By Cosmos Forever
October 7th 2008 @ 12:27am
Loading ...The Code War is a real Haiku Battle
I gave it to a few fellow Roarers earlier, tiring of when a perfectly good post descends into the all too familiar code-war. But rather than become bitter and distant, I’ve decided to be proactive going forward.
So, when any Roar readers are engaged in a perfectly reasoned, entertaining thread, but for some strange reason feel the need to turn it into a code comparison session, come here first.
Below is the the cross-code defamation Haiku. Please only respond to this thread in a 5-7-5 syllable response.
For those who need some tips, check out the haiku wikipedia page.
My attempt at one for each code that sums up recent posts on the Roar:
Looks like League, what is?
East South North West, no not West
Rugby don’t go there
Sublime skill on field
Oh no look out, here comes one
Wrestlers not welcome
Don’t look to the past
Expansion the only way
Arnold, what the f…?
Big crowds just the start
Best tele deal in town
Don’t mention rushed behind.
Bring it on!
Free Email updates:
Our daily emails are only sent if there is content for the sport or that author. You can subscribe to multiple daily emails; or get the daily Roar email with all our content in it. We value privacy. More...
(60)
Millster said | October 7th 2008 @ 8:21am | Report comment
Have to cheer this! Awesome idea…
My contribution:
Tour de France next year
Famous past contestant joins
Credibility?
sheek said | October 7th 2008 @ 12:39pm | Report comment
Cosmos,
You’re crazy… but I luv ya!
Must admit, your post was clever, & innovative.
cosmos forever said | October 7th 2008 @ 4:18pm | Report comment
Sheek remembers past
Where oh where have the clubs gone
beloved game stinks
Millster said | October 7th 2008 @ 4:38pm | Report comment
This thread is superb
Cosmos on some serious drugs
Keeping us amused
(I think that fits…)
Slippery Jim said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:04pm | Report comment
‘A ball is not used
Nor is it struck with the foot
Why name it football?’
Slippery Jim said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:08pm | Report comment
‘Blundering like oafs
Apes in tight shorts chasing eggs
Why oh why oh why?’
Slippery Jim said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:13pm | Report comment
‘My code is better
and bigger and longer too
Pissing contests rule’
cosmos forever said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:17pm | Report comment
Raiders doing well
Give me another angle
Video ref shame
Slippery Jim said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:36pm | Report comment
‘Cosmos forever,
Super article idea
You earn a big cheer”
cosmos forever said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:42pm | Report comment
Socceroos big test
Pim won’t select big Nicky
Jesse why why why
cosmos forever said | October 7th 2008 @ 6:46pm | Report comment
That last one was weak
So sorry everyone
red wine kicks in soon
OldManEmu said | October 7th 2008 @ 8:18pm | Report comment
Steffy where are you?
Where fore art thou Steffy girl?
Have a go ya mug.
Well done Cosmos.
cosmos forever said | October 7th 2008 @ 8:31pm | Report comment
westy won’t come east
steffy quiet end of year
andrew logan where?
Westy said | October 7th 2008 @ 9:08pm | Report comment
Humour disarms all .
Slippery Jim said | October 7th 2008 @ 9:23pm | Report comment
One line from Westy
Waiting for his other two
holding bated breath
Westy said | October 7th 2008 @ 9:45pm | Report comment
Very tempted but I do not want to slide sideways down that slippery slope.
Millster said | October 7th 2008 @ 10:16pm | Report comment
Quick you fellow scribes
Slippery is holding it
Take advantage now!
jimbo said | October 7th 2008 @ 10:30pm | Report comment
A F L football
soccer losers fark you all
Mastro knows it all
keeper11 said | October 7th 2008 @ 11:34pm | Report comment
Me names AFL
tha biggest and best of all
‘erald Sun told me so
mcxd said | October 7th 2008 @ 11:39pm | Report comment
Wow this on the Roar
Too cerebral for me now
I play Rugby League
(sorry, dont mind RL but i couldnt help myself)
Benjamin said | October 7th 2008 @ 11:53pm | Report comment
It’s worth remembering that:
“the simple writing
of seventeen syllables
doth not haiku make”
I’ll submit an ill-educated attempt nonetheless.
