# 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:** 171
**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:** [February 27, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3402 "2011-02-27T20:05:49Z")
Philadelphia? Inspired a damn good song Here’s to you, Elton! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3403 "2011-02-27T21:32:34Z")
Here’s to you, Elton! Or should I say, Reginald? Bang that piano! ---
**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:** [February 27, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3404 "2011-02-27T21:45:56Z")
Philadelphia? Not W.C. Fields’s favorite city! D’oh! “Bang that piano!” I said to Billy Joel he just grinned at me ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3405 "2011-02-28T02:33:41Z")
He just grinned at me Then it hit me why–I was in Madame Tussaud’s ---
**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:** [February 28, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3406 "2011-02-28T02:56:34Z")
In Madame Tussaud’s may be found lots of waxy stars and VIPs. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3407 "2011-02-28T03:02:59Z")
stars and VIPs; Which one can’t be found in a Box of Lucky Charms? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3408 "2011-02-28T16:46:59Z")
Box of Lucky Charms? Once it contained yellow moons. Now half-moons of blue. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3409 "2011-02-28T17:38:42Z")
Now half-moons of blue trail mauve stars and pink comets. Am I on LSD? ---
**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:** [February 28, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3410 "2011-02-28T19:26:18Z")
Am I on LSD? I slid off Lake Shore Drive And crashed in the lake ---
**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:** [February 28, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3411 "2011-02-28T20:09:23Z")
And crashed in the lake I did. I drank too much, thought the water looked nice. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3412 "2011-02-28T20:18:28Z")
the water looked nice, Clear, cold; all it needs now is Ice cubes and whisky ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3413 "2011-03-01T15:32:04Z")
Ice cubes and whiskey “And rye” added Don McLean “Blow, too” said Charlie. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3414 "2011-03-01T18:10:31Z")
“Blow, too,” said Charlie, when asked if he would fart on his birthday candles. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3415 "2011-03-01T18:56:00Z")
His birthday candles were too many to blow out so he took a drink. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3416 "2011-03-01T19:18:07Z")
So he took a drink from the bubbling, green test tube, Cackling, “BwaHaHaa!” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3417 "2011-03-01T21:07:07Z")
Cackling, “BwaHaHaa!”, The mad scientist imbibed. He then sprouted wings. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3418 "2011-03-01T21:20:56Z")
He then sprouted wings and tried to fly to heaven but hell’s in the sky. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3419 "2011-03-01T21:34:54Z")
But hell’s in the sky because heat rises, of course everyone knows that! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3420 "2011-03-02T14:37:47Z")
everyone knows that! How does everyone know that? We just google it! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/3421 "2011-03-02T17:10:52Z")
We just google it! Hit those keys, type data, but what are we googling? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=172)