WSO Caption Contest - April 25th... Collect Silver Bananas and Win a Free Wall Street Oasis T-Shirt

You guys know the drill, all you have to do is leave a comment in this post with a caption you think is most fitting for the cartoon posted below. The winner will be determined by the community based on the number of Silver Bananas awarded to each comment. In the event of a tie, the admins of the site will decide the winner or send out multiple free shirts if we can't decide. Wall Street jokes welcomed and encouraged!

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Rules: caption must be posted before 11:59pm ET this Friday the 25th, winner will be announced this weekend

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I read on a forum somewhere that buying you a diamond ring is a bad investment... If it's on the internet, it's definitely true.

i'm not smart enough to do everything, but dumb enough to try anything
 

Not my quote, but it makes me think of Liar Liar - "Greta please, don't leave! I'm on my knees in a $900 suit!"

"Decide what to be and go be it." - The Avett Brothers
 

"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it... Oh my God, it even has a watermark."

"Once bread becomes toast, it can never go back."
 

My industry is all about exploiting inefficiencies. Time is money. Here's the deed to the house. Since you read "Eat, Pray, Love" --- I know it's only a matter of time until you and your personal trainer will be living in it.

Please don't quote Patrick Bateman.
 

"After I saw what Legal billed me for drafting this up, I couldn't afford to buy you a ring"

group think leads to mediocrity
 

He is the prospectus for the terms of our relationship on a going forward basis, if you need to circle back with a decion later that's fine.

Get busy living
 

"The craigslist ad didn't work! So I figured that after calculating your valuation I would take the plunge....by the way a diamond ring is so 90's."

Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
 

She always felt like their relationship was nothing more than paper gains.

We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski
 
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New York Times: "Marrying with HR to get into dream company is on the rise: an effective strategy for non-target students to compete with their Ivy-League counterparts"

“He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style” (Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace)
 

If she says "yes" to the question on the front, is she also now liable for the terms of the pre-nup on the back?

 

Some people will do anything to get out of an all-nighter.

Teach a man to make a fire, he'll be warm for the night. But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
 

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"For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment we can savor, and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible."
 

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"There's nothing you can do if you're too scared to try." - Nickel Creek
 

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"There's nothing you can do if you're too scared to try." - Nickel Creek

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