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Catfish rampant.With two, catfish combatant.Catfish hauriant!
Combatant catfish?Only if they are fighting!*Respectant* catfish(unless, of course, oneis the notorious Bay State Blue).Sorry -- thats a tanka, not a haiku, but I had to expand the theme *just* a bit (tanka are similar to haiku, but slightly longer, and are 5-7-5-7-7).This thread is being way too much fun :thumbup: So:Catfish is grinning:It *knows* you want special ink.Warden or Bernanke?Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

Thank you for telling

 

us about Tanka, yet more

 

poetic license,

 

to extend our knowledge and

 

to give more lines to play with.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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Warden Bernanke

sounds like the prison leader

in a bad jail film.

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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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Catfish rampant.

With two, catfish combatant.

Catfish hauriant!

 

Combatant catfish?

Only if they are fighting!

*Respectant* catfish

(unless, of course, one

is the notorious Bay State Blue).

 

Sorry -- thats a tanka, not a haiku, but I had to expand the theme *just* a bit (tanka are similar to haiku, but slightly longer, and are 5-7-5-7-7).

This thread is being way too much fun :thumbup:

So:

 

Catfish is grinning:

It *knows* you want special ink.

Warden or Bernanke?

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Catfish rampant --Five of Pens.

 

Any charge, facing itself, rampant, is combatant; they may be drilling or loving. Facing each other. Probably won't be in the catfish tarot.

 

Catfish hauriant, a fish standing vertically.

 

There's a whole language (mostly French?) about this.

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Catfish rampant.

With two, catfish combatant.

Catfish hauriant!

 

Combatant catfish?

Only if they are fighting!

*Respectant* catfish

(unless, of course, one

is the notorious Bay State Blue).

 

Sorry -- thats a tanka, not a haiku, but I had to expand the theme *just* a bit (tanka are similar to haiku, but slightly longer, and are 5-7-5-7-7).

This thread is being way too much fun :thumbup:

So:

 

Catfish is grinning:

It *knows* you want special ink.

Warden or Bernanke?

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Catfish rampant --Five of Pens.

 

Any charge, facing itself, rampant, is combatant; they may be drilling or loving. Facing each other. Probably won't be in the catfish tarot.

 

Catfish hauriant, a fish standing vertically.

 

There's a whole language (mostly French?) about this.

 

It's mostly Norman, or Anglo-Norman French (i.e., early medieval, as opposed to modern French). Actually, to be more specific, "hauriant" swimming upwards (as opposed to "naiant" (swimming horizontally) or "urinant" (swimming downwards).

Combatant *only* refers to two critters rampant (which is the two front legs outstretched, with one back leg downward and the other also outstretched or partly outstretched) and facing each other. If they aren't specifically rampant, but still facing each other, they are said to be "respectant". And neither are heraldic postures for fish....

Wow. I'm teaching heraldry on FPN (all my SCA friends will probably laugh and point when they find out...; especially my friend in North Carolina, who had to draw a "heraldic" catfish one time a few years ago). :roflmho:

We now return you to the previously scheduled haiku competition....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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:notworthy1:

 

Heraldic Catfish:

naiant or urinant

or hauriant.

 

Sadly, the only human language I know is American English.

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:notworthy1:

 

Heraldic Catfish:

naiant or urinant

or hauriant.

 

Sadly, the only human language I know is American English.

 

 

Well, i've been doing book heraldry and heraldic research in the SCA for over 30 years at this point (and have been a heraldic artist for about 25), so I know the jargon pretty well.... OTOH, when I go out to dinner with my husband and his friends and they start in with the computer geekspeak my eyes start to glaze over.... As do theirs, when I start talking about pens. :rolleyes:

 

Different jargons;

even in the same language,

they separate us.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Face reality.

There is no past nor future.

There is just today.

 

 

Yesterday's tomorrow is today

 

:roflmho:

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Well, i've been doing book heraldry and heraldic research in the SCA for over 30 years at this point (and have been a heraldic artist for about 25), so I know the jargon pretty well.... OTOH, when I go out to dinner with my husband and his friends and they start in with the computer geekspeak my eyes start to glaze over.... As do theirs, when I start talking about pens. :rolleyes:

 

Different jargons;

even in the same language,

they separate us.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

The SCA brings a smile to my face whenever I hear of them. Geeks of today, geeks of yesteryear, geeks of tomorrow, geeks forever! That that language has not been lost is something to rejoice, I feel.

 

Heraldic geek-speak

Centuries of daily use,

centuries ago.

 

Who now remembers

Programming Language One or

FAST FORTRAN to core?

 

Playing with words unites

Minds across the internet

new age pen and ink.

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Whatever language

you choose to use, put it down

on paper with pen!

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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But in these forums

the text is typed on the screen?

Hypocritical?

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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But in these forumsthe text is typed on the screen?Hypocritical?

 

 

Write Haiku with a

pen, then type it to forum;

honesty intact!

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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Are you doing this?

I've been composing on screen....

.....and decomposing.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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reprieve

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I'm decomposing

like nasty stinky zombie

brainsssss. (bleep), I'm a zombie!

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14204175/haiku.jpg

*My* haiku is intact! :P

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Don't decompose yet

Who would remind us daily

Of things most gory

 

You WANT to see gore?

Go into any steak house

and order it rare.

 

If you didn't know...

I'm a vegetarian.

ALL meat looks the same.

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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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I would not advise

 

you buy meat off of ebay.....

 

unless you like horse.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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I would not adviseyou buy meat off of ebay.....unless you like horse.

 

 

Happy Meals are good:

Bought one on Ebay, they sent

My Little Pony!

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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