FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 10, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    Even the strip is in complete haiku. (In case any of you don’t know what a haiku is, it’s a Japanese poem with three lines that has five, seven and five syllables in each line.)

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    Arbitrary  over 10 years ago

    8 syllables in the second line, 6 in the last.

    Best part is that’s in character for Paige.

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    TheSoundDefense  over 10 years ago

    How do you get six syllables in the last panel?

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    JeanGreg  over 10 years ago

    That only works if you pronounce poem as one syllable, which is kind of a stretch.

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    jgarrott  over 10 years ago

    In Japanese, Haiku is unquestionably three syllables, so this flunks.

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    frumdebang  over 10 years ago

    To awaken us,Foxtrot Classics offers up,Literary laugh.

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    whims  over 10 years ago

    LegalEagle48 has it right: in American English, one syllable for ‘poem’ is valid (if not always preferred, according to Merriam-Webster Collegiate 10th ed.), and haiku would be two syllables.

    I wonder if the pronunciation of poem is one of those distinctive regional variations….

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    frumdebang  over 10 years ago

    Haiku, friends, haiku,I challenge gocomics buds,To pen some haikus.

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    Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Forget haiku, we want hairimeraku!

    A young lady,Name of Sadie, Cherry pit Wants to spitSomewhere shady

    Seehttp://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_more.php?sid=373for details :-)

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    Sillstaw  over 10 years ago

    Jason mocks her work,throws Quincy into her face,tossed down the staircase.

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    2578275  over 10 years ago

    The way I learned it, decades ago, it’s 3 lines of 17 syllables: 5-7-5 or 6-5-6. Maybe I learned it incorrectly or maybe the definition revisionists are at work.

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    cdward  over 10 years ago

    Sping hitsGoComicsComments all in poetryNot helping me laugh.

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    DougSmith  over 10 years ago

    check out “Haiku Ewe”consistent 5-7-5he said sheepishly

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    TOMOTH  over 10 years ago

    Hello All;

    WOW: some of you are so sharp – that you caught the comic was written in Haiku – and even catching that “poem” can be pronounced as “po-em” or “poem”!

    Last year I was reading a forum about a global warming issue and they wanted a poem written in haiku. I added my 2-cents worth:

    Wore a coat today.If there is global warmingThen how come I’m cold?

    I should have checked the “bias-factor” before posting – because I got 100% thumbs-down…

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    DougSmith  over 10 years ago

    Book, “Baseball Haiku”Has lineup of many schemesIt’s not set in stone

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    ladykat  over 10 years ago

    Please do get started on the limericks, I like those!

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    feralglance  over 10 years ago

    Ha! Wonderful!

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    T_Lexi  over 10 years ago

    @legaleagle48 – okay, Nature is good, too.

    Paige stares out window,Longing for spring… and cute boys.Poems forgotten…

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    ChessPirate  over 10 years ago

    “Seven plus four is?”“I get eleven answers.”“And none right.” “Math sucks.”

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    dflak  over 10 years ago

    Burma Shave (for those of you who can remember back that far).

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    DougSmith  over 10 years ago

    Paddy’s faceScratched Bridget’s noseThat’s when herWild Irish rose

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    orz  over 10 years ago

    Each dialogue line is shifted down each panel.

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    heatherjasper  over 10 years ago

    Phineas and Ferb in that medieval adventure…

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    Sheila Hardie  over 10 years ago

    I guess if you pronounce “poem” as just one syllable, this works. But I think for most people it’s po-em, no?

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    Jeff0811  over 10 years ago

    A Nantucket GirlSaid to her boyfriend EarlThis ain’t no Lim’rick

    A limerick in haiku form

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    rgcviper  over 10 years ago

    Writing is tough, Paige.So just give it your best tryand see what happens.

    @ChessPirateGood one!

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