#773 – Milliways
May 28th, 2009

#773 – Milliways

i wrote a letter
inside the brown rice box
she never read it

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^ 52 Comments...

  1. Speakerblast

    Haiku!

  2. Anon

    Brown rice box haiku
    Is not officially one
    Try again sometime

  3. Zoran

    Weeks theme is proven
    Hitchhikers Galaxy Guide
    Ford Prefect is cool

  4. Kurast

    I Hate To Tell You
    But Petunias Is Four
    And Is Not Three Long

  5. Michael

    @kurast

    Now that all depends on one’s accent. the ‘nias’ part cound sound like one syllable. “pe-toon-yaz” :P

  6. cyber95

    Vogon haiku?

  7. Vidja

    haiku’s are easy
    but sometimes they make no sense
    refrigerator

  8. Drakey

    A haiku about carpet sharks:

    Bottom dwelling shark
    is uglier than ugly
    but gets the job done.

    A true haiku, I believe, must express some sentiment about or describe something about a part of the natural world. This means that my bashing of carpet sharks there is the first real haiku on this page.

    Assuming I’m correct. I’m frequently stuffed to the brim with bullhonkey.

  9. Alex

    I lack the belief
    that I am the first to say
    “oh no, not again!”

  10. Malachite Dragon

    Petnunias and whale
    Falling through the clouds they go
    Oh no, not again!

    ((Oh yes, definitly HHGttG week :3 I remember this passage vividly.)

  11. biggo

    Oh no, not again.

  12. Polymorph

    This will end up bad
    Because Biff never does speak
    Although I don’t care

  13. Lisa

    I have that t-shirt
    the one that Vidja mentioned
    from threadless.com

  14. Nilly

    Vogon poetry?!
    My poor ears are bleeding so!
    Let this horror end!

  15. Chris

    @Kurast – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/petunia

  16. Silversaraph

    Look, the sky is red!
    Oh, wait, actually it’s blue.
    Look, the sky is blue!

  17. i.half4

    Oh Wow!
    Look at the sky.

  18. i.half4

    I heard somewhere that Haiku means beginning, and that the idea is that it should be followed by another poet who would continue the train of thought on a similar or sidetrack. I was told elsewhere that this following verse was called a tonka, but I may have remembered that word wrong. Some day I may write a haiku called Waiting For the Tonkaverse.

  19. i.half4

    Wikkipedia says that Hokku was the opening stanza of an othodox collaborative linked work called a rengu. I still like the sound of a Tonkaverse.

  20. Croc

    Eh. I don’t like Haiku. It’s too forced.
    But then, I’m a musician by trade…

  21. Micah

    It’s important to note that this particular bowl of petunias was a deadly missile a few minutes prior to this comic. The odds of a missile spontaneously turning into a bowl of petunias is 4205402051 to 1 against, which coincidentally is the phone number to Biff’s flat.

  22. Micah

    Also…for non-hoopy froods, Milliways is also known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which can only be visited through time travel.

  23. fluffy

    This is not haiku
    You are counting syllables
    Try enlightenment

  24. Matt Lee

    I am waiting for
    The next Biff comic because
    I must know the end

    I got nothin’…

  25. Ziggy Stardust

    Milliways- How do we eat? Why do we eat? Where shall we have lunch?
    I love it!

  26. Matt Lee

    Who else writes your comments from school? I’m graduating this year!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!!!Squeak!

  27. Tvae

    Is… Is that a whale…? How did it get up there? I mean, whales can’t fly, can-

  28. Biligum

    Haiku are pretty
    But sometimes, they don’t make sense
    Hippopotomus

    On a different note,
    Looks like Biff has killed flowers
    How melancholy

  29. Biligum

    Oh dear, I’ve misspelled
    It is hippopotamus
    I should have checked first

  30. Radical Edward

    I get it…So does anyone else here noticed the theme or am I just dense?

  31. Linzleh

    gasping petunias
    plea read to the bowl, sadly
    grip disappointment

    Biff needz a hug…

  32. biggo

    Down, near the surface:
    “Earth, will we be friends?”
    *splat* goes the sperm whale.

  33. biggo

    Things to remember:
    a) refresh comments, *then* write;
    b) five – seven – five.

  34. Anji

    I suck at poetry and refuse to try. So “Neh!”

  35. ZackDark

    something tells me the petunia would rather fall from orbit.
    unless it was *SPOILER* arthur dent’s fault…
    (hahhahahah, loved using the ‘*SPOILER*’, my first time actually)
    (yeah, feel honored)

  36. Crazy

    I can’t do haiku
    they are just way too boring
    oh, wait, nevermind

  37. Outrageous Mayo

    ‘Oh No, not again.’

    Hitchhikers guide series is classic. reread them a few weeks ago.

  38. Kurast

    @Chris – “nee-uh” too
    It’s included on the list
    Knowledge is power?

  39. Cedarus Rex

    I read thew comics
    My favourite one is Biff
    I save it for last

  40. i.half4

    A revision:

    Oh wow
    look at the sky
    A “mellowspeak” haiku

  41. howdyhamster

    hippopotamus
    antihippopotamus
    annihilation

  42. linuxxorcist

    the restaurant at
    the end of the universe
    balanced at the end

  43. i.half4

    What is the sound
    of one hand
    clapping

    How
    does a dog speak
    English

  44. weerd2normal

    poetry is the
    bomb, the best thing to is
    read the black letters.

    who here can tell i failed poetry, well people, stop judging people by there cover, i won the poetry contest at my school, you prejudice jerks.

    joking, but dont be prejudice, it will be the catalyst of the fall of society.

    but anyway, the comic is awesome, i dont know if this is my first time commenting, and chris, you have a talent that many wish the could have. laughter is the best medicine, and the book of biff has kept me healthy, usually my first laugh of the day.

  45. Torg

    @ Kurast: Your point?
    If petunia can be three,
    then it works in there.

    Knowledge is power
    only when it has a point.
    It doesn’t this time.

  46. gaojo

    Theme? Was there a theme?
    I thought it was just dumb luck.
    Guess that means I fail.

  47. Spike

    oh no I’m bleeding!
    I’m bleeding, oh I’m bleeding!
    oh wait that’s ketchup

  48. lulululu

    The brown rice poem
    Has only six syllables
    In the second line.

  49. Ceramic

    Petunias fall
    With a sperm whale, as seen
    From the restaurant

  50. steve

    Then the bowl of petunias thought, “Oh no not again!” If we knew why it thought this, we would know alot more about the universe.

  51. Sigurdgram

    first the hitch hiking distress signal in last week’s strip, then this?

  52. YukiSnowflake

    Biff is so awesome
    Thanks to Spyro the Dragon
    Haikus annoy me

    for all who don’t understand, on one of the spyro ps1 games (*i forget which, i have 3*)
    there is a level with annoying people who only speak in haiku. what makes it annoying is that my brother played it before me, and decided to die permanently to hear the haikus again.

    but, why can’t people agree on how many syllable are in a haiku?
    i know someone who thought it was 3 8 3!

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