I finally got embroiled in the credit crunch yesterday after Landsbanki’s subprime reindeer investments collapsed.  Does anyone else think it’s kind of funny that Iceland have frozen their assets?

Maybe I should have listened to the secret coded message in the lyrics to Bennet’s 1997 hit “Mum Has Gone To Iceland”.

More food mama
Give us more food mama
Give us prawn ring mama
Give us anything mama
Thank God
My Mum has gone to Iceland

More cash dadda
Give her more cash dadda
Be a bit flash dadda
Give here more cash, more
Thank God
My Mum has gone to Iceland

And we don’t have the dough
As the ad men well know
Got no concept of your bad cash flow
And if that ain’t enough
Just as life gets more tough
They bring out a new game for my Nintendo
My head’s popping
TV window shopping
And there ain’t no stopping
With that ice cream topping
Thank God
My Mum has gone to Iceland

We want mama
What you can’t afford mama
And the TV pressure’s
Aimed at your little treasures
Thank God
My mum has gone to Iceland

Bleedy daddy dry
Watch my mummy cry
And I can’t stop wanting
No matter how I try
Thank God
My mum has gone to Iceland

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