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Haiku challenge!
MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) Posted Dec 24, 2000
There it sits, dusty
The birthday present I bought
But forgot to send
True story. Also a X-mas present from last year. Guess I'm just a lazy sod. Please add my name to the Challenge list. Thanks SMoB.
NT: carry-on luggage
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Nick O`Teen Posted Dec 24, 2000
Forgetting birthdays
is something I'm quite good at
because I'm a guy.
Yes, unfortunately, and as can be expected, I'm terrible at remembering birthdays. 
next topic: pizza
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MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) Posted Dec 24, 2000
I just had pizza
The small personal pan kind
Just greasy enough
NT: I'll throw CARRY-ON LUGGAGE back out there
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Frizzychick Posted Dec 24, 2000
Out of all the films
I think my favourite is
Carry On Luggage
nt: hangovers
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MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) Posted Dec 24, 2000
Was watching TV
"Hangover cures, after this"
Then the tape ran-out
That really happened, just before I read Frizzychick's last haiku and NT. It's a good thing I don't drink that much anymore
NT: Bridges
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ox Posted Dec 24, 2000
Iced winter sportsman
Bungee jumping off bridges
Yo-yo popsicle
NT: toad
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Nick O`Teen Posted Dec 24, 2000
Toad? As in "the Wet
Sprocket", or amphibian?
Which one do you mean?
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Dec 24, 2000
Warty little toad!!!
You eat gross things like boogers!!!
Your name is Bumpy!!!
NT: Snotty noses
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ox Posted Dec 24, 2000
Mother's cherubs dear
Beggars with snotty noses
I won"t have children
NT: crumbs
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ox Posted Dec 24, 2000
(sorry, Nick...I guess I was just thinking of any kind of toad. St. Dragonfly found one)
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MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) Posted Dec 26, 2000
Crumbly, little bits
Didn't make it to your mouth
Swept under the rug
X-treme X-mas Everyone !!!
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MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) Posted Dec 26, 2000
OOPS!!! Just checked-in and realized that I forgot the NEXT TOPIC. Since I was trapped in the house all day by the stuff, how about ICE. Here's mine:
It covers the streets
My car might slide off the hill
Ice kept me at home
Now you try, please
NT: ICE
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Frizzychick Posted Dec 26, 2000
ice clinks against glass
reflective, sparkling on gin
Make mine a double
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Bagpuss Posted Dec 26, 2000
My last one will scan
if you pronounce "anyone"
"en-one" like I do
Still ice, is it?
Never turn off the
heating at this time of year
or your pipes will burst
next: boxing day
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Dec 26, 2000
All I know about
Boxing Day is the BEATLES
Showed movie then
NT: Hot cocoa
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ox Posted Dec 26, 2000
Childhood memories
Hot cocoa, marshmallow cream
I hated sixth grade
NT:
gas
Haiku challenge!
Bagpuss Posted Dec 26, 2000
To blow out bunsen
burners use a short, sharp blow,
then turn off gas tap
next: Disney
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ox Posted Dec 26, 2000
Rats? A tourist trap
I live close to Disney World
Mickey misery
NT:
purple
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Bagpuss Posted Dec 26, 2000
Mixing red with blue
in art never got perfect
purple but a mess
next: turkey(s)
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Dec 26, 2000
When having turkey
At aunt's house, no leftovers
To take home-- DARNIT!!!
NT: Kleenex
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- 81: MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) (Dec 24, 2000)
- 82: Nick O`Teen (Dec 24, 2000)
- 83: MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) (Dec 24, 2000)
- 84: Frizzychick (Dec 24, 2000)
- 85: MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) (Dec 24, 2000)
- 86: ox (Dec 24, 2000)
- 87: Nick O`Teen (Dec 24, 2000)
- 88: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Dec 24, 2000)
- 89: ox (Dec 24, 2000)
- 90: ox (Dec 24, 2000)
- 91: MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) (Dec 26, 2000)
- 92: MarkTheMeS (PackRat & Keeper of All Things, period) (Dec 26, 2000)
- 93: Frizzychick (Dec 26, 2000)
- 94: Bagpuss (Dec 26, 2000)
- 95: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Dec 26, 2000)
- 96: ox (Dec 26, 2000)
- 97: Bagpuss (Dec 26, 2000)
- 98: ox (Dec 26, 2000)
- 99: Bagpuss (Dec 26, 2000)
- 100: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Dec 26, 2000)
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