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May 8th, 2012

449 Foolßball

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  1. Carp
    May 8th, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    Multiple comics
    With a maximum number
    Of packed-in humour;

    With enough comics,
    I’ll exhibit perpetual
    Gut-busting laughter;

    My stomach, weaker!
    My intestines, bursting forth!
    Consequence of jokes.

  2. Carp
    May 9th, 2012 at 12:11 am

    Updates at speeds quick –
    I require innovation
    For timely haikus.

  3. MS Paint Adventurer
    May 9th, 2012 at 6:43 am

    Umlauts!!!

  4. Fren
    May 9th, 2012 at 7:33 am

    Truly, I was expecting Moe to state that he was leaving the footie to the silly Europeans or some such. Start his own Tazmanian rules Murderball match.

  5. Dreab
    May 9th, 2012 at 7:50 am

    @MS Paint Adventurer
    Finally, my opportunity to be a true ortography nazi has come: The ß isn’t an umlaut, it’s a special consonant.

  6. Doramjan
    May 9th, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    Moe could almost pass for a soccer ball with some strategically placed black shapes…

  7. Mark
    May 9th, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    @Dreab
    “special consonant” is vague. It’s an eszett.

  8. Sir Guy
    May 9th, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    It’s not difficult
    Imagining Moe vs kids
    Steamrolled victory

  9. Fren
    May 10th, 2012 at 7:44 am

    Yes, ze umlaut is ze two leeddle dots over ze vowel. Und ze eszett is fur when you has two uv ze letter “S” togezer. Zey goes aber ze lange vowels.

    That’s my best fake German accent. Don’t judge.

  10. Haiku
    May 10th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    We never judge here.
    Although, syllables…they are.
    Don’t make mistakes there.

  11. Dent
    May 10th, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    There are some things, friends,
    That must be done correctly.
    Syllables is one.

  12. Fren
    May 11th, 2012 at 7:22 am

    Friends, haiku is not my-ku. I admire the abilities inherent in expressing a complete thought in a mere 17 syllables. Truly, a wonder. Kitchen prose, however, serves better my purposes. Perhaps the occasional gutter rhyme.

  13. Carp
    May 11th, 2012 at 9:53 am

    Twelve comments, matching
    With the comics’ twelve year olds;
    Now, no more. (sorry)

  14. Carp
    May 11th, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Fren, feel no worries.
    All poetries are welcome
    In this little space.

  15. Carp
    May 11th, 2012 at 9:56 am

    (Of course, by poems,
    I also mean to include
    Your kitchen proses)

  16. Haiku
    May 14th, 2012 at 10:34 am

    (Oh Moesday, when will you return)

  17. Prince of Dread
    May 14th, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    I fear thee gone now–
    Doodler of the fantastic.
    But what do I know?

    (I’m the Prince of Dread–ruler of all things half-empty. Meh…)

  18. Carp
    May 15th, 2012 at 2:55 am

    Waiting for comics,
    With a trusty bag of chips;
    I won’t be hungry.

  19. Carp
    May 15th, 2012 at 2:56 am

    Check time, 3 AM:
    Mediocre poetry
    Spills from my fingers.

  20. Haiku
    May 15th, 2012 at 4:25 am

    Diablo 3 here.
    But it won’t load, much like Moe.
    Twice sadness. Cry cry.

  21. Fren
    May 16th, 2012 at 7:24 am

    Alas, no Diablo 3 for me. I have but Minecraft to keep me company.

  22. Carp
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:46 am

    For now, my game is
    Rollercoaster Tycoon 2;
    Replaying classics.

  23. Carp
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:47 am

    By classics I mean
    Crappy games from the 90s;
    I still love ’em, though.

  24. Nimz
    May 16th, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Alas, I had stuff –
    Things to write in Haiku form –
    For my first ‘Moe’pdate.

    Was it all for naught?
    Now that I caught up, Moe leaves?
    How miserable!

    It’s all my fault, see.
    I started reading archives,
    And now no mo’e Moe. :(

  25. Firman
    May 16th, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    I’ll have to make an official announcement about this later, but I may be out of action for a while :C
    My tablet is dead, and it was my fantastic companion through 8 years of learning illustration. I’ll have to get a fresh one (even though I dislike the drawing surface roughness of newer models) but am in the middle of moving, and don’t exactly have much money. I’m going to apply for work in trainyards and really hope I can get some kind of job there, because trains! Choo choo! Then hopefully I’ll get back on track with the art stuff, pun intended.

    Also rollercoaster tycoon is anything but a crappy game!

  26. Carp
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    I suppose what lacks
    in graphics is made up for
    in creative fun!

  27. Carp
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Firman moves away:
    Gone is the admiral hat;
    Call him, “conductor.”

  28. Carp
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    Nimz, don’t worry much.
    Firman may have absences,
    But always returns.

  29. Philip
    May 17th, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Michael Firman. You have created one of my favorite comics, and I want to see it continue. E-mail me your mailing address, and I will mail you a Wacom Bamboo tablet.

  30. Carp
    May 17th, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    True patron of arts:
    A passion for great comics;
    Generous wallet.

  31. Fren
    May 18th, 2012 at 7:10 am

    A toast to Philip, a true man of wealth and taste.

  32. Bo Jackson
    May 18th, 2012 at 7:22 am

    But say it like this:
    A true man of wealth and taste —
    A toast to Philip.

  33. Carp
    May 20th, 2012 at 12:38 am

    *cough cough*

  34. Larkin
    May 20th, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Dearest Philip,

    You reflect the desire for moe Moe in all of us. There’s probably some lust mixed up in there, too.

