http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/12572/enhance-the-commute-with-haikus/
"Yesterday, @marctomik adapted an idea from King County, Washington and the Washington (state) DOT. Because Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct is being torn down, @wsdot started a contest to write some " vaikus" about it."
In case you forgot what a Haiku is about, it is a 5/7/5 syllable poem form that started in Japan.
Here's mine:
The buses are nice/
But are rather slow at times/
I'd rather ride my bike.
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23transpohaiku If you have a twitter account, that is the hashtag to use. Now it's your turn.
Lots of bad signage
Generally neglected
In Virginia Beach
Shooting ducks is fun/
because they are tasty and/
Roads are cool as well
Haikus are pointless
moreso than I-180
in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Hey now fair people
Don't be hating in this thread
The demeanor counts
nobody likes you
interstate 238
change to 480
agentsteel forgot
I-238 is 6 beats
Try for seven now
The idea originated in Seattle, where King County and then WSDOT were encouraging folks to come up with "vaiku" on Twitter to commemorate the closing and partial teardown of the WA 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct. A friend of mine in DC mentioned that, and coincidentally I was the first to come up with #transpohaiku (though I didn't use the hashtag at the time). It's to the point where now Ray LaHood is coming up with some.
Quote from: Zmapper on October 28, 2011, 05:59:38 PM
agentsteel forgot
I-238 is 6 beats
Try for seven now
Pretty sure he meant
"Interstate two thirty eight"
Therefore it is right
I "two thirty eight"
as we say it in the bay
"two three eight"? never
Beltway morning rush
Crawls from Springfield to Tysons
Same shit, diff'rent day.
Ethanman does ask
Pointless questions on this board.
Exasperation.
I-366
With speed limit 85
Likely won't happen
Re: Alaskan way:
Steel arching over
Becomes concrete underneath
Traffic's still a bitch
Derp dederp dederp
Dederp dederp dederp derp
Dederp dederp ROADS!
(sorry, I couldn't come up with anything better :biggrin:)
Turnpike gets wider
between exits six and nine
8A stops sucking
Travel ceaselessly
One shall not find nirvana
But lots of tarmac
Vibration in wheel
Should have been balanced last week
Press on regardless
The vanishing point
Is always ahead of us
But without a sign
No objects the same
Verisimilitude fades
Some shields are very ugly
Cross Bronx always jammed
too many destinations
for drivers on there
I dash two three eight?
We hella never say that
In Bay Area
Our moderators
Keep undesirables out
So C*lr*g can't troll
Caltrans re-signing
Where should the exit tab go?
Just jam it in there
and the US 395 quintuple haiku:
Route 395
Used to start north from Spokane
Now it's much longer
Unfortunately,
I-15 displaced a lot
of its southern part
Eastern Sierras
Into Nevada and back
Tons of scenery
South of Mono Lake
Stay after sunset and watch
Millions of bright stars
Some people think that
This should become I-13
Not necessary
IDiOT sucks ass
Can't build for today's traffic
Won't plan for future
Viatologists
Aren't allowed at AA Roads site
We thank the Good Lord
Is it "A A Roads"
Or is it "Double A Roads"?
I'm just wondering
Quote from: hbelkins on October 29, 2011, 08:36:34 PM
Viatologists
Aren't allowed at AA Roads site
We thank the Good Lord
The haiku above
Easily must win a prize
If they are given!
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 29, 2011, 11:55:45 PM
The haiku above
Easily must win a prize
If they are given!
That's debatable
Some of these are pretty good
But mine is better :sombrero:
Quote from: pianocello on October 30, 2011, 10:59:20 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 29, 2011, 11:55:45 PM
The haiku above
Easily must win a prize
If they are given!
That's debatable
Some of these are pretty good
But mine is better :sombrero:
Did you get the point?
Key is "viatologists."
Friend of ethanman?
Actually, I did
Not a friend of ethanman
Don't know him at all...
Except on this site
All here know his questions
Are not the smartest
I wonder how long
All of us can use haikus
Must be very hard
Quote from: pianocello on October 31, 2011, 09:31:29 AM
Actually, I did
Not a friend of ethanman
Don't know him at all...
Except on this site
All here know his questions
Are not the smartest
....
I did not mean you!
By "friend" I meant Carl Rogers,
Who seems a troll too.
After googling
I found him on MTR
Seems to be a fake
Now I understand
I skipped joining MTR
Went right here instead
Quote from: hbelkins on October 29, 2011, 08:36:34 PM
Viatologists
Aren't allowed at AA Roads site
We thank the Good Lord
Viatologist...
