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Exploring the world of comic strips through vague Japanese poetry.
February 20, 2003
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- Haikus are a form of poetry that consists of three lines with five, seven, then five syllables on each respective line. For example...
Rockwood is in space (5 syllables)
On a circular station (7 syllables)
Looking down on Earth (5 syllables)
Obviously, that's pretty boring, but technically correct. Try to do more than just count syllables. Be creative!
- The haiku you submit doesn't necessarily have to have Rockwood mentioned in it, but it would be nice if it related to something in the site somehow, whether it be space-related or just pertaining to a topic brought up elsewhere.
On with the haikus!
Haiku number one, or haiku number "0001" as it were, has made a mistake by making its syllables follow a 0111-0101-0111 pattern instead of the required 0101-0111-0101 pattern. We'll forgive it just this once...
In celebration of the return of the office T1 line, after a 6 week absence, I've decided to challenge myself with a Haiku worthy of Engineer's Week.
The challenge: To write a haiku, with puns, funny only to a geek. Here is my Haiku Thursday submission:
A Binary Haiku Pun?
I think of not one!
Day... almost done, one shift left.
--Brian Layman
Haiku number two assumes, incorrectly, that "above average" can be assigned, when really it is a fixed number. Average IQ is 100...
Engineering 1:
Depends on how smart you must
Be to do homework.
Let's say one-thirty (130).
Then the answer will always
Be 20. Correct?
--The Raven's Mirror
Haiku number three is Haiku of the Week because not only did it solve all the story problems correctly, but it did so in haiku form! We are very, very, very impressed! Wow! Great job, Greg!
(assuming that 1.5 includes commercials):
One hundred fifty
minus x times one point five
more than one hundred
Too dumb for homework
In three and a third minutes
Turn T.V. off, Bob!
Equilibrium
Moment must equal zero
Take about his feet
If sixty-nine pounds
Is the right answer for this
I would be surprised
One, frogs are too weak
My caclulator, missing
Is my second ground
Third question, easy
Four more surgeries for him
The weird "king of pop"
Was the third question
For liberal arts majors
No need to pander
The unwashed masses
Getting online is too hard
When one has B.A.
--Greg
Want to see last week's Haiku Thursday? Go check it out!
Send in your haiku and maybe next week you can achieve poetry fame! See you then!
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