# 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:** 94
**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:** [May 19, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1862 "2010-05-19T17:58:52Z")
per police report I was sashaying down Main in tighty-whiteys ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1863 "2010-05-19T19:08:23Z")
In tighty-whiteys you would never catch me dead. Boxer briefs for me! ---
**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:** [May 19, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1864 "2010-05-19T19:47:10Z")
_Boxer_ briefs for me! Navy underwear is best, or so they tell me. > **[USS Boxer (LHD-4)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Boxer_(LHD-4))** > > USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer, which was captured from the British during the War of 1812. > Boxer was constructed at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched 13 August 1993, and commissioned 11 February 1995. She immediately left for San Diego, California, via the Panama Canal. Although she had been designed to safely transit the canal, her bridge wing and ... ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1865 "2010-05-20T01:52:11Z")
Or so they tell me – Who are “they” anyway, I ask? Experts, or just dolts? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1866 "2010-05-20T03:02:51Z")
Experts, or just dolts? I wonder when I think of Federal Reserve. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1867 "2010-05-20T15:58:02Z")
Federal Reserve Doesn’t hurt my head quite like drinking Steel Reserve ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1868 "2010-05-20T16:47:52Z")
Drinking Steel Reserve not to my liking, really Heineken, instead ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1869 "2010-05-20T20:13:53Z")
“Heineken, instead” is what the beer snobs all say gimme some Coors please. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1870 "2010-05-20T20:18:03Z")
“Gimme some Coors please” Is not a wise bar request For guys in unions. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1871 "2010-05-21T01:14:41Z")
For guys in unions Their suits are very snazzy you know, union suits ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1872 "2010-05-21T01:23:35Z")
You know Union suits? Better than Confederate garments by far, pal. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1873 "2010-05-21T02:44:53Z")
Garments, by far, pal is what you’ll wanna have on down at the nude beach ---
**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 21, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1874 "2010-05-21T13:09:48Z")
down at the nude beach you hung your down-filled jacket from which body part? ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1875 "2010-05-21T14:53:19Z")
From which body part did Spider-Man shoot his web? Spiders web from their butts ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1876 "2010-05-21T15:24:36Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > …Spiders web from their butts _Bzzzt_. Six syllables. Spiders, from their butts, cast gossamer threads here, there, indeed everywhere. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1877 "2010-05-21T21:50:17Z")
Indeed everywhere you look There’s some dope writing with too Many sylalbles ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1878 "2010-05-22T03:45:16Z")
Many syllables cower in abject terror. Gladiator comes! ---
**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:** [May 22, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1879 "2010-05-22T23:52:13Z")
Gladiator comes And this time it’s personal! Gladiator 2! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1880 "2010-05-23T00:25:49Z")
_Gladiator 2_! Who’s Marcus Aurelius? Richard Harris died. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955/1881 "2010-05-23T04:03:52Z")
Richard Harris died; was the better Dumbledore. Drank a lot when young. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness/529955.md?page=95)