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comic from X-Men

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This comic from X-Men was one of many like it, part of an issue in which the artist chose to hide the word sex on each and every page. In this image, the word sex stands out because it has been colored bright red. The uploader of the comic has also circled it for those of us who cannot find it on our own.

Flowers

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At first glance we see what appear to be several pretty flowers. However, looks can be deceiving, a second look at the negative space in between the three flowers uncovers the three letters which spell out World's dirty little secret.

Disney's Lion King

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Although technically not an image, this frame from Disney's animation "The Lion King" is perhaps the most famous and disputed subliminal message ever discovered. When Simba sends up a dust cloud the letters "S-E-X" can clearly be seen when the movie was paused. Although the films animators defended the dust as spelling out an abbriviation for "special effects", the formed letters were edited out all the newest versions of the movie in order to avoid further conflicts over the issue. Disney is notorious for the many sexually natured subliminal images aimed at kids uncovered in its works.

Movie Posters

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Skittles Bag

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Put together the "S" in the red skittle and the "eX" in explosion and what do you get? Thats right, even candy promotes sex now.

Fifty Rupee Bill

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These 50 Rupees from the Seychelles might not be able to buy sex, but they sure can stick it in your face. If you look close, and tilt your head to the right, you will see that the palm trees to the right of the woman spell a word I am sure you can all guess  by now. Hint: the top two leaves form the letter "S".

Log long Time Ago

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson President of the United States 1801-1809

List of Google Pranks

2000

• Google MentalPlex
• Google MentalPlex FAQ
• Google MentalPlex Usage Illustrations

2002

Pigeon Rank 

2004

Google Copernicus Center 

2005

• Google Gulp
• Google Gulp FAQ 

2006

 

• Google Romance™
• Google Romance™ FAQ
• Google Romance™ Tour

2007

 

• Gmail Paper Index
• Gmail Paper Announcement
• Gmail Paper Program Policie  
  

• Google TiSP
• Google TiSP FAQ
• Installation page
• Press Release page
• Not found page - April fools version

2008

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html

 led to Tay Zonday's cover of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up."

• Blogger Buzz: The Official Buzz from Blogger at Google: Announcing Google Weblogs (beta)
• http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/press.html 
• Google Manpower Search 
• Google Summer of Code 
• Google Talk Goes Green 
• Google Wake Up Kit
• Virgle
• Orkut 
• Rickrolled. (youtube)
• Searching for "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" 
• Google offers services in many languages,
• Searching for "once in a blue moon" 
• Searching for "number of horns on a unicorn" 
•   Swedish Chef's Bork bork bork, Pig Latin, Hacker (Actually leetspeak), Elmer Fudd, and Klingon. 

 

 

more Interesting Facts About Google

did come across an “alternative” version from Sin Chew Daily, which I am not sure where it is quoted from. Since similar resource couldn’t be located online, I will translate it to English here.
1. Swedish fish is the first (on the list) take-away snacks Google orders to its office.

2. Google celebrates Halloween every year in the office. The funniest dress-up was lava lamp in 2007, which I can’t visualize how it looks like though.

3. There are no restrictions on Googlers dress code in the office, in which pajama, ugly sweater and even super hero costume were on the records.

4. The youngest Google employee was 7 years old. (Not sure about this, the only thing searchable from the web was a 15 years old.
5. Google publishes variety of logos commemorating holidays and events. The first one on the books being a self-made “Burning Man” logo by the founders themselves.

6. The first real person that named after “Google” is a Lebanese with full name of Oliver Google Kai. He is now three years old and owns a website(!?), which is probably run by his father Walid Elias Kai, a vertical search marketing consultant.


7. Google products appear in 117 type of languages, including 5 “fake” languages like Elmer Fudd and Swedish Chef. Spanish, German, French and Japanese are the most used search language besides English.

