Log file opened at: 2/27/01 12:26:47 PM *** Topic for #Constainia: Nuclear weapons aren't cute because you can't dance in the craterses. Shadur is away: Even for dragons / the time to eat has arrived / I'll be back shortly NickM: "Where's Kimmi?" "*stops munching on bit of meat* Who?" *** Shadur is now known as Shad-food Tessa: hehehe KillJoy_: Hee. NickM: .... Shad's away message is a haiku. I just noticed. Tessa: you only just noticed that? Tessa: :) NickM: Yep. Tessa: it's great :) NickM: I'm slow. KillJoy_: Hee NickM: I see haiku are / seventeen-syllable poems / This is also one. KillJoy_: Do *NOT* make me find my page of weidassed hauku. KillJoy_: You have an extra syllable in the middle line though. NickM: KJ: Not if you pronounce "poems" as one syllable. KillJoy_: *shrug* Yeah, true. NickM eats some dilbert mints. KillJoy_: Haikus hurt my head / These poems are not working / I should stick to prose KillJoy_: *bows* NickM: *snap* *snap* *snap* NickM: I like my days off / Thinking up stupid haikus / Nothing is better. KillJoy_: *snap*snap*snap*snap*snap* NickM: Poetry isn't / difficult normally but / haiku is simple. Tessa: Winter winds are fine/though never they reach me here/ Warm sands and sunlight. NickM sends a refrigerated trailer full of snow and ice down to the Empress. KillJoy_ hees. Y'know... I need caffiene. NickM: Me too. Tessa: I open a box/and whatever do I find/Puddles surrounding. NickM goes to the coffee maker, inserts a filter, some grounds, and water, and presses the "MAKE COFFEE." button. Tessa: Gurgle and bubble/My perculator most dear/Dark enlightenment. Tessa: Aragh, argh I cry/The haiku has stolen me/My soul twists in ph33r NickM: ROFL! KillJoy_ hrms. Okay, now you've done it. *pulls out traffic Haiku list* KillJoy_: Geo going slow / Traffic builtup for five miles / Rammed by SUV Tessa: But from hence the Geo/Though most thoroughly flattened/Resembled owner. Shad-food is back (gone 00:27:36) Tessa: oops Tessa: in first line appear/too many syllables true/Shame covers my head Tessa: Welcome the dwagon/Rejoice for he arriveth/Joining us once more. Shad-food: this chinese takeout / chicken sate eaten hot / is as it should be Tessa: Forsooth this is well/Through washer and dryer both/My watch safe returns Shad-food: A single pebble / became a great avalanche / oh, what have I done? Tessa: Travelers most deaf/Stood once on the path below/Only stones stand now. KillJoy_: Pandemonium / Haikus go and replace speech / the humanity. Shad-food: on the other hand / haiku require more thought / this is a good thing Tessa: Humanity rules/But haiku governs all thought/Hence poetic speach KillJoy_: thought better unspent / creativity best used / figuring stuff out Shad-food: should I worry that / I haiku well in english / but not when in dutch? NickM: ... Tessa: Wondering I am/the sound of haiku in Dutch/Mournful, I hear not. KillJoy_: haiku not in dutch? / why could you not do that well? / pity, neat idea that. Shad-food: Ik heb geprobeerd / nederlands haiku rijmen / grammatica faalt Joii gets back from phonesitting, does tedious busywork. Joii: Feel free to amuse me in the meantime. NickM: re Jo. NickM: Save us from the haiku. Joii: Oh, look, an angel. KillJoy_: that sounded quite neat / a great pity it is then / that I don't speak dutch Joii: Does the angel have salvation? NickM: I don't know, does she? Joii: Haiku, now our fate. NickM SCREAMS! NickM: Jo: Yer second line had eight syllables though. Tessa: Grammatica faalt/I understand this quite well/Non comprende rest. Joii snickers. KillJoy_: hey Joii welcome back / I don't know why we do this / though haiku are fun Joii gets the The out of there...Try that. Joii: Why, asks friend KillJoy? Joii: Is there no escape from this? Joii: Joii asks him, "Why not?" Tessa: I sing Joii-welcome/the glorious winged one/ Has brightened our day. Shad-food: My heart rejoices / to see a friend's safe return / hello again, Joii Joii blushes... aw... NickM screams in rage / the poems have grabbed his soul / he cannot think straight KillJoy_: True escape exists / however the question is / do we desire it? Shad-food: Why does it seem hard / to cease this creative flow / that I have started? NickM: I don't think we should / think about escape from this / so soon in the day. Tessa ponders deeply/a haiku escape