Error Messages

**beep** · 04-18-2006, 04:28 PM

My favorite Haiku error messages...

The web site you seek
Cannot be located but
endless others exist.

or

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent and reboot.
Order shall return.

or

First snow, then darkness.
Your thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

Steeler · 04-18-2006, 04:38 PM

Please insert CD.
Installation awaits you.
Click to continue.

TychoCelchuuu · 04-18-2006, 09:39 PM

The first haiku's flawed
"Endless others exist" has
Six syllables. Duh.

Keres · 04-18-2006, 10:09 PM

I was going to contribute to this haiku thread, but then I remembered a project I did in eleventh grade. We had to rewrite a play we had read (in some creative way), and I decided that it was a silly project, so I was going to do a silly response. I wrote 45 haikus to rewrite the play "Everyman," and my teacher was so impressed, she gave me over 100.

However, I swore never to write one... again.

TychoCelchuuu · 04-18-2006, 10:12 PM

You swore off haikus?
That's a freaking travesty
They're like poems but fun

Seriously man
They take a couple seconds
And BANG then you're done

Adrielle · 04-18-2006, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TychoCelchuuu

You swore off haikus?
That's a freaking travesty
They're like poems but fun

Seriously man
They take a couple seconds
And BANG then you're done

...

that kinda made me puke a little.

**CingularDuality** · 04-18-2006, 11:08 PM

5-7-5 does not make a haiku. Haikus are about nature and enlightenment, not about "freaking travesties"...

Steeler · 04-19-2006, 09:40 AM

Technically, they are also in Japanese, where the 5-7-5 convention is actually MUCH harder to build. In English it's just a counting game.

TychoCelchuuu · 04-19-2006, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CingularDuality

5-7-5 does not make a haiku. Haikus are about nature and enlightenment, not about "freaking travesties"...

True enough. With a haiku you're supposed to have a word to tell which season you're in or something like that (I'm not big on poetry). People pervert the rules though; I've got a "Haikus for Jews" book sitting next to me where the author admittedly ignores the whole "reference a season" thing. And if you can get published, then it's official. Basically, as far as you and I are concerned, haikus are a joke, since you can just stick anything into 5-7-5 and it counts. And by counts, I mean published.

04-18-2006, 04:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
beep Join Date: May 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 3,410	Error Messages My favorite Haiku error messages... The web site you seek Cannot be located but endless others exist. or Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. or First snow, then darkness. Your thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. __________________ Beep Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - (Isaac Asimov)

04-18-2006, 04:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
Steeler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Taxachusetts Age: 30 Posts: 2,925	Re: Error Messages Please insert CD. Installation awaits you. Click to continue. __________________

04-18-2006, 09:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
TychoCelchuuu Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Age: 19 Posts: 1,776	Re: Error Messages The first haiku's flawed "Endless others exist" has Six syllables. Duh. __________________ \|TG-Irr\|TychoCelchuuu

04-18-2006, 10:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
Keres Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Loganville, Georgia Age: 20 Posts: 498	Re: Error Messages I was going to contribute to this haiku thread, but then I remembered a project I did in eleventh grade. We had to rewrite a play we had read (in some creative way), and I decided that it was a silly project, so I was going to do a silly response. I wrote 45 haikus to rewrite the play "Everyman," and my teacher was so impressed, she gave me over 100. However, I swore never to write one... again. __________________ -------- Zephyr: Besides Wyzcrak and his godly voice; the kind of voice that you will expect to say "Zephyr, I need you to build an ark at Marine Start, with room for two of every structure so that I may turret spam for 40 days and 40 nights" that is. Squeak:Sometimes I'm awed by zibs genius. Then I remember he's Canadian and I feel significantly less threatened.

04-18-2006, 10:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
TychoCelchuuu Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Age: 19 Posts: 1,776	Re: Error Messages You swore off haikus? That's a freaking travesty They're like poems but fun Seriously man They take a couple seconds And BANG then you're done __________________ \|TG-Irr\|TychoCelchuuu

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04-19-2006, 09:40 AM	#8 (permalink)
Steeler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Taxachusetts Age: 30 Posts: 2,925	Re: Error Messages Technically, they are also in Japanese, where the 5-7-5 convention is actually MUCH harder to build. In English it's just a counting game. __________________

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