Super League I like
Guinness Premiership also
we can coexist
Haunting in many ways… {sigh}…
swifty said | October 8th 2008 @ 12:57am | Report comment
HAIKUS ARE EASY
BUT SOMETIMES DON’T MAKE SENSE
REFRIGERATOR
cosmos forever said | October 8th 2008 @ 8:32pm | Report comment
Swifty you cheat now
Cosmos like threadless tees too
caught you that time eh?
much effort by all
proud to see many peoms
now solve third tier sheek
Millster said | October 8th 2008 @ 9:38pm | Report comment
Adelaide has won
Tashkent pain awaits
Please! Less than three goals
cosmos forever said | October 8th 2008 @ 9:47pm | Report comment
Vidmar has such class
club can turn around from past
champs of the region
Millster said | October 8th 2008 @ 11:18pm | Report comment
The world hails our Reds
While our misguided own view
Small suburban codes
Trevor said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:17pm | Report comment
Only few enjoy
While others cut down poppies
On courts less traveled
cosmos forever said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:19pm | Report comment
Mrs Cosmos says
All of you talk endlessly
about Football. Why?’
cosmos forever said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:22pm | Report comment
actually written by Mrs Cosmos I might add
Michael C said | October 9th 2008 @ 9:09pm | Report comment
One, two, three, four, five
foot ball, sok kah rug bee too
A…F….L…4…me
six, sev ven, and eight
Tee Vee, Rights, View ers, Spon sors
Int ter nat ion nal
nine, ten, elev ven, twelve
glob bal, foot ball, Russ sian bling
heads, nets, off side trap
thirt teen, and four teen
back pass, no neck, scrum feed try
no kick for no goal
fifteen and six teen
spec cies, goals, for wards, on wards
A…F…L….4….me
———- yeah, well, it was a little ‘rushed’…….;-)
jimbo said | October 9th 2008 @ 9:20pm | Report comment
How about an Irish Haiku Limerick
There was a football team from New Zealing
Who played without really appealing
The only spectators they had
Were three sheep and their dad
Now their financial backers are reeling
cosmos forever said | October 9th 2008 @ 9:31pm | Report comment
I await Benjamin’s literary critique of the Irish Haiku Limerick!
Benjamin said | October 9th 2008 @ 10:26pm | Report comment
Cosmos, I’m not sure that every contributor has been paying strict attention to the traditional 5,7,5 form so I say join the fun, it’s a hell of a ride.
Benjamin said | October 9th 2008 @ 10:46pm | Report comment
Probyn packs down square
the past is another land
Ondarts bites an ear
Magic memories: Lascube, Moscato, Vaquerin, Cholley, Ondarts, Benezech, Tournaire… mon Dieu. A fine tradition soured, like fine wine turning to vinegar.
Millster said | October 9th 2008 @ 11:33pm | Report comment
Hopoate grins
Now his fingers are enclosed
Boxing Gloves - thank God!
MC is a poet
good distraction from his stats
and his AFL
Cosmos and his wife
Seem a lovely pair to me
She will learn one day
Millster said | October 10th 2008 @ 1:11am | Report comment
2.18am
still at work - it sucks
ROAR my only joy
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 2:01am | Report comment
What a complete dick
Sign a contract then pissed off
Die Dick Advocaat
Realise i had 8 syllables before.
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 2:07am | Report comment
Got text by Warney
It said RU469
Wrong girl. Wife replied
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 2:12am | Report comment
The ball went behind
One point for missing the goal
Sum’s up AFL
(ok that was rude. but I’m allowed to indulge myself this post)
Benjamin said | October 10th 2008 @ 3:26am | Report comment
Die Dick Advocaat? Are you sure?
I wouldn’t try to develop a football chant employing the word wog. It is a derogatory term for a black man in Europe and the USA. I’m pretty convinced that poofter has the same meaning the world over.