Could you define it for me?
Google was no help.
I always felt that
"vianaut" sure sounded nice
perhaps I was drunk.
It is tedious,
Trying to match haiku with
Things like interstates
Quote from: formulanone on October 31, 2011, 10:43:39 AM
Viatologist...
Could you define it for me?
Google was no help.
Viatology
Term made up by Carl Rogers
He is such a dick
Viatology
Is scientific study
of roads. So Carl says
We all laugh at Carl
And his made up nonsense word
The joke is on him
Racist road sign man
Rants about n-words with glee
taxi driving bum
Soap and water are
Foreign objects to Randy
Mister tax cheat man
The sky cracked a roo
Tim is off his meds again
Please give him his pills
Quote from: hbelkins on October 31, 2011, 11:09:07 AM
Quote from: formulanone on October 31, 2011, 10:43:39 AM
Viatologist...
Could you define it for me?
Google was no help.
Viatology
Term made up by Carl Rogers
He is such a dick
Viatology
Is scientific study
of roads. So Carl says
We all laugh at Carl
And his made up nonsense word
The joke is on him
Racist road sign man
Rants about n-words with glee
taxi driving bum
Soap and water are
Foreign objects to Randy
Mister tax cheat man
The sky cracked a roo
Tim is off his meds again
Please give him his pills
This, sir, is pure gold
Roadgeeks can do poetry
and H.B. proves it
Interstate Nine Nine
Many roadgeeks hate its guts
Shuster infamy
All roads in Dub Vee
Named Robert Byrd Expressway
Very confusing
Ohio drivers
Don't keep right except to pass
Screw them in the head
Ah, that settles it!
Old forum threads make sence now
Not a racist fan.
Spice Rack employee
My work is my hobby too
I have a cool job
Cars with no headlights
Being driven after dark
Make me very mad.
Tom from Ohio
He did us all a favor
And then he fucked off
Saw a sign post down
On the way from work today
But couldn't get pics
A bad area
Where interstate meets ghetto
Is where I saw it
Later on that day
I drove by there once again
By then it was gone
US 460
95 and 85
Were the routes on it
Is Ethanman banned?
Made faux-moderator posts
Then vanished from view.
Cannot say I mind
But also am curious.
Maybe suspended?
I thought the same thing.
That really does cross the line.
Maybe "Ethanbanned"
I regret missing
The faux-moderator posts
From Ethanman, help!
I would love to know
What idiotic statements
Caused him to get banned
If there is a line
It was definitely crossed
Oh well, back to quo
Was he really banned?
We would really like to know.
Someone please tell us.
I no longer see
His name in the register
I assume he's banned
Stupid traffic light
Wasting all my gasoline
Short out already
Quote from: signalman on November 06, 2011, 11:08:26 AM
I no longer see
His name in the register
I assume he's banned
Saw it earlier
Made me think he was still here
Maybe I was wrong
Quote from: hbelkins on November 06, 2011, 04:42:58 PM
Quote from: signalman on November 06, 2011, 11:08:26 AM
I no longer see
His name in the register
I assume he's banned
Saw it earlier
Made me think he was still here
Maybe I was wrong
I checked his profile–
Last active this afternoon.
Guess he's still around?
Quote from: signalman on November 06, 2011, 10:36:01 AM
I regret missing
The faux-moderator posts
From Ethanman, help!
I would love to know
What idiotic statements
Caused him to get banned
Sent you a PM
Summarizing what went on.
Hope that clears it up.
Experience jaded
Modding another forum
Nuisance understood.
At least our underaged
Don't admit to possessions
They can't acquire.
Sometimes their wide mouths
Write checks they cannot tender
Endless rounds of shame.
Grammar and spelling
Knowledge, wisdom, and patience
Destroy weak users.
When force contains force (http://"%20http://mobile.sun-sentinel.com/p.p?m=b&a=rp&id=1108700&postId=1108700&postUserId=42&sessionToken=&catId=6567&curAbsIndex=1&resultsUrl=DID%3D6%26DFCL%3D1000%26DSB%3Drank%2523desc%26DBFQ%3DuserId%253A42%26DL.w%3D%26DL.d%3D10%26DQ%3DsectionId%253A6567%26DPS%3D0%26DPL%3D3")
On the Florida's Turnpike
Ethanman still wrong.
I guess my use of
"Ethanbanned" was ptemature.
And poorly received...
