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The Punchline

The UBS LIBOR emails… in haiku

Jeff Horwich Dec 20, 2012

Those internal emails of UBS LIBOR rate-rigging do have a certain poetic ring to them…

They were just begging to placed into haiku form, don’t you think?

You scratch my back, yeah?
Keep it low as possible
Do that, I’ll pay you.

Try extra hard, mate.
Think of me when yur on yur
yacht in Monaco.

(Go) be a hero.
Yur bloody good at this game.
Just be careful dude.

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