The Nifty Shitwagon: The Fateful Day That Created a Financial Crisis
By Richard C. Cook
April 15, 2010 -- The Nifty Shitwagon recently completed its sixth week on tour, and it is still going strong, pulling even more crap into its trailer.
The Nifty Shitwagon is a caravan of trucks that travel through the various cities, towns, villages, and countryside of the world, hauling a huge trailer loaded with crap -- all the crap that makes the world go 'round. This includes all of the crap associated with the production of shit (as opposed to the human shit and excrement that is produced in all households). If you have any doubts about this definition, ask your mother or father.
As you might imagine, the Nifty Shitwagon is a lot like a shit wagon or a shit train or a shit car, which is why we call it the Nifty Shitwagon. It's more or less like a shit train, except we haul in a trailer that is much longer than a train and, to put it quite simply, we haul loads that are heavier and much bigger than the shit trains pull.
The Nifty Shitwagon travels the world so it can bring back the shit from around the world, where it accumulates in some of the world's greatest cities. (At last count, we had around two dozen cities under our control. But we have lost track of exactly how many cities there are.)
The Nifty Shitwagon collects crap in such locations as London, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Leeds, Dublin, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Athens, Rome, New York, and of course, Los Angeles. For those who might be curious, all of the other cities we haul in our trailer have no apparent value. We just pull into town and stop for a while. We usually keep going until the smell gets so unbearable that we can't stand it anymore.