I am not worried
He will be back soon under
a different name
Left lane bandits block
Faster traffic from passing
Frustrates me always
TV passes time
But I'd rather be driving
And clinch some counties
Hey there signalman
"Left lane bandits" is only
four syllables long
Thanks corco, didn't
Use the right combo of words
I edited it
Last Sat. on my bike
Tried to clinch Route 5-3-3
Bound Brook closed for fair
Going to road trip
Vermont is where I am bound
For this weekend's meet
Quote from: hbelkins on November 07, 2011, 02:19:30 PM
Going to road trip
Vermont is where I am bound
For this weekend's meet
?
Are you driving up
via I 90, then back
that way again home
Negatory, sir
Clinching counties and highways
in P A, N Y
Route Fifteen today
then Two Twenty tomorrow
then into N Y
Will clinch all counties
except those on Long Island
then enter Vermont
Clinch V T counties
on Friday before the meet
then back to N Y
I Eighty Eight clinch
is the plan for my trip home
then south to P A
will take Eighty west
to US Route Two Nineteen
and then will clinch it
After that the plan
is to find the fastest way
back to Kentucky
Good stuff, fun indeed
If you pass through Geneva
Hit me up, briefly
My cell number is
on facebook, and my dorm lies
close to route fourteen.
I can meet you for
lunch. I know a good place in
town. Cheap too, and quick.
So when you pass through
great Ontario county
please give me a call
On Thurs or Friday.
Though on Thurs I have class, from
twelve to three PM.
And Friday from three
to four-thirty, but not fret
for reasons I see.
esoteric is
this poem getting, and fast
but alas, I write more
Haikus are fun, clearly
turns moods to good from dreary
short poems, merely
Rhyming, this is new,
but a haiku can rhyme too.
If not, it will sue.
South park is funny
and by that I mean punny
My nose is runny.
A rhyming haiku?
Bravo, sir, very well done.
Two poems in one.
When I was a kid,
A teacher docked me some points
When my haiku rhymed.
Is that really true?
That teacher did have the flu--
least, he had no clue.
Quote from: yanksfan6129 on November 10, 2011, 11:43:13 AM
Is that really true?
That teacher did have the flu--
least, he had no clue.
I had to struggle
To write this haiku saying
Teacher was female.
I seem to recall
She said Japanese haiku
Have lines that don't rhyme.
I don't speak nor read
Any form of Japanese
So couldn't argue.
Japanese letters
Are part of three alphabets.
Kanji is hardest.
ちがうほう！
こうそく５ごう
もどっていく。
This is the wrong way!
Make a U-Turn and go back
to Interstate 5.
Quote from: luokou on November 10, 2011, 05:13:55 PM
ちがうほう！
こうそく５ごう
もどっていく。
This is the wrong way!
Make a U-Turn and go back
to Interstate 5.
I think this wins the thread.
Quote from: Steve on November 10, 2011, 11:13:38 PM
Quote from: luokou on November 10, 2011, 05:13:55 PM
ちがうほう！
こうそく５ごう
もどっていく。
This is the wrong way!
Make a U-Turn and go back
to Interstate 5.
I think this wins the thread.
...The first two lines rhyme!
So should I even bother
To complete this one?
Vans with Kansas plates
Drivers paid minimum wage
Meh, it's a paycheck.
Innerbelt rebuild
We needed it yesterday
When will it be done?
Fix our crowded roads
I think we can pay for it
Tea Party says no.
I like roundabouts
Better than a four-way stop
Some drivers fear change.
Yellow light's too short
Brake and set off driver-cam
Go and get ticket.
Where's my flying car?
Actually, it exists
It just costs too much.
Looking for a forum thread
Why can't I search by title?
All I need sometimes.
One-way pairs work well
But not for pedestrians
Say city planners.
One-ways can be calm
Just lower the speed limit,
Add parking and trees.
Nirvana attained
No more clinching Interstates
Unless jammed in one's tape deck.
Quote from: vtk on May 02, 2012, 10:34:26 AM
Vans with Kansas plates
Drivers paid minimum wage
Meh, it's a paycheck.
yes, what is with Kansas? I see an unusual number of commercial vehicles outside of that state (i.e. in Arizona, California) with Kansas plates.
Quote from: vtk on May 02, 2012, 10:34:26 AM
Vans with Kansas plates
Drivers paid minimum wage
Meh, it's a paycheck.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 02, 2012, 11:26:24 AM
Quote from: vtk on May 02, 2012, 10:34:26 AM
Vans with Kansas plates
Drivers paid minimum wage
Meh, it's a paycheck.
yes, what is with Kansas? I see an unusual number of commercial vehicles outside of that state (i.e. in Arizona, California) with Kansas plates.