8. Thinking of working in Google? Well, think again if you can’t answer their mysterious and challenging puzzles. Google setup a billboard in Silicon Valley by 2004, stating “First 10 digit prime in consecutive digits of e”. Geeks who got the hint would have visited http://www.7427466391.com/ (which is not available now) with further puzzles to be solved before they were recruited.

9. “Teaching is like learning again”. Since 2000, Google encourage teaching and learning activities among its employees, from the subject of learning Chinese to Ulysses from Greek mythology.
10. Google has a tradition of perpetrating April Fools’ Day hoaxes. In 2008 alone, 16 hoaxes are created by Google worldwide. The most memorable one though was the Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) in 2007.

*This list is compiled by C.K.Wong who writes for Malaysia Crunch and can be contacted on malaysiacrunch at gmail dot com.

we realized we were truly busted

Let me set the stage for you. I am hanging out in my house with my friend, having just walked back from lunch. We went into the kitchen to get some water at about 3:00 pm. As I was talking to my friend, I looked out my kitchen window that faces the alley between Q and Corcoran Streets. I saw two people in the alley, one black and one white, near the back entrance of the house across the alley. I turned to my friend and said, "Are they having sex? I think they are having sex. Oh my God, they are having sex!"

We could not tell if the white person was a man or a woman, as he/she had on some makeup, looked somewhat feminine with long curly hair, and had a dick in his/her mouth. After 3 minutes of heaven, the white guy/girl looks up at the black guy and says something. The black guy reaches into his pocket and pulls out a crack pipe and smokes it, then hands the pipe to his cock-sucking friend who also smokes. I turned to my friend and said, "I think the black guy had the crack." He responded, "The black guy always has the crack."

After some more awkward, semi-hard cock sucking, the white guy/girl reaches for the crack pipe and the black guy takes it away from him and says something. The white guy/girl stands up, pulls down his pants, and starts to pull off what I thought was underwear until my friend screams, "Is that a DIAPER???" And it was. I even think the black guy was taken back by the diaper.

Maybe it's just me, but I would not have stuck my finger in the ass of a guy/girl who was just wearing a diaper, but it did not stop our black friend. He got a couple of fingers up there before he decided to move to the next level. It was here that we discovered that the white guy/girl was indeed a guy, because as he was bending over, we got a flash of his rather large ball sack.

At this point, this cracked-out scene had been going on for several minutes and I was hoping that one of my neighbors would come out and stumble upon these two and have a conniption fit. I thought briefly of calling the police, but then remembered a few times being in a similar situation (sans crack and daylight), so I didn't.

I could not believe they had not heard us screaming and laughing. We were only 20 feet from them and the only thing separating us was a window. As I moved my camera closer to the window, I accidentally bumped it, creating a loud "thump", which caused the black man to look into the window. We were busted, or at least I thought. He did stare at us, but continued violating his white friend for a few more minutes.

It wasn't until he pointed at us and smiled, that we realized we were truly busted. We both dropped to the floor and by the time we looked back out the window, our friends had their clothes back on and were gathering their diaper and crack pipe to leave.

Less than a minute after they left, the guy that lives in the house across the alley pulls up in his car and takes several shopping bags out and places them directly where the action had taken place. I am not sure if he could feel us watching him or if he could smell ass crack and crack, but he stood there for awhile looking puzzled. I love DC!

Man shoots himself in arm after being denied sex

Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning.

The girlfriend told deputies that her boyfriend wanted to get intimate, but she just wanted to go to sleep. When she refused, he became irate.

Authorities said the girlfriend went to a spare bedroom, and several minutes later she heard two gunshots. She told deputies her boyfriend came into her room and threatened her. He then stumbled into the kitchen before falling into the oven, knocking himself unconscious.

The man was treated for two gunshot wounds to the arm and was taken to jail.

He was charged with threatening violence and firing a weapon in an occupied dwelling. He was being held on $100,000 bail.

Meet the woman who goes blind on and off

Doctors in Melbourne have been perplexed by an unusual condition of a woman whose eyes clamp shut for three days at a time, and then open up for the next three.

