# Attack Haiku

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688 "2001-06-30T02:56:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/21 "2001-07-01T20:02:23Z")

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This jibba-jabba  
Proves you are no match for me  
I pity you, foo’

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/22 "2001-07-01T21:10:34Z")

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Think you’re man enough?  
Bring it on, you pencil-neck!  
Pimp-slapping ensues

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/23 "2001-07-01T23:29:24Z")

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Amateurs! Peons!  
Face the fury of my fists!  
All who resist, die.

Your tired quotes from  
Mr. T make me laugh. He  
Couldn’t beat Rocky.

In Shaolin temple,  
I was pimp-slapped everyday.  
Now, I am immune.

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**Author:** ![waxteeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@waxteeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waxteeth)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/24 "2001-07-01T23:31:16Z")

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Feet give quiet flight  
Bounding upwards top of trees  
Like crouching tiger

Swing head to unleash  
Giant ponytail razor  
Cuts you like ribbon

Thumb rubs on my nose  
My fingers motion come here  
Spirit of Bruce Lee

Speaking of Bruce Lee  
He kicked the ass of Norris  
Enter the dragon

It just will not fit  
The phrase I want to use now  
My Kung Fu is bet… … …

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**Author:** ![waxteeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@waxteeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waxteeth)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/25 "2001-07-01T23:33:56Z")

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I left out a dot  
In the last of my haiku  
Shame is on my School

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**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/26 "2001-07-02T00:42:52Z")

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You claim Shaolin name?  
Master Po spits at you! White  
eyes flash in contempt!

If kamikaze  
wrote no better than this, no  
oka bombs would fall!

Baka! Admit de-  
feat! (Damn. Why don’t syllables  
fall the way I want?)

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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/27 "2001-07-02T02:17:42Z")

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Billy Blanks taught me well  
Tae Bo haiku dominates  
pantywaists like you

Kneel down o weak ones  
my verse is as steely as  
my six pack of abs

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**Author:** ![amati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amati)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/28 "2001-07-02T10:28:36Z")

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my haiku technique  
will win without a problem  
come, meet your demise

i need not my fists  
i will defeat you with word  
die at my pen, bitch

hold on a minute  
i have to change the station  
and scratch my testes

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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/29 "2001-07-02T12:11:01Z")

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[haiku mode off]

I swear to god, I woke up this morning and was lying there blissfully half-awake and suddenly I thought “HOLY CHRIST! ‘Billy Blanks taught me well’ has too many syllables!” It was the first thing that ran across my mind.

I need serious, serious help. And I don’t mean to cope with the humiliation of screwing up a haiku.

At any rate, let’s change it to “B. Blanks taught me well”

[/haiku mode off]

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**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/30 "2001-07-02T17:41:51Z")

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I lay in the chair  
Insert plug into my skull  
I now know kung-fu!

MrVisible  
with bloodcurdling Screech of Death  
enters the wordfight

Trips over shoelace  
rockets nimbly out window  
bounces off awning

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/31 "2001-07-02T18:35:28Z")

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Swaying in Autumn  
The willow tree bends to find  
Mundi’s Fist of Death!

Spiritus focused  
All chi flows to one stillness  
Miller lies defeated

Tae Bo makes much noise  
Billy Blanks has rock-hard abs  
And glass jaw. Too bad.

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/32 "2001-07-02T18:40:37Z")

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Mundi cannot count  
Chi falters. Spiritus acks!  
Miller undefeat-

ed

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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/33 "2001-07-02T22:57:22Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \*  
> \*\*[haiku mode off]
> 
> I swear to god, I woke up this morning and was lying there blissfully half-awake and suddenly I thought “HOLY CHRIST! ‘Billy Blanks taught me well’ has too many syllables!” It was the first thing that ran across my mind.
> 
> I need serious, serious help. And I don’t mean to cope with the humiliation of screwing up a haiku.
> 
> At any rate, let’s change it to “B. Blanks taught me well”
> 
> [/haiku mode off]
> 
> \*\*

“my six pack of abs”  
a hilarious riposte  
I fell off my chair

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/34 "2001-07-03T01:49:57Z")

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**MrVisible**  
Control-Alt-Delete. Goodbye  
to your kung-fu, punk.

And as for the rest,  
You are all found unworthy.  
I am SO damn cool.

Who next shall fall to  
My unlikely weapons and  
Clumsy wirework?

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**Author:** ![amati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amati)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/35 "2001-07-03T04:38:14Z")

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miller, you have asked  
now death comes for you tonight  
on little cat feet

silently come i  
you do not see my finger  
poke you in the eye

now you are blinded  
you cannot see your haiku  
and it is sloppy

death, you are no more  
miller, i drag your corpse out  
for the boards to see

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/36 "2001-07-03T05:59:48Z")

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Has ninja haiku  
Come and gone, without a trace?  
Who can ever know?

Tris

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/37 "2001-07-03T16:30:23Z")

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Triskadecamus  
Spiritus bows to the master.  
Wait! Where has he gone?

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**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/38 "2001-07-03T17:31:29Z")

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New ninja enters  
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Death  
comes for you” he screams.

Melodramatic  
I know. However, beware  
**The Kazanator**

He haikus with speed  
of mongoose and with the long  
black tongue of giraffe.

“Bring it on!” says he  
Snarling with dreadful wrath  
Also his mad stank

“Who the man now, dog?”  
Sean Connery has nothing  
I’m better then Bond

My glove is thrown, bitch.  
I can take you all, fear me.  
**Kaz** is next master.

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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/39 "2001-07-03T17:48:38Z")

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Cranky cannot count  
but neither can spiritus  
I weep with joint shame

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-haiku/70688/40 "2001-07-03T18:33:22Z")

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Spiritus knows shame  
Can urge one to new greatness.  
Together we rise.

Wait. Calm as water.  
Accepting shame, none remains.  
I got Cranky’s back.

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