Middle of nowhere.
I assume the van is white.
Wait at the crew change.
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2012, 12:18:25 PM
Middle of nowhere.
I assume the van is white.
Wait at the crew change.
Wish to remain vague
Though I think you're on to me
Arn't most work vans white?
Quote from: Zmapper on October 28, 2011, 05:59:38 PM
agentsteel forgot
I-238 is 6 beats
Try for seven now
2-3-8 is three, but two-thir-ty-eight is four
Quote from: kendancy66 on May 02, 2012, 09:57:37 PM
Quote from: Zmapper on October 28, 2011, 05:59:38 PM
agentsteel forgot
I-238 is 6 beats
Try for seven now
2-3-8 is three, but two-thir-ty-eight is four
Forgot your third line!
^ Still no thirty-eight.
Quote from: vtk on May 02, 2012, 08:55:06 PM
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2012, 12:18:25 PM
Middle of nowhere.
I assume the van is white.
Wait at the crew change.
Wish to remain vague
Though I think you're on to me
Arn't most work vans white?
Nudge nudge, nod, wink wink.
Two one oh seven six eight,
Decal on the door.
Steel, eat your heart out,
Mad skillz are payin the billz
On Google today.
hah I have no idea; the first several pages of hits for "210768" do not seem relevant.
Quote from: kphoger on May 03, 2012, 01:36:05 PM
Quote from: vtk on May 02, 2012, 08:55:06 PM
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2012, 12:18:25 PM
Middle of nowhere.
I assume the van is white.
Wait at the crew change.
Wish to remain vague
Though I think you're on to me
Arn't most work vans white?
Nudge nudge, nod, wink wink.
Two one oh seven six eight,
Decal on the door.
Funny, I didn't
have that number memorized;
Had to look it up.
Can't wait to go home
at the end of the month to
Louisiana
My new Corolla
will surely travel better
than the old Sunfire
My wife, me, and sis
will spend time in New Orleans.
Might yell at the Saints
Hope 10 doesn't suck
New BR signs are ugly
but swamp bridge is fun
Interstate 80
Five lanes is just not enough
I want eight each way.
Quote from: Takumi on May 02, 2012, 11:05:40 PM
Quote from: kendancy66 on May 02, 2012, 09:57:37 PM
Quote from: Zmapper on October 28, 2011, 05:59:38 PM
agentsteel forgot
I-238 is 6 beats
Try for seven now
2-3-8 is three, but two-thir-ty-eight is four
Forgot your third line!
I didn't realize that zmapper made a haiku there. I was only trying to correct his post on the number of syllables in I-238. Only a coincidence that my post was 2/3rds of another haiku. Thanks to formulaone for adding line three.
Actually, I was using my post as the third line as well (it's also five syllables) but I guess nobody picked up on it :spin: :pan:
Thirty-eight for nought
Sixty-six non-existent
Show Me State Oh-Oh.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8641/16563040197_f7398c0d41_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/reBUNz)
A variety of modes of transportation
I like the slow life.
Small towns, walking, you know. Hey!
Move over, lane hog!
My right shoulder's weak.
Backpack propped, cardboard in hand.
Brake lights! Run! Hurry!
Finally asleep.
3 A.M. at a truck stop.
Everyone, get off.
Two hours late? Oh, well.
Ditch my seat, head up two cars.
Watch the farms fly by.
Heading to Greektown.
"Doors open on the left at
UIC—Halstead."
Some past posts prove that
I cannot count properly
Numerical shame.
Understandable.
Many a haiku has had
Wrong syllable count.
Stupid animal
Hope it wasn't someone's pet
Caught under my wheels.
Japanese haiku
Don't count syllables per se
There's a "cut word" too.
We Americans
Often get foreign stuff wrong
Result can be fun.
Stolen old road sign
Replaced with new by the thief
Is that still a crime?
Quote from: vtk on May 04, 2012, 03:52:56 AM
Stolen old road sign
Replaced with new by the thief
Is that still a crime?
stupid new road sign
replacement made to older spec
help me with these bolts
This thread has been bumped.
Don't you hate when people bump?
I'd never do it.
Bump, dip, speed tables.
Interesting words on signs.
The ride is not smooth.
Nelsonville bypass
Part of it is open now
Or so I have read.
