The Kardashians? - Keeping up is hard to do. - Stick with the Joneses.

Berliners snickered - As Jack proudly claimed to be - A small jam doughnut

With a small flush of restrained pride, modernhaiku is happy to unveil a brand new literary idiom - the "What harm could it do? - ku"

Let's take a potshot - At the archduke in his car - What harm could it do?

Turn off the cooling - on reactor four comrades - What harm could it do?

I see no icebergs! - Just keep it full steam ahead - What harm could it do?

Bidding on ebay - like basketball; all about - the last five minutes

You seem tense Brutus - Come give your old pal a hug - What harm could it do?

Slow down to wave to - those folks on the grassy knoll - What harm could it do?

Our readers might sense a certain coup d'etat theme in this evening's offerings!

Pirate earrings sale - One dollar a piece. Not bad - for a buccaneer

Man drowns in muesli - after having been pulled in - by a strong currant.

We apologize for the outbreak of awful jokes. We have remedied this problem and we now return to your normal programming.

For Nam's painful truth - tears when you told us Jack died - Walter, we'll miss you -- In memoriam - Walter Cronkite, 1916 - 2009

Banks suffering the - overpowering stench of - their toxic assets.

Roll up debt in a - dung ball and sell it as gold. - What harm could it do?

My first camera - turned my whole world upside down - on its ground glass screen.

With two little boys - comes a new phenomenon. Stereo howling.

Matter from lost socks - comes back to our universe - as wire coat hangers.

I feel that I've come - a long way for somebody - born with no clothes on.