It’s time for the fightin’ Friday Fi-Ku. Drop in your own personal finance haikus (5-7-5) into the comments below and enjoy some of ours. Yumms!
Speed Racer out
Bummer that oil is high
Best to shop for gas.
Uma Thurman just
Can’t seem to stay out of court
Lawyer makes money!
Cyclone disaster
In Myanmar. Better make
A help donation.
Clinton takes out loan
Obama conservative?
Her house is worth lots.
Almost out of here
School done, blog up, Fi hugz all!
Off to the Journal!
Behold! Your favorite personal finance news tidbits summarized in 5-7-5 haiku form! Savor and cook up your own in the comment section, if you’re so inclined.
Industrials up
The Neville Brothers return
It’s a come-back week!
-Kristen Sullivan
Sex and the City
PR blitz continues on
Prada still spendy.
-Mary Pilon (more…)
What’s better than haiku? Fi-ku! For newbies, a Fi-ku is a haiku (5-7-5 syllables) that sums up a personal finance news item of the week. Drop your poetic morsels in the comments below and enjoy some of ours.
Wesley’s in the clink
Always bet on… I.R.S.
Hi, U.S. Marshals!
-Sam Grobart
Suri’s birthday bash,
Cost 100K - oh, my!
College? No problem.
-Mary Pilon (more…)
What’s cooler than the week of personal finance news? Summing it up in 5-7-5 haiku form, of course. Here are FiLife’s poetic morsels and feel free to join the slam by scribing your own Fi-ku in the comments box below.
Oh, Ashlee Simpson
Engaged, but is she pregnant?
Maybe she’s faking.
-Mary Pilon
Food costs are surging
Along with everything else
Inflation’s return
-Dave Kansas (more…)
Happy Friday! Now it’s time for a personal finance poetry slam. Drop in your own 5-7-5 stylings in the comments below, if you’re so inclined. It’s edutainment!
The Vanilla Ice
In hot water with the law
Needs the same lawyer.
-Mary Pilon
Tax time’s upon us
Don’t forget to use Free File
It’s easy and free
-Kristen Sullivan
Taxes, Deductions
Procrastinators Beware
Four Days Left to File
-Minhthe Lu
Beyonce, Jay-Z
Did they wed? Wonder how much
bling the party cost.
-Mary Pilon
Frontier is bankrupt
the fourth to file in one month
skies aren’t so friendly
-Kristen Sullivan
Happy Friday! Now’s the time when we celebrate the last 7 days of personal-finance news. Join the jam, if you’re so inclined, and drop your own poetic verse in the comments.
An Oregon man
is strangely preggers - kid has
college essay theme.
-Mary Pilon
Final Four weekend
A nice market distraction
Rock Chalk my Jayhawks
-Dave Kansas
Bail out or rescue?
Dimon, Bernanke and Cox:
“Bear Stearns would have failed.â€
-Ari Weinberg
“Spend it like Beckham”
Posh goes on a shopping spree
No spice credit crunch
-Mary Pilon
On Capitol Hill
Squirming testifiers yak
Geithner sure looks young
-Dave Kansas
Unemployment high
Ben warns of a recession
But take any job?
-Mary Pilon
Molly Ringwald has
a brand new TV career
And forty candles
-Mary Pilon
The personal finance March madness continues this week with the latest finance news summed up in 5-7-5 Haiku form. Drop in yer own in the comments, if you’re so inclined.
Celine D gets sick
Has to take some time off - but
her throat will go on.
-Mary Pilon
James Cayne super rich
Until Bear Stearns hit the wall
Now he’s just loaded
-Dave Kansas
Brangelina kids,
Defy current econ thought
newborns raking in.
Identity theft
meets the big mortgage crisis
new breed of scumbag.
-Mary Pilon
The Fed gives money
To anyone who requests
Where do I get mine?
-Dave Kansas
Pissed off homeowners
trashing homes on the way out
others just cursing.
-Mary Pilon
It’s time for another Fi-ku rap session. Here’s the week of personal finance news summed up in slammin’ 5-7-5 form. Feel free to join the party and drop your own in the comments below.
J. Lo’s babies are
already making mad bling
College - they’ll need it.
-Mary Pilon
Fed keeps lowering
the magic interest rate
No honey for Bear
-Mary Pilon
Markets closed today.
Can’t sell into the weekend.
Look out for Monday!
-Ari Weinberg
Oh, those New York govs
The scandals keep a comin’
as do job offers
-Mary Pilon
Student loan lenders
weakening under pressure
more swearing to come?
-Mary Pilon
What a week. We considered an all Spitzer edition, but it just would have been too easy. Per usual, what follows is our take on the week’s money-related news in 5-7-5 haiku format. Please drop your own into the comments if you’re so inspired.
That 80 grand could
have been millions, saved in
A 401k
– Ron Lieber
Work for governor
Get exposure for your music
Soon you’ll have riches
– Ron Lieber
Bear Stearns is just fine
Whoops! Bear Stearns needs a bailout
So much for the Ace
– Ron Lieber
Today is Pi Day
Should Feds cut interest rates
3.14 percent?
– Tammy Hepps (more…)
It’s Friday! We FiLifers are back to free-styling about personal finance news in 5-7-5 form. Please add your own ditty below.
Hookers, Dwarfs and X
Fidelity Traders do
Know how to party!
- Ron Lieber
Harry Potter buys
New York digs. Maybe he’ll hex
foreclosures away.
- Mary Pilon
Wal-Mart and Costco
Racking up some big sales gains
We’re feeling cheap now
- Ron Lieber
Gold prices are up
Melt necklaces into cash
Ex-boyfriends wont mind!
- Kristen Sullivan
Huck: Now he’s dropped out
Perhaps he’ll get a real job
Or give big speeches
- Ron Lieber
Patrick Swayze gets,
grim diagnosis - hope he
can dance right through it.
- Mary Pilon
Sopranos movie!
Cannot wait for the trailer
Who’ll get wacked this time?
- Irina Aleksander
A career boost for
Christian on Project Runway
I guess Posh knows best.
- Mary Pilon
Old runner Forrest
Gumps his way to better health
Lower premiums!
- Mary Pilon
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