# 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:** 155
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3082 "2011-01-16T00:10:31Z")
Neither here nor there are the words of a weasel speak plainly and 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 16, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3083 "2011-01-16T01:02:48Z")
“Speak plainly and true,” said the marshal to the crook, who just ran away. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3084 "2011-01-16T01:42:43Z")
Who just ran away? Wasn’t that your mom and dad? Why were they naked? ---
**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 16, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3085 "2011-01-16T05:27:42Z")
Why were they naked? “No shirt, no shoes, no service” Thus they were not served ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3086 "2011-01-16T06:59:50Z")
Thus they were not served Divorce papers sit again Unsigned, unwanted ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3087 "2011-01-16T12:52:23Z")
Unsigned, unwanted since spring nineteen-forty-six general panic ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3088 "2011-01-16T14:38:03Z")
General Panic was an unfit officer that nobody liked. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3089 "2011-01-16T17:56:12Z")
That nobody liked him was beyond any doubt. He both sucked and blew. ---
**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 16, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3090 "2011-01-16T18:03:34Z")
he both sucked and blew and so he was most welcome in San Francisco ---
**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 16, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3091 "2011-01-16T18:15:34Z")
in San Francisco The Tinman left his hearr there. The Scarecrow, his brain. ---
**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 16, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3092 "2011-01-16T21:02:58Z")
the Scarecrow, his brain sitting in a pan, just like Reanimator ---
**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 16, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3093 "2011-01-16T21:07:15Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > When the iron age dawned > people stopped wearing wrinkly clothes > it was a neat time. > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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 Seconded, whole heartedly. I saw this one and thought it was great, then I realized “neat” has two meaning here as well. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3094 "2011-01-17T00:35:12Z")
Re-animator nineteen-eighty-four plus one moving tissue tale ---
**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 17, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3095 "2011-01-17T02:48:22Z")
Moving tissue tale: Einstein’s brain after he died quite hard to believe > **[The Long, Strange Journey of Einstein's Brain](https://www.npr.org/2005/04/18/4602913/the-long-strange-journey-of-einsteins-brain)** > > Brian Burrell, author of Postcards from the Brain Museum, discusses efforts to understand Einstein's intellect through the study of his brain. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3096 "2011-01-17T05:05:20Z")
Quite hard to believe we’re up to page sixty-two mmm has spread ---
**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 17, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3097 "2011-01-17T05:36:44Z")
MMM has spread not MTM, she’s still thin; very cute back then. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3098 "2011-01-17T05:44:29Z")
Very cute back then the one that wasn’t hairy or pricked with wax rash ---
**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 17, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3099 "2011-01-17T13:55:18Z")
or pricked with wax rash no tax on hash cash, jackass and why do you ax? ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3100 "2011-01-17T13:57:43Z")
and why do you ax? trim those pubes with a razor like normal people! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3101 "2011-01-17T14:12:31Z")
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