# 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:** 244
**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:** [July 14, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4863 "2012-07-14T14:44:06Z")
Earned a Purple Fart By eating plums and eggplant. Silent but grapey. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4864 "2012-07-14T16:08:11Z")
Silent but grapey Harsh bouquet, remnants of skank My new Pinot Whore ---
**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:** [July 14, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4865 "2012-07-14T18:44:11Z")
My new Pinot Whore Can be a jealous lover; _“No fucking Merlot!!”_ ---
**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:** [July 15, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4866 "2012-07-15T03:36:09Z")
No fucking, Merlot! You must stay chaste 'til marriage Christ, try a corkscrew! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4867 "2012-07-15T15:26:26Z")
Christ, try a corkscrew! The apostles cried; changing water takes too long. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4868 "2012-07-15T23:39:49Z")
water takes too long to freeze in my new freezer so I moved to Nome ---
**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:** [July 16, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4869 "2012-07-16T14:07:09Z")
so I moved to Nome Where I met many types of Russian Eskimos. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4870 "2012-07-16T14:11:45Z")
Russian Eskimos See the Kremlin from their house Hunt moose from Hind-D ---
**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:** [July 18, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4871 "2012-07-18T11:46:26Z")
Hunt moose from Hind-D Hunt squirrel from a Black Hawk Badenov for you? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4872 "2012-07-20T00:05:44Z")
Badenov for you? No, I prefer \*The Queen of Spades \*by old Tchaikovsky ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4873 "2012-07-20T12:22:26Z")
Spades by Tchaikovsky\* Is a book I can’t get through Too much racist stuff \*edited to pare down the syllables ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4874 "2012-07-21T04:08:31Z")
Too much racist stuff In the otherwise classic _Birth of a Nation_ ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4875 "2012-07-21T14:45:10Z")
_Birth of a Nation_ Is a cinema classic But very racist ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4876 "2012-07-23T02:39:47Z")
But very racist That Birth of a Nation was And yet, a classic ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4877 "2012-07-23T05:36:49Z")
And yet a classic “Would you hold it against me?” Always works for me. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4878 "2012-07-23T14:51:17Z")
Always works for me. They’re great panty liners for That time of the month. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4879 "2012-07-23T15:52:32Z")
That time of the month I feel sluggish and bloated Free wings at the bar ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4880 "2012-07-23T18:58:31Z")
Free wings at the bar Liquor in the front, poker… Well, you know the rest ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4881 "2012-07-23T20:37:46Z")
“Well, you know the rest of the story.” Do you think you are Paul Harvey? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/4882 "2012-07-23T23:29:11Z")
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