Natalie Adler, 21, has been experiencing such an extraordinary routine for the past four years.

Specialists think that Natalie might be the only person on earth with this kind of condition.

"My eyes are closed for three days and then open for three days," news.com.au quoted Natalie, of Caulfield South, as saying.

"Something happens overnight (on the third night). I go to bed and I can open my eyes, and then when I wake up the next day I can’t. Nobody knows why," she added.

She even revealed that she had undergone hundreds of tests ever since she was a school kid in mid-year 11.

"I woke one Sunday and my eyes were swollen. It was the day before an English exam," she said.

She further said that after a sinus and staph infection, "I just never got better".

"My eyes started closing intermittently, really randomly, but within a few weeks they were closing for three days," she added.

Associate professor Justin O’Day, head of the neuro-ophthalmology unit at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, said: "Natalie's a mystery. She's a one-off and we don't have a diagnosis."

The doctor said that a condition called blepharospasm, random muscle spasms forcing the eyes closed, offered some point of reference, but there was no medical explanation for the strict consistency of Natalie’s eye routine.

"It's unusual to see somebody with this degree of spasming and eyelid closure, especially at this age. There is no known cause," he said.

Botox injections around the eyes worked temporarily for Natalie, changing her six-day eye cycle to five-days open, one-day closed for almost two years.

The woman who suffers unexplained fatigue and nausea, however, now says that Botox no longer worked for her.

During "closed-eye days", Natalie's eyes are completely shut, except for a small slit in her left eye. On "open-eye days", they function normally, though the left eyelid can droop.

Her parents, Fred and Lillian, said that they were proud of the way their daughter had been enduring her problems.

"Natalie's always saying there are a lot of other people worse off than she is," Fred said.

Natalie, whose next treatment will include electrical stimulation of the eyes, has not given up hope of a cure.

"The tests give me a glimmer of hope," she said.

Did u ever imagine

The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world.

1840–1859

The history of Lehman Brothers parallels the growth of the United States and its energetic drive toward prosperity and international prominence. What would evolve into a global financial entity began as a general store in the American South. Henry Lehman, an immigrant from Germany, opened his small shop in the city of Montgomery, Alabama in 1844. Six years later, he was joined by brothers Emanuel and Mayer, and they named the business Lehman Brothers.

1850

Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman founded the Firm in Montgomery, Alabama.

1858

Cotton was the cash crop of the time, and the Lehmans accepted it from the local farmers as currency to settle accounts. The brothers traded the cotton for cash or merchandise, becoming brokers for buyers and sellers of the crop. In 1858, they opened an office in New York, which was the commodity trading center of the country.

1860–1869

The Civil War disrupted the Lehmans' business. When hostilities ended, the brothers moved north and concentrated their operations in New York, where they helped establish the Cotton Exchange.

The post-war period witnessed the rapid growth of railroads, sparking the transformation of the nation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. At the time, Lehman Brothers' future merger partner, Kuhn, Loeb, was underwriting much of the financing for railroad construction.

Railroad bonds represented a significant advance in the development of capital markets. Their affordable price attracted a great number of individual investors and Lehman Brothers, recognizing a trend, expanded its commodities business to include the sale and trading of securities. The Firm also moved into the area of financial advisory, which provided the foundation for underwriting expertise.

1880–1889

During the vigorous economic expansion of the second half of the 19th century, Lehman Brothers broadened its expertise beyond commodities brokerage to merchant banking. Building a securities trading business, they became members of the New York Stock Exchange in 1887.

Setting the stage for future global growth, Jacob Schiff, a Kuhn, Loeb partner, led the Firm to establish investment-banking relationships in Europe and Japan.

1887

The Firm acquires a seat on the New York Stock Exchange

1889

Lehman Brothers underwrites its first stock offering

1900–1909

At the turn of the century, Lehman Brothers was a founding financier of emerging retailers, including Sears, Roebuck & Company, F.W. Woolworth Company, May Department Stores Company, Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and R.H. Macy & Company.

