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August 18, 2009 8:09 PM

Dissertation Haiku
posted by Miko (24 comments total)

You linked to a blog.
It's not a very good blog.
Post will soon be gone?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:14 PM on August 18, 2009

Two hundred pages
That no one will likely read
At least I got work.
posted by BlooPen at 8:18 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Not that great but why
not wait for blog to mature
u r l for ward
posted by Mngo at 8:26 PM on August 18, 2009

Too terse; didn't read
Snark protects blog from clickthrough
The server is safe
posted by lumensimus at 8:27 PM on August 18, 2009

Chocolate Pickle
Poised always at keyboard, leaps
To say: I don't care
posted by neroli at 8:42 PM on August 18, 2009 [5 favorites]

I dunno about you, but for me "chocolate" is two syllables.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:44 PM on August 18, 2009

my dissertation
is more important than your
indifference, meh!
posted by geos at 8:49 PM on August 18, 2009

snark waters flowing
Metafilter front page post
glow screensaver moon
posted by gudrun at 9:08 PM on August 18, 2009

My dissertation
can be cut to no less than
twenty syllables.
posted by madcaptenor at 9:13 PM on August 18, 2009

Christing fuck not another thread of seventeen-syllable comments.
posted by dersins at 9:22 PM on August 18, 2009 [4 favorites]

An old pond
snark jumps in
Splash!
posted by serazin at 9:25 PM on August 18, 2009 [5 favorites]

And then there are the halfwits who can't manage to count without line breaks.
posted by dersins at 9:31 PM on August 18, 2009

Hee - my dissertation is up there!
posted by redbeard at 9:45 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

I thought these were pretty good.
posted by lazaruslong at 11:32 PM on August 18 [+] [!]

Dear Lazaruslong,
You are doing it all wrong.
Haiku is a song.
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 10:01 PM on August 18, 2009

Writing haiku instead of your thesis? Perhaps you should rethink that.
posted by rtha at 10:05 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Almost done, I swear--
Another semester, tops.
You want fries with that?
posted by DaDaDaDave at 11:03 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Scientists' haiku
are hard to make, with packed
polysyllables:

"Polyglycerides,"
"computability," those
complicated words.

Humanists' haiku,
though, involve cutting them – those
fake complications.
posted by RogerB at 12:51 AM on August 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

abominations
without a hint of season
stick hut lost its roof
posted by Twang at 2:58 AM on August 19, 2009

'phylogenetics'
that's one line already used.
I will not take part.
posted by primer_dimer at 4:11 AM on August 19, 2009

Verbs in present tense
didn't have the zero grade
in old PIE.

At last, I can present the basic finding of my never-completed dissertation to the world! Are you happy now, advisor? Are you happy?
posted by languagehat at 5:42 AM on August 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

These are excellent
And I promise to add one
Sometime this decade.
posted by jb at 6:01 AM on August 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

No thesis for me.
I produced a play instead,
and forwent grad school.
posted by ocherdraco at 6:12 AM on August 19, 2009 [1 favorite]

Writing haiku can,
often, help me concentrate.
My own research? Here:

Do the cows' salads
match the recipe, farmer?
We can't really know.
posted by zennie at 8:31 AM on August 19, 2009

Some folks with too little to do
Made a website of thesis haiku.
Just for a lark,
Metafilter made snark -
Irresistable beans they can chew.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:38 AM on August 19, 2009