The audacity to 'fart in the elevator' and the lingering anger over the AIG bailout

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The senior managing director – a top-ranking banker – walked onto the crowded elevator, focus fixed on her Blackberry, pressed the elevator button and farted loudly. As the smell filled the elevator, as others nervously coughed, some covering up giggles, her focus stayed on the Blackberry. Four floors later she left, commenting to a colleague, “The elevators are vile. The janitors are always on some break.”

Another MD turned to me: “That’s why she earns the big bucks.”

“Being able to fart?” I asked.

“No, you idiot. Audacity. Audacity so great that you can fart on the elevator and blame it on someone else.”

Maurice R Greenberg, the former chairman of AIG, has that kind of fart-in-the-elevator audacity.

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/oct/09/fart-elevator-audacity-lingering-anger-aig-bailout

[Frustratedlady]

1. She surely could recognize the smell as her own...or,

is she such an elitist, there is no odor...at least in her own mind?

[KingCharlemagne]

2. Not to go all Godwin on you out of the gate, but the standard for

fart-in-the elevator audacity was set by none other than old Adolf himself. My, dinner gatherings at the Berghof and later the Fuhrerbunker must have been pleasant olfactory affairs.

It may sound like a Woody Allen scenario, but medical historians are unanimous that Adolf was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence. Spasmodic stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, possibly the result of nervous tension, had been Hitler's curse since childhood and only grew more severe as he aged . . . Strangely, Hitler was unfazed by the fact that this high-fiber diet was having the opposite effect on his digestion than what he had intended. His private physician, Dr. Theo Morell, recorded in his diary that after Hitler downed a typical vegetable platter, "constipation and colossal flatulence occurred on a scale I have seldom encountered before."

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/the-madman-at-the-breakfast-table

[brewens]

3. I call it crop dusting when you walk by a group of people and just kind of sneak

a silent but deadly one out! Then observe as they scatter and point fingers!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It's never their fault.