OK, so after a consensus of our closest friends, here's where we stand:

Jenn is unemployed, Thomas is unemployed, Christina is a perpetual student (and therefore underemployed), Stephanie is unemployed, Lenise is about to be unemployed, I'm underemployed, our friend Tony is about to be unemployed, Bob and Scott are both close to getting their bachelors and are therefore job hunting.  So after some alcohol and a long rather bizarre conversation with Lenise, Thomas and Christina, here is what we are proposing.

 

We're starting our own form of a crime syndicate: the Russian Zombie Chickens....our main source of income would be counterfeiting Russian Rubles, converting them into Euros and buying up property on the Italian Riviera which we could then rent out to the newly minted Russian Billionaires.  But we would also have legitimate ventures in retaurants (The croak 'n cluck: southern, french & russian fusion cuisines (fried chicken legs, fried frogs legs and vodka), a craft gallery (Jenn's beadwork, Christina's jewelry, Stephanie's pottery & my whatever) and then as a fall back plan we'd be professional guidance counsellors, since, as Christina put it, we may not know what we're doing, but we're damn good at telling everyone else what they should do.

 

The name comes from Thomas' attempt at sounding like a Russian chicken that has just been strangled.  The noise was so hysterical that we asked him to do it again but  after we resurrected the chicken and strangled him anew, he didn't cluck as well the second time around (per Christina "He needed more croak in his cluck" {hence the name of the restaurant}).

 

Also apparently, it's not against US law to counterfeit foreign currency and as long as we're not converting it into American dollars, the US government won't come after us. I will admit that I am suspicious of this piece of information, but since Thomas is our regulatory affairs guru, Lenise is the economist and Christina is working on dual degrees in Russian politics and bio-terrorism, I will defer to their judgement.

 

I strongly recommend that if you have any talents you would like to add to our burgeoning enterprise, please feel free to drop us a resume.  However, we will only be accepting candidates that are strange enough to fit in with our crowd, but not so strange that they pose any real threat to anyone or are on the verge of being committed to an insane asylum.