# Can You Haiku? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741 "2000-01-14T06:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mc\_Ph\_st\_Y\_Cheesehead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Mc\_Ph\_st\_Y\_Cheesehead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mc_Ph_st_Y_Cheesehead)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/1 "2000-01-14T06:08:00Z")
I’m sitting here doing laundry at midnight and using my landlord’s detergent and I’m thinking… lets write some haikus. For those of you who don’t remember, haikus are poems that are 3 lines long and have a syllabic structure of 5-7-5 (syllables per line). I’ll do a feeble attempt at writing one. naked at my comp dat bitche’s detergent’s fine now my ass won’t smell * * * Mc[Ph|st]Y Cheesehead “Software is like sex, it’s better when it’s free.” -Linus Torvalds on the software industry. ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/2 "2000-01-14T15:40:00Z")
There’s also supposed to be one word to tell you what season it is. So that ain’t a haiku. 🙂 * * * ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/3 "2000-01-14T15:43:00Z")
Haiku can be good But often times it is just Too painful to read * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![PrivyQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@PrivyQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrivyQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/4 "2000-01-14T15:51:00Z")
Phaedrus? This is you again, isn’t it? Gosh you must lead a boring life. * * * I could _hear_ you not saying anything. You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead! _Granny Weatherwax_ ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/5 "2000-01-14T15:58:00Z")
Anybody who would write a haiku would eat peanuts with a straw. It’s a barren art form with no redeeming qualities. People write haikus And hope that they’ll impress me. Trust me, it won’t work. Damn! See what you made me do, Cheese? * * * A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/6 "2000-01-14T16:02:00Z")
Not mine, but a great Spam Haiku: Oh, Argentina! Your tin of potted meat soars Above the pampas! ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/7 "2000-01-14T16:04:00Z")
When done correctly, I like haiku very much. Otherwise, it sucks. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/8 "2000-01-14T16:16:00Z")
The flaming folders anger me, I must admit But the smileys rule 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/9 "2000-01-14T16:19:00Z")
## Dunno if he’s Phaedrus, but this link is his ICQ information. It appears that he’s a Canuck. Beyond that, I am as baffled as y’all are. [http://wwp.icq.com/scripts/srch.dll?Uin=54469607](http://wwp.icq.com/scripts/srch.dll?Uin=54469607) Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![PrivyQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@PrivyQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrivyQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/10 "2000-01-14T17:41:00Z")
You are a 21 year old nerd, who is fat (that means overweight), can’t score a date, sucks at web-page design, and your name is ummmm Ryan? Also you are from or in Canada, and you are mentally enfeebled. K? 😛 * * * I could _hear_ you not saying anything. You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead! _Granny Weatherwax_ ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/11 "2000-01-14T17:56:00Z")
Tennhippie Master of limerick Poem God * * * “People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis, But they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” – Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) _/_ ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/12 "2000-01-14T17:57:00Z")
that was a mini haiku- a 3-5-3 combo… yeah, that’s the ticket * * * “People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis, But they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” – Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) _/_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/13 "2000-01-15T06:00:00Z")
I might scan A great haiku— But I prefer THIS form; don’t you? BURMA-SHAVE ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/14 "2000-01-15T06:08:00Z")
My posts are missing! I had two-hundred seven Before the “Upgrade” ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/15 "2000-01-15T06:09:00Z")
My posts are missing! I had two-hundred seven Before the “Upgrade” ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/16 "2000-01-15T06:10:00Z")
heh… just building my count back up… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/17 "2001-01-12T14:30:41Z")
A long-lost thread found, Rescued from oblivion. Sorry - I was bored. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![epeepunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f19dbf/32.png) [@epeepunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epeepunk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/18 "2001-01-12T16:01:51Z")
The wife of the man Who invented high-heel shoes Invented the tie or this one from my old job when we had a Haiku frenzy: With bulldog squeaker Bonnie said it was OK Merrily I skip See she had this dog face on a gun handle toy that squeaked when you pulled the trigger and, ummmm, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/19 "2001-01-12T16:06:39Z")
My Hiaku _clears throat_ **Chicken McNuggets** **They are very bad for you** **But they taste so good** Thank you! _bows and exits_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/20 "2001-01-12T16:12:47Z")
Even one year on, People still submit haikus. What a useful thread. Come to think of it, I should win some sort of prize For the longest bump. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741.md?page=2)