# Create an absurd Haiku! **URL:** \ **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:** 9
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/161 "2007-11-26T21:32:18Z")
Goodness gracious me! This old thing is still going? Completely amazing! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/162 "2007-11-26T22:23:02Z")
I just looked down and The cat looked up at me and said I can has haiku? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/163 "2007-11-27T04:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Goodness gracious me! This old thing is still going? **Completely amazing!** [/QUOTE] This is the Haiku Police. I’m afraid you’ve got an excess syllable there. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/164 "2007-11-27T04:53:11Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] I just looked down and **The cat looked up at me and said** I can has haiku? [/QUOTE] You too, there, buddy. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/165 "2007-11-27T13:57:31Z")
Thanksgiving now past, Christmas shopping season starts. Ho ho ho ho ho! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/166 "2007-11-27T14:19:22Z")
Dear haiku police, You’ll never take me alive Outlaw poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/167 "2007-11-27T14:46:43Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle] Haikus are easy but sometimes they don’t make sense refrigerator [/QUOTE] A [Threadless](http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but) fan, I see. I _love_ this one. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/168 "2007-11-27T18:39:33Z")
The SDMB Needs a Haiku forum Just for things like this. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/169 "2007-11-27T21:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] The SDMB **Needs a Haiku forum** Just for things like this. [/QUOTE] Now you’re a syllable short! What gives? :smack: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/170 "2007-11-27T22:09:01Z")
The sad truth really I never learned how to count I just make stuff up. ---
**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 3, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/171 "2007-12-03T15:28:09Z")
That’s OK, really; What matters is that you try! Haiku is big fun. ---
**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 12, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/172 "2007-12-12T03:22:42Z")
A pearl, ground to dust Shimmers like crystalline snow Drifting onto sweat-drenched skin. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/173 "2007-12-12T05:21:19Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] A pearl, ground to dust Shimmers like crystalline snow Drifting onto sweat-drenched skin. [/QUOTE] So fine a haiku can’t be considered absurd. Makes my nipples hard! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/174 "2007-12-12T05:33:42Z")
Let’s all celibrate It is haiku time again I thought this had died ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/175 "2007-12-12T18:56:01Z")
possum, o’ possum the wisest and most graceful of all animals Bees in the back yard Some hornets are back there too Do not piss them off hot stack of pancakes some jerk put them on the floor now they’re all dirty ---
**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 12, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/176 "2007-12-12T19:33:55Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] So fine a haiku can’t be considered absurd. Makes my nipples hard! [/QUOTE] Damned with faint praise by the Best of the Worst. Yes !!! Boyo Jim doth praise My haiku ego is raised I am so humbled. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/177 "2007-12-12T20:52:27Z")
We can’t really start without **Elendil’s Heir** to join in the maddness. 😛 ---
**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 12, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/178 "2007-12-12T20:55:22Z")
Behold, for I have Returned to this belov’d thread! I cannot resist. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/179 "2007-12-12T21:52:13Z")
This time I promise to check my syllable count and try to play nice. ---
**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 13, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/180 "2007-12-13T16:19:36Z")
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