Topes warning signs:
They carry a great image,
But I hate topes.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi31.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc378%2F1995hoo%2FRoad%2520sign%2520pictures%2FTopessign_zps5f3077a6.jpg&hash=380d3d215e7a85b27716445a19ec1c9bb2b3f6d3)
Excellent image
Don't know what topes are though
It's still a cool sign
Quote from: signalman on September 25, 2012, 03:49:21 PM
Excellent image
Don't know what topes are though
It's still a cool sign
Topes are speed bumps
Found on roads on Mexico.
Very annoying.
Incidentally,
That there "e" is like long "a."
So you say "toe-pace."
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 25, 2012, 03:54:06 PM
Quote from: signalman on September 25, 2012, 03:49:21 PM
Excellent image
Don't know what topes are though
It's still a cool sign
Topes are speed bumps
Found on roads on Mexico.
Very annoying.
Believe it or not,
a tope is not a bra
or upside-down shades.
AKA reductor de
velocidad, or
sometimes vibrador.
Sign design varies,
some more gradual
like the one you see right here (http://goo.gl/maps/VAbvO).
Yeah, the pic I took
Is from Cozumel. Many
Signs there seem hand-drawn.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 25, 2012, 03:54:06 PM
Quote from: signalman on September 25, 2012, 03:49:21 PM
Excellent image
Don't know what topes are though
It's still a cool sign
Topes are speed bumps
Found on roads on Mexico.
Very annoying.
Incidentally,
That there "e" is like long "a."
So you say "toe-pace."
Thanks for the info
Now I know what topes are
I dislike them too
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 25, 2012, 03:54:06 PM
Found on roads on Mexico.
Proofreading poems:
pretty good idea, but
not always employed.
Quote from: formulanone on May 03, 2012, 09:28:06 PM
Thirty-eight for nought
Sixty-six non-existent
Show Me State Oh-Oh.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2FMoOOsignRoad2a2.jpg&hash=c5bfb250b7460ae2125affea28924b523f2f5e81)
That's my state
Sixty-four non-existent
In most minds.
There are some steel plates
On Cary Street in Richmond.
Lowered cars beware!
Over in Short Pump
North Gayton Road extension
Still isn't open.
Quote from: Takumi on September 26, 2012, 11:08:44 PM
There are some steel plates
On Cary Street in Richmond.
Lowered cars beware!
Over in Short Pump
North Gayton Road extension
Still isn't open.
How many of those
Will we see at the road meet?
Only two more weeks!
Quote from: kphoger on September 26, 2012, 04:41:10 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 25, 2012, 03:54:06 PM
Found on roads on Mexico.
Proofreading poems:
pretty good idea, but
not always employed.
Well, being really
Technical, the roads are "on"
Mexican soil.
:sombrero:
Quote from: hbelkins on September 27, 2012, 10:20:45 AM
How many of those
Will we see at the road meet?
Only two more weeks!
I can add them in,
But that may mean fewer stops
And more "drive by" sites.
It does not matter
To me, I was just looking
To write a haiku.
I-69C
What the heck are they smoking?
AASHTO jumps the shark.
on my way to work
sometimes my mind shuts off but
then i saw a van
different company
from vtk as in post
seventy seven
sorted the muses
not sure but then it hit me
i 69 c
or maybe even
i 69 w
would be better still
used the search feature
prepared to exhume the dead
from its four year rest
checked the most recent
and i thought to myself crap
they beat me to it
dug through the muse trash
should i go with that doggone
highway forty one
but no that won't do
that horse has been beat to death
too cliché by now
an unburial
demands something a bit more
controversy prone
then the angels sang
and my eyes hurt from the blaze
of epiphany
we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse
so give it your best
just remember to keep it
five seven and five
rough draft and revise
make it the absolute best
that dz deserves
if you win we'll name
an oklahoma turnpike
in honor of you
Since this thread was bumped,
I guess someone should compose
Haikus about Marf.
:bigass:
marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 03:22:04 PM
marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?
Knowing everything
Ah, to be fifteen again
No, that really sucked.
Alanland is gone
We do and do not miss it
All the goats vanished
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 02:48:14 PM
hypotenuse
OK, fine, I'll start.
nighttime aerial
of the sodium cobweb
that is chicago
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 03:22:04 PM
marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?
Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow :rofl:
Quote from: webny99 on January 18, 2018, 04:10:48 PM
Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow
↑ is not a haiku. Try again.
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 04:12:29 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 18, 2018, 04:10:48 PM
Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow
↑ is not a haiku. Try again.
That was a command.
I do not know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.
(Success? Failure?)
Quote from: webny99 on January 18, 2018, 04:14:58 PM
That was a command.
