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EllenMcArthur@cowesweek.co.uk £*&%ing hell! Who was that speeding past me at 100 knots per hour during the third race on Wednesday, wearing a sailor's cap and sipping from a glass of pink champagne? I think the boat was called It's a Doddle!?

Fix Dinkum BNPP has finally got round to replacing Chris Marks as its SSA origination supremo. Chrissy Baby left the job in March to run the corporate origination desk and it seems he left quite a void.

Slimjim A lot of bankers have friends in high places — just logging on to Euroblog in the last few weeks will have shown you that Armin Peters knows Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Jezza knows Becks, Becky (okay, not a banker but she is more famous than any of us) knows Posh and Niall Cameron buys tickets and pretends he knows them all.

swooning@hsbc.com Bankers are not traditionally backward at coming forward, but Abbé Jean-Marc Mercier, HSBC's corporate bonds marvel, has taken front one step too far.

Horatio It was a night of derring-do and heroism at EuroWeek's party on Wednesday night as the finest the capital markets have to offer were presented with enough booze to sink a navy.

terry@bnpparibas.com BNPP's Rob Whichello has been bitten by the fitness bug. After hearing about the exploits of Credit Suisse's veteran syndicate members (aka, Tuffey and Flemo — as if you needed telling!), Robbo has decided to leave the Porsche at home in Chislehurst and bike into work after feeling a bit, well, lardy.

Swiss Roller It is all go on the Credit Suisse syndicate desk (shame the same can't be said about DCM).

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staff@beckinghampalace.com Can the person who left a Superdrug disposable camera in the marquee at last Sunday's party please contact David or Victoria ASAP.

Rory.Trumpington-Smythe@db.com Appalling spectacle at lunchtime today. Front door of our office was clogged up with cleaners waving placards and kicking up a stink about better wages.

Fix Dinkum David Marks, JP Morgan's Fig guru, has a novel way of winning mandates. With a 20 foot Howitzer in the drive of his stately home, it is a brave issuer that turns down an offer from Major General Marks-Patton.

Footba' crazy With Wayne Rooney set to miss the plane to Germany for the forthcoming World Cup, the odds are shortening on RBS's Mark 'Goldenballs' Dodd getting the call.