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a haiku that, for no reason whatsoever, imagines René Descartes as an Ihop blueberry pancake that has somehow achieved consciousness

“I think, therefore I

am.  Whereas Belgian waffles? 

Dumb as a Pope’s hat.”

28 Replies to “a haiku that, for no reason whatsoever, imagines René Descartes as an Ihop blueberry pancake that has somehow achieved consciousness”

  1. Tai Chi Wawa says:

    He further speculated:

    “Would I care to be a Belgian waffle? I think not . . . oops!”

    (oldie but I couldn’t resist)

  2. huh, cause I’ve been told that pope’s hats are actually quite intelligent.  or was it “smart looking”?

  3. You vill stop wiff the hat jokes….or I bring back ze inquisition!

  4. Drumwaster says:

    BECAUSE OF THE WARM MAPLE SYRUP HYPOCRISY!!!

    TW: So what’s next85?

  5. The Lost Dog says:

    Oh, I wish I was an IHOP Pancake

    That is what I’d really like to be

    “Cause if I was an IHOP pancake

    everyone would want to e-e-e-eat me.

    Belgian (Belgium?) waffles are not so cool unless you have a double side of sausage. But I’ll tell you what, I’ve never seen as many belgium (ian, take your pick) as I saw in Gatlinburg.

    Yep. About two moles (or miles, as any sober person would spell it) from the Bufert Pusser museum in Seiverville. It’s very cool. They actually have, in a glass case, the burned out chassis of the big B’s Corvette. Yee-haw! It made me want to go straight to the go-kart track. And I did!

    Now that’s some serious shit!

    The only bummer was the three hundred buses of Robertson people who showed up every day in Gatlinberg. They just made the “Ripleys Believe It Or Not” building a real drag. Until it burned down, that is..

    I’m sorry, but I have to go upstairs because it sounds like my TV is tuned to the 700 Club.

    See ya, and thank you for the attention. I don’t get much around my house…

  6. Schlieffen's Blintz says:

    You see, a simple wheel manuever around the Belgian Waffle and all the French Bread will be ours!!!!

  7. furriskey says:

    I’m still new here, but that is without doubt your finest haiku to date.

  8. Tman says:

    Monet liked home fries

    He would not eat any grits

    Pretentious french prick.

  9. Dan Collins says:

    Those haughty French and their Belgium-bashing!  I’d like a side of croziers.

  10. They just made the “Ripleys Believe It Or Not” building a real drag. Until it burned down, that is..

    I got to watch that happen. The freakiest thing was the little mechanical “ghost” they had out front. It was still waving its arms as its shroud burnt around it.

  11. Dan Collins says:

    Cool, Robert.  Have you got a link to that video, or did you see it in person?

  12. Slartibartfast says:

    Monet liked home fries

    He would not eat any grits

    Pretentious french prick.

    Hey, everyone will eat grits as long as you don’t call them grits.  Hell, even I’d eat grits if you pasted some cool-sounding foreign name like polenta on them.

  13. B Moe says:

    Hell, even I’d eat grits if you pasted some cool-sounding foreign name like polenta on them.

    I would rather put cheese and Tobasco on mine, but to each his own I guess.

  14. The Lost Dog says:

    I got to watch that happen. The freakiest thing was the little mechanical “ghost” they had out front. It was still waving its arms as its shroud burnt around it.

    Robert –

    Sorry I missed that.

    But Gatlinberg(burg?)itself is a lot like a very large “Ripleys”.

    I love that place. I haven’t seen anything like it since they closed up the Danbury Fair…

  15. A fine scotch says:

    Jeff,

    You reading Jitterbug Perfume again?

  16. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Nah.  I’m reading Fierce Invalids…, though.  Hoping to get myself back into creative writing mode.

    Although I think I should be memorizing the Vagina Monologues, instead. Because given Amanda Marcotte’s elevation to an internet person of distinction, it is obvious I’ve been going about this “build an audience” thing all wrong.

  17. mishu says:

    Lookee here. French people with a backbone.

    TW: look21 how serendipitous.

  18. ps a says:

    Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the night!

    At dawn’s early light,

    To be a sentient pancake

    or Belgium waffle?

    Whether ‘tis nobler

    to suffer syrups and forks

    of voracious fops

    or to catch a bug,

    thus ending up in the trash

    as bum food – or Art!

  19. McGehee says:

    now up goes the fork

    reflecting a wintry sun

    and down it comes—OW!

