# 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:** 16

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/301 "2008-01-15T01:21:19Z")

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Marianas Trench  
Once, in 1960.  
For twenty minutes.

Zombie threads don’t die.  
Perhaps it needs a bumping?  
Nah.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/302 "2008-01-15T01:38:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]  
Sisyphian pains  
Eternal rock and rolling  
Pebbles before swine.

😃  
[/QUOTE]

Olympians rock?  
Nah. They ain’t hep to the jive.  
They all mazurka.

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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:** [January 15, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/303 "2008-01-15T14:44:41Z")

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I was dancin’ with  
Athena the other day,  
but her owl squawked.

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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:** [January 15, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/304 "2008-01-15T15:43:02Z")

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I do my own dance  
looks like I’m being tazered  
please don’t mock me bro!

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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:** [January 24, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/305 "2008-01-24T17:51:23Z")

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I shan’t mock you, bro,  
but I just might post the last  
haiku! Um, or not.

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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:** [January 24, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/306 "2008-01-24T19:40:57Z")

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I say damn you sir  
for reawakening this  
this damnable thread beast.

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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:** [January 25, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/307 "2008-01-25T04:20:08Z")

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Damn me all you wish,  
sir, but then at least refrain  
from posting again!

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/308 "2008-01-25T08:21:27Z")

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Die you evil thread  
Die Die Die Die Die Die Die  
Die Die Die Die Die

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**Author:** ![Havik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Havik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Havik)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/309 "2008-01-25T08:31:21Z")

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Perhaps Boyo Jim wins this thread?

Really though, I made the damn thread and never expected it to last this long. :rolleyes:

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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:** [January 25, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/310 "2008-01-25T14:30:36Z")

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I’ve got the rocking  
pneumonia and the  
urge to do haiku.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/311 "2008-01-25T14:41:22Z")

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**Brillig, Slithy Toves  
Did Gyre and Gimbal in Wabe  
A Jabberwocky**

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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:** [January 25, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/312 "2008-01-25T16:34:34Z")

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I bought a new bike  
I’m joining a biker gang  
I hope they like Schwinns

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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:** [January 27, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/313 "2008-01-27T21:09:36Z")

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Ancient coins revealed  
A Roman profile beheld  
Tarnished not with age.

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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:** [January 27, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/314 "2008-01-27T22:20:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Havik]  
Perhaps Boyo Jim wins this thread?

Really though, I made the damn thread and never expected it to last this long. :rolleyes:  
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The Haiku Beast stirs!  
Test not its terrible wrath  
Lest it linger on

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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:** [January 27, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/315 "2008-01-27T22:59:58Z")

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Two parts whiskey and  
one part sweet vermouth is how  
I like Manhattans

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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:** [February 1, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/316 "2008-02-01T14:45:42Z")

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This thread cannot die  
for haiku is eternal,  
my friends, is it not?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/317 "2008-02-01T21:34:34Z")

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This thread must die doon,  
I must have sex with the dead,  
and the soon to be.

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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:** [February 1, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/318 "2008-02-01T21:46:56Z")

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Hello everyone  
how have you been since the last  
time this thread came up?

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**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/319 "2008-02-01T21:49:13Z")

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Plane on a treadmill  
Whither thou goest? Off, up?  
Or no place at all?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/320 "2008-02-01T21:57:55Z")

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Same old, same old thing.  
Chi-town bound tomorrow if  
weather is decent

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