# Haiku Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 22, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955 "2010-02-22T07:27:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**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:** [June 10, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1982 "2010-06-10T20:27:58Z")
Seven-Five rule thing? Back when Ford was President? O, I’m so confused! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1983 "2010-06-11T03:42:18Z")
O, I’m so confused! Should I have chosen “Oh” there, Or is “O” correct? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1984 "2010-06-11T11:50:14Z")
Or is “O”, correct? But wait. Xylophone is “X”? Why isn’t it “Z”? ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1985 "2010-06-11T19:24:49Z")
Why isn’t it “Z?” Why don’t you go ask Zed? Zed is dead, baby ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1986 "2010-06-12T04:23:24Z")
Zed is dead, baby. That is news to me – indeed, I knew not he lived. ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1987 "2010-06-12T04:34:20Z")
I knew not he lived Nor did I cry when he died But miss him, I do ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1988 "2010-06-13T03:27:33Z")
But miss him, I do Although he was quite a jerk, He always bought beer ---
**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:** [June 14, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1989 "2010-06-14T01:12:05Z")
He always bought beer, wine, gin, whiskey, tequila; and his liver? Ouch! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1990 "2010-06-14T15:16:52Z")
and his liver? Ouch! Charlie Harper liver’s gone AND he’s HIV ---
**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:** [June 14, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1991 "2010-06-14T15:56:03Z")
And he’s “HIV” - a “helium inflated vessel,” blimp, that is. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1992 "2010-06-14T16:57:49Z")
“_Vessel Blimp_, that is” The captain named his new ship Dumb name for a boat ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1993 "2010-06-15T01:09:06Z")
Dumb name for a boat? How about that “Costalot”? We get it. Ha ha. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1994 "2010-06-15T03:33:41Z")
“We get it. Ha ha,” said the crowd to Bad Comic. He would not return. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1995 "2010-06-15T14:48:24Z")
He would not return As he angrily stomped out Elvis left the room ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1996 "2010-06-15T14:53:18Z")
Elvis left the room Elvis left the building, and died in the bathroom ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1997 "2010-06-15T15:37:42Z")
Died in the bathroom born in the deliv’ry room living life backwards ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1998 "2010-06-15T18:28:50Z")
Living life backwards Benjamin Button’s story Brad Pitt was the star ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1999 "2010-06-15T18:39:55Z")
Brad Pitt was the star of Bonnie’s erotic dreams very distracting ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2000 "2010-06-15T20:42:40Z")
Very distracting A monkey in a clown suit I can’t look away ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2001 "2010-06-16T19:07:03Z")
I can’t look away For one day without Haiku Madness slowing down?!? (OK, it’s been a week, but still…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=101)