Originally posted by darvlayNah. Everytime I start a party I get suspended and/or banned. I got kicked from M&M, censored and censured at Americlan and have had more forum boots here than all the other posters combined. I suspect that if it were not for my game load I would have had a refund and a DCM long ago.
Yeah but where's the fun in talking about the seasons? Why does everything have to be so by the book? Don't you like breaking the rules, Skeeter? You wanna party?
Sorry 'bout the haitu pedantacisim, its my Lit education and besides, when you compose my haitu ( and you are going to ) I would like it to be correct, literally.
skeeter
Haiku
The Japanese have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank....
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/topics/haiku.htm
Originally posted by skeeterskeet, why spoil the fun?
hai.ku[/] \'hi(,)ku\n,pl[b]haiku[Jap] : an unrhymed Japanese poem of three lines containing 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively, referring in some way to one of the seasons of the year, and constituting a late 19th century development of the hokku.
skeeter [/b]
dye your hair red like satan.
Summer. Happy now?
Originally posted by skeeterYeah but the thread title is Hai - cuckoo, sort of prepares the ground for a little bastardization.
Hmmmm.....you guys haven't got the [b]haiku quite right.
I quote from Websters Third ( Unabridged ) :
hai.ku[/] \'hi(,)ku\n,pl[b]haiku[Jap] : an unrhymed Japanese poem of three lines containing 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively, referring in some way to one of the seasons of the year, and constituting a late 19th century development of the hokku.
skeeter [/b]