lished or cleaned. This is Bud’s way of saying people are unaware of how valuable Blue Star Airlines is. A half-assed management being decimated by a price war they cannot win, but the gates at La Guardia can bail us out. If a management team is "half-assed," they are not serious or good. "To decimate" something is to completely destroy it. The "gates at La Guardia" are slots or spaces at the La Guardia airport in New York. "To bail out" a person is a slangy way of saying to save or help them. I’ve got mixed emotions, like Larry Wildman going off a cliff in my new Maseratti. If a person has "mixed emotions" about something, they feel confused or conflicted by it (happy and sad). A cliff is the edge of a very steep face of rock, high above a lower level. A "Maseratti" is a very expensive Italian sports car. Aren’t you forgetting one thing? Capital reserves. This company has 75 million cash in over-funded pensions. That buys us some credibility. "Capital reserves" is the amount of cash that a person or company can use if quickly needed. A "pension" is a retirement account paid for by both the employer and employee, in this case for the workers of the airline (If it is "over-funded," there is actually more money in it than is legally required for the airline to pay out). "Credibility" is believability. The beauty is you already own close to 2% of this sucker. A silly but common slang word for a person, thing, or here, company. I’m up to my ass in more nuts than a fruitcake. A silly play on words; If a person is "up to their ass" in nuts, they are surrounded by them. Of course, in this case, a "nut" is a crazy person, and not a snack food. A "fruitcake" is a horrible type of cake. The hourly cost of a flight crew is $850 an hour. The "flight crew" on a plane includes the pilots and cabin attendants, who serve the food in flight. Bud is a born liar, but otherwise he’s a good kid. A person who is "a born liar" has, of course lied from the time they were a baby. Any noun could work: A born politician, athlete, etc. No offense. :: None taken. "No offense" are the words you use if you have just said something that could hurt or offend the person you’re speaking to, and "none taken" is what that person says back, unless they really were offended! I got roasted the other night; A friend asked "Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?" "To roast" a well known person at a dinner is to come together to both honor and make fun of them. "To honor" a person is to show them great respect, usually for what they have accomplished. You’ve got losses of $20-30,000,000, dividends cut to zero, and you’re being squeezed to death by the majors. This is Gekko’s way of saying that competition from the big airlines
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