# 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:** 198
### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3941 "2025-05-19T04:40:22Z")
I have phone FOMO
(“Frank’s Obvious; Matt’s O.D.'d”),
which just makes no sense.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3942 "2025-05-19T13:34:48Z")
“Which” just makes no sense.
“Who”, maybe; or even “where”
Would work much better.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3943 "2025-05-19T17:48:04Z")
Would work much better
if I were paid lots, _lots_ more:
say, $18 billion?
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3944 "2025-05-19T17:59:31Z")
Say, $18 billion?
Will that be enough for your
first three months of rent?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3945 "2025-05-19T19:47:51Z")
First three months of rent
is more than I want to pay -
right now, anyway
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3946 "2025-05-20T01:28:01Z")
Right now. Any way
you can possibly do it.
It is urgent. Now!
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3947 "2025-05-20T21:03:17Z")
It is urgent. Now!
If I don’t pee I will burst!
Wouldn’t that be cool?
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### Author:  [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3948 "2025-05-20T22:25:16Z")
Wouldn’t that be cool?
Dude, it would be the greatest,
And I’ll hold your beer!
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3949 "2025-05-21T12:12:46Z")
And I’ll hold your beer
while you proceed to show us
what a fool you are
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3950 "2025-05-21T15:25:06Z")
What a fool you are!
And what a fool you make me!
Let’s fool together.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3951 "2025-05-22T04:44:37Z")
Let’s fool together,
as it’s surely better than
just fooling apart
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3952 "2025-05-23T00:20:14Z")
Just fooling, apart
From my red rubber ball nose
You wouldn’t have known
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3953 "2025-05-23T01:22:32Z")
You wouldn’t have known
If I had not shared my plan:
World Domination!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3954 "2025-05-23T03:28:16Z")
World domination
has been my goal all along;
I’m starting small, here
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3955 "2025-05-23T11:51:48Z")
I’m starting small, here
Take this dime and invest it
With minimum risk
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3956 "2025-05-24T02:00:14Z")
With minimum risk
Comes minimum reward, or
So they’d have tiy think
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3957 "2025-05-24T06:15:45Z")
\*you
Was so busy counting syllables, I forgot to check spelling.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3958 "2025-05-24T11:04:44Z")
So they’d have you think
Haiku Gods insist on both
Spelling and word count
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3959 "2025-05-24T16:15:22Z")
Spelling and word count
Are fun games for some of us.
Not so for others.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/3960 "2025-05-24T20:53:52Z")
Not so for others,
for whom 5-7-5 is
just too limiting
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