September 11, 2009

Question of the Day #207

Posted by: Dwight @ 11:44 am · Filed under · Question of the Day ·

No question this week. Instead, a call for Haikus. Any topic. Remember, 5/7/5 syllables. I’ll get it started:

Televised speech on health care.
“You lie!” yells Wilson.
What happened to decorum?

10 Comments

  1. GraceKathryn Said:

    September 12, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

    Have yet to come up with a haiku, but the word decorum is used about 37 times in this video: http://bit.ly/14RIAM.

  2. GraceKathryn Said:

    September 14, 2009 @ 9:55 pm

    Finally! A topic! Albeit a sad one. I really am sad about this…

    Patrick Swayze I’ll miss you.
    Dance, dirty dancer.
    Having the time of your life.

    Man, I hope I counted those syllables right.

  3. GraceKathryn Said:

    September 14, 2009 @ 10:02 pm

    Ok, so it’s supposed to be 5/7/5, but I went with Dwight’s example above and did 7/5/7. Let’s try this again…

    Are you gone now, Ghost?
    Patrick Swayze I’ll miss you.
    Dance, dirty dancer.

  4. Dwight Said:

    September 15, 2009 @ 4:45 pm

    Haha!!! I can’t believe I didn’t catch that. I even had the correct structure in my instructions. I apparently was “freestyling.”

    Fences can’t hold me;
    Dammit, I’ll do what I want.
    Freestyle poetry.

    Nobody puts my
    Poetry in a corner
    This is my dance space.

  5. Dwight Said:

    September 15, 2009 @ 4:48 pm

    While looking up quotes, I came across this gem (that I’d forgotten):

    Robbie Gould: I didn’t blow a summer hauling toasted bagels just to bail out some little chick who probably balled every guy in the place.

    [Baby is pouring water into glasses for him]

    Robbie Gould: A little precision please, Baby. Some people count and some people don’t.

    [brings out a copy of The Fountainhead from his pocket]

    Robbie Gould: Read it. I think it’s a book you’ll enjoy, but make sure you return it; I have notes in the margin.

    Baby: You make me sick. Stay away from me, stay away from my sister or I’ll have you fired.

    [Baby pours the jug of water on his crotch]

  6. Sarah Said:

    September 15, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

    I remember when I saw that as a youngster, I thought The Fountainhead was something akin to Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Erotic literature. I thought that was why it made Baby sick.

    What can I say? I was like, 12. Of course, I suppose that begs the question: how did I know about Lady Chatterley?

  7. GraceKathryn Said:

    September 28, 2009 @ 5:22 pm

    This is pathetic, but I would like use this opportunity to confess that I have never actually seen Dirty Dancing. It’s a shameful, shameful secret. I have, however, seen Ghost in its entirety probably 6 or 7 times. That’s gotta count for something, right? No?

    *hangs head in shame*

    Also, I can’t believe that the both of you have not only been at a complete loss for words for nearly 3 weeks, but it looks like you haven’t seen ANY movies either. Not a single film? Really?

  8. GraceKathryn Said:

    September 28, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

    (I would like to use this opportunity)

  9. Dwight Said:

    September 28, 2009 @ 8:38 pm

    I think it’s probably more shameful that I’ve seen Dirty Dancing at least a dozen times. It even scares me.

    I guess we’ve both been wandering around outside of the blogosphere for a while. At least Sarah has an excuse (school). I have managed to catch a couple of movies in the last couple of weeks…but mostly we’ve been using our Netflix queue lately to catch up on the Supernatural TV series so we could get caught up for the final season which started recently.

  10. Sarah Said:

    September 28, 2009 @ 8:56 pm

    We did see Anvil! The Story of Anvil. I forgot to update that.

    I just haven’t felt like blogging at all. I think I might be done.