# 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:** 151

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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:** [December 30, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3002 "2010-12-30T18:46:43Z")

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Mean Mr. Mustard  
Kept me from posting 3K  
Goosed up the post count

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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:** [December 30, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3003 "2010-12-30T18:52:04Z")

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Goosed up the post count?  
He started this haiku thread  
Jeez, it’s gone on long!

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**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:** [December 30, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3004 "2010-12-30T19:28:02Z")

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Jeez, it’s gone on long!  
Michael Scott would then reply  
“Yeah, that’s what \*she \*said.”

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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:** [December 30, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3005 "2010-12-30T20:21:17Z")

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“Yeah, that’s what she said,”  
the big douchebag said, smirking;  
of course no one laughed.

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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:** [December 30, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3006 "2010-12-30T23:45:24Z")

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Of course no one laughed  
At my nude banana joke  
'Twas unappealing

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**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:** [December 31, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3007 "2010-12-31T00:37:23Z")

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'Twas unappealing  
My first poetry challenge  
Yep: Free Verse Madness

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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:** [January 1, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3008 "2011-01-01T21:31:21Z")

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Yep, free Verse Madness!  
Mr. Madness should be free  
clearly not guilty.

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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:** [January 2, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3009 "2011-01-02T00:55:48Z")

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“Clearly not guilty  
Was one Lee Harvey Oswald.”  
Oops, that’s for **GD** …

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**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:** [January 3, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3010 "2011-01-03T13:04:07Z")

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“Oops, that’s for GD”  
I said, handing the cell phone  
to Geena Davis

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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:** [January 3, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3011 "2011-01-03T13:53:21Z")

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To Geena Davis  
I said “loved you in that film  
where you’re a tall gal.”

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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:** [January 3, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3012 "2011-01-03T15:10:00Z")

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To Geena Davis  
a tall gal in all her films  
but you knew that, huh?

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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:** [January 3, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3013 "2011-01-03T15:11:04Z")

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where you’re a tall gal."  
as opposed to the movie  
where she’s a short girl?

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**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:** [January 3, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3014 "2011-01-03T16:59:15Z")

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Where she’s a short girl?  
Midget Jones’s Diary?  
Wait, that’s Renée Z.

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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:** [January 3, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3015 "2011-01-03T18:54:02Z")

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Wait, that’s Renée Z.  
pretty good in _Cold Mountain_  
Civil War drama

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**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3016 "2011-01-04T09:31:25Z")

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Civil War drama:  
“Our American Cousin”?  
Not the promised farce.

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**Author:** ![Incref](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@Incref](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incref)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3017 "2011-01-04T13:47:47Z")

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Not the promised farce  
Where is Santa? It’s Jan 4!  
Reinforced hatred

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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:** [January 4, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3018 "2011-01-04T14:16:44Z")

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Reinforced hatred  
Middle East peace talks drag on  
no olive branches

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**Author:** ![Incref](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@Incref](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incref)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3019 "2011-01-04T14:27:37Z")

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No olive branches?  
This dove is totally shit!  
Go find land bird brain.

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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:** [January 4, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3020 "2011-01-04T15:37:16Z")

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“Go find land, bird brain!”  
I loudly screamed at the duck  
It blinked and then quacked

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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:** [January 4, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3021 "2011-01-04T16:57:34Z")

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It blinked and then quacked  
sounding like Gilbert Gottfried  
that guy is funny!

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