# 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:** 215
**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 6, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4281 "2025-09-06T03:14:18Z")
It is not enough for me to write bad haiku; you must read it, too. ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4282 "2025-09-06T11:30:43Z")
You must read it. Too Long, you say? Dude, don’t you know Haiku has its rules ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4283 "2025-09-06T14:15:50Z")
Haiku has its rules, Which Dopers will gleefully abandon To make a daft point 😀 ---
**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 6, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4284 "2025-09-06T20:18:03Z")
To make a daft point Is all well and good, but don’t Blaspheme our haikus! ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4285 "2025-09-07T03:16:37Z")
Blaspheme our haikus at the risk of drawing our harshest mockery ---
**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 7, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4286 "2025-09-07T04:22:40Z")
Harshest mockery is reserved for everyone. You are so damn smart. ---
**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 8, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4287 "2025-09-08T00:51:39Z")
“You are so damn smart,” everyone says to me, and damned if they ain’t right! ---
**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 9, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4288 "2025-09-09T00:51:51Z")
Damned if they ain’t right! But, right or wrong, they are still running the country. ---
**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 10, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4289 "2025-09-10T03:48:31Z")
Running the country is something I’d love to do, but no one’s asked me ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4290 "2025-09-10T04:58:00Z")
But no one’s asked me so I’ll keep my opinion on it to myself. ---
**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 10, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4291 "2025-09-10T11:33:27Z")
On it! To myself: Note that on my lists; make sure That I get it done. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4292 "2025-09-10T12:35:46Z")
That I get it done is always a question. I’m known to be lazy. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4293 "2025-09-10T13:37:37Z")
“Known to be Lazy” Working title of Springsteen’s Hit “Born to be Wild” ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4294 "2025-09-10T13:43:35Z")
(sidebar) _Like a donut that’s glazy_ _We are known, known to be lazy_ _Don’t care if you approve_ _I never wanna moooove_ _Known to be Lazy_ _Known to be Lazy_ ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4295 "2025-09-11T01:00:43Z")
Hit “Born to be Wild” on the old jukebox, baby! I’ve got the quarters! ---
**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 11, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4296 "2025-09-11T03:00:44Z")
I’ve got the quarters to do at least eight dozen big loads of laundry! ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4297 "2025-09-11T08:45:14Z")
Big loads of laundry hold the eternal promise additional spare change ---
**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 11, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4298 "2025-09-11T19:47:51Z")
That last line has six and not five syllables, as I say it. In play: Addit’nal spare change is under couch cushions or so I’ve been told ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4299 "2025-09-11T20:25:36Z")
_Or_, so I’ve been told, is French for glittering gold. Golden gold glitters. ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4300 "2025-09-11T20:35:55Z")
Golden Gold glitters - a shiny superhero! Quite powerless, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141.md?page=214) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141.md?page=216)