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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #810 on: April 15, 2022, 05:56:38 AM »
O glorious fire!
says Emil, or so we're told.
(of course I'd say that)
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #811 on: April 15, 2022, 08:30:26 AM »
Of course I'd say that
I'm a real source of wisdom
(Believe it or not)
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #812 on: April 17, 2022, 03:39:43 PM »
"Believe it or not,
reality doesn't care", says
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #813 on: April 18, 2022, 02:21:15 AM »
The pink unicorn
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The Trolley Problem
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #814 on: April 18, 2022, 03:36:48 AM »
The Trolley Problem
Is usually more deadly
This one is better
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #815 on: April 18, 2022, 06:59:30 PM »
This one is better
Gaudí would agree, and add:
"Always look both ways!"

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Actually doing that before starting to cross the street becomes quite relevant when you go to a place where people drive on the opposite directions. (as, in my case, whenever I visit the UK, where everyone insists, oddly, on driving in the wrong way! And using Miles and Inches!)
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #816 on: April 18, 2022, 09:36:35 PM »
"Always look both ways!"
But learn which way to look first
Right's not always right

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I was nearly run over on a visit to France when I neglected that axiom; my reaction (once I'd regained my composure) was a sardonic "Spot the tourist!"
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #817 on: April 18, 2022, 11:43:59 PM »
Yeah, Yastreb, that can be confusing when you travel. Or when you come into a city after a year alone in the wilds. The Flinders/Swanston Streets intersection can be bad enough on an ordinary Friday rush hour, which was when I got back from that trip - I caught a train from Moe to Spencer Street, then a local city train from there to Flinders Street station, then went to cross the road to where I was meeting my sister - near Y&Js - and just froze for about five minutes. Traffic. That was back before I knew you, but I remember, many years after that, meeting up with you in the city when I got back from other travels, and how extremely loud and confusing I found the traffic in the city!
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #818 on: April 19, 2022, 01:26:41 AM »
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I was nearly run over on a visit to France when I neglected that axiom; my reaction (once I'd regained my composure) was a sardonic "Spot the tourist!"

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Yeah, rail traffic in France is a tad special about surprising others ...

("One train could be obscuring another")

I remember the discussion when the leaflet handed to G.I.s sent to serve on bases in Germany was said to drop the part pointing out that "European trains" have a much higher average speed than those in the U.S. (because short & full of passengers instead of miles-long freight trains), and that hiking on the tracks is highly discouraged. I don't think that our trains had turned any slower back then ...


Right's not always right
Said the tourist visiting
Commonwealth by car

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Extra points if the next haiku manages to refer to Dagen H.
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #819 on: April 19, 2022, 09:59:58 AM »
Commonwealth by car
Massachusetts drivers Yikes!!
Be brave and gun it!
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #820 on: April 19, 2022, 11:18:19 AM »

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Is that a traffic sign, or a Boss Puzzle?


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They said in TÜV training, but
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #821 on: April 19, 2022, 01:22:07 PM »
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Is that a traffic sign, or a Boss Puzzle?



It is actually a traffic sign in Boston.  There is another that is worse, but for some reason I cannot find the link
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #822 on: April 21, 2022, 08:31:02 PM »
Owners love their cars
But sometimes I feel the urge
To blow up a car
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #823 on: April 22, 2022, 04:39:33 AM »
To blow up a car
Uncle Emil’s homemade stuff
Is right for the job!

(Unfortunately line 2 was a tad too short, but we all know what the ”stuff” is)

((The stuff is napalm))
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Re: Haiku chain
« Reply #824 on: April 22, 2022, 06:37:43 AM »
((The stuff is napalm))
Thermite, please.

It's right for the job,
Takes the proper part away.
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