# free haiku (on ode to Vernors) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266 "2001-07-12T20:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/21 "2001-07-12T23:55:52Z")
And goes great with Scotch. (That being said, time for me to have another). ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/22 "2001-07-13T14:07:43Z")
(Picks self off of ground and shakes away sawdust from floor from where I slept) ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/23 "2001-07-13T14:09:07Z")
A new day ,Friday (the thirteenth)and I will slack for work is no fun ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/24 "2001-07-13T14:12:31Z")
won money playing darts at the pub but lost it playing billiards. ---
**Author:** ![spaceweft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@spaceweft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spaceweft)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/25 "2001-07-13T14:29:56Z")
Vernor’s - it is THE ONLY ginger ale, even At a buck forty 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/26 "2001-07-13T19:52:01Z")
THANK YOU SPACEWEFT for I knew that there had to be more friends of Vernors ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/27 "2001-07-13T20:03:05Z")
Before it even reaches my mouth, it makes me sneeze a mighty sneeze ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/28 "2001-07-13T20:27:48Z")
It’s four I cannot wait until five for a cold appetizing sip ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/29 "2001-07-13T20:46:54Z")
Heaven, I’m in Hea- ven, And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak; -quoted without permission from Irving Berlin ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/30 "2001-07-13T21:10:22Z")
will you be angry if I tell my opinion: it tastes kinda weird Nevertheless it’s our Nation’s oldest soda Says the internet ---
**Author:** ![spaceweft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@spaceweft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spaceweft)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/31 "2001-07-13T21:12:23Z")
I painfully learned A lesson about Vernor’s - All heed my advice: Never inhale while Drinking the cold liquid gold Choking, you’ll lose some ---
**Author:** ![spaceweft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@spaceweft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spaceweft)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/32 "2001-07-13T21:17:00Z")
An acquired taste Perhaps, r-maria-mp But mothman speaks truth (Sorry to mangle your name, but that’s how I hear it in my head 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/33 "2001-07-13T21:41:43Z")
I miss glass bottles cans are not nearly as good Vernors Floats- oh yes ---
**Author:** ![mothman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mothman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266/34 "2001-07-16T17:37:09Z")
Is there a twelve step program for one such as me so deep in Vernors ecstasy? For truth be told if I had to choose 'tween life or Vernors I know who would loose. Pathetic some would say but they don’t know THE way. Mike G. is okay Vernors Floats sure are the best on a summer day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-haiku-on-ode-to-vernors/72266.md?page=1)