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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #510 on: October 29, 2021, 06:22:48 AM »
In this queue for bread
I flex my Bus Sci exam:
"Giffen", not "given".
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #511 on: October 29, 2021, 06:51:46 AM »
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now you are just being intentionally difficult 🧐
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #512 on: October 29, 2021, 06:57:40 AM »
'Giffen', not 'Given'!
Are you a law clerk, or a
Starbucks barrista?

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There have been plenty of lines that seemed far harder to me than this one! But I hope people get it.
I rarely go to Starbucks, but when I do, even my easy-in-most-languages name gets mangled sometimes.
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #513 on: October 29, 2021, 08:23:23 AM »
Starbucks barrista?
I’m sure that will be useful
Now that the world ends

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Tehta, well done. I just didn’t get around the fact that it has a meaning hat is hard to incorporate into a haiku :)

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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #514 on: October 29, 2021, 08:59:01 AM »
Now that the world ends,
I can quit this stupid job,
become a warlord!
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #515 on: October 29, 2021, 09:27:52 AM »
tehta and Jitter, re spoilers:

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Actually, I took that as a very clever response to the meaning, since IMO fancy coffee is a Giffen good.
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #516 on: October 29, 2021, 11:54:57 AM »
Thorny,
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fancy coffee is not a Giffen good but a Veblen good, which apparently works the same re price elasticity, but for opposite reasons. Giffen goods are inferior staples. Still, it was very clever!


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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #517 on: October 29, 2021, 12:22:26 PM »
Get killed in your sleep
when too many war trophies
bring down nearby wall.
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #518 on: October 29, 2021, 06:55:27 PM »
Bring down nearby wall
Brick by brick, and in that way
You won't get buried
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #519 on: October 29, 2021, 09:08:05 PM »
you won't get buried
under your own misery
if it falls down first

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I intended for this haiku to be a joke about blowing things up, but welp, that took a serious turn
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #520 on: October 29, 2021, 11:22:15 PM »
if it falls down first
we should have built it better
with engineering
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #521 on: October 30, 2021, 04:22:40 AM »
With engineering
The reply will never be
"It's too difficult"
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(Based on the Erikativ "dem Ingeniör ist nichts zu schwör")
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #522 on: October 31, 2021, 12:13:23 AM »
"It's too difficult"
Said Hanrahan that morning
"We'll all be ruined"

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It should have been "We'll all be rooned," but then it wouldn't have scanned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #523 on: October 31, 2021, 03:01:04 AM »
"We'll all be ruined",
Said Torolf weeping,
For all was burnt.
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #524 on: October 31, 2021, 04:00:04 AM »
For all was burnt¹,
the bakers earmarked the lot:
"Hannu will eat it!"

(¹ Isn't that just four syllables?)

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It should have been "We'll all be rooned," but then it wouldn't have scanned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan

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... still like it better than the German idiom.
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