# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1422 "2010-04-10T21:54:55Z")
'Twas quite a party "tween the booze and the women Party 'til you drop! ---
**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:** [April 10, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1423 "2010-04-10T22:43:36Z")
Party 'til you drop, but watch out for sharp objects as you fall, or… ouch! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1424 "2010-04-10T22:53:01Z")
As you fall, or… ouch. Unless you are a tree, which Can’t feel the fall, no? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1425 "2010-04-10T23:53:26Z")
Can’t feel the fall, no? Leprosy has that effect sucks to be you, dude. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1426 "2010-04-11T00:00:52Z")
Sucks to be you, dude. Said Hurley to Locke Monster. Can’t pass the gray dust. (that’s a set-up…) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1427 "2010-04-11T12:34:47Z")
Can’t pass the gray dust without cleaning it up first Neatness counts, you know ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1428 "2010-04-11T13:15:38Z")
Neatness counts, you know White glove inspection finds me Out of the running. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1429 "2010-04-11T14:11:49Z")
Out of the running Probably true for Freddy Lee, Phil, or Tiger? ---
**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:** [April 11, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1430 "2010-04-11T14:21:55Z")
Lee, Phil, or Tiger? Stagger, doctor or Tony? Which dudes do you mean? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1431 "2010-04-11T14:28:47Z")
Which do you mean? First names lack information Yet context is all. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1432 "2010-04-11T14:54:09Z")
Yet context is all. Mercury, Fender, Flintstone? I want to know Fred ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1433 "2010-04-11T15:21:33Z")
I want to know Fred All his desires and dreams Filler for scrapbook ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1434 "2010-04-11T15:40:39Z")
Filler for scrapbook Seems like a redundancy It’s a book of scraps ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1435 "2010-04-11T17:21:33Z")
It’s a book of scraps Invoking old memories Some good, others bad. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1436 "2010-04-11T17:28:17Z")
Some good, others bad Applies to everything There is in this life. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1437 "2010-04-11T19:18:59Z")
There is in this life Just one dude, one dude only And that would be me ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1438 "2010-04-11T20:27:00Z")
And that would be me Making a birdie on 9 Says Freddie Couples ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1439 "2010-04-11T21:19:58Z")
Says Freddie Couples: "I was a Houston Cougar. [My mom’s Croatian."](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Couples) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1440 "2010-04-11T21:20:03Z")
my mom’s Croatian That is a terrible line! Time for a new start ---
**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:** [April 11, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1441 "2010-04-11T21:23:42Z")
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