# Haiku Madness Part Deux
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [October 3, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141 "2020-10-03T19:26:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 195
### Author:  [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3881 "2025-05-05T00:13:10Z")
Rather obsolete
Are steam locomotives, but
People still love them.
_ **-“BB”-** _
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3882 "2025-05-05T01:08:28Z")
People still love them
Old fashioned lilacs; and now
They’re in bloom 'round here.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3883 "2025-05-05T02:58:32Z")
They’re in Bloom 'round here,
or so Harold told us all;
quite the bookish guy
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3884 "2025-05-05T03:14:54Z")
Quite the bookish guy,
Our Poindexter. Soon he’ll be
A librarian.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3885 "2025-05-05T03:49:04Z")
A librarian
isn’t just there to shush you;
she’ll show you great books!
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3886 "2025-05-05T08:04:30Z")
She’ll show you great books!
Microfilm and microfiche!
Periodicals!
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3887 "2025-05-05T17:20:35Z")
Periodicals!
A great word! Nobody knew
What it meant before!
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3888 "2025-05-05T21:31:53Z")
What it meant before
And what it seems to mean now
At length we’ll discuss.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3889 "2025-05-05T23:49:39Z")
At length we’ll discuss -
Oh, periodicals, then?
Not pterodactyls.
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3890 "2025-05-06T01:03:21Z")
Not pterodactyls
when discussing dinosaurs.
They are pterosaurs.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3891 "2025-05-06T01:45:00Z")
They are pterosaurs
Of which the P is silent
Unlike my own pee
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3892 "2025-05-06T02:33:13Z")
Unlike my own pee,
T. Rexes have tiny arms.
You’re welcome, Straight Dope!
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3893 "2025-05-06T03:37:20Z")
“You’re welcome, Straight Dope!”
Is what I think to myself
every time I post.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3894 "2025-05-06T13:49:07Z")
every time I post
I think “What would Cecil post?”
Then post something worse
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3895 "2025-05-06T13:51:32Z")
Then post something worse!
I dare you! (Don’t worry - they’re
Not gonna ban you…)
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3896 "2025-05-06T14:37:48Z")
Not gonna ban you
Unless you persistently
Keep being a jerk.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3897 "2025-05-06T14:52:43Z")
Keep being a jerk!
We’ve seen many ne’er-do-wells
be gone forever.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3898 "2025-05-06T15:07:00Z")
Be gone forever!
And don’t you come back until
I start missing you
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3899 "2025-05-06T16:05:07Z")
I start missing you
After a couple drinks down
At the paintball range
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3900 "2025-05-06T16:14:00Z")
At the paintball range,
The storied cooler of death
Hides short contestants.
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