I do not don't know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.
(Success? Failure?)
We pretty much just go by the 5-7-5 rule on here. There's more to poetry than that, but it's good enough for us.
linda is a ghost
green gables was never here
as proved by a search
Marf then saw Linda
And went to lick her fanny :bigass:
It did not end well
Quote from: webny99 on January 18, 2018, 04:10:48 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 03:22:04 PM
marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?
Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow :rofl:
Linda
Of Green Gables?
How about Lisa
From Green Acres.
spui, dee dee eye,
parclo, riro, aashto, god!
we sound moronic...
Quote from: webny99 on January 18, 2018, 04:14:58 PM
That was a command.
I do not know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.
(Success? Failure?)
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Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 02:48:14 PM
we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse
Hypotenuse is only 4 syllables.
The story is sad
California US Routes
Very few are left
Tim Brown said it bips
In reality it pibs
What's the difference?
Roadgeekteen can't spell
He does not seem to care
Grammar nerds go nuts
Enter a county
Turn around and go back out
You didn't "froggie" it
Will we ever quit
Discussing Breezewood P-A
It's highly doubtful
I-238
What a joke of interstate
Where's I-38?
Quote from: hbelkins on January 19, 2018, 11:24:50 AM
Roadgeekteen can't spell
He does not seem to care
Grammar nerds go nuts
Some users are worse
I wont mention any names
Both make me crazy
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on January 19, 2018, 12:29:34 PM
I-238
What a joke of interstate
Where's I-38?
:D
Quote from: 21stCenturyRoad on January 18, 2018, 04:35:51 PM
Marf then saw Linda
And went to lick her fanny :bigass:
It did not end well
If you're a Limey
Then that came out all crazy
Fanny different
He came, he saw, Marf
Not stop attacking people
He went, he ban, Barf
Posing as two plus
Marf did that and more, cray-cray
Sockpuppets are bad
Marf as two plus more
Sockpuppets are bad, mmm-kay
Got ban stick for good
South on 55
IDOT did a crappy job
Now 80 needs help.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 18, 2018, 03:10:53 PM
Since this thread was bumped,
I guess someone should compose
Haikus about Marf.
:bigass:
Challenge accepted: :bigass:
Marf just took a barf
That he made into a scarf
Then he got a ban
Quote from: inkyatari on January 19, 2018, 02:51:32 PM
South on 55
IDOT did a crappy job
Now 80 needs help.
North <bump> 5 <bump> 5
IDOT can't pave worth shit - fuck!
Need new shocks and rims
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 18, 2018, 07:09:35 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 02:48:14 PM
we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse
Hypotenuse is only 4 syllables.
Well, crap! And to think how many times I counted its syllables to confirm it's only four, it's really irritating that I still didn't tack on an extra word in the final draft.
Quote from: kphoger on January 19, 2018, 03:03:36 PM
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 18, 2018, 07:09:35 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 02:48:14 PM
we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse
Hypotenuse is only 4 syllables.
Well, crap! And to think how many times I counted its syllables to confirm it's only four, it's really irritating that I still didn't tack on an extra word in the final draft.
Well, crap! So it is!
Counted it so many times.
Needed one more word.
Quote from: kphoger on January 18, 2018, 02:48:14 PM
we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
fucking hypotenuse thing
The Hypoteneuse
What a terrible idea
DzlSabe's folly
right of way is there
even if you think it's not
neighborhoods be damned
日本語で
高速道路
どう言うの
Quote from: kurumi on January 20, 2018, 12:38:56 AM
日本語で
高速道路
どう言うの
Pardon ignorance
From those who just read English
Do translate; thank you :D
Oregon's speed limit
Why is I-5 65?
Raise it please ODOT.
Route 823
23 to 52
Bypassing Portsmouth
Quote from: webny99 on January 20, 2018, 01:13:55 AM
Quote from: kurumi on January 20, 2018, 12:38:56 AM
日本語で
高速道路
どう言うの
Pardon ignorance
From those who just read English
Do translate; thank you :D
Japanese is like,
High speed roadway, elegant
But makes one say d'oh!
Here's a sign I saw
while browsing Google maps. Dude,
button copy porn!
Inset exit tabs
ruin the aesthetics, danged
Caltrans renegades...
Don't try to tell me
there's a wind load problem. Shoot,
this ain't Florida.
