# Haiku Madness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955>\
**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:** 118

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**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:** [August 7, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2342 "2010-08-07T13:21:57Z")

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Fox and a blowjob  
And to use a Board in-joke  
Sheep and **Hal Briston**

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2343 "2010-08-07T14:59:54Z")

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Sheep and Hal Briston  
Ewe know they’re like Mutton Jeff  
A very baa-aa-d joke

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2344 "2010-08-08T03:40:58Z")

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A very baa-aa-d joke:  
“What pests afflict Mary’s lamb?”  
“Fleas as white as snow!”

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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2345 "2010-08-08T04:02:51Z")

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Flea’s as white as snow  
A white hot chilly pepper  
Gap between his teethe

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**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2346 "2010-08-08T06:21:22Z")

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Gap between his teethe,  
Chasm twixt eache his nostrilles.  
Bothe a woefull void.

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2347 "2010-08-08T07:13:33Z")

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Bothe a woefull void  
did face, as the words were spake:  
“Release the Kraken!”

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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2348 "2010-08-08T07:38:40Z")

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:smack: chilli

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**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:** [August 8, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2349 "2010-08-08T11:05:55Z")

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“Release the Kraken!”  
What I usually yell  
When I take a pee.

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**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:** [August 8, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2350 "2010-08-08T12:08:01Z")

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> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#):
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> :smack: chilli

That’s OK, when you’re wearing only one sock, you might be a little chilly.

When I take a pee  
I often will ponder why  
I don’t _leave_ a pee

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**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2351 "2010-08-08T15:26:55Z")

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I will leave a pee  
When I take a pee, because  
That’s what they call it.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2352 "2010-08-08T20:25:05Z")

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That’s what they call it –  
Carlin said: “I _leave_ a shit!  
That’s the whole idea!”

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2353 "2010-08-09T11:06:09Z")

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The whole idea  
is best because half is “id”  
That’s for idiots

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**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 9, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2354 "2010-08-09T14:56:02Z")

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“That’s for idiots,”  
the salesgirl said, so I just  
left it on the shelf.

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2355 "2010-08-09T18:35:49Z")

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“left it on the shelf,”  
lyrically, is code for “I  
need a rhyme for ‘self’”.

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**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 9, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2356 "2010-08-09T18:45:33Z")

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“Need a rhyme for ‘self’?”  
the poet asked; I didn’t.  
No rhymer am I.

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**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:** [August 9, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2357 "2010-08-09T20:35:36Z")

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“No rhymer am I!”  
I yelled loudly at that guy  
He shrugged and asked “Why?”

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2358 "2010-08-09T21:24:14Z")

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He shrugged and asked “Why?”  
“Because” I replied. Kiss my  
ass, Aristotle!

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2359 "2010-08-09T22:24:45Z")

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ass, Aristotle!  
I’ve been called much worse, such as  
ass, Holden Caulfield!

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**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 10, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2360 "2010-08-10T01:26:15Z")

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Ass, Holden Caulfield!  
Murderer, Adolf Hitler!  
That they were, my friends.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/2361 "2010-08-10T01:29:30Z")

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That they were my friends  
Was a matter of some doubt.  
We just shared a house.

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