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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:30 AM
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Bored, bored, superbored. Ask me anything and I'll answer in haiku.
(Or, well, whatever it's called when it's the same 17-syllable format but not about nature.)
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:31 AM
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1. What should I get at the Chinese place today?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:32 AM
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3. Vegetarian?
Eat something with black bean sauce.
If not, mu-shu pork.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:32 AM
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2. I would like the debate encapsulated in haiku form, please.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:33 AM
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4. Kerry: Poised statesman
Bush: Blah terra blah evil,
everything is hard.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:34 AM
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8. Good job!
:thumbsup:
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:38 AM
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15. okay, here's a haiku recap
defenseless pray, cry
great Senator challenges
freely, clearly, sigh

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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:34 AM
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5. What is your fave movie? (nt)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:35 AM
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10. Depends on my mood.
Fight Club? Eternal Sunshine?
Something new every day.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:36 AM
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12. What is your fave food? (nt)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:46 AM
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28. I like, with certain
exceptions, almost every
type. Except bad food.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:41 AM
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19. Oops
try 'each' instead of every.

I know... slap me.
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goju Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:34 AM
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6. what is hiaku?
and im holding you to the format ;)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:36 AM
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11. Three lines, seventeen
syllables, usually re:
nature, not always.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:34 AM
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7. What are next week's lottery numbers?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:38 AM
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17. Two, six, seventeen
Thirty-six, forty, fifty
Powerball fifteen.
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jdonaldball Donating Member (684 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:35 AM
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9. Why are the Chinese such bad dancers?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:37 AM
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13. That's relatively
racist (ethnicist, I guess?)
don't you think so too?
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jdonaldball Donating Member (684 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:45 AM
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26. Not if you've spent a long time in China and watched them.
Great people. But bad dancers. They walk like they're drunk and ready to stagger over. This might not be true of Taiwanese or Hong Kong, but on the mainland, they stagger.
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:37 AM
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14. What should I get my daughter for Christmas?
I was thinking about golf clubs, as she's expressed an interest in taking it up.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:39 AM
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18. If you choose golf clubs,
Go with her to pick some out.
Proper fit is key.
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:49 AM
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30. True, true
I have a friend who works at the local pro shop, and was going to buy them long, and have him put smaller shafts on, but keep the originals, so that they'll last longer.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:38 AM
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16. Are you truly bored
or is the day your prison?
A flower bleeds love.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:41 AM
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21. My head is prison
Earworms torture all day long
Now it's Britney Spears.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:44 AM
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25. Think not of Britney
She is inflated and fake
Don't torture yourself
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:50 AM
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31. Dark in the city, night is a wire,
Steam in the subway, Earth is afire.
:bounce:
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:41 AM
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20. 5 Kaluha and creams,
Have I not learned my lesson?
Stomach tied in knots.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:42 AM
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23. Sorry Mr. Beast
Try some tomato juice -- or
Alkaseltzer works.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:42 AM
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22. Does this place ever get old?
I think not... what say you?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:43 AM
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24. GD04 does.
"Oh no! Kerry is losing"/
"Ha Ha! Bush is toast."
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:46 AM
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27. What sushi would Jesus eat? Tuna or Salmon? (nt)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:48 AM
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29. Both are kosher, and
Jesus was Jewish. Tough call.
Which goes best with loaves?
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:14 PM
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44. Excellent! Eyesroll
Hits the target with lovely
Grace and such aplomb!
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 11:36 AM
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32. How would you define "senryu?"
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:08 PM
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35. Aha! Thank you. That
was the word I'm looking for.
(See post #1.)
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MexedMissage Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 11:38 AM
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33. What do you think of my new DU moniker?
:D
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:09 PM
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37. Welcome MexedMissage!
(hee hee. Hi Richardo. Yes
I know it is you.)
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:28 PM
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48. Your haiku, even...
...when bored, surpasses the rest.
(C'est moi, Richardo!)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 11:46 AM
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34. Do you have a Cornershop song stuck in your head?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:10 PM
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38. No. As I don't know
Cornershop, I can't get it
stuck in my head. Ha!
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:09 PM
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36. Is TerryA cool or what?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:11 PM
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40. TerryA makes D
U a better place to be.
TerryA, :yourock:
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:18 PM
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45. Woo-hoo! And Lioness, too, right?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:33 PM
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50. The kittens are cute.
Keep pics coming, Lioness.
Everybody smiles.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:11 PM
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39. What are you wearing?
RL
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:12 PM
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41. Slacks and blouse. Dress code.
But, guess what? It was cold out
and I wore my coat.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:13 PM
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43. Very nice!
:D

Love that coat!

RL
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:12 PM
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42. Does this bus go downtown? n/t
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:25 PM
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46. You'll need a transfer
Get off at Cathedral Square
Follow #3.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:26 PM
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47. Wilson's masterpiece
kisses the world with wonder
Do you like to SMiLE?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:29 PM
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49. Wilson's not my thing,
but he did a good job. In
aught-four, no less.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:38 PM
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51. Video killed the radio star.
May I give you an earworm?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 12:44 PM
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52. Afraid it is too late.
It's "Howling Toward Ganymede,"
Solar Radio.

And a bonus poem:
Thank Wat, Beast Man and Hedges
They did this to me.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 01:14 PM
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53. I'm wasting work time
scanning the posts at DU.
Will my boss can me?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 01:15 PM
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54. Do you have my boss?
Then no. Otherwise you are
on your own. Sorry.
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