# 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:** 307
**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:** [May 11, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6123 "2013-05-11T16:02:59Z")
We’re not really “in” My Member’s Only jacket Makes hip people cry. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6124 "2013-05-11T16:55:36Z")
Makes hip people cry? Hip people? Who uses that Outdated lingo? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6125 "2013-05-11T17:09:30Z")
Outdated lingo: I can dig it, daddy-o, 'cause I’m the bee’s knees. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6126 "2013-05-11T17:14:31Z")
'Cause I’m the bee’s knees Will she let me cop a feel? Peace, brother. Hang loose. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6127 "2013-05-12T06:39:43Z")
Peace, bother hang loose. I am putty in your hand between the whispers. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6128 "2013-05-12T06:43:49Z")
Between the whispers Are the screams of utter joy Pure, sheer ecstacy ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6129 "2013-05-13T12:01:19Z")
Pure, sheer ecstasy, The wild drone of paperwork on Monday morning. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6130 "2013-05-13T12:50:54Z")
on Monday morning You gave me no warning of what was not to be ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6131 "2013-05-13T15:12:39Z")
What was not to be Never was, never would be Ain’t gonna happen ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6132 "2013-05-13T15:31:31Z")
Ain’t gonna happen, uh-uh, no way, not at all, not a bit… maybe. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6133 "2013-05-13T15:33:04Z")
not a bit…maybe The “might maybes” of the world I really hate them. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6134 "2013-05-13T15:36:46Z")
I really hate them Cowboys! “America’s Team”? Ha! They are felons! ---
**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:** [May 14, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6135 "2013-05-14T15:10:36Z")
Ha! They are felons! No! They didn’t do it and you can’t prove they did. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6136 "2013-05-14T15:14:36Z")
You can’t prove they did! And I can’t prove they didn’t! Where’d our logic go? ---
**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:** [May 14, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6137 "2013-05-14T16:00:05Z")
Where’d our logic go? Extremes win elections; thus our ludicrous claims ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6138 "2013-05-14T19:03:33Z")
Our ludicrous claims of being the world’s police just ain’t workin’ out ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6139 "2013-05-14T23:11:51Z")
Just ain’t workin’ out The gym fees are way too high And I am lazy ---
**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:** [May 14, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6140 "2013-05-14T23:21:46Z")
And I am lazy, lustful, gluttonous, and proud, but I’m sober. Wah! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6141 "2013-05-15T00:05:36Z")
But I’m sober! WAH! To be unencumbered, free My life’s now my own! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/6142 "2013-05-15T00:15:06Z")
My life’s now my own prison, desolate I yearn for the good old days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=308)