1920–1929

In the 1920s, Robert Lehman perceived dynamic changes occurring in the nation's economy, and focused the company on rapidly developing consumer industries such as retailing, airlines and communications. Lehman Brothers was a strong supporter of the entertainment sector and advised on the consolidation of major movie theater chains. Start-up ventures, including film studios RKO, Paramount and 20th Century Fox, benefited from financing arranged by the Firm.

Triggered by the stock market crash of 1929, the Depression placed tremendous pressure on the availability of capital. Lehman Brothers was one of the pioneers of innovative financing techniques such as private placements, arranging loans between blue-chip borrowers and private lenders. These loans offered strict safeguards and solid returns for lenders, while enabling borrowers to raise much-needed capital.

1929

The Lehman Corporation is created, a prominent closed-end investment company

1930–1939

The 1930s witnessed the explosive growth of radio and experimentation with a developing technology called television. Lehman Brothers underwrote the initial public offering for DuMont, the first television manufacturer, and helped fund the Radio Corporation of America, known as RCA.

Beginning in the 1930s, the increasing demand for oil set off waves of wildcat drilling in search of the resource. Companies like Halliburton and Kerr-McGee relied on Lehman Brothers for capital to fund their activities.

1940–1949

The end of World War II ignited an unprecedented era of prosperity, fueling the growth of consumer industries such as home appliances and auto manufacturing. Lehman Brothers became an important financial advisor and underwriter for many growing companies and established a number of long-term relationships that are still active today.

1949

The Firm establishes its 10 Uncommon Values® Portfolio.

1950–1959

Economic expansion accelerated in the 1950s with the dawn of the Electronics Age, and Lehman Brothers arranged start-up financing for companies such as Litton Industries. The Firm also lent its expertise and advisory skills to Burlington Mills, Schenley Industries and American Export Lines.

This period was also the beginning of the computer era, and Lehman Brothers provided IPO underwriting for industry pioneer Digital Equipment. The Firm later arranged the acquisition of Digital by Compaq.

The travel industry benefited from the sustained economic growth of the period, and Lehman Brothers sponsored the IPO of Hertz Rent-a-Car. The focus on transportation and travel continued into the 1960s, with Lehman Brothers advising Ford Motor Company, TWA, American Airlines and Continental Airlines.

At this time, consumer-driven companies such as General Foods, Campbell Soup and Philip Morris turned to Lehman Brothers to help finance the growth necessary to satisfy burgeoning demand for their products.

1960–1979

By the 1960s and 1970s, many of Lehman Brothers' clients were expanding overseas. To meet their financial needs, the Firm opened an office in Paris in 1960, followed by a location in London in 1972 and Tokyo in 1973. This growing international presence was enhanced by the merger with Kuhn, Loeb.

With continued advances in electronics and information technology in the 1970s, Lehman Brothers worked with leading players such as IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation and Loral.

1975

The Firm acquires Abraham & Co.

1980–1989

In the 1980s, Lehman Brothers played an important role in the dawn of the Information Age, helping fund such companies as Intel and new technology businesses of the period, which later became the leading players in the high-tech revolution.

During the robust merger and acquisition activity of the 1980s, Lehman Brothers advised companies such as Chrysler, American Motors, General Foods, Philip Morris and Hoffman-LaRoche on expanding domestic and international operations.

In the mid-1980s, breakthrough research in the life sciences introduced the biotech era, revolutionizing the healthcare industry. Lehman Brothers assisted a number of new businesses in obtaining the capital needed to fund research and development. A leading advisor to the healthcare sector, the Firm worked with major pharmaceutical companies during the international consolidation and globalization of the industry.

1984

American Express acquires Lehman Brothers and merges the Firm with Shearson.

1986

Lehman Brothers acquires a seat on the London Stock Exchange.

1988

Lehman Brothers acquires a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

1990–1999

American Express divested Shearson in 1993, and the independent Firm once again became known solely as Lehman Brothers.

