# Haiku Madness Part Deux **URL:** \ **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:** 214
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4261 "2025-08-29T11:47:56Z")
The cannabis store: off-limits, because my work still does drug tests. Boo! ---
**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:** [August 30, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4262 "2025-08-30T02:42:38Z")
Still does drug tests, Boo Radley does; so Scout told me. Just ask Atticus! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4263 "2025-08-30T05:37:52Z")
Just ask Atticus! He will tell you how to spot a finch in the wild ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4264 "2025-08-31T03:10:56Z")
A finch in the wild is worth three in the rose bush… or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4265 "2025-08-31T03:21:25Z")
“…or something like that?” does not instill a sense of confidence in me ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4266 "2025-09-01T02:43:27Z")
Confidence in me is usually quite well-placed; at least, so I’m told. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4267 "2025-09-01T02:58:00Z")
At least, so I’m told, but it might be a wives’ tale. An old one at that. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4268 "2025-09-01T03:08:12Z")
An old one at that. Old jokes no longer funny. Some old jokes just groan ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4269 "2025-09-01T21:13:18Z")
Some old jokes just groan; is that right, or do _we_ groan? Hard to tell, sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4270 "2025-09-02T00:35:46Z")
Hard to tell, sometimes, whether a joke is played out. Oh look, it’s a stoat! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4271 "2025-09-03T04:07:43Z")
Oh, look, it’s a stoat! Ogg, Orson Bean and Tami know their Doper memes. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4272 "2025-09-03T04:57:26Z")
Know their Doper memes, Even the really old ones: I burning your dog ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4273 "2025-09-04T13:20:51Z")
I burning your dog A writer wrote tales of it He’s Leon Tolstoy ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4274 "2025-09-05T02:05:25Z")
“He’s Leon Tolstoy,” said the history scholar. Did I mishear them? ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4275 "2025-09-05T11:15:17Z")
Did I mishear them? Naming election’s winner: Fuckface von Clownstick ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4276 "2025-09-05T12:06:37Z")
Fuckface von Clownstick Sounds like the sort of thing that AI came up with ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4277 "2025-09-05T12:34:30Z")
AI came up with All sorts of nonsense, but they Use it anyway. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4278 "2025-09-05T19:29:08Z")
“Use it anyway,” my boss said, pointing to the discarded wombat ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4279 "2025-09-06T02:44:14Z")
Discarded Wombat: Fifth name the band tried. They’ll soon try a sixth. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4280 "2025-09-06T02:56:35Z")
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