Posted: July 15th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: mall, shop, squat, toilet | No Comments »
From The Telegraph: Middle-Eastern-style ‘squat’ lavatories fitted in Rochdale shopping centre
Crapper culture clash.
Po-litical correctness
has gone down the pan
Posted: July 14th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: bus, fat, lard, london, mcdonalds, sewer | No Comments »
From The Telegaph: Fat cleared from London sewers will fill nine double-decker buses
London’s lump of lard
Enough to fill nine buses
or seven Big Macs
Posted: July 13th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: armour, custard, science | No Comments »
From The Telegraph: Scientists create ‘custard armour’ to protect soldiers
A trifle to make
hundreds and thousands, but none
for the desserters
Posted: July 12th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: love, plastic, tortoise, toy | No Comments »
From The Telegraph: Tortoise falls in love with a plastic toy
Tortoise gets called cute
When I had plastic girlfriend
I was called pervert
#haiku Tortoise in love with toy http://roffy.net/bnrVPO Tortoise gets called cute / When I had plastic girlfriend / I was called pervert
Posted: July 8th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: other Haiku | Tags: boat, day hire, holiday | No Comments »
I look up to the
private boats, down on day hire.
Day hire, know your place
Posted: July 7th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: other Haiku | Tags: bed, board, boat, holiday | No Comments »
Boat and bed and board?
The brochure failed to mention
the bed is a board
Posted: July 6th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: other Haiku | Tags: bard, holiday, stratford | No Comments »
Could not enter pub
in Stratford-Upon-Avon
because I was Bard
Posted: July 6th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: other Haiku | Tags: canal, holiday, swan | No Comments »
Canal holiday
Before leaving the boatyard,
bitten by a swan
Posted: July 4th, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: drugs, police, world cup | No Comments »
From Sky News via Yahoo: Police in Colombia have seized a replica World Cup trophy – made from 11 kilos of cocaine.
Snow White silverware
England team would try harder
if this was real cup
Posted: July 3rd, 2010 | Author: Roffy | Filed under: topical haiku | Tags: beer, criminal, jail, prison, theft | No Comments »
From Gawker: New Hampshire Beer Thief Arrested 154 Times
Ale fail trail to jail
as beer blagger begs brig and
secures stout sentence