  20. Cool, Robert.  Have you got a link to that video, or did you see it in person?

    Saw it in person. And unless the place burnt down more than once, that was back in the mid ‘90s. Video cameras weren’t as ubiquitous.

    Still, good times…

  21. andrew says:

    We may consider Descartes as the first of the modern school of mathematics
    was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650
    was sent at the age of eight years to the Jesuit School at La Flêche
    the only way to do good work in mathematics and to preserve his health was never to allow anyone to make him get up in the morning
    On leaving school in 1612 Descartes went to Paris to be introduced to the world of fashion
    friendship with Mersenne, and together with them he devoted the two years of 1615 and 1616 to the study of mathematics
    and in 1617 joined the army of Prince Maurice of Orange, then at Breda
    He resigned his commission in the spring of 1621
    In 1626 we find him settled at Paris,
    In 1628 Cardinal de Berulle, the founder of the Oratorians, met Descartes
    There for twenty years he lived, giving up all his time to philosophy and mathematics
    He spend the first four years, 1629 to 1633, of his stay in Holland in writing Le Monde
    He then devoted himself to composing a treatise on universal science; this was published at Leyden in 1637 under the title Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences
    In appearance, Descartes was a small man with large head, projecting brow, prominent nose, and black hair coming down to his eyebrows

  22. andrew fournier says:

    this is for my project
    We may consider Descartes as the first of the modern school of mathematics
    was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650
    was sent at the age of eight years to the Jesuit School at La Flêche
    the only way to do good work in mathematics and to preserve his health was never to allow anyone to make him get up in the morning
    On leaving school in 1612 Descartes went to Paris to be introduced to the world of fashion
    friendship with Mersenne, and together with them he devoted the two years of 1615 and 1616 to the study of mathematics
    and in 1617 joined the army of Prince Maurice of Orange, then at Breda
    He resigned his commission in the spring of 1621
    In 1626 we find him settled at Paris,
    In 1628 Cardinal de Berulle, the founder of the Oratorians, met Descartes
    There for twenty years he lived, giving up all his time to philosophy and mathematics
    He spend the first four years, 1629 to 1633, of his stay in Holland in writing Le Monde
    He then devoted himself to composing a treatise on universal science; this was published at Leyden in 1637 under the title Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences
    In appearance, Descartes was a small man with large head, projecting brow, prominent nose, and black hair coming down to his eyebrows

  23. andrew fournier says:

    this is for my project
    We may consider Descartes as the first of the modern school of mathematics
    In appearance, Descartes was a small man with large head, projecting brow, prominent nose, and black hair coming down to his eyebrows

    was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650
    was sent at the age of eight years to the Jesuit School at La Flêche
    the only way to do good work in mathematics and to preserve his health was never to allow anyone to make him get up in the morning
    On leaving school in 1612 Descartes went to Paris to be introduced to the world of fashion
    friendship with Mersenne, and together with them he devoted the two years of 1615 and 1616 to the study of mathematics
    and in 1617 joined the army of Prince Maurice of Orange, then at Breda
    He resigned his commission in the spring of 1621
    In 1626 we find him settled at Paris,
    In 1628 Cardinal de Berulle, the founder of the Oratorians, met Descartes
    There for twenty years he lived, giving up all his time to philosophy and mathematics
    He spend the first four years, 1629 to 1633, of his stay in Holland in writing Le Monde
    He then devoted himself to composing a treatise on universal science; this was published at Leyden in 1637 under the title Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences

  24. andrew fournier says:

    also for my project

    Another great accomplishment was “Discourse on Method”, wich is basically a
    new method of education
    The first one is to not accept
    anything as the truth that the answer was not seen to be clear. The next methods is to
    break down complex ideas into simpler constitutive elements that can be apprehended
    easier. The third method is to reconstruct, starting with the simpler ideas and ending with
    the more complex. Finally, one must make an accurate analysis of the problem data
    Descartes was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer, and is regarded as the first modern thinker to provide a philosophical framework for the natural sciences
    Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry

  25. wtf? says:

    Another great accomplishment was “Discourse on Method”, wich is basically a
    new method of education
    The first one is to not accept
    anything as the truth that the answer was not seen to be clear. The next methods is to
    break down complex ideas into simpler constitutive elements that can be apprehended
    easier. The third method is to reconstruct, starting with the simpler ideas and ending with
    the more complex. Finally, one must make an accurate analysis of the problem data
    Descartes was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer, and is regarded as the first modern thinker to provide a philosophical framework for the natural sciences
    Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry

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