#773 – Milliways
Posted on May 28, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
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
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poetic horror stories
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Haiku!
Brown rice box haiku
Is not officially one
Try again sometime
Weeks theme is proven
Hitchhikers Galaxy Guide
Ford Prefect is cool
I Hate To Tell You
But Petunias Is Four
And Is Not Three Long
@kurast
Now that all depends on one’s accent. the ‘nias’ part cound sound like one syllable. “pe-toon-yaz” 😛
Vogon haiku?
haiku’s are easy
but sometimes they make no sense
refrigerator
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.
I lack the belief
that I am the first to say
“oh no, not again!”
Petnunias and whale
Falling through the clouds they go
Oh no, not again!
((Oh yes, definitly HHGttG week :3 I remember this passage vividly.)
Oh no, not again.
This will end up bad
Because Biff never does speak
Although I don’t care
I have that t-shirt
the one that Vidja mentioned
from threadless.com
Vogon poetry?!
My poor ears are bleeding so!
Let this horror end!
@Kurast – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/petunia
Look, the sky is red!
Oh, wait, actually it’s blue.
Look, the sky is blue!
Oh Wow!
Look at the sky.
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.
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.
Eh. I don’t like Haiku. It’s too forced.
But then, I’m a musician by trade…
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.
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.
This is not haiku
You are counting syllables
Try enlightenment
I am waiting for
The next Biff comic because
I must know the end
I got nothin’…
Milliways- How do we eat? Why do we eat? Where shall we have lunch?
I love it!
Who else writes your comments from school? I’m graduating this year!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!!!Squeak!
Is… Is that a whale…? How did it get up there? I mean, whales can’t fly, can-
Haiku are pretty
But sometimes, they don’t make sense
Hippopotomus
On a different note,
Looks like Biff has killed flowers
How melancholy
Oh dear, I’ve misspelled
It is hippopotamus
I should have checked first
I get it…So does anyone else here noticed the theme or am I just dense?
gasping petunias
plea read to the bowl, sadly
grip disappointment
Biff needz a hug…
Down, near the surface:
“Earth, will we be friends?”
*splat* goes the sperm whale.
Things to remember:
a) refresh comments, *then* write;
b) five – seven – five.
I suck at poetry and refuse to try. So “Neh!”
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)
I can’t do haiku
they are just way too boring
oh, wait, nevermind
‘Oh No, not again.’
Hitchhikers guide series is classic. reread them a few weeks ago.
@Chris – “nee-uh” too
It’s included on the list
Knowledge is power?
I read thew comics
My favourite one is Biff
I save it for last
A revision:
Oh wow
look at the sky
A “mellowspeak” haiku
hippopotamus
antihippopotamus
annihilation
the restaurant at
the end of the universe
balanced at the end
What is the sound
of one hand
clapping
How
does a dog speak
English
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.
@ 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.
Theme? Was there a theme?
I thought it was just dumb luck.
Guess that means I fail.
oh no I’m bleeding!
I’m bleeding, oh I’m bleeding!
oh wait that’s ketchup
The brown rice poem
Has only six syllables
In the second line.
Petunias fall
With a sperm whale, as seen
From the restaurant
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.
first the hitch hiking distress signal in last week’s strip, then this?
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!
@YukiSnowflake: Think you’re talking about Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon. The level was Spooky Swamp with the fireflies.
First comment this is
Been reading Biff for weeks now
Will resume to read
References to
A book by Douglas Adams
Which gives me smiles
watch out for the whale, biff.
Ah, haikus, the only form of poetry I’m actually able to write.
You know, I have an
undead, cyber social life.
I’m a net zombie.