# Can You Haiku?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741>\
**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:** 9\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/21 "2001-01-12T16:42:02Z")

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No, I can’t Haiku.  
It is a stupid art-form.  
So don’t ask me to.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/22 "2001-01-12T17:06:15Z")

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Surfing porn all day  
movies, pictures, sound files, gifs  
no more hard drive space

–sublight.

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/23 "2001-01-12T17:09:03Z")

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Yet another time,  
The SDMB makes me  
Snort pop out my nose.

Is that NEA grant check in the mail yet?

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**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/24 "2001-01-12T17:47:09Z")

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Morons call all day  
At the online call center.  
Please leave me alone.

Man, I hate my job.  
Working sure beats homelessness.  
Won’t you pay my rent?

Hack and cough and wheeze  
It sure is tough to fake it.  
“Boss, I can’t come in…”

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**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/25 "2001-01-12T18:04:05Z")

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yes, andygirl can  
haiku, as you can see in  
this very nice thread.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48313](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48313)

You may call this a  
shameless plug, but I do not  
seem to care that much. 😉

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**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/26 "2001-01-12T18:09:16Z")

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Was Mister Rogers  
Really a sniper in the  
Marine Corps in 'Nam?

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**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/27 "2001-01-12T18:59:08Z")

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Spring parking lot dark  
Overhead crow flies silent  
Tranny fluid drips

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**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/28 "2001-01-12T19:34:12Z")

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Stop it, you retards  
Haikus are never that good  
I wouldn’t write one

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**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/12741/29 "2001-01-22T16:50:09Z")

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Japanese Cartoon  
Many Naughty Tentacles  
Octopus Orgy  
\*  
**HAIKU!!!**

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