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&lt;p&gt;If you think big swinging Wall Street CEOs can&#39;t take a joke, you should listen to them they try to tell one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/dloos/folders/Jing/media/532c0181-3177-4a40-bad3-340d702d3c1a/00000171.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;293&quot; height=&quot;198&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;This past weekend, Deutsche Bank&#39;s chief executive was working on some new material, which, after bombing, has put the man atop the German bank in a bit of a pickle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt; a recent &quot;debate on whether Germany should set quotas for women on the boards of major groups, Josef Ackermann acknowledged there were [no females] on the bank&#39;s executive committee.&quot; Then he added&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt;, &quot;But I hope it will be prettier and more colourful one day.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Get it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt;Neither did Ilse Aigner -- &quot;the conservative German minister for agriculture and consumer affairs [who] shot back in the [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt;business daily &lt;em&gt;Handelsblatt&lt;/em&gt;],&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt; saying: &#39;Those who like pretty and colourful things should go take a walk in a field of flowers or a museum.&#39;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;advenueINTEXT&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; In a rebuttal to the minister&#39;s wagging finger, &quot;Deutsche Bank&#39;s chief spokesman told &lt;em&gt;Handelsblatt&lt;/em&gt; that Ackermann&#39;s remarks were taken out of context and that he was &#39;a gentlemen from the old school.&#39;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Which is German for &quot;a man with a limited sense of humor.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;(Economic Times)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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