May 28th, 2009
#773 – Milliways
i wrote a letter
inside the brown rice box
she never read it
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i wrote a letter
inside the brown rice box
she never read it
—–
if you like to read
poetic horror stories
gingerdead.com
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May 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Haiku!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Brown rice box haiku
Is not officially one
Try again sometime
May 28th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Weeks theme is proven
Hitchhikers Galaxy Guide
Ford Prefect is cool
May 28th, 2009 at 1:40 am
I Hate To Tell You
But Petunias Is Four
And Is Not Three Long
May 28th, 2009 at 2:50 am
@kurast
Now that all depends on one’s accent. the ‘nias’ part cound sound like one syllable. “pe-toon-yaz”
May 28th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Vogon haiku?
May 28th, 2009 at 2:57 am
haiku’s are easy
but sometimes they make no sense
refrigerator
May 28th, 2009 at 3:53 am
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.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I lack the belief
that I am the first to say
“oh no, not again!”
May 28th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Petnunias and whale
Falling through the clouds they go
Oh no, not again!
((Oh yes, definitly HHGttG week :3 I remember this passage vividly.)
May 28th, 2009 at 4:32 am
Oh no, not again.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:11 am
This will end up bad
Because Biff never does speak
Although I don’t care
May 28th, 2009 at 5:14 am
I have that t-shirt
the one that Vidja mentioned
from threadless.com
May 28th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Vogon poetry?!
My poor ears are bleeding so!
Let this horror end!
May 28th, 2009 at 7:21 am
@Kurast – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/petunia
May 28th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Look, the sky is red!
Oh, wait, actually it’s blue.
Look, the sky is blue!
May 28th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Oh Wow!
Look at the sky.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:02 am
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.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:21 am
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.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Eh. I don’t like Haiku. It’s too forced.
But then, I’m a musician by trade…
May 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
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.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
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.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
This is not haiku
You are counting syllables
Try enlightenment
May 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I am waiting for
The next Biff comic because
I must know the end
I got nothin’…
May 28th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Milliways- How do we eat? Why do we eat? Where shall we have lunch?
I love it!
May 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Who else writes your comments from school? I’m graduating this year!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!!!Squeak!
May 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Is… Is that a whale…? How did it get up there? I mean, whales can’t fly, can-
May 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Haiku are pretty
But sometimes, they don’t make sense
Hippopotomus
On a different note,
Looks like Biff has killed flowers
How melancholy
May 28th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Oh dear, I’ve misspelled
It is hippopotamus
I should have checked first
May 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I get it…So does anyone else here noticed the theme or am I just dense?
May 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
gasping petunias
plea read to the bowl, sadly
grip disappointment
Biff needz a hug…
May 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Down, near the surface:
“Earth, will we be friends?”
*splat* goes the sperm whale.
May 28th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Things to remember:
a) refresh comments, *then* write;
b) five – seven – five.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I suck at poetry and refuse to try. So “Neh!”
May 28th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
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)
May 28th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I can’t do haiku
they are just way too boring
oh, wait, nevermind
May 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am
‘Oh No, not again.’
Hitchhikers guide series is classic. reread them a few weeks ago.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:13 am
@Chris – “nee-uh” too
It’s included on the list
Knowledge is power?
May 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I read thew comics
My favourite one is Biff
I save it for last
May 29th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
A revision:
Oh wow
look at the sky
A “mellowspeak” haiku
May 29th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
hippopotamus
antihippopotamus
annihilation
May 31st, 2009 at 1:01 am
the restaurant at
the end of the universe
balanced at the end
May 31st, 2009 at 5:34 am
What is the sound
of one hand
clapping
How
does a dog speak
English
May 31st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
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.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:01 pm
@ 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.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Theme? Was there a theme?
I thought it was just dumb luck.
Guess that means I fail.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
oh no I’m bleeding!
I’m bleeding, oh I’m bleeding!
oh wait that’s ketchup
July 8th, 2009 at 9:45 am
The brown rice poem
Has only six syllables
In the second line.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Petunias fall
With a sperm whale, as seen
From the restaurant
January 29th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
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.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
first the hitch hiking distress signal in last week’s strip, then this?
July 27th, 2010 at 10:15 am
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!