# 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:** 19

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/361 "2008-04-05T01:06:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
Why’d I even ask?  
Are you the Haiku Point God?  
The damn points are mine.  
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The “Haiku Point God”?  
Why, yes. Yes, I am, and for  
now, smite thee I shan’t.

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/362 "2008-04-05T01:09:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
The “Haiku Point God”?  
Why, yes. Yes, I am, and for  
now, smite thee I shan’t.  
[/QUOTE]

Ooh, er, um…pardon,  
I meant what I said in the  
best possible way!

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/363 "2008-04-05T03:49:43Z")

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Not god, but goddess!  
Smiting is jolly good fun.  
Shrivel, heretic.

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**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/364 "2008-04-05T04:00:58Z")

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Pets fed twice, due to  
miscommunication. Whoops!  
Dog is full and smug.

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/365 "2008-04-05T04:27:01Z")

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Fat dumb happy me!  
I like donuts and ice cream.  
And pie, I like pie.

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/366 "2008-04-05T18:04:15Z")

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Pie is good. Cake? Yup.  
Chocolate cake is some good.  
Cookies are good too.

Fat is bad, they say.  
Someone screwed up real big time,  
Making us like cake.

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/367 "2008-04-05T20:35:56Z")

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Dude, put that shirt down.  
It smells like Don Rickles man.  
Anger and urine.

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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:** [April 5, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/368 "2008-04-05T21:52:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
Fat dumb happy me!  
I like donuts and ice cream.  
And pie, I like pie.  
[/QUOTE]

Weebl and Bob are  
The greatest bards of our time.  
PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE!

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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:** [April 6, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/369 "2008-04-06T16:26:53Z")

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I just now woke up  
Why is there frosting on me?  
What happened last night?

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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:** [April 6, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/370 "2008-04-06T18:01:44Z")

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Cluricaun wonders  
Why he is frosted. It’s fun  
To speculate, eh?

Is Jacqueline Frost  
A kewl possibility?  
Vanilla? Choc’lit?

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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:** [April 6, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/371 "2008-04-06T18:53:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
I just now woke up  
Why is there frosting on me?  
What happened last night?  
[/QUOTE]

Frosting? Er, frosting…  
That’s what it is, I’m quite sure  
Don’t taste it! Really!

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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:** [April 6, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/372 "2008-04-06T19:30:11Z")

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No, it’s \*not \* frosting.  
Even worse, it is Crisco.  
I shouldn’t drink rum.

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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:** [April 6, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/373 "2008-04-06T19:38:47Z")

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You damn sure shouldn’t  
Drink Crisco, a knife and fork  
are what you need there.

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/374 "2008-04-07T16:51:44Z")

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Sword swallowing is  
Actually much harder  
than it looks at first.

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/375 "2008-04-07T19:50:01Z")

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No, it’s easy! Look!  
Tonight at 11: Man  
Runs Himself Through, Dies

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/376 "2008-04-07T19:59:22Z")

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I should have known it,  
that Claymores aren’t used for this  
It poked out my bum.

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/377 "2008-04-07T20:05:19Z")

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Of claymores, there are  
Three kinds - basket hilt, two hands,  
And one that explodes.

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/378 "2008-04-07T20:07:48Z")

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Well then this one was  
the two handed Braveheart type  
It’s stuck, hell now what?

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/379 "2008-04-07T20:22:02Z")

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Sit down and wiggle.  
Helps if you used lube at start  
Have bandaids ready.

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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:** [April 7, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/380 "2008-04-07T20:24:58Z")

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My band-aid box says  
“for external use only”  
Not really helpful.

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