Beach Bum With A Penchant For Finance Prints

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

Born to raise interest rates.

It was Wilbur's first vacation in 17 years.

'Sure, sure - I'm having a great vacation.'

"Today's numbers. . . seashells up one, lobsters up three, claims down one, mussels up one . . ."

"You're on vacation. Stop trying to type things."

Pre-vacation-burn-out radiology reports.

Business Vacation.

Plane with banner shoots at another.

'We hope to invest in a few start-ups with national franchise potential.'

'Ocean sounds won't be heard, so that we may bring you a paid commercial program on offshore investment opportunities.'

Academics at the Beach

'I think your pot has roasted.'

Renewable Energy

"Dan, you forgot to put on your out-of-office."

Academics at the Beach: "Camus might agree with you. De Beauvoir? Maybe. But Sartre? Never."

Surfer on his mobile phone.

'Sorry, ocean sounds can't be heard due to a computer glitch.'

Father Christmas sunbathing at the South Pole.

Crab reads 'The Little Book of Clams.'

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand in our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

'We spent two weeks in Hawaii, but Fred didn't get any further than the airport bar.'

'I give it six months max!'

'The acme fund...1 yr, 10...5 yr, 12...10 yr, 17.'

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand into our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

"It's an infomercial in support of 'free trade' - so that cheap Chinese goods and expensive U.S. goods can complete on the open market."

'I hope you're prepared for the conference in Hawaii.'

'Jason feels insecure if he's too far from his money... but electronic bank statements have cured that!'

Business Vacation.

'Why can't we have summer school outside...preferably at the beach?'

"Who said 'I love the sea'?"

'It always amazes me how after a long summer break...with sea, sand, margaritas on the beach and an absence of the cut and thrust of the office...'

Penguin on a beach: 'Stop Global Warming'.