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Imitation/flattery

Was visiting the Corner just now, looking for the link Pablo screwed up in the earlier thread’s comments (would love to find that still, by the way [update- bingo!]), and came across this, from Jay Nordlinger:

In Impromptus today, I link to the amazing site Serenity Thru Haiku: Surviving the Obama Years. And I give a sample of the site’s offerings — a haiku concerning health care. May I give another sample? I like it a lot. This haiku is called “Hypocrite,” and it goes

DC vouchers, gone!
Public schools are good enough
But not for his kids.

And ask not whose kids we’re talking about . . .

Beautiful.

I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender

67 Replies to “Imitation/flattery”

  1. Jeff G. says:

    I’m not feeling well today. Have a blast. Write me a haiku that you feel sums up protein wisdom.

    Trolls welcome.

  2. BJT-FREE! says:

    jay doesn’t know jeff
    did topical haikus back
    when barry did lines

  3. we are all RACIST!
    BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRI-
    SY! outlaw! OUTLAW!

  4. mojo says:

    I coulda been a racehorse.

    Go ahead, figure it out. I’ll wait.

  5. alppuccino says:

    sematicleo
    sucks the life out of any
    good conversation

  6. alppuccino says:

    n

  7. commander0 says:

    I was gonna go to class. But then I got high

  8. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Haiku challenging.
    Intentionalism is
    Six damned syllables.

  9. Gordo's Unicorn says:

    arguing language
    and meaning can be hopeless
    oh, well, choke hold then

  10. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Jeff is the best, yo
    can’t find another better
    so fuck yourself, bitch

    Feel better Jeff.

  11. […] Related.  I make the “steal Jeff’s techniques” joke a lot so I’ll explain.  As a […]

  12. bill says:

    Janene Garafalo dripping std’s
    stupidity also,Thor’s
    limpdick brain longing

  13. Lindsay Lohan says:

    Protein Wisdom is
    like Chrystal Meth except that
    your teeth don’t fall out

  14. alppuccino says:

    word

  15. the wolf says:

    One hundre mil cut!
    Like a cup of joe to me
    Sounds like a lot though

  16. Pablo says:

    The fucking link works
    Goddammit. Thank you for your
    Consideration.

  17. Joe says:

    my favorite is lindsey lohan so far

  18. McGehee says:

    I could maybe do
    Five syllables about stuff
    But counting is hard

  19. Crimso says:

    “Write me a haiku that you feel sums up protein wisdom”

    Jeff delivering
    Free pie for everybody
    Intentionally

  20. JD says:

    Gordo is a douche
    Of that we can be sure, and
    he buggers goats.

  21. The Monster says:

    Intentionalist.
    Outlaws! cock-slapping Progg trolls.
    Drunk armadillo?

  22. blowhard says:

    protein wisdom is
    a limerick in haiku
    suck it Nantucket

  23. Squid says:

    Martha’s prison cell
    filled with hermeneutics texts
    and handmade dildoes

  24. Kevin B says:

    Haiku application
    Is Japanese Twitter
    With fewer Letters

    Spring!

  25. Uncompromising
    Stance against creeping gummint.
    Dancing ‘dillos? None.

  26. blowhard says:

    “protein wisdom is
    like killing hobos about
    the zeitgeist”, I said

  27. Jim in KC says:

    Haiku! Gesundheit.
    Classical liberals eat
    red pills and bacon

  28. Rusty says:

    Armadillos sit
    in goggle eyed amusement
    what were those red pills anyway

  29. Matty O says:

    P.W. makes me think
    Liberty is in trouble
    Words are important

  30. JD says:

    Gordo fellates his
    Goat while buggering unicorns
    It is disturbing

  31. Rusty says:

    Protien Wisdom
    is like a Katana
    slicing the flesh of the unwary.

  32. MC says:

    Jeff yours are better
    than anything Nordlinger’s
    offering today.

  33. bill says:

    Haiku to clownboi #2

    Thor, now diseased chokes chicken
    slap,slap
    the sound of one with clap handing!

  34. some folks have trouble
    following five-seven-five
    haiku rule.RACISTS!

  35. geoffb says:

    Say what you mean, dude.
    Cockslapping semiotics.
    Say what? You mean dude.

  36. bill says:

    Rules aren’t for outlaws.

  37. David R. Block says:

    And others simply have trouble following rules. Period.

  38. dicentra says:

    P-dub in the Spring
    Comments fall off, slightly
    Trolls wax daft, dotty

  39. Squid says:

    Spring rains on pavement,
    Like clue upon our trollbots
    It does not soak in.

  40. gus says:

    SOMETHING SOMETHING BLAH BLAH BLAH
    HERE’S TO DEAR LEADER
    STIMULATE US PLEAWE

  41. gus says:

    NUMBER 9 NUMBER
    9 NUMBER 9 NUMBER
    9 NUMBER 9 NUM

  42. pdbuttons says:

    president black white
    prescribes our future color
    it’s bloody red-rum

  43. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Barack is goofy
    but his sycophants are worse
    Barack, kill them please

  44. Carin says:

    semanticleo
    Gordo, Taylor, thor, nishi
    Caric, Chucky, Timb!

  45. Carin says:

    That doesn’t sum of PW. Just funning.

  46. Carin says:

    Outlaw minions wait
    promised a ‘dillo dancing
    It’ll never happen

  47. pdbuttons says:

    i’m a lefty ‘tard
    debating is really hard
    i play the race card

  48. B Moe says:

    buttons ftw

  49. lee says:

    what do you mean(ie!)
    intent belongs to author
    and not my spin job?

  50. B Moe says:

    Troll: What do you mean?
    PW: Why do you ask?
    Troll: I’m not, really.

    (h/t lee)

  51. geoffb says:

    pdbuttons, yes!
    Captured Gordo perfectly.
    The zen of meaning.

  52. Happy Hitler says:

    Roses Are Red.
    Violets are Blue.
    Thor is a drunken idiot who must own stock in a scroll wheel manufacturer.
    ……………….
    Burma Shave

  53. J. "Trashman" Peden says:

    Teh Universe ain’t be lying
    That free-thought thing is beastly
    Er/um, Size counts

  54. geoffb says:

    Repeal Stimulus.
    Restore sensible spending.
    Revive liberty.

  55. J. "Trashman" Peden says:

    Because I said so.

  56. pdbuttons says:

    polar bears on loose
    i swim faster than Al Gore
    inconvenient claws

  57. Jim Ryan says:

    I voted for him?
    How many friends did I tell?
    Just act natural…

  58. pdbuttons says:

    the Motor City
    now known as Battery Town
    this bus smells like pee

  59. ThomasD says:

    Protein wise we read
    Poetry on line
    But pie is on the plate

  60. DarthRove says:

    signs, signifiers…
    What’s the difference? Jeff knows.
    LGF? Who cares.

  61. mojo says:

    You’re so proud, aren’t you
    With your silly little words
    This isn’t so hard

  62. TaiChiWawa says:

    Haikus
    Low puns
    Intended

  63. Adriane says:

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue,
    I can’t write haiku,
    but then, neither can you.

    The roses are wilted,
    The violets are dead.
    Haiku threads are ridiculous,
    Like the voices in Barry’s head.

  64. […] Thanks to Protein Wisdom […]

  65. mikey says:

    p-dub comments are
    amino acids building
    blocks ‘o teh wisdom

  66. Nela says:

    Kids

    The kids smiles spread
    And so dose the atmosphere
    They make the world spin

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