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Basselope 
""Welcome to Fantasy Island!""
Memphis, Tennessee
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 Posted - 27/09/2006 : 21:50:44
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Let's see what you all can do with Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
I'm looking forward to some good stuff! |
Edited by - Basselope on 28/09/2006 22:26:11 |
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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
United States
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Posted - 27/09/2006 : 23:51:55
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A Space Oddity
Ground Control to Major Kong.
Slim's Easy Pickens. |
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Basselope
""Welcome to Fantasy Island!""
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted - 28/09/2006 : 04:13:04
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My but that's a frightening avatar!  |
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mampers11 
"Lazy Lebowski Loses Rug"
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Posted - 28/09/2006 : 09:39:12
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Dark Satire About Nukes
No Fighting In The War Room
Whole World Goes Kaboom
Mampers
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 28/09/2006 : 09:58:29
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Strangelovin' nuke war:
World bombed hilariously,
Sellers in three parts.
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
United States
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Posted - 28/09/2006 : 21:23:17
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StaLean
A Space Oddity
Ground Control to Major Kong.
Slim's Easy Pickens.
Mampers
Dark Satire Bout Nukes
No Fighting In The War Room
Whole World Goes Kaboom
BaftaBabe
Strangelovin' nuke war:
World bombed hilariously,
Sellers in three parts.
Sludge
"How I Learned To Stop
Worrying And Love The Bomb."
Lengthy subtitle.
Basselope
Leached of his essence,
the mad leader sends out nukes.
Slim Pickens goes down.
Whippersnapper
Essence polluted
Ripper does a silly thing
Strangelove indeed.
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Basselope
""Welcome to Fantasy Island!""
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted - 29/09/2006 : 23:50:20
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Leached of his essence,
the mad leader sends out nukes.
Slim Pickens goes down.
-Kinda sounds like Nostradamus, don't ya think?
-Mr. Bean's penis still bothers. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/10/2006 : 18:34:00
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Please forgive me  , but I never know exactly when we're supposed to vote. The published rules seem a bit flexi ... your collective assistance greatly appreciated and anticipated 
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Basselope
""Welcome to Fantasy Island!""
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted - 03/10/2006 : 20:40:10
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Please forgive me , but I never know exactly when we're supposed to vote. The published rules seem a bit flexi ... your collective assistance greatly appreciated and anticipated
It is a bit ambiguous, since it can take a while for there to be enough entries to justify voting. Composing a good haiku takes a little longer than just pornolizing some movie title. (Although coming up with a clever porno or obit is no easy matter either).
Generally, I vote when someone else mentions it. So I'm off to vote now. |
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
United States
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Posted - 03/10/2006 : 22:45:59
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| I've just been perusing the entries to vote--I think you have six syllables in your first stanza, mampers. I'm not sure how strict you guys get over your rules, if there are rules. You could solve this by adding "'" in front of "about" and take out the "a". |
Edited by - Stalean on 03/10/2006 22:47:45 |
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mampers11
"Lazy Lebowski Loses Rug"
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Posted - 04/10/2006 : 08:19:50
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Cheers for that Stalean. Fixed and done.
Dark Satire Bout Nukes
No Fighting In The War Room
Whole World Goes Kaboom
Mampers "kinda newbie with the old haikus"
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Sludge
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
United States
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Posted - 04/10/2006 : 20:31:07
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Please forgive me , but I never know exactly when we're supposed to vote. The published rules seem a bit flexi ... your collective assistance greatly appreciated and anticipated
Although the overall destruction of the rules is largely my fault, I think Basselope gives a good justification. I wonder if I were more Mussolini about vote timing, would the contest be more popular since people would know it runs on time?
This whole thing came about when Duh and me and some others started batting around FWFR haiku. I went nuts with The Matrix (searching for archive... seems to have been dumped), and one of us suggested making a game of it, and lo and behold the Movie Haiku game was born.
I would recommend going through the Rules and Hall of Champs thread and clicking on each of the old haiku game links. There are some real gems in there, not just the "winners" posted in the champs message. In particular, Cheese Ed almost always managed to honor the real traditional haiku format (with a nature theme etc.) and have multiple layers of meaning in them.
Duh has horses, and the horses hate the Haiku game. And I've had major scheduling challenges, so the game almost died. At the moment, I'm not online at home so an extra day or so can go by if one player votes a little later. In one of the first rounds, a participant was disqualified because their votes came in late, but I haven't been that strict and would rather see everyone voting... also exactly per Basselope's observation, in some cases we're holding out for an extra week just to make a game of that round.
To get it more on track, what do people think of a) one of you taking in the votes and calculating with my super Excel vote-counting tool, and/or b) having the winner count the next round's votes (as "host" of that round)?
I have also thought about putting the voting tool online as an experiment, using Google Spreadsheet.
For this round, I've recieved Bafta's votes and am happy to receive the others (checking for Basselope's after this).
Please remember, the votes should look like this:
3 points - user xxx <--- your favorite
2 points - user yyy <--- your 2nd favorite
1 point -- user zzz <--- your 3rd favorite
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Montgomery 
"F**k!"
USA
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Posted - 12/10/2006 : 17:22:41
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Is it not obvious that I am dying to do some more poetry?
But I'm not up on this movie.
So, let's move it along. 
Are you guys done voting yet?
I'm ready to Haiku again.
EM :) |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/10/2006 : 18:01:25
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Essence polluted
Ripper does a silly thing
Strangelove indeed. |
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
United States
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Posted - 12/10/2006 : 18:27:52
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quote:
Originally posted by Montgomery
Is it not obvious that I am dying to do some more poetry?
But I'm not up on this movie.
So, let's move it along.
Are you guys done voting yet?
I'm ready to Haiku again.
EM :)
I voted over a week ago. I'm not sure why results haven't been posted. |
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Sludge
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
United States
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Posted - 15/10/2006 : 03:57:49
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RESULTS for Movie Haiku #43: Dr. Strangelove
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Third best Dr. Strangelove haiku, maintaining a weak balance of power with
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Basselope and Sludge (Both 3 2)
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But peaceful accords have no place here, so there is no third prize.
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Second favorite Dr. Strangelove haiku, with
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StaLean (3 2 1 1)
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Your prize:
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A missile tow!
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[wish I'd thought of that for my haiku].
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First prize, in a winner takes all battle
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Dark Satire About Nukes
No Fighting In The War Room
Whole World Goes Kaboom
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You've won the entire world, bowing at your feet, and promising you can use as many syllables as you like next time.
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Mampers, congratulations! Please put down the detonator, and select a film for Movie Haiku #44. Make sure it was NOT a film from previous rounds.
EVERYONE, you are now free to post any alternative Haiku you may have.  |
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Movie Haiku #43 -- Dr. Strangelove
