The Code War is a real Haiku Battle

Ponting should be sack Lose to avoid suspension Just for over rates

Is this one working? perhaps I've just submitted 2 of 1 twice??

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)

Millster, no haiku... YOU WISH! :-) Redb

James Hird probably Wishes he had made the choice To play round ball game :-)

Millster can't believe No need to look when The Bombers fly up :-)

A team finds success Salary cap cuts them down Supposedly 'fair'

RedB can't believe That there is a world outside Of his Essendon

Rugby League World Cup I find it a little strange Aussies in each team

Rugby League World Cup Tupou undermines it all Tongan or Aussie?

The Da Vinci code Has less intrigue Than rugby v league

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)

All have a good role censors, critics editors get back to the game

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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