Redb said | October 10th 2008 @ 7:20am | Report comment
submarines go down
soccer players in showbiz
dive dive dive
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 7:54am | Report comment
Benjamin
In England it is actually derogatory term for Asian
I probaly see your point that it may offend foreigners
I guess the point was if the game was only play by sheila wog and poofters as the negative stereotypes. THen everyone is a sheila wog and poofter. SOrt of taking ownership of a negative stereotype like the Italian/Greek took ownership of the word Wog in Australia
Die Dick Advocaat - just a joke. He screwed Australia. So retaliation
hmm
It seems like the Roar censors has remove some of my poetry. I under stand removing the swearing (Ithought wog is socially acceptable in Australia) but I have no idea why some of my other comments are removed such as the one about ponting, no-neck and football riots
Benjamin said | October 10th 2008 @ 8:03am | Report comment
I’m not going to debate the origin of the term, but from a generic deployment - referring to any foreign person in the 1950s, the term now firmly refers to a black man. Or at least it was imbued with new meaning from the golliwogs. Thus to clarify wog in GB means black man. I don’t think it would be very well received by Paul Sackey, for example, whereas Monty Panasar might be mildly perplexed. A derogatory term for an Asian person is the shortening of the work pakistani. I should know, given that I live in England and grew up in Streatham.
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 8:14am | Report comment
I always thought traditionally stands for Western Oriental Goldminers. It was used to discriminate against Asians during the gold rush in the 19th century. Later it was adopted for other ethnicity I guess that includes blacks and then the greeks/italians.
Still I thought that whole chant wouldn’t be so offensive to remove by the censor when there is already best selling Football book with the exact name.
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 8:16am | Report comment
Football the world game
90 minutes and no goals
Damn, let’s go riot
This was remove by censor.
I’m a football fan can’t I make fun of my sport once in a while
I think the warney one was more offensive then this haiku
Benjamin said | October 10th 2008 @ 8:31am | Report comment
Can’t speak for Australia but my dad’s told me about following Chelsea in the 70s and 80s and seeing people badly cut and bashed up so I wouldn’t imagine football hooliganism is joke material.
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 9:18am | Report comment
oh gosh
The Simpsons joke about football riots
I’m just linking two stereostypes and criticism of the game giving people (flimpsy) reason why they riot.
I guess it’s one of those things that in Australia we didn’t have hoolignaism to the same extent as England. Perhaps its one of those jokes that it is a bit politically incorrect but ok until you tell it to someone until you find out they’ve been personally effected by it (people joking about death, terrorism, cancer etc)
cosmos forever said | October 10th 2008 @ 9:29am | Report comment
All have a good role
censors, critics editors
get back to the game
dasilva said | October 10th 2008 @ 9:37am | Report comment
Punter’s century
Can’t wipe away his past sins
Sack Ricky Ponting
that poem was censored and removed as well
man people must love ricky ponting. Is he untouchable god here?
It’s about how Peter Roebuck called for his sacking a year a go for unsporting behaviour and unable to control his team. Just writing in that spirit (I don’t really believe he should be sack)
spiro zavos said | October 10th 2008 @ 9:42am | Report comment
The Da Vinci code
Has less intrigue
Than rugby v league
cosmos forever said | October 10th 2008 @ 10:39am | Report comment
Rugby League World Cup
Tupou undermines it all
Tongan or Aussie?
Millster said | October 10th 2008 @ 10:49am | Report comment
Rugby League World Cup
I find it a little strange
Aussies in each team
Millster said | October 10th 2008 @ 10:51am | Report comment
RedB can’t believe
That there is a world outside
Of his Essendon
Millster said | October 10th 2008 @ 10:56am | Report comment
A team finds success
Salary cap cuts them down
Supposedly ‘fair’
Redb said | October 10th 2008 @ 11:01am | Report comment
Millster can’t believe
No need to look when
The Bombers fly up
Millster said | October 10th 2008 @ 11:06am | Report comment
James Hird probably
Wishes he had made the choice
To play round ball game
Redb said | October 10th 2008 @ 11:10am | Report comment
Millster,
no haiku…
YOU WISH!
Redb
Michael C said | October 11th 2008 @ 10:24pm | Report comment
Not one today yet?
this one then is one for now
so today, has one
tomorrow, must wait
to see if none or one too
from whom or who from?
——-
at the copa, the
copa cobana, the hot-
-test spot North of…..drat!
(and madness set’s in
’tis late, ’tis late, ’tis too late
off to bed, good night)
Michael C said | October 11th 2008 @ 10:25pm | Report comment
Is this one working?
perhaps I’ve just submitted
2 of 1 twice??
dasilva said | November 9th 2008 @ 8:31pm (4 weeks ago) | Report comment
Ponting should be sack
Lose to avoid suspension
Just for over rates