miðvikudagur, október 29, 2008

Ha dúkkuhús..

...eigum við að ræða þetta eithvað. Fékk þetta í tölvupósti áðan og er pínku bit ekki það að ég vissi um sumt annað ekki.

The following information started as a basic translation of a list published by Egill Helgason, with many additions made by his many readers.

This is basically a list of the most outrageous moments of the last few years.

Jón Ásgeir and Hannes Smárason in the Gumball 3000 race. FL Group shareholders picked up the cheque.

Tom Jones performing in an Icelandic new year's party in London.

Elton John performing at Ólafur Ólafsson's birthday party.

The brother's Lýður and Ágúst Guðmundsson were fishing in one of Iceland 's finest rivers. The used their helicopter to pop over to the nearest shop for a hot dog.

Newspaper Fréttablaðið (owned by Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson) chooses Hannes Smárason as the marketing person of the year.

Björgólfur Thor's birthday party in the Caribbean . Friends were flewn in from all over, Jamaraquai and rapper 50cent performed. His birthday present from his wife: fighter jets that flew over the area in formation.

When FL Group's offices in Copenhagen opened, an opening party was held for 300 people. The FL Group offices employed 4 people.

Sigurður Einarsson "summer house" at Þingvellir in Iceland . It is only 1000m2.
Kaupthing Bank's party that was held in London where friends were flown in from all over and Duran Duran performed.

Hannes Smárason purchased 2 houses side-by-side in Reykjavik 's most expensive area. He built a bridge between them. He also spent 2 million ISK on a front door.

Hannes Smárason left FL Group bankrupt and now lives in a 500 million ISK home in London.

Baugur Group's party in Monaco . Main performer: Tina Turner.

A daughter of one of the bad boys who received a flat for her 16th birthday and a Range Rover for her 17th, Brand new of course.

Some bankers were fishing near Vopnafjörður and felt like a ball. As there wasn't much happening close by they flew in a pop group and all the guests.

Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson buys a $10 million apartment in New York . Seemingly the most expensive square meter ever in NY.

Lárus Welding spends 1 million ISK buying a door for his daughter's dolls house. It was in the same style as their outside door and garage door.

Pálmi Haraldsson bought a Range Rover. When asked how much it had cost, he didn't know. He signed the slip but never looked at the amount!

Björgólfur Guðmundsson gave away a suit for a charity auction. Jóhannes Jónsson bought it for 10 million ISK and gave it back to him.

Jón Ásgeir's yacht in Florida was to be called Three Vikings but due to someone's bad spelling it got the name Thee Viking. That's what it's been called ever since.

Róbert Wessman complained to authorities that there wasn't room for his second
private jet at Reykjavik airport.

Hannes Smárason bought the most expensive Steinway piano available. He joked that nobody in his family could actually play and that some Icelandic musical school had been collecting money for the past 15 years to buy one the same. Very funny.

Kaupthing's advert starring John Cleese.

The assets of these guys need to be frozen and used to pay the massive debt they have left behind for all Icelander's to pay the next 500 years.

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