Hoofy

Minyanville's hilarious segments, featuring Hoofy the bull and Boo the bear, feel like the wacky offspring birthed after Walt Disney shared a few too many margaritas with Wall Street -- and then did what Wall Street has done to mainstream America.

Karen Salmansohn: Laugh Your Way Through This Financial Crisis 2009

Minyanville. com was an obscure provider of financial news that, among other things, featured an animated bull and bear named Hoofy and Boo that bantered about the day's headlines.

Portals Think Small for the Latest News 2007

Hoofy said he'd got to enlist, in spite of his mother.

The Whistling Mother 1912

And Hoofy owned that that was the thing he was really afraid of -- that his upper lip wouldn't keep stiff but would wobble, in spite of him.

The Whistling Mother 1912

Well, Hoofy came in that day -- it was just before the Easter vacation -- looking as if he were down and out for fair.

The Whistling Mother 1912

We called him Hoofy because he hated walking so, and always drove his big yellow roadster from one class to another, even if it was only a thousand feet straight across the campus to the next lecture.

The Whistling Mother 1912

And his father would look grave and tell him not to mind, that his mother wasn't well, and that she couldn't help it -- and Hoofy really didn't think she could, being made that way.

The Whistling Mother 1912

When I looked up after reading this, Hoofy looked like a small boy who's been staring in a shop-window at a fire-engine he can't have.

The Whistling Mother 1912

Given technical analysis is a better context than catalyst, Hoofy needed tangible ammunition to blast the bears.

Minyanville 2010

While Boo is quick to note layered resistance above -- and he's right -- Hoofy will draw your attention to the double-secret support that isn't currently on many radars.

Minyanville 2010