# No, you're not writing haikus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629 "2008-01-30T19:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/21 "2008-01-30T21:03:23Z")
The haiku master He spins in his moldy grave Teh LOLcatz! No want! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/22 "2008-01-30T21:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=FarmerChick] ha ha HAIKU!! pardon me, I have a cold [/QUOTE] Umm… I’m not **quite** sure what this is supposed to be, but I know what it ain’t. We had a haiku thread recently, and it was clear that some people just thought a haiku was three short lines. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/23 "2008-01-30T21:19:09Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] [QUOTE=FarmerChick] ha ha HAIKU!! pardon me, I have a cold [/QUOTE] Umm… I’m not **quite** sure what this is supposed to be, but I know what it ain’t. We had a haiku thread recently, and it was clear that some people just thought a haiku was three short lines. [/QUOTE] I rather liked it Contained a winter _kigo_ Otherwise random ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/24 "2008-01-30T21:28:29Z")
I lollerskated all over the roflpond and I was drunk too ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/25 "2008-01-30T21:43:04Z")
There was an old man From Peru, whose lim’ricks all Look’d like haiku. He Said with a laugh, “I Cut them in half, the pay is Much better for two.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/26 "2008-01-30T21:43:52Z")
Haiku sounds to me like Stands With A Fist as she remembered the white man talk. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/27 "2008-01-30T21:44:54Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] The haiku master He spins in his moldy grave Teh LOLcatz! No want! [/QUOTE] Bashō in the fall Considering lolcats: “Do not want. Kthxbai.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/28 "2008-01-30T21:49:35Z")
The Marianas Trench One time in nineteen sixty for twenty minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/29 "2008-01-30T22:02:31Z")
Haiku are three lines With five-seven-five scansion That’s it: Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/30 "2008-01-30T22:14:09Z")
Not writing haiku? I’ll be a monkey’s uncle! Sure looks like haiku. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/31 "2008-01-30T22:15:40Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Umm… I’m not **quite** sure what this is supposed to be, but I know what it ain’t. We had a haiku thread recently, and it was clear that some people just thought a haiku was three short lines. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Borborygmi] I rather liked it Contained a winter _kigo_ Otherwise random [/QUOTE] damn, the title is No, you’re NOT writing haikus picky weatherman thirty below high winds twenty nine days max Better? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/32 "2008-01-30T22:16:14Z")
As fall approaches Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton? Or Some brand-new asshole? Regards, Shodan PS - Burma Shave. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/33 "2008-01-30T22:22:31Z")
We regard Shodan. What does Shodan regard now? Spring? Regards, Shodan. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/34 "2008-01-30T22:22:59Z")
> [@](#): > > [COLOR=purple]I won’t write haikus > For a picky weatherman > In February. **This post’s been haikued On this frigid winter day By the haikuist!**[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/35 "2008-01-30T22:27:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] As fall approaches Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton? Or Some brand-new asshole? [/QUOTE] Barack barack bo parack banana fana for winter… Barack. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/36 "2008-01-30T22:37:26Z")
This thread in the Pit? I think not, based on its tone. I shall move it now. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/37 "2008-01-30T22:38:48Z")
A leaf of lettuce Falls out of the salad bowl. So what? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/38 "2008-01-30T22:48:04Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > As fall approaches > Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton? Or > Some brand-new asshole? [QUOTE=Sampiro] Barack barack bo parack banana fana for winter… Barack. [/QUOTE] Mom was Caucasian. Daddy was Indonesian. But assholes? All pink. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/39 "2008-01-30T22:50:21Z")
Don’t be a haiku… What’s the word I’m looking for? Oh, yes, it’s “Godwin”. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629/40 "2008-01-30T23:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] **This post’s been haikued On this frigid winter day By the haikuist!** [/QUOTE] But why even rant about a degree or two does that stick hurt much? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-youre-not-writing-haikus/435629.md?page=3)