Haiku's

Impirius · Post by **Impirius** » September 25, 2002, 3:44 pm

From an email I was sent:

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages.
Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the
second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and
powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"

noel · Post by **noel** » September 25, 2002, 3:49 pm

Another 2 minutes of my life I can NEVER GET BACK.

Impirius · Post by **Impirius** » September 25, 2002, 3:50 pm

Gah, must make me laugh cause i'm a pc tech

noel · Post by **noel** » September 25, 2002, 3:51 pm

/comfort Impirius

I feel your pain man.

Hayley · Post by **Hayley** » September 25, 2002, 3:54 pm

HAHAHA! Those are great! I think I might have to put one of those in my sig here at work. Good lord I'm really a geek.

Xyphir · Post by **Xyphir** » September 25, 2002, 4:04 pm

Did they really compose the haikus in English? Gonna have to call bullshit.

Hayley · Post by **Hayley** » September 25, 2002, 4:10 pm

Who cares whether it's bullshit or not?!

Ravenwind · Post by **Ravenwind** » September 25, 2002, 4:16 pm

Now thats good, had me lauging at some.

Rav

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » September 25, 2002, 4:19 pm

XP so simple
A monkey could install it
Sucks to be you, Sir

Nick · Post by **Nick** » September 25, 2002, 5:01 pm

Ex
cell
ent

!

Searyx · Post by **Searyx** » September 25, 2002, 10:30 pm

Didn't you quit EQ, Aranuil? Yet you still post? You have no life, man!

Xyun · Post by **Xyun** » September 25, 2002, 10:45 pm

Searyx sucks big cocks
He is an attention whore
I hate Wuoshi

Truant · Post by **Truant** » September 25, 2002, 10:54 pm

regarding the original post of microsoft haiku

these are all old, I've seen most of them if not all before...and many were copy pasted on the old vault when we first got into haiku battles.

They're still funny. but for those of you wondering...i just gave you an unwarranted factoid. feel my fury.

Hammerstalker PE · September 26, 2002, 12:46 am

Searyx you useless POS. If you had a character you played on Veeshan, you would know Aranuil has been back for 2 months now. STFU asstard.

Millie · Post by **Millie** » September 26, 2002, 2:09 am

600 Posts Here,
800 on FoH:
Searyx is a freak

Lexien · Post by **Lexien** » September 26, 2002, 10:15 am

I second that Millie!