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Silly Experiment

Friday, 25th July 2008
Personal

A few weeks ago in the middle of a meeting, Chris Lintott piped up, “One more line and you’ll have a haiku.” So, I responded “This isn’t that line,” which managed to have the required 5 syllables.

For reasons that can only be explained with the much hated phrases “Just because..”, “I don’t know…” and “I thought it would be fun…” (remember using those reasons on parents?), I decided to Twitter in Haiku and see if anyone noticed. Since July 3 I haiku twittered. It was fun, but I think I should stop now.

I remain quite proud of “A margarita, cold and as big as my head, has now been consumed.”

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6 Responses

  1. lolife 25 July 2008 at 11:32 pm #

    Yer a freak!

    But a lovable one. :)

  2. Georgia Bracey 26 July 2008 at 12:29 am #

    I noticed! I figured you were doing a little creative writing to ease the pain of writing grants!

    Now, I want each tweet to be a cinquain, and each blog entry to be in iambic pentameter. ;-)

  3. Mike Simonsen 26 July 2008 at 2:53 am #

    Iambic pentameter? Georgia, that’s just plain mean!

  4. Twitter:( 29 July 2008 at 12:19 am #

    Once again I propose the question: Is Twittering just a tad bit too much ?

  5. Freiddie 1 August 2008 at 12:25 am #

    That’s cool!

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