Sixty-five hundred is no small amount
This is the average for US accounts
on credit cards
Lowered our debt by eleven percent
I’m so glad I know how much money went
on credit cards
Having big balances, most people hate
We cut back spending in all US states
on credit cards
(Source: CNN)
30 cents higher than one year ago
Filling your tank costs a whole lotta dough
Could be a fin for a gallon this spring
Getting some petro sure causes a sting
(Source: CNN)
Protesting in Romania
A cheesehead Miss America
Strong earthquake in Antarctica
Union talks in Nigeria
Ill-fated ship Concordia
Town cheers Arabs in Syria
Protesting in Romania
Brit goes to Saudi Arabia
(Source: CNN)
People will go bald
when food stuff is recalled
they try not to freak out
but tear all their hair out
So hold on to tresses
I’ll tell what the mess is:
It’s called Carbendazim
It won’t make you say yum
It could be in OJ
We’ll wait on FDA
(Source: CNN)
Maybe we should all just take our cash and stuff our beds
Cause big banks don’t deal faithfully, as Money Magazine says
So many US customers are switching from their bankers
And making those who run the places just about go bonkers
Monthly fees on credit cards and bogus fees aren’t fair
Lenders want relationships, but do they really care?
The best they recommend is smartypig to store your bills
The website’s not a bank, but it’ll save without the frills
(Source: CNN)
Grandma swipes the sugar packets
from the restaurant table
she grew up in Depression times
and wasn’t always able
Gen X-ers and Gen Y-ers
steal the freebies; they’re entitled
say shrinks who wrote the article
and studied swiper models
If you take ketchup packets
Does it mean you’re very troubled?
Or trying to create a pantry
Stuffed with stuff that’s doubled?
The crackers on the condiment line
Are there for the soup eater
But kleptos pack the stuff in jeans
And run right down the street, or
They act all cool and casual,
They didn’t take that much
They get their pleasure by the act
Of reaching out to touch
What’s definitely there for free
And take advantage of
The restaurant’s hospitality
To spread some diner love
(Source: CNN)
Stuck in a West Virginia cave
Three men had to remain brave
Waiting for someone to rescue, to save
Many long hours they waited
Most hope in living abated
13 mile tunnels, all shaded
Creeks with rocks for plunking
Sleeping bags for hunkering
Turned not much fun spelunkering
These fellows now confessin’
‘bout caves they’re second guessin’
A difficult learned lesson
(Source: CNN)
Today’s poetry news is a haiku.
Papa John’s worker
Called girl ‘lady chinky eyes’
Canned, post-receipt tweet
(Source: CNN)
Listen up, cuz here’s the scoop
‘Improv Everywhere’ is the group
That made a funny pants-less Sunday
By wearing their skivvies on the subway
In New York, Tel Aviv and Washington
They boarded trains sans Dockers on
Their “without pants” promotion proved
That others laugh or think it’s rude
There’s no agenda but to awe
And make commuters to guffaw
Then meet close by to have a beer
Behaviors you and I think queer
Cause in that bar they also sit
Without their pants, without their wit!
(Source: CNN)
The ANC plans to party
to celebrate 100 years.
The Tripartite Alliance
will dance, shout and shed many tears.
Parades in the streets, happy songs,
Flying stripes of flags black, green and gold.
Remembering who led their movement
And South Africa’s stories of old.
But celebrate without Mandela
Who was jailed, then elected as pres?
They say he is ailing in Qunu,
That’s just what the newspaper says.
The three-day festivities happen
This weekend in Bloemfontein
Will Nelson Mandela arrive there?
Without him, it won’t be the same.
(Source: CNN)
