# 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:** 154
**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 14, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3062 "2011-01-14T14:51:44Z")
to score primo weed Just whisper to Honest Abe “Four score and seven” ---
**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 14, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3063 "2011-01-14T15:34:03Z")
Which is not that fun To whisper to honest Abe “Four Score and seven” ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3064 "2011-01-14T15:49:16Z")
Four score and seven is a dumb way to say eighty seven years. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3065 "2011-01-14T16:24:10Z")
Eighty seven years Is too long for us to wait For this game to end. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3066 "2011-01-14T16:43:36Z")
For this game to end just declare me the winner and that will be it. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3067 "2011-01-14T16:47:24Z")
“And that will be it?” The waitress asks the diners. “No dessert today?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3068 "2011-01-14T16:51:23Z")
No dessert today? I’m too fat anyway, but Sternvogel is cruel. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3069 "2011-01-14T17:53:41Z")
Sternvogel is cruel in the way Elvis had said to a heart that’s true ---
**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 14, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3070 "2011-01-14T17:57:48Z")
to a heart that’s true thy love can last forever if thou art worthy ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3071 "2011-01-14T18:34:06Z")
“If thou art worthy” said the lady in the lake “take Excalibur” ---
**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 14, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3072 "2011-01-14T19:45:51Z")
Take Excalibur and Sting and Anduril, too all great mythic swords ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3073 "2011-01-14T20:12:00Z")
All great mythic swords are nothing but echoes of when the Iron Age dawned. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3074 "2011-01-14T20:27:02Z")
When the iron age dawned people stopped wearing wrinkly clothes it was a neat time. ---
**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 15, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3075 "2011-01-15T00:47:00Z")
“It was a neat time,” Tom Swift said heatedly, but she was clearly board. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3076 "2011-01-15T00:49:40Z")
She was clearly board. No boobage whatsoever! Sex change was a scam. ---
**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 15, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3077 "2011-01-15T01:36:00Z")
Sex change was a scam Billy Tipton still had all of her girly bits. > **[Billy Tipton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton)** > > Billy Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and talent broker. Tipton lived and identified as a man for most of his adult life; after his death, friends and family were surprised to learn that he was transgender. > Tipton's music career began in the mid-1930s when he led a band for radio broadcasts. He played in various dance bands in the 1940s and recorded two trio albums for a small record label in the mid-1950s. Thereafter, he worked as a tal... ---
**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 15, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3078 "2011-01-15T15:53:23Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > When the iron age dawned > people stopped wearing wrinkly clothes > it was a neat time. I think we should pause now and then to give a shout of appreciation when we find ourselves particularly amused by an entry. So, SHOUT to Cluricaun. mmm ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3079 "2011-01-15T18:40:35Z")
Of her girly bits, I’ll say nothing. After all, I’m a gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3080 "2011-01-15T22:51:09Z")
I’m a gentleman except when drinking whiskey or when you are here. ---
**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 15, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3081 "2011-01-15T23:17:51Z")
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