# 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:** 101
**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 16, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2002 "2010-06-16T19:55:11Z")
Madness slowing down?!? No, it’s accelerating - one more haiku page! ---
**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 16, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2003 "2010-06-16T20:14:22Z")
One more Haiku page! Once more into the breech and Damn the torpedoes! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2004 "2010-06-16T23:20:27Z")
_Damn the Torpedoes_! Tom Petty’s third rock album With the Heartbreakers ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2005 "2010-06-17T01:52:23Z")
With the heartbreakers, and yes, the strikebreakers, too, are all kinds of woe. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2006 "2010-06-17T13:28:31Z")
Madness slowing down. Horse won the Derby, Preakness Madness, win Belmont. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2007 "2010-06-17T13:41:24Z")
Are all kinds of woe Befalling us, Annie-X? Look. Page forty-one. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2008 "2010-06-17T13:53:42Z")
Look. Page forty-one. Didn’t notice till I posted. Silly me! Sorry. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2009 "2010-06-17T14:41:39Z")
Silly me! Sorry. I did not acknow ledge post number 2000! Three cheers for Palindromemordnilap! ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2010 "2010-06-17T15:12:52Z")
Ledge post number 2000 appears to be more than 5 syllables. Ledge post number 2 Is an odd line, as odd as Chimp in a clown suit ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2011 "2010-06-17T15:26:35Z")
Chimp in a clown suit beloved friend of Jacko weird guy, but now dead. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2012 "2010-06-17T17:14:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Ledge post number 2000 appears to be more than 5 syllables. Holy crap, am I out of practice; I forgot how to haiku!! :o ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2013 "2010-06-17T17:15:51Z")
weird guy, but now dead all 85 pounds of him dead skinny nutjob ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2014 "2010-06-17T18:08:48Z")
dead skinny nutjob but aren’t the dead always thin? skeletal, even ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2015 "2010-06-17T18:28:45Z")
skeletal, even before he became a corpse so says Billie Jean ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2016 "2010-06-17T20:27:41Z")
So says Billie Jean King of pop or tennis fame? I get them mixed up ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2017 "2010-06-18T00:53:59Z")
I get them mixed up – Larry King and Stephen King. Both are baseball fans. ---
**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 18, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2018 "2010-06-18T01:48:13Z")
Both are baseball fans, but skeletal? Only one, with lots of ex-wives. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2019 "2010-06-18T12:55:40Z")
with lots of ex-wives and not a single ex-vice I am one broke bloke ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2020 "2010-06-18T13:11:19Z")
I am one broke bloke But most folk are deep in debt Maybe I’m ahead ---
**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:** [June 18, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2021 "2010-06-18T14:13:31Z")
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