>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote:
>Lots of great stuff. But what's a "goldmoonie?" A gold standard
>fetishist?
>Michael
Oh, sorry, it's "Goldmoonie", an insulting epithet for an employee of Goldman Sachs, playing off the similarities between their corporate culture and that of the Reverend Sun Nyat Moon. Like "McKindroid" for a McKinsey employee. And "Flamingo" for an employee of Flemings, though the last is not in common usage.
d^2
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