If the gyrations in the stock markets have had your head spinning, don't lose sleep over it just yet,
at least not until Jeanne Moos puts everything in perspective as only she can.
Better check your wallet; you may feel poorer as the Dow went down, down, downer.
But hold on -- on Tuesday,
the roller coaster headed back up; a rough ride for the parody E-Trade baby created by College Humor.
Oh God, it just dropped 400 points. This is not happening, dear Lord.
And though the market rallied Tuesday, it's hard not to panic...
Sell, sell, sell.
...when the whole world seems out of control.
More market mayhem.
London is burning.
Rioting, arson, looting...
The famine in East Africa...
Panic mode.
It's enough to make you want to crawl back under the covers. And even when the market goes back up and there's good news, they give it a bad name.
Could this be a... what they call a rip-your-face-off rally?
A rip-your-face-off rally does not involve Jim Carrey.
It's defined as a market advance with extreme intensity, so much so that it takes facial skin and hair with it.
And speaking of faces, trader body language inspired a Web site called the Brokers with Hands on Their Faces Blog.
People like Rush Limbaugh like to coin names when the market tanks.
Obamageddon. That's what we have witnessed this Friday. Barackalypse now.
CNBC's Jim Cramer had his own name for a market caught up in emotion.
Well, I am calling this a Bee Gees market because it's just emotion that's taking me over.
Talk about emotion taking over, blurry photos circulated on Twitter showing a plane buzzing the offices of Standard & Poor's towing a banner reading,
"Thanks for the downgrade, you should all be fired."
Fortune magazine reports it was paid for by an angry Midwestern broker.
Wall Street's spending yet another day in what's being described as freak-out mode.
Even comedians took cover from the carnage.
I'm just down here looking for my emergency hobo satchel. OK. Now, remember, folks, just remember, just remember, over the long-term stocks always increase in value.
Hey, everybody's chicken. When the market goes down over 600 points one day and up over 400 the next, even the parody E-Trade baby gets queasy.
I think I'm going to be sick.
Jeanne Moos, CNN...
I'm gonna jump out the window now.
...New York.