artist/She must think further KillJoy_: we have inertia / easier it is to write / than to try to stop Joii: we have addiction? *** Shad-food has set the topic on channel #constainia to Instead of bad puns / to annoy and torment rob / we will use haiku NickM: Shad: I think it's 'cuz / we just like talking this way / It's fun though, I think. KillJoy_: a question I have / amusing this whole thing is / is someone logging? *** Signoff: katster (Ping timeout) *** Zibblsnrt (pstewart@nat196.244.mpoweredpc.net) has joined channel #constainia. *** Mode change "+o Zibblsnrt" on #constainia by ChanServ NickM: Ooh. Annoying rob / always good for a few laughs / Suddenly seems fun. Shad-food: to save the buffer / of the text of thos channel / is a child's play task Tessa: Figment from my mind/Imagined thy presence is/Welcome from abyss Zibblsnrt: hiho KillJoy_: why hello there Zib / greetings to you on this day / how are you doing? NickM: Hello Zibblsnrt / We are talking in haiku / won't you join us please? Shad-food: A new friend arrives / he who is NOT THE BALD ONE / greetings to you, zibb! *** Shad-food is now known as Shadur Zibblsnrt: But I lack the skills / To keep up this kind of talk / With regularity Zibblsnrt: er. See? :) Tessa snickers hard/The Bald One thankfully gone/Bows to the Dwagon NickM: Aye, Zib, you seem to / be unable to keep them / in the correct form. Shadur: My sight is obscured / to your inability / that haiku was great! KillJoy_: as is often said / no one is perfect at this / practice improves form NickM: I think the error / in the last line of that one / makes the point more known. Zibblsnrt: were you guys looking at haiku combat or something? Zibblsnrt: %) NickM: PS: Naw, Shad's away message was a haiku about FIOFing, and it started us off. Shadur: As it happens, no / I have never heard of that / but tell me more, please? Tessa: Truly does mistake/Shine clearer the poem's truth/My hat dipped to thee Zibblsnrt: Ahhh KillJoy_: ow ow ow my brain / my sanity quickly fades / can we stop this please? Zibblsnrt: if you say we should / Is that not a reason to / Maintain haikuness? KillJoy_: Advil I partake / to attempt to ease the pain / my head is causing. Shadur: I have been trying / to cease speaking in haiku / with no luck so far Tessa: My dearest KillJoy/I prithee must ask this now/Thee once was sane? Tessa: Bah, she shudders, Horror!/Mistake once more does appear/Her shame grows deeper. KillJoy_: odd it may seem, true / although stories I have heard / of my early life Zibblsnrt notes that / (even in haiku form, too!) / ice-paved trees look cool Tessa: It seems most farfetched/That thou couldst ever been sane/Still, this does bear thought. Tessa: This has gone on long/Laughing, she checks the clock's time/Nowhere to be, good. KillJoy_: sanity I think / fled before my teenage years / and brain damage too Tessa: Sudden silence here?/Whyfore this great speach neglect/The cat get your tongues? Joii: Tedious mailing/ it steals my sense of rhythm/can't count syllables! Shadur: In the spirit of / 'misery loves company' / on to other chans NickM: I'm haikuing in / #spork, but Is #spork one / or two syllables? KillJoy_: haiku in other / places I am doing too / please please make it stop Zibblsnrt: NM: Either one or three Zibblsnrt: :) NickM: PS: Pound-sign-spork, pound-spork, hash-spork, or simply spork. Now that you said three I came up with that first one :P Tessa: Dwagon, I agree/ Let us inflict this the more/Onward to do battle! Joii: dragon, I protest! NickM: Or with intercal / it's four: tic-tac-toe / spork. Hee hee hee hee! Shadur: It would appear that / the elf is taking offense / at our work in spork KillJoy_: for me haiku end / my brain is over heating / away to get coke Joii: suffer jihaddi haiku Tessa: Spork I have not seen/Thenceward I do now proceed/I have missed the elf. Joii: we should do no more... Zibblsnrt: NM: "hee hee hee hee" is cheating. ;) Zibblsnrt: oh boy, more interchan diffusion ;) NickM: Augh! My coffee is / too hot to consume quickly / I just burned my throat. Joii yawns. *** Tessa is now known as Empress Empress shivers at the addictive nature of the haiku Joii yawns, and wonders if dragons make good pillows. *** Empress is now known as Tessa Tessa: it's CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE! KillJoy_ blinks a few times, yawns too. Hey, look what you did. ;) Tessa ponders the haikugun... Shadur snoozes.. 