# Create an absurd Haiku!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 1, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254 "2007-04-01T01:36:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 11

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/201 "2007-12-15T08:12:24Z")

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Bacon for breakfast  
Sausages and eggs  
Cholesterol poisoning

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**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/202 "2007-12-15T12:41:04Z")

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She cries to get in  
She then scratches to get out  
My cat the moron

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/203 "2007-12-15T21:04:22Z")

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Trimming Christmas tree;  
my wife thinks it still needs more  
ornaments; she’s wrong.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/204 "2007-12-15T23:58:49Z")

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Holy shit this sucks  
drank all night long with some friends  
I feel like dying.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/205 "2007-12-16T18:44:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
I am just in awe;  
that presidential haiku  
is a masterpiece.

\*(Although I noticed the lines

Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and  
Grover Cleveland.

both lack one syllable…)\*  
[/QUOTE]

Not if you say it Cleev - a - land. 😛

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/206 "2007-12-16T21:32:18Z")

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[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]  
Not if you say it Cleev - a - land. 😛  
[/QUOTE]

And you _do?_ :dubious: 😃

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/207 "2007-12-16T21:48:16Z")

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Snow falls on cedars  
No, really, it does right now  
There’s a blizzard here.

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/208 "2007-12-16T21:49:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Sampiro]  
Helen Keller heard  
Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder saw  
How Sanjaya sucked.  
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Hah, this is genius.

Here’s mine:

There once was a Japanese poet  
Haiku always caused him to blow it  
He left Kagoshima  
And headed to Eire  
To write limericks, wouldn’t you know it?

Mr. T can write  
haiku! I pity the fool  
from Japan that can’t!

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/209 "2007-12-16T21:49:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
And you _do?_ :dubious: 😃  
[/QUOTE]

Perfecting haiku  
Adding in a syllable  
Is something I’d do. 😉

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/210 "2007-12-16T22:47:15Z")

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[QUOTE=LorieSmurf]  
She cries to get in  
She then scratches to get out  
My cat the moron  
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Have you ever seen  
A cat feeding a human?  
Well, there you are, then.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/211 "2007-12-17T14:31:24Z")

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Christmas approaches  
I swear if I’m not done soon  
shopping will kill me

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/212 "2007-12-17T15:45:38Z")

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Family photos are  
ready at last, so tonight  
we sign, stamp and seal!

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/213 "2007-12-17T15:56:37Z")

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The darned car spun out  
Two three-sixties in a row  
Nobody was killed.

God I’m sore today  
My van is a mess I think  
But, it’s only stuff.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/214 "2007-12-17T16:51:34Z")

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O **Cartooniverse** ,  
I’m sorry to hear of your  
mishap; best wishes!

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/215 "2007-12-17T17:10:34Z")

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Car mishaps aren’t good  
But surviving them sure is  
glad that you’re ok.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/216 "2007-12-20T14:45:56Z")

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Christmas is now just  
five days away, and I am  
enjoying these times.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/217 "2007-12-20T17:31:50Z")

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The doctor said that  
I have bees inside my head  
no honey for him.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/218 "2007-12-21T18:15:27Z")

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Almost Christmas, but  
_still_ I have had no eggnog!  
That’s just wrong, says I.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/219 "2007-12-22T17:53:47Z")

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Last night had eggnog  
cold, with rum, nutmeg on top  
And by Claus, it’s good!

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/220 "2007-12-22T19:53:45Z")

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Sam the Sham sang it  
Wooly Bully, babydoll !  
Sing it you cool cat.

😃

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