Welcome to the Fun Tour (1)

Introducing Your Guide…
Hi, there. I’m Hale N. Hardy, your Tour Guide today. I’ve been around here so long, I’m an institution in the institution (if you get my drift). I’ll be showing you the main layout around here at The Joyful Banker.

Feel free to wander off—if you want to. It’s quite alright. There’s plenty to catch your attention, that’s for sure. You’ll probably run into some of the fine folks who work around here. They’ll make sure you don’t get yourself lost.

Everything we’ve done at Joyful Banker was created to please you—to delight and enliven your life. Can’t say that about many places—fer sure!
But joy is our stock in trade. We’re serious about spreading it around. That’s about the only thing we’re serious about, as you’ll see. It’s exactly
what we’re here for. All the rest of what’ going on is just to make it work.

So look around and have some fun while you’re here today. Then tell your friends about all the fun stuff going on, ya-hear?

Joyful Banker turns banking on its head
It’s a fool-service non-bank, unlike any other financial institution there ever was. It doesn’t accept deposits of your hard-earned money. And it doesn’t keep accounts—fancy that. We invite you to take without limits—
even without giving up any personal information.

Except for the Storehouse, this website doesn’t relate to real money at all. Instead, what we’ve created is offered on the Joy-filled Standard—available to all comers for the taking and the sharing.

The Banker’s reason for being is to spread joy and binkles—so happy energy stays on “the front of the brain.” This bank exists as a reminder that there are many matters in life more valuable than money—and more deserving of our notice and time.

Money has its place. But it’s not 1st place—or even 2nd
People we care about (and who care about us) are miles ahead. Pardon me for getting preachy, but we’re passionate about caring around here. And it’s hard to turn it off. Come to think about it—why should I?

This Fun Tour consists of four pages linked together—ending back at Home. The whole trip won’t take too long, and I hope you find a chuckle or two as we go along. I’ll briefly introduce the most important stops. Then you can revisit what takes your fancy in any order you like.

A word of explanation
Most of Joyful Banker is just for fun. But some pages (like the Site Map) are serious. And other areas, like policies exist in two flavors—silly and serious. We don’t want to cause any confusion. So serious pages have a blue background; the rest (silly) are lilac. Lucky me, the Tour is on lilac.

•    Important words and symbols
•    The Vault of Joyful Treasures
•    Bank policies and goals (real ones and goofy ones)
•    Bank departments (goofy ones)
•    Absurd Financial Definitions (goofy)
•    Meet the staff (goofy)
•    Free and fun goodies
•    Bankers Storehouse—good goods for sale
•    Testimonials (real and goofy)
•    Investors—contributions from our visitors
•    News from The Banker
      —Interest Report   Weekly ezine
      —Daily Binkle   Daily up-beat tonic

   Trust me. There’s plenty to catch your eye, along with high-whimsey
   silliness to enjoy.

So, step lively now. We’re off.

First, you need to recognize... Parody    Humorous take-off   This site is a parody of all things    financial. And its symbol is a pair of Ds Frivel©   Word play   Having fun with words, or using them in new ways   Example, we’re a fine anshool institution. It may not be clear what an anshool is, but we’re a fine one Binkle®    The energy you create when you really connect with someone or something that inspires you (even yourself). Here’s what it looks like