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Bender · Post by **Bender** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:03

haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator

Aliya · Post by **Aliya** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:04

Remember having to write them at school!!!

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:12

Do Japanese people actually write haiku? Or is it just British teenagers who are forced to at school

edit as the plural of Haiku is apparently Haiku

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:13

OK.. and kiwi schoolkids.

Maybe it is a generation thing. You think they still make kids write them?

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:14

I would imagine they are a bit like Sudoku. I don't know any japanese who knew what Sudoku was before the big craze started a few years ago.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 13th Mar, '08, 13:46

baloo wrote:Well, a single word post in what was the restaurants reviews board is a bit out of the ordinary..... It's been moved to the general banter forum now.

Some restaurants don't deserve even a single word in their reviews!

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 13th Mar, '08, 15:20

BoD wrote:OK.. and kiwi schoolkids.

Maybe it is a generation thing. You think they still make kids write them?

made Canadian kids write them too, and I think if we had to suffer so should the younger generation, look at the entertainment value, and you thought in school you'd never need to know about haiku

Bender · Post by **Bender** » 15th Mar, '08, 09:39

oh, so no mo' Jo?

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 15th Mar, '08, 11:11

I was waiting for the "hey my frenz an me juz went to dis gr8te place..." type spam. Sorely disappointed.

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » 15th Mar, '08, 11:14

You've got the lingo down pat, Kooky.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 15th Mar, '08, 11:17

I'm well-read.

Mabel · Post by **Mabel** » 15th Mar, '08, 11:33

We never did Haiku at schoool. In fact, I'm embarassed to admit, I'd never heard of them until American friends on a message board went nuts trying to outdo each other with them, about 5 years ago.

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 15th Mar, '08, 11:38

no haikus for you
Mabel was left out when young
original sin

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 15th Mar, '08, 15:56

Small maple leaf writes
Not for learning, alas
Will flunk.

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 15th Mar, '08, 16:00

that is 5,6,5

Spike · Post by **Spike** » 15th Mar, '08, 16:35

"Haiku", isn't that what the All Blacks do before a game?? Or is it a Japanese puzzle game?

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 15th Mar, '08, 19:35

canuck wrote: that is 5,6,5

It's a West Country haiku - known as an "Oikoo"....

TheD · Post by **TheD** » 16th Mar, '08, 14:43

'lo,
I n I's Jo.
A snort, chuckle, laugh,
A blow.

Slow,
I n I's Jo
Heave-ho.

Spike · Post by **Spike** » 17th Mar, '08, 09:45

Spike wrote:"Haiku", isn't that what the All Blacks do before a game?? Or is it a Japanese puzzle game?

No seriously, WTF is a Haiku?

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 17th Mar, '08, 10:27

poetry man, can't you feel it?

it is three sentence poem out of japan
with a beat of syllables of 5, 7, 5 in english

Japanese make sounds
While English make syllables
Yet it makes no sense

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 17th Mar, '08, 10:37

the skills are pressed on
in school it is poetry
in work it is toil

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 17th Mar, '08, 10:45

This is now too dull.
It used to be quite funny.
Now I am so bored...

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 17th Mar, '08, 11:12

BFG wrote:This is now too dull.
It used to be quite funny.
Now I am so bored...

Yeah well my assignments are done

s had some free time

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 17th Mar, '08, 15:01

All finished? Are you sure there's nothing that can be improved?

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 17th Mar, '08, 16:09

well there is you, but you're not my responsibility, I have a call in to your Mrs

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