Don't make him angry.

December 30, 2007 12:00 PM

Bill Bixby haiku from 1994. [via]
posted by GrammarMoses (15 comments total)

Is this something I'd need Netscape to understand?
posted by Tube at 12:24 PM on December 30, 2007 [2 favorites]

A haiku bake-off?
Sticky little buns of wit
Eye rolls all around.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:34 PM on December 30, 2007

He bought us all
the apple dumplings
we could eat.
posted by mds35 at 12:45 PM on December 30, 2007

Bill and Mariette
Ape Sam-Diane chemistry
Witty but unwatched
posted by dhartung at 1:14 PM on December 30, 2007

Ah, robotwisdom. It's been a while.

Jorn Barger was great
but over time became the
Dave Sim of blogging
posted by phooky at 3:57 PM on December 30, 2007

This collection is primarily, if not exclusively, talk.bizarre memorial haikus composed shortly after Bill Bixby's death. You can find many other celebrity memorial haiku
posted by zippy at 4:21 PM on December 30, 2007

If I read any
more haiku by hacks and geeks,
it will not end well.
posted by not_on_display at 5:16 PM on December 30, 2007

When I was young, Bill
Bixby was My Favorite
Earthling. Today? Meh.

Haiku by hacks and
geeks, you say? Me, I'd call 'em
Kack-ku and Geek-ku.
posted by wendell at 6:41 PM on December 30, 2007

Those are not haiku
Those would all be called Senryū
Yes, I am a geek.
posted by milnak at 7:46 PM on December 30, 2007

When I was younger
Martian was my favorite
But so was Heinlein
posted by humannaire at 8:12 PM on December 30, 2007

Writing poetry
With sixteen syllables
Is really diffic
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:26 PM on December 30, 2007

Counting syllables
(It's seventeen syllables)
Should be mastered first.
posted by Spire at 10:03 PM on December 30, 2007

Courtship of Eddie's Father Haiku... I can do that. Here's one for James Komack:

I'm Norman Tinker
My best friend's cute son helps me
sex up 70's chicks.


And I call this one "Mrs. Livingston deserves a raise":

One boy cuddly toy
and Mr. Eddie's Father.
I'm their asian slave.
posted by miss lynnster at 1:39 AM on December 31, 2007

I remember him
In Trapped. Wait, that wasn't Bill,
That was James Brolin.
posted by maryh at 2:20 AM on December 31, 2007 [1 favorite]

No, it wasn't Bill,
but when I saw the Hulk's junk,
I still hated him.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 6:39 AM on December 31, 2007