1994

The Firm becomes independent through a public stock offering and Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. common stock commences trading on the New York & Pacific stock exchanges.

Lehman Brothers opens an office in Tel Aviv, Israel, building upon its long-term presence in that country.

1995

The Firm earns recognition as "Global Bond House of the Year" by International Finance Review.

1998

Lehman Brothers joins the S&P 500 Index and establishes its 10 Uncommon EuroValues portfolio.

1999

Lehman Brothers establishes its first venture capital fund and celebrates the 50th year of its 10 Uncommon Values® portfolio.

Lehman Brothers establishes an alliance with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi for Japanese M&A.

The Firm passes the $1 billion mark in annual net income for the first time.

2000+

Lehman Brothers celebrates its 150th year anniversary.

The Firm joins the S&P 100 Index and its stock price hits $100 for the first time.

Lehman Brothers becomes the first firm to underwrite corporate debt on the Internet.

The Firm launches LehmanLive®, a Web site that offers clients around the globe access to a vast array of services and proprietary information 24 hours a day.

2001

The Firm resumes fixed income trading two days after Sept. 11 and equity trading when U.S. markets open.

Lehman Brothers brings the first IPO, Given Imaging, to market after Sept. 11.

The Firm buys 745 Seventh Ave. for its new global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan and purchases additional space in New York City and New Jersey.

Lehman Brothers becomes a member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

2002

Lehman Brothers moves into its new global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

The Firm establishes the Wealth and Asset Management Division*.

Lehman Brothers executes the largest financial services IPO in history for CIT Group, and the largest European leveraged buyout in history for KKR and Wendel Investissement.

The Firm lead-manages the largest-ever U.S. dollar denominated debt issue for GECC.

Lehman Brothers acquires Lincoln Capital Management's fixed income business*.

* In 2005, the Wealth and Asset Management Division was renamed the Investment Management Division and Lincoln Capital Fixed Income Management Company, LLC was renamed Lehman Brothers Asset Management LLC.

2003

Lehman Brothers acquires Neuberger Berman, positioning the Firm as an industry leader in the wealth and asset management business.

The Firm moves to its new European headquarters at 25 Bank Street in Canary Wharf.

Lehman Brothers acquires The Crossroads Group*, expanding the Firm's private equity fund investment management business.

Moody's Investors Service raises the Firm's long-term credit rating to A1 and the LBI broker-dealer credit rating to Aa3, representing the third ratings upgrade in the last four years.

* In 2005, Lehman Crossroads Investment Advisers, LP (d/b/a The Crossroads Group) was renamed Lehman Brothers Private Fund Advisers, LP.

2004

Lehman Brothers moves to its new Asia headquarters in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills.

The Firm advises on two of the top five announced Mergers & Acquisitions transactions worldwide: Cingular Wireless' acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services; and Sprint's acquisition of Nextel Communications.

Lehman Brothers executes the largest capital markets transaction in the history of the U.S. utility industry for Pacific Gas & Electric and the largest IPO globally in 2004 for Belgacom SA.

The Firm posts record financial results, including best-ever net revenue, net income, and earnings per share. The Firm increases its dividend by 33%.

Assets under management at the Firm's Investment Management Division rise to a record $137 billion.

2005

Lehman Brothers achieves record revenues, net income and earnings per share based on record results in each business segment and region.

Standard & Poor's upgrades Lehman Brothers' long-term senior debt rating to A+ from A, citing diversified earnings base and strong risk management.

The Firm's assets under management grow to a record $175 billion.

Named "Best Investment Bank" by Euromoney in its 2005 Awards for Excellence.

Lehman Brothers opens an office in Mumbai, India.

2006

Lehman Brothers achieves record net revenues, net income and earnings per share for the third consecutive year based on record results across all business segments and regions.

Ranks #1 in the Barron's 500 annual survey of corporate performance for the largest companies in the U.S. and Canada.