55 southbound
Bolingbrook and Joliet
I need new axle
The three word game rocked
Too bad the thread got shut down
Bad moderation
The three word game rocked
Too bad the thread got shut down
Before I could play
Woes of being gone
You miss good stuff when the mods
Misuse the power
Typing this haiku
Aboard a westbound Amtrak
Somewhere in Utah
Train delayed by broke down freight
Leaving Chicago
And rerouted by the floods
Spending many hours
Parked at the Amtrak train stop
Omaha N-E
Too much discussion
Of what does does not exist
Ruined a fun thing
Legacy's truck ban
won't last long, but the NIMBYs
can't accept this fact
The quicker way to
Go from Chi-town to Sea-town
Is I-90 west
I-285
Atlanta locals call you
the perimeter
It's been two years now
I have a new employer.
Same industry, though.
Slightly diff'rent job;
Since March I've not been on-call.
Mental health improved.
Regular schedule,
Same eight hours ev'ry day.
Mental health improved.
No more long road trips,
Just quick runs 'tween yards and trains
Around Columbus.
No road trips for work.
Now I can enjoy driving
Far on my days off.
Central Avenue
And I have a new channel
To post road trip vids.
Not much to see yet.
I'd name the channel here, but
It's eight syllables.
I've been distracted
By so many other things.
What the heck's a Marf?
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Forget ne'er-do-wells
And the incessant whiners
Back to the topic
Breezewood reviled
Another damn Clearview rant
Disliked new bridge name
Highway incomplete
Was it eminent domain
Or lack of funding?
Unnecessary
Exit dumps you off at the
Middle of nowhere
Never perfected
Lo! A new country club zoned
Right in future path
Dotted lines for now
Bickering developers
The sounds of silence
How else to explain
Half-assed projects dreamt up by
entire asshats.
Viatology
Still a subject to be mocked
Ridiculed as well
Burma Shave
A style to revere
Of signage that is lost
Quote from: Big John on August 21, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Who thinks Marf should be back on this forum? I never met him, but it would be funny if I did.
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on August 23, 2019, 12:38:03 AM
Quote from: Big John on August 21, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Who thinks Marf should be back on this forum? I never met him, but it would be funny if I did.
Absoultely not. He kept attacking webny99. Quite often, the first post of one of his sockpuppets would be an attack, making it obvious who he was.
Quote from: 1 on August 23, 2019, 05:13:50 AM
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on August 23, 2019, 12:38:03 AM
Quote from: Big John on August 21, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Who thinks Marf should be back on this forum? I never met him, but it would be funny if I did.
Absoultely not. He kept attacking webny99. Quite often, the first post of one of his sockpuppets would be an attack, making it obvious who he was.
Marf
Marf207
PatTheSplasher
ShoppingforFood
LindaOfGreenGables
He might have had others. I believe they gave him an IP address ban, although he managed to circumvent it at least once.
My best memories
On the old Route 66
California bound
Quote from: vtk on August 21, 2019, 11:19:49 PM
It's been two years now
Welcome back! Missed you.
Two years since I got a new employer. I don't think I was away from the forums quite that long. (Checking my forum posts, looks like it was about 7 months.)
Connecticut Roads
Will they soon have a big toll?
Lamont stiffs us all!
Beginning in March,
Streets were less trafficked but, Nope!
Not true anymore.
I-366
Close to being possible
Still will not happen
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 23, 2019, 09:40:16 AM
Quote from: 1 on August 23, 2019, 05:13:50 AM
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on August 23, 2019, 12:38:03 AM
Quote from: Big John on August 21, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Who thinks Marf should be back on this forum? I never met him, but it would be funny if I did.
Absoultely not. He kept attacking webny99. Quite often, the first post of one of his sockpuppets would be an attack, making it obvious who he was.
Marf
Marf207
PatTheSplasher
ShoppingforFood
LindaOfGreenGables
He might have had others. I believe they gave him an IP address ban, although he managed to circumvent it at least once.
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
Quote from: kphoger on August 18, 2020, 04:18:20 PM
Beginning in March,
Streets were less trafficked but, Nope!
Not true anymore.
Maybe in your state.
But here the traffic remains
Lower than normal
Yes it has picked up
Since bottoming out in March.
But still not normal
In Pennsylvania
A highway named ninety-nine
Angers all you nerds.
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
This forum would be
unreachable from China
should they block access
Since VPNs are widely used in the PRC to circunvent censorship, due to that stalker who kept trying to ban someone this forum would be completely inaccessible from there in the event of a block even if one is used, thus forcing someone to leave that country in order to enter this. Fortunately it shouldn't happen, as we don't discuss sensitive topics about China.
