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Search Term Haiku April 5, 2007

While looking at my traffic logs to investigate Sam's Mean Face, I noticed something else amusing. The terms that people use in search engines like Google to find this site often crack me up, mostly for their sublime absurdity. Reading through some of the recent ones, I noticed that many of these terms could be grouped together to form haiku. For those of you in need of a refresher, a haiku (the plural form is also "haiku") is essentially a form of Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each. You probably wrote some horrible ones as part of an assignment in your high school Humanities class.

Combing through my old traffic logs for actual 5 and 7 syllable search terms, I quickly assembled the following haiku:

the evil Snugli
alien pops up screaming
rectal catheter

getting dressed for school
orange dork tee shirts
Mr. Noodle underpants

screening applicants
a monkey washing dishes
Christopher Walkin

For Whom the Bell Tolls
what happens in chap nineteen
job analysis

covered in egg food
watching the diaper changes
I'm communism

gigantic clown bong
gradually pixilates
Jenna Bush liver

zombie survival
my evil closet monkey
pissing Ayne Rand off

WoW human warlock
your clothes on inside out
the reverse mullet

Maybe it's extra funny to me because I can think back and recall exactly which posts each of these terms comes from, but at any rate it cracks me up. If have a blog and care to perpetuate this into some kind of meme, take a look at your traffic logs and try it yourself. It's surprisingly fun.

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