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March 12, 2009, you've watched snippets of them for days or meant to after your friends sent you the link. You TwitBloged it on the InterScape. People on TV have talked about how much people have talked about it.

"Ongoing grudge match between Daily Show host Jon Stewart and CNBC host Jim Cramer."

People staying in hotels are wondering why it's on the cover of their free paper. Tonight the week-long feud of the century comes to a head. Cramer, Stewart in a 12-minute face-off that could marginally increase the very rate Comedy Central charges for 30 seconds of advertising time. Welcome to Brawl Street, get ready to buy low and sell die.

Welcome to the Daily Show. I just dislocated both my shoulders. I am Jon Stewart, baby, it's go time. Just a few moments, the host of CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer, he's sitting right there. And I, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I will be sitting where I’m sitting right now, probably not gonna be moving. We will be discussing the intricacies of the world's financial markets. As you can imagine I have been training all day.

What does P/E stand for?

Price to Earnings.

How many stocks in the Dow?

30.

Biggest software component?

Microsoft.

Biggest hardware component?

US Steel.

Wrong, maggot!

Damn!

What is tier 1 capital?

Er, tier 1 capital is a core measure of bank's financial strength, supposed primarily of equity, capital and cash reserves.

But?

But also possibly including irredeemable non-cumulative preferred stock and retained earnings. Let's do this thing! Ah....

I am ready, baby! I've learned it all. I've been studying. Did you know that the guy on the 20 was a president but the guy on the 100’s just some …… guy? I didn't know that. So what was my opponent doing today to prepare?

Please welcome Jim Cramer.

Yes, to prepare for this skirmish, he appeared in public with a convicted white collar criminal. Not sure how that's gonna help him.

If you are mad at somebody like, like Jon, hey, make believe this is Jon Stewart. It's cold, now the pastry is cold, hey, you do that very well.

Mr. Cramer, don't you destroy enough dough on your own show? Boom goes the dynamite. How weird is our world, when Jim Cramer is on TV baking pie and Martha Stewart is the one who went to jail for security fraud. That's weird.

Vocabulary:

1.       snippet: a small part, piece, or thing

2.       feud: an angry and often violent quarrel between two people or groups that continues for a long time

3.       come to a head: (事情等)达到危急的关头

4.       face-off: (informal especially AmE) a fight or argument

5.       P/E: 市盈率

6.       maggot: An extravagant notion; a whim

7.       skirmish: a short argument, especially between political or sports opponents

8.       make believe: imagine or pretend that something is real or true

9.       dough: 生面团，[俚]money（这里是双关语，Cramer敲打生面团，Jon借机讽刺其节目给投资者造成了损失）