# 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:** 223
### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4441 "2025-11-19T20:50:37Z")
Please don’t ask me why
It’s still Billy Joel to me
Just take your chances
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4442 "2025-11-19T21:20:10Z")
Just take your chances
with your grand café’s waiters;
don’t wait for answers
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4443 "2025-11-19T22:55:50Z")
Don’t wait for answers
As she laughs while you’re bleeding
As the good die young
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4444 "2025-11-20T05:20:28Z")
As the good die young,
it’s nine o’clock, Saturday;
“Play me a mem’ry!”
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4445 "2025-11-20T11:57:54Z")
Play me a mem’ry!
Not really sure how it goes
Not much to go on
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4446 "2025-11-20T15:02:41Z")
Not much to go on
Old photo, yellowed letter
These memories fade
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4447 "2025-11-21T05:35:43Z")
These memories fade
just like old Kodachrome pics;
bygone days recalled
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4448 "2025-11-24T19:03:12Z")
Bygone days recalled
Summer sun and baseball game
On the transistor
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4449 "2025-11-26T05:07:02Z")
On the transistor
I placed all my confidence;
no better high tech!
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4450 "2025-11-26T12:46:16Z")
No better high tech
Than that old washing machine.
My mother loved it.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4451 "2025-11-26T12:46:29Z")
No better high tech!
Than my good friend the A.I.
Part of me has died
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4452 "2025-11-26T13:05:47Z")
My mother loved it
When I got my first job and
Even cut my hair
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4453 "2025-11-26T16:55:11Z")
Even cut my hair
just in time for Thanksgiving;
pass the pumpkin pie!
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4454 "2025-11-26T17:45:50Z")
Pass the pumpkin pie!
Play Alice’s Restaurant.
Pack up leftovers.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4455 "2025-11-26T18:19:48Z")
Pack up leftovers
Start the dishwasher, someone
Wake up Uncle Bert
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4456 "2025-11-26T19:50:31Z")
Wake up, Uncle Bert!
We’re about to play poker;
grab your cards and chips.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4457 "2025-11-27T23:23:09Z")
(pardon my interruption but this belongs here)
[ ](https://imgur.com/Vr1Sg86)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4458 "2025-11-28T04:47:57Z")
LOL, yes, it really does! Thanks. 😄
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4459 "2025-11-28T15:26:18Z")
Grab your cards and chips
Both poker and potato
But don’t double dip
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-part-deux/922141/4460 "2025-11-28T23:25:26Z")
But don’t double dip
Your tip, as 'tis kinky and
Unsanitary
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