#1 dealer on the London Stock Exchange by trading volume.

Advises clients on the three largest global M&A deals announced in 2006: AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth; Gaz de France's merger with Suez* (pending); Endesa's defense mandate resulting from E.ON's takeover offer** (withdrawn).

The Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business officially launches at the London Business School.

All transactions appear as a matter of record only.
Source: Thomson Financial, 1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
* Advisor to the Republic of France, Gaz de France's majority shareholder
** Also acted as advisor to Endesa on a consortium's (Enel and Acciona) subsequent takeover offer in 2007

2007

Lehman Brothers ranks #1 "Most Admired Securities Firm" by Fortune.

Achieves record net revenues, net income and earnings per common share (diluted) for the fourth consecutive year based on record results in all three business segments.

Acts as financial advisor on largest-ever M&A transaction in financial institutions sector: $98 billion acquisition of ABN AMRO by a consortium of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Fortis.*

#1 dealer on the London Stock Exchange by annual trading volume for the third year in a row.

Creates the Lehman Brothers Center for Global Finance and Economic Development at Spelman College, the #1 ranked institution among historically black colleges and universities by U.S. News & World Report.

Establishes the Council on Climate Change to bring together leaders from industry, policy and academia to facilitate constructive dialogue regarding climate change policy formulation and its impact on business.

2008

On September 13, 2008, Timothy F. Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York called a meeting on the future of Lehman, which included the possibility of an emergency liquidation of its assets. Lehman reported that it had been in talks with Bank of America and Barclays for the company's possible sale. The New York Times reported on September 14, 2008, that Barclays had ended its bid to purchase all or part of Lehman and a deal to rescue the bank from liquidation collapsed. Leaders of major Wall Street banks continued to meet late that day to prevent the bank's rapid failure. Bank of America's rumored involvement also appeared to end as federal regulators resisted its request for government involvement in Lehman's sale. Also on September 14, 2008, The New York Times reported that Lehman will file for bankruptcy protection for its parent company, Lehman Brothers Holdings, while keeping its subsidiaries solvent during the bankruptcy proceedings

A group of Wall Street firms agreed to provide capital and financial assistance for the bank's orderly liquidation and the Federal Reserve, in turn, agreed to a swap of lower-quality assets in exchange for loans and other assistance from the government. Lehman's bankruptcy would be the largest failure of an investment bank since Drexel Burnham Lambert collapsed amid fraud allegations 18 years earlier. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) offered an exceptional trading session on Sunday, September 14, 2008, to allow market participants to offset positions in various derivatives on the condition of a Lehman bankruptcy later that day. Although the bankruptcy filing missed the deadline, many dealers are honoring the trades they made in the special session.

Lehman Brothers in New York on 15 September

In New York, on September 15, 2008, shortly before 1 a.m., Lehman Brothers Holdings announced it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection citing bank debt of $613 billion, $155 billion in bond debt, and assets worth $639 billion. Its subsidiaries will continue to operate as normal. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) suspended Lehman's Australian subsidiary as a market participant however, after clearing-houses terminated their contracts with the firm.

Lehman Brothers (LEH) shares tumbled 80% in U.S. pre-open trade. The Dow Jones closed down 500 points on September 15, the largest drop since the days following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The conditions on Lehman's trading floors that day appeared grim, a third of the sales force were absent and those that did come had brought their resumés, along with pizza, beer and tequila.

In the United Kingdom, the investment bank went into administration with PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed as administrators. In Japan, the Japanese branch, Lehman Brothers Japan INC., and its holding company filed for civil reorganization on September 16, 2008 in Tokyo District Court.

Former staff attempted to make money out of the collapse by selling company memorabilia on eBay.

On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Barclays plc announced that they will acquire a "stripped clean" portion of Lehman Brothers for $1.75 billion. This portion includes the Lehman Brothers Times Square headquarters and the bulk of Lehman's trading and debt security operations, which now become part of Barclays Capital.