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Dennis L. White
Senior Member
since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463
Michigan, U.S.A.

0 posted 2000-06-08 11:19 AM


I didn't write this but thought I would share it with my friends in the PUB. ENJOY!

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, five in the third.

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Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

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The Web site you seek

Can not be located but

Countless more exist.

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Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

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ABORTED effort:

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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First snow, then silence.

This thousand dollar screen dies

So beautifully.

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With searching comes loss

And the presence of absence:

"My Novel" not found.

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The Tao that is seen

Is not the true Tao--until

You bring fresh toner.

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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.



 Moonbeams radiate
When the veiling cloud has past
Playful shadows dance

Dennis L. White :^)

© Copyright 2000 Dennis L. White - All Rights Reserved
ellie LeJeune
Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA
1 posted 2000-06-08 02:24 PM


dennis; LOL, I enjoyed this very much. Very clever indeed. Sis

 02



Yu Lan
Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462
New Zealand
2 posted 2000-06-09 01:12 AM


Ahh this is brilliant!!

err, my mum just said to reply to this in haiku.. ok..

Ha ha ha ha ha
Tee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Chuckle chuckle laugh.

Hehe, just kidding.. very good.. are these really error messages?! ^_^

Can I copy these? I would like to send this to a friend.. ^^

Lynne


brian madden
Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland
3 posted 2000-06-09 07:50 PM


excellent haiku.

thanks for sharing made me laugh, but it is true. Computers user friendly? maybe the biggest oxymoron of all.

great haiku, well I would enjoy it if it referes to Taoism.

 ------------------------
"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards

"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity"
Nicky Wire, A design for Life.

manic street preachers
"Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair"

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.



kaile
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Member Ascendant
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146
singapore
4 posted 2000-12-18 12:11 PM


thanx for sharing, dennis...i especially loved the line 'presence of absence', raised my eyebrows when i read 'simple stone', related to the agony of 'retyping' and marvelled at the line "of little worth is your ire"...

now, if i may just add on...

nude pictures download
i thank you for your forward
but i am at school

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hardworking fingers type
heartfelt mail to precious friend
Darn computer crash!

your turn, dennis

pegasus111
Member Elite
since 2000-07-27
Posts 2219
ocala, fl, usa
5 posted 2000-12-18 04:37 PM


wonderful Dennis..all of this has happened to me..at least I can understand these messages..lol

this machine is tired
please remove yourself now
before it's too late




the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost


Dopey Dope
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Moderator
Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico
6 posted 2000-12-18 06:36 PM


Wow I can't believe i read all those haiku's. ALl of them were so good.



I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I hate your socks. I'd like to burn them!


kindasorta
Member
since 2000-12-02
Posts 56

7 posted 2000-12-18 06:52 PM


Dear Friend Dennis,
  Needless to say, my thoughts on your haiku's are, well....great! brainstorming for just the right words that I'm searching for ...oh, ya know ya couldn't sent a e but much more fun sharing these little jewels with us all.....

let me try, may I?

checking (my) wordpad
document found that I seek
belongs to just me!


another one:

when typing for friends
hope to give fingers a break
oopps! that was a pun. :_



kindasorta
Member
since 2000-12-02
Posts 56

8 posted 2000-12-18 10:40 PM


oh dear,must follow with add-on here.  Silly me, presence of absence, so trusting aren't I?  So sorry for your loss.  
kcsgrandma
Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME
9 posted 2000-12-19 12:24 PM


Loved these!  

Your printer is down
Your mail cannot be opened
Might as well sign off.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

KokoStewartKoomoa
Senior Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 580
Waikiki, Hawaii
10 posted 2000-12-19 03:54 AM


hehehehehe too funny and yep so true! thanks

Passion,imagination
and intellect
running together...
Poetry in motion~~~

Aloha with
warmest regards, Koko



Joannak
Member
since 2000-03-11
Posts 121
Indiana, USA
11 posted 2000-12-20 02:17 AM


Dennis,
As a lover of haiku, especially yours, I have enjoyed this posting immensely.  I think I will have to put some of these into use for favorite friends and their ... wonderfully efficient.. computers.  Thanks for this one,
Joanna


What better way to become immortal than to wake up each day and write? Ray Bradbury



Little_Spyro
Senior Member
since 2000-01-09
Posts 659
San Diego, CA, USA
12 posted 2000-12-20 02:26 AM


I am now impressed.

For the truth has been revealed

And all shall see it.

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Wonderful are these--

Dennis, why don't you just try

And write some yourself?


I'm sure that all you

Would write, would be masterful

Works of art indeed.  


Little Spyro T. Dragon


Watching the poets
Passions' guardian dragon
Moves with the rhymes' flow.

Though my body be
Human, my heart and soul be
That of a dragon.

Dennis L. White
Senior Member
since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463
Michigan, U.S.A.
13 posted 2000-12-20 12:02 PM


Yes, these are fun, I will try a few!

Control, Alt, Delete

Used to be for a warm boot

Formats hard drive now!

******

Premium system

State of Art, top of the Line

Crashed, Boat anchor now!


Thanks for all your responses, your poetic replies were SUPER! Dennis :^)



Moonbeams radiate
When the veiling cloud has passed
Playful shadows dance

Dennis L. White :^)


Jamie
Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168
Blue Heaven
14 posted 2000-12-20 03:15 PM


Most Enjoyable
These have really made me smile
Now I must shut down


Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".


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