SPAM Haiku Vote Tally from the Second 1000
Total Top 50 Votes Cast: 329
Top 50 SPAM Haiku Vote Tally:
Votes: 20
They have no more SPAM
My hands tremble with anger
Clean-up on aisle 5
--Cissy Hartley
Votes: 16
I allowed the SPAM
To slide to toilet from can
Saved time and trouble
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu
Votes: 15
Boy trapped in ice box
Nothing else inside but SPAM
Boy eats own left foot
--Anonymous
Votes: 14
Using only SPAM
Grandma made some tasty treats.
We set her on fire.
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu
Votes: 13
Critics will scoff: "These
aren't real haiku." We'll retort,
"So? SPAM ain't real meat."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
Votes: 11
Formless spawn of pork,
Leers with gelatinous gaze,
Taunting my lean soul.
--William Bradford, tslug@peak.org
If Hormel branched out
With new meat types, we might see
Spicken, Spish, or Speef.
--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au
Drunk crippled Ewok,
Dead on sidewalk, piss-drenched fur,
SPAM just out of reach
--Charles Campos, chaz@mailserv.edcc.edu
Pepto-Bismol / SPAM
One yin to the other's yang
Pink pursuing pink
--Bill Turner, turnerwj@muohio.edu
Votes: 10
Knock knock. "Trick or Treat!"
Winking, I said "Here's your 'Treet'."
The brats torched my house.
--Bill Lafferty, mr_bill@ix.netcom.com
Roseate pork slab
How you quiver on my spork!
Radiant light, gelled.
--L. Sheahen, lsheahen@nas.edu
Turkey-shaped SPAM for
Thanksgiving dinner. None give
thanks but the turkey.
--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV
Votes: 9
"Life is like a tin
of SPAM: you never know which
pig parts you're getting."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
"A SPAM murder, Holmes?
Whither the murder weapon?"
"Alimentary."
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu
What a mockery--
Lettuce and fruits surround SPAM.
Why gild the lily?
--L. Sheahen, lsheahen@nas.edu
Eat or be eaten.
With SPAM, you can never be
sure who is winning.
--Ben Hitz, hitz@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu
Votes: 8
I say "to-may-to"
you say "to-mah-to." I say
"SPAM," you say "pure crap."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
Fuchsia and chartreuse
The breakfast of champions
SPAM and Mountain Dew
--Bill Turner, turnerwj@muohio.edu
SPAM SHAM arrested
for "Incitement to Haiku"
and "Contempt of Pork."
--Rory, son of mickman
Votes: 7
AMSPay aikuhay
Ogicallay Anguagelay:
Igpay Atinlay.
--Artinmay Oodabay, booda@datasync.com
Votes: 6
The Lord is my swine-
herd; I shall not want. He forms
me to fit in tins.
--Martin H. Booda, booda@datasync.com
Economy class.
The entrŠ choice: SPAM or SPAM.
Oh, look! Parachutes!
--Bill Lafferty, mr_bill@ix.netcom.com
How my hands tremble
Applying a light coat of
SPAM-colored lipstick
--L. Sheahen, lsheahen@nas.edu
you can buy a nice
prostitute in vietnam
for a can of spam
--heightj@coral.indstate.edu
Not-so-wise Man brings
SPAM. Manger doorknob hits his
Ass on the way out.
--Martin H. Booda, booda@datasync.com
Jessica Fletcher
Finds body with SPAM beside.
Suicide? Murder?
--Suzanne Schufletowski
Votes: 5
God said, "SPAM thou art
And to SPAM thou doth return.
(After some grinding.)"
--Stephen Price Masticola, masticol@scr.siemens.com
Opening the can
Provides a sense of wonder:
"Who has lost their lunch?"
--Reber Clark, rebermuse@aol.com
What is this SPAM loaf?
It is the piece that passeth
All understanding.
--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk
SPAM, the perfect grub
For soldiers marching to war.
They'll kill for real food.
--Mike McGaff
Votes: 4
Wrote homework on SPAM
But when I tried to find it
Dog had eaten it
--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au
SPAM spawned a romance
Stared into her eyes, and shared--
One can, and two spoons
--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au
Grills spew smoke on mall.
D.C. filled with barbeque.
The million-SPAM march.
--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com
Immanuel Kant
tried to justify SPAM in
Critique of Pure Pork.
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
What meat through yonder
window breaks? It is SPAM, and
Juliet lies hurt.
--Ed Wood, edw@ttgwest.com
Spamasaurus Rex
cloned from old loaves' DNA
in Jurassic Pork.
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
Three little piggies
Went to market. Chop, chop, chop.
Well, well. I'll be spammed!
--Mike O`Connor (K.M.O`Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk
When you fry a slab
It seems to form a red scab
And grease oozes out.
--Greg O'Rear, jgo.systems@mhs.unc.edu
Votes: 3
In order for it
To be shaped that way something
Has to extrude it.
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu
A madman, obsessed
by SPAM, screams, "Stop me before
I haiku again."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu
Circled by Triscuits
Abbatoir aroma thick
The Pillar of Oink
--Chris Meagher, meagher@cimmetry.mfg.sgi.com
Votes: 2
U.S. Air Force tests
Blasting SPAM at plane windshields
Should have opened can
--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au
They enjoyed the stew
But when offered SPAM ice cream
My dinner guests left.
--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au
Consider these two,
SPAM and tofu: both cubes, both
A misery meal.
--GayLee Kilpatrick, tmpsfgit@wln.com
U.S. troops arrive,
And with them, M.R.E.'s. Blight
Spreads through Bosnia.
--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com
Wist not that a ham
hideth th'immaculate Lamb?
Myst'ry, Thou art "SPAM"!
--Dave "Milton" Bieri, BIERI@IDX.IDX.COM
A la Recherche du
SPAM Perdu: instructions for
Reclaiming spoilt meat.
--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com
Votes: 1
Bite once: it's just lunch
Bite twice: it starts to entice
Bite thrice: paradise
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu
Vote tally form last updated: February 15, 1996
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