Also, I had a real headscratcher putting that haiku together. Does it need to rhyme anywhere?
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 23, 2019, 09:40:16 AM
Quote from: 1 on August 23, 2019, 05:13:50 AM
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on August 23, 2019, 12:38:03 AM
Quote from: Big John on August 21, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
Marf is a stalker
of webny99 who
tried to get him banned.
Who thinks Marf should be back on this forum? I never met him, but it would be funny if I did.
Absoultely not. He kept attacking webny99. Quite often, the first post of one of his sockpuppets would be an attack, making it obvious who he was.
Marf
Marf207
PatTheSplasher
ShoppingforFood
LindaOfGreenGables
He might have had others. I believe they gave him an IP address ban, although he managed to circumvent it at least once.
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
I just logged on with a VPN active and it didn't cause any problems.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 20, 2020, 10:37:57 AM
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 23, 2019, 09:40:16 AM
He might have had others. I believe they gave him an IP address ban, although he managed to circumvent it at least once.
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
I just logged on with a VPN active and it didn't cause any problems.
Because you already have an account. You can no longer request a
new account that way.
There's some discussion of that here (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=22058.0) (
note you will have to be logged out to view), in a thread started by Babafan23, another Marf sockpuppet (I think). That sockpuppet never made it onto the forum, thankfully.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on August 20, 2020, 09:55:44 AM
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
This forum would be
unreachable from China
should they block access
Since VPNs are widely used in the PRC to circunvent censorship, due to that stalker who kept trying to ban someone this forum would be completely inaccessible from there in the event of a block even if one is used, thus forcing someone to leave that country in order to enter this. Fortunately it shouldn't happen, as we don't discuss sensitive topics about China.
Also, I had a real headscratcher putting that haiku together. Does it need to rhyme anywhere?
Well the first line is only four syllables instead of five...
Quote from: 74/171FAN on August 20, 2020, 11:54:21 AM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on August 20, 2020, 09:55:44 AM
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
This forum would be
unreachable from China
should they block access
Since VPNs are widely used in the PRC to circunvent censorship, due to that stalker who kept trying to ban someone this forum would be completely inaccessible from there in the event of a block even if one is used, thus forcing someone to leave that country in order to enter this. Fortunately it shouldn't happen, as we don't discuss sensitive topics about China.
Also, I had a real headscratcher putting that haiku together. Does it need to rhyme anywhere?
Well the first line is only four syllables instead of five...
Forum is two syllables.
Quote from: 1 on August 20, 2020, 12:38:04 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on August 20, 2020, 11:54:21 AM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on August 20, 2020, 09:55:44 AM
Quote from: Takumi on August 19, 2020, 12:17:21 AM
I think he started using VPNs to get around it, and as a result they banned VPNs on the forum.
This forum would be
unreachable from China
should they block access
Since VPNs are widely used in the PRC to circunvent censorship, due to that stalker who kept trying to ban someone this forum would be completely inaccessible from there in the event of a block even if one is used, thus forcing someone to leave that country in order to enter this. Fortunately it shouldn't happen, as we don't discuss sensitive topics about China.
Also, I had a real headscratcher putting that haiku together. Does it need to rhyme anywhere?
Well the first line is only four syllables instead of five...
Forum is two syllables.
Well, my five-year-old son might tell you "this" is two syllables. THI–S
Well I may be combining syllables in my head.
Here's one about my metro.
I-435:
Parking lot at 5 o'clock
through Overland Park.
Here's some I thought of, about a waterpark I often go to in my hometown of KC:
In KC's Northland
There's an awesome waterpark
Its name is The Springs
Right near KCI
It's close to Zona Rosa
Just off 29
Love that waterpark!
It's a great place to cool off
On hot summer days
It's a lot of fun
Two slides, a lazy river
And some diving boards
It doesn't cost much
Just nine dollars to get in
Open noon 'til 8
When it's hot outside,
The Springs Aquatic Center
Is the place to be.
From I-29:
Exit 10 (Tiffany Springs)
Head west, then turn left
Send those to their marketing department, haha.
And a helpful pointer for waterpark fans:
At the waterpark,
Unless you want to get burned,
Put that sunscreen on!
Garden State Parkway:
once serene and beautiful,
now an urban mess.
I-294
Chicago's major bypass
Too much truck traffic
Oh Palatine Road
What would we do without you?
Have a better life
It's Highway 40
Not Interstate 64
That one's for pussies
cool I-95
Too much traffic, can't go fast
it's 128
There's a solid line.
Do I dare to go across?
Crash_It will be pissed.