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This morning's doonesbury is rather amusing. Aww heck, I've been enjoying the whole series he's been doing of late.

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I finally decided to get on the haiku bandwagon, and have been writing an assortment of haikus related to my thoughts over the course of today.

I have one question, though, to any haiku experts, about passed tense. I'm assuming these would count as one syllable, but correct me if I'm wrong:

backed
shocked

What about "changed"? One or two. It feels like two to me...

Anne's early attempts at haiku

These haikus were written throughout the day, and they reflect observations about some of the things I had to do, and some of the things I read.

Enjoy, or cringe.

Voicemail link is down.
Did you forget your password?
Try to remember.

You say this is right?
My butt hides monkeys that fly.
Do not wait for them.

I was lonely until
I got spam from Consuela
I am now complete

How could you know of
Secret plants and not about
Saddam Fedayeen?

How XP plagues us
No data was backed up here
Now our work doubles.

That joke came from where
A bazooka joe wrapper?
No more gum for you

The best solution
For this most complex system
Is to reboot it

Hear flap of wings as
my response time flys away
from my tender grasp

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Tonight I went to the gym. While sweating my happy heart out, listening to some fast-paced music to keep me hoppin', I watched the television. Celine Dion's Vegas show opened recently. The gym television is captioned. I take mild joy in watching for typos, because on occasion, the typist really messes up. (assuming there is a human involved, and not some speech to text software).

Anyway, based on the caption typist, Celine is also known as:

-Cell 18
-Selling

Sounds good

Fun OED Searches

I told the OED online to bring forth any word that was considered slang. The OED gives me date of origin of the word, as well.

I am happier than a pig in slop with this search feature.

Trivia:

-Ball-buster: slang for "domineering female" showed up in our vocabulary around 1954. The first known quotation of ball-busting appeared in 1944.
-Who has ever heard of the word "banjax"? If you haven't heard it before, it's to batter or destroy. First seen in captivity in 1939.
-When did barf show up in our vocabulary. 1960.
-Ah, in the 1440s, you might have called a swindler a bat-fowler. While swindled is fun to say. Bat-fowler is a verbal party.
-Men started referring to women's breasts as "bazooms" in 1950.