'nite KillJoy_: 'nite, Shad Tessa: nighters! Shadur is away: Sleeping haiku-free #Rift71 KillJoy_: Yep... hell, more people are literate than not! Tessa: Amazing truly/This is quite astonishing/And to be prized. #spork Tessa: Spork I have not seen/Thenceward I do now proceed/I have missed the elf. Shadur: this... is worrisome / all I say becomes haiku / my brain's gotten stuck Shadur hits his head against the channel wall Sheep: The elph is gone now / He won't be doing you harm / Haiku away! Poit! NickM laughs, this is / just way too fucking silly / I'm stuck this way too. Tessa: Duck, she bids me now/I look around the channel/No reason perceived. NickM: White Star 2, even / though the elf isn't present / I'm tired of this. Shadur: this is much better / haiku cease to trouble me / ... or did they really? Sheep: *overwhelming urge / to keep haikuing must be / resisted* Damn it! Tessa: The greater Haiku/It compels me, I follow/Stopping would be crime. *** Shadur (shadur@catv6150.extern.kun.nl) has joined channel #spork. Tessa: And here he comes now/back from the death dealing pings/ReFigment Dwagon *** Tessa is now known as Empress Shadur eyes slashdot / reads happy anime news / Ghost in the Shell 2! Empress: *whew* Empress: I have beaten it! KillJoy_: Heh, cool. And you can stop Haikuing now. Empress: I have withstood the haiku call/though siren it is Shadur: yeah, although I've got to be careful not to fall into it again *** Empress is now known as Tessa Shadur is away: Sleeping haiku-free #tjab Shadur is away: Even for dragons / the time to eat has arrived / I'll be back shortly *** Shadur is now known as Shad-food Tessa: DeFigment! Shad-food is back (gone 00:27:36) *** Signoff: Nanabozho (Client closed connection) *** Nanabozho (cyohtee@216-80-54-17.d.enteract.com) has joined channel #tjab. *** Shad-food is now known as Shadur Nanabozho: hrm...anyone familiar with eggdrop bots? Tessa: Oh Figment most fair/Though help you I wish I could/I know eggdrop not Joii whimpers. Shadur violently clubs himself in the head... stop it already Tessa: Joii-san, why this whimper?/ Know you not the greater flame?/ The call consumes me. Shadur: the infection spreads / haiku all over sandwich / the blame is all mine Joii: It should be patently obvious. Joii innoculates the remaining survivors. *** Mode change "+ooo Joii Nanabozho Tessa" on #tjab by NickM *** Mode change "-o Tessa" on #tjab by Tessa Shadur: damn, it seems like / ev'ry time I try to speak / it becomes haiku Nanabozho: grumble...why the heck is this bot not appearing even though it claims to be running properly :/ Tessa: I smile on Nick/ Courtesy appreciated/No Jihaddi I. NickM: Spreading the Plus-Oh / Is a task that gets always / overlooked. Fooey. NickM: Emp: Ahh, fergot that you don't like being opped on #TJAB. Tessa: Is not my doing/ Others complain most vilely/ So better to avoid NickM: Only Fireball / And he isn't here so I / thought I could do it. Tessa: Is it only Fire?/Used to be several more/Matter it does not. *** Signoff: Shadur (sandiego.ca.us.sandwich.net eindhoven.nl.eu.sandwich.net) *** Shadur (shadur@catv6150.extern.kun.nl) has joined channel #tjab. *** Mode change "+o Shadur" on #tjab by eindhoven.nl.eu.sandwich.net Tessa: And here he comes now/back from the death dealing pings/ReFigment Dwagon Back to #Constainia Joii counts... Tessa: 16 min... Tessa: :) Joii: In sixteen minutes/I get to go home, at last/Freedom will be mine... Tessa: how many syllables is ...? Joii: It's not. Joii: non-value character. Not pronounced. Tessa: :) Tessa: but it *does* have value Joii oh.s? Tessa: it's a pause of varying length... Joii: True. But can it be quantified in syllables? Tessa: that's what I was asking :) Joii oh.s Joii: Well, if it needs to be a syllable, I can take it out entirely. Tessa: :) Tessa: 6 min :) Joii: Yeah, yea! NickM: ... ... ... ... ... / ... ... ... ... ... ... ... / ... ... ... ... ... Tessa whaps NM ;) Tessa: that's all wrong Tessa: it should be: Tessa: ... ../... . ... /.. ... Tessa ponders Morse code haiku... NickM: ..... / ....... / ..... Joii doesn't, valuing her brain's future ability to function. Tessa: heee Joii: Time to go now! *** Joii has left channel #constainia.