Do you guys remember that real time anyone-can-edit chat-like program called moonedit or something? It was linked on Metafilter, and we stormed in and wrote a bunch of awesome haikus. When the idea was brought up that it can't really be a haiku without a seasonal reference, someone wrote this and it always stuck with me:
Shout-outs to nature
are like shout-outs to rappers.
What's up, my nature? posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 10:05 PM on August 21, 2007 [10 favorites]
things hot and bitter
coffee and "awesome" haiku
me, mefi mornings posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:05 AM on August 22, 2007
I wonder how this fad originated?
Was some text editor so wholly stunted
That it could take just seventeen sounds grunted
By browsers while they clicked and masturbated?
So many forms of verse you could deploy
That would as well express what’s always penned
When counting five and seven, five and Send,
But always it’s this little haiku toy.
(Unless it’s time to talk of knickers dropped,
In which case limericks are trundled out
To tell us how the vicar gave a shout
Or porcupines entwined or condoms popped.)
Retire the haiku, please, and see if youse
Can find another form youse can abuse. posted by pracowity at 10:33 AM on August 22, 2007 [3 favorites]
You people seem to think haikus are all,
When as cortex implied before, they're not.
The artful lure of sonnet form will call;
Pentameter, you'll find, is truly hot.
Nay, let us not forego the structured whim:
In which sarcasm carefully can wind,
Was used for years by lads to score more trim,
And demonstrates a clearly greater mind.
Thou shan't pretend your time is better used
On TPS reports and timesheet card.
You know you want to leave Firefox abused,
And while the afternoon away just like the Bard.
Instead of rushing ill-thought haiku spew
Take time to craft true poems for the blue. posted by pineapple at 10:47 AM on August 22, 2007 [1 favorite]
pracowity: OMG, Shut! Up! posted by pineapple at 10:48 AM on August 22, 2007
(meaning, I didn't preview, so I was so smugly pleased with my "watch this, you haiku tossers" sonnet, and then there yours was too.) posted by pineapple at 10:50 AM on August 22, 2007
Should have perhaps dropped the "away just" from line twelve, sir, or used "day" for "afternoon"; but jolly good, regardless. posted by cortex at 11:03 AM on August 22, 2007
I'm not a sir, sir, but well-spoken that line 12 is off. That's what a speed sonnet will net you. posted by pineapple at 1:34 PM on August 22, 2007
The rhetorical sir, then, with my apologies. And wear a seatbelt; speed sonnets cost lives. posted by cortex at 1:38 PM on August 22, 2007
♪♫♪ This thread's a lot better with blue sonnet on it! ♪♫♪ posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:44 PM on August 22, 2007
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But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 9:33 PM on August 21, 2007 [6 favorites]