    –Everyone EVER

  35. Haiku
    May 20th, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    (Philip, you honor us and Admiral Firman. I will go to Mr. Firman’s paypal and begin donating what I can to get him a fancy desk for his tablet (or) a second bamboo tablet so the first won’t get lonely)

    (The Moe must flow)

  36. Fren
    May 21st, 2012 at 10:19 am

    Hip hip, Phillip!
    Hip hip, Phillip!
    Hip hip, Phillip!

    Cheers, of which the number is three.

  37. Nimz
    May 21st, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    Wouldn’t such a man,
    of such wealth and taste, that is,
    find Moe repulsive?

    I am so confused!
    And yet… and yet… there is hope.
    There is always h’Moe’pe.

    No way is Phillip,
    Patr’Moe’n of awesome comics,
    voice for the devil.

  38. Philip
    May 21st, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    Haha! You guys are fun! Before you start thinking my Spanish name should be Señor Dinero, let me clarify:

    The Bamboo tablet by Wacom is their entry-level tablet (you can get them easily for under $100, where their Intuos 4 sells for around $200). Still, I like it because it feels like drawing with pencil on paper.

    Also, this tablet’s not going to be new. I have one sitting in my desk drawer that hasn’t been used for a while. Packing and mailing the tablet’s going to cost all of $5.25. Well, maybe $10 if he’s in Canada. 😛

  39. Carp
    May 21st, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    Wallet, not so deep;
    Pre-used gifts are, however,
    Frugal and loving.

  40. Carp
    May 21st, 2012 at 11:39 pm

    (eh, frugal was meant as a compliment, i.e. not stingy, but rather smartly-spending. Just in case that didn’t get across)

  41. Fren
    May 22nd, 2012 at 10:11 am

    Well, Señor Dinero, that Bamboo is still a quantifiable asset which could be resold for a fair share of the value originally paid. The fact that you would make such an offer to a man that you do not know, even a man so great as our Admiral Firman, is truly in the spirit of generosity.

  42. Firman
    May 23rd, 2012 at 2:17 am

    Philip! I love the offer, you are the BEST! But as it stands I’m inching closer to the necessary funds for a higher end model so I think I will be able to get things in order by beginning of June. It won’t be as big as I’m used to, and it will probably have that rough surface I don’t like, but I’m a big boy and I can get used to it!
    Looking forward to digitally drawing again!

  43. doramjan
    May 24th, 2012 at 9:02 am

    M ore comics to come
    O nly the finest humor
    E xistential joke?

  44. doramjan
    May 24th, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    Let us not give up
    Seize the day; write some poems
    One hundred haikus

  45. doramjan
    May 24th, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    I move to rename Philip to Señor Bolsa de Dinero, or perhaps Rico McPato. Will anyone second my motion?

  46. Carp
    May 24th, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    Doramjam, I shall
    Exert my influences;
    Philip! Change your name.

    😛

  47. Fren
    May 25th, 2012 at 7:27 am

    We have a tradition ’round here that nicknames stick. Thus, Firman became the Admiral, though that is not his full honoriffic.

  48. Argentinidad
    May 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am

    MOOAAARR comics
    (sorry)

  49. Doramjan
    May 25th, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    I think you mean MOE’AAARR comics 😉

  50. Scrooge McPato
    May 25th, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Glad to hear you’re getting an awesome tablet! Hey, have you thought of putting an Amazon Affiliate link on your website? It doesn’t cost you anything, and you get like 10% of whatever we purchase through that link. That would include that tablet you’re buying. Sign up as an Amazon Affiliate and make $20 on your own purchase =)

  51. Carp
    May 27th, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    Brief silences
    Descend upon comment rooms;
    Whispering haikus.

  52. Doramjan
    May 27th, 2012 at 10:06 pm

    Happy Me’Moe’rial Day :)

  53. Haiku
    May 28th, 2012 at 11:02 am

    Happy, Me’Moe’rial Day everyone.

  54. Fren
    May 29th, 2012 at 7:44 am

    Scrooge has the right of it. May as well dupe Amazon into giving you a break.

  55. Fren
    May 30th, 2012 at 7:25 am

    Mine own daughter saw her twelfth birthday this weekend. Should Moe attempt to tackle her, I may have to punch his head.

  56. Carp
    May 30th, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Duping Amazon
    Strikes me as a bit reckless;
    Don’t they have failsafes?

  57. Carp
    May 30th, 2012 at 10:27 am

    A bald white striker
    Bum-rushes Fren’s twelve year old;
    He ain’t havin’ it.

  58. Doramjan
    May 30th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    This comic has been
    up for almost the entire
    month of Moe’ay

  59. Scrooge McPato
    May 30th, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    Whoa, I wasn’t talking about duping Amazon! I was talking about using their completely legitimate Affiliate program to link to Amazon. It’s roughly the same as having an ad on your site, but it’s less intrusive because it’s in the form of a link. The link would go to a specific product (say, that tablet he’s buying), but then if you end up buying something else while on Amazon, he still gets around 10%. The writer of http://www.basicinstructions.net just went to part-time on his day job largely because his Amazon Affiliate links were performing well. Just saying, I use Amazon all the time so he’d make at least $20 per month off me alone.

  60. Carp
    May 31st, 2012 at 12:48 am

    Oh! I was unclear.
    Sorry Mr. McPato,
    For pointing fingers.

  61. Carp
    May 31st, 2012 at 12:50 am

    Roundabout site links
    Bring about hefty rewards;
    Is Firman aboard?

  62. Fren
    May 31st, 2012 at 9:58 am

    The official topic of May: Moe’s utter destruction of the morale of 12 year old footballers. Film at eleven.

  63. Fren
    June 1st, 2012 at 7:46 am

    My first post of June
    I truly