Hard economic times hits the High End Girlfriend Index

[billyoc]

Don't shoot the messenger...

The Dow Jones industrial average rebounded a bit Tuesday, but the true index for measuring hard times - the High End Girlfriend Index - was off the charts.

The HEGI is charted by Edward Hayes, a noted lawyer who started as a Bronx homicide prosecutor but has become the go-to guy among the city's moneyed classes when promises are broken.

"Particularly if you happen to be a woman in trouble," Hayes says.

The model for the defense lawyer in Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," Hayes is an astute observer of social archetypes, including a particular sort of schlub who was invisible to girls in high school but became a magnetic figure thanks to the magic of millions.

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/09/17/2008-09-17_hard_economic_times_hits_the_high_end_gi.html

:rofl:

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R

I've seen these mismatched couples in restaurants and wondered.