefits Seized
2. U’d Better Surrenderand the number one thing UBS stands for:
1. Utilize Bahamas, Swiftly!
Honorable Mentions after the jump . . .
U’r Bank Sux (mine is better)
U Been Swissed
Unverschämte Bankiererschwindler” (= Shameless Swindling Bankers
Utterly Broken System
UncleSam’s Bitch in Switzerland
Unlucky Buffoons Snafued
U’ve Been Screwed
Universal Bean Spillers
Unfaithful Bank of Snitcherland
Unmitigated Blabbing of Secrets
Undisclosed Billions Still
Ultimate Bitch Slap
Universally Bullshiting Sycophants
Uncoordinated Bankers Society
Ugly Banking Solutions
United Bullying States
U Bilked Sam
Up your Butt with a Strapon
Unscrupulous Bourgeois Sentenced
U B Sentenced
And a special “creative honorable mention” for spell it backwards in SMS text messaging…
S2BU = Sucks 2 Be You
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This morning UBS stands for Unemployment BAFFLES Sam….
I see England is declaring their recession over…this is the, I think, Vietnam solution…declare victory and go home…
Try to talk with my banker today and see how the local banking business is doing.
Later.
I have a few friends who wanted to open a Swiss bank account or one offshore. I told them to make sure they had a LOT of money and CLOUT because their money could just disappear… and it’s kind of hard to go to court to get your money back when you’re evading taxes.
Now the reasons got even more straightforward!
Also this morning UBS stands for Undo Bailout Subsidies….
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/19/autos/nada_clunkers_wind_down/index.htm?postversion=2009082004
Dealers want end to Cash for Clunkers
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The National Automobile Dealers Association is urging the federal government to begin shutting down the Cash for Clunkers program immediately.
I missed this. My late entry is: Unadulterated Bull Shit.
Those unemploment numbers are disheartening. If the consumer can’t work or borrow thru his home ATM there is no consumer.
Untaxed Billions Seized
Hey Ben 22:
In the spirit of our common dislike of the MSM’s use of Unexpectedly:
Unexpectedly Bad Statistics (this am….)
Barry must be tied up this morning, or he’d have commented on the UE numbers…
I see new orders improved in the Philly survey…
Good.
Will these kinds of things offset the increasing foreclosures and very high unemployment?
I guess we’ll see.
OT
Google… Upgraded By Sachs
more Useless BS
…late entries (BR, this needs to get carried on because I haven’t laughed so hard since…well…since GM)
U’d Better Skiptown
Ultimately: Balances Shredded
Unlikely2 Become Saints
…and my favorite two new entries
Utterly Buttplugged Skidaddys
Unleash Beatty-esque Squeal
I think Groty deserves a mention for Untaxed Billions Seized.
This is more about individuals cheating the system than Swiss bankers allowing them to do so.
U Bitches Suckedit
I say hit ‘em in the own language (or at least one of the multiple “official Swiss languages” which they use to rip off or incite-to-tax-cheat their European clients), so I’m gonna go with a German acronym here -UBS stands for
“Unverschämte BankiererSchwindler” ( = Shameless Swindling Bankers)
or
“Unübertroffene Beratung für Steuerhinterzieher” ( = Unsurpassed Advice for Tax Cheats).
Any way you slice it, it boils down to “U oughta Be aShamed of yourselves”…
Not that I’m a huge fan of paying taxes (especially seeing as where our U.S. govt is spending them), but UBS and its fellow secrecy-loving banks around the world are nothing more than organized criminal enterprises dedicated to enabling the wealthy to engage in tax fraud. Can’t believe the U.S. (and other tax-cheated) governments are stopping short of shutting these rackets down, period.
It just hit me…late
UnBelievably Stupid
as traders say it stand for:
Use to Be Smart
@ewmayer, missed the grammar section while studying German?
Somebody at Wall Street & Technology seems to be reading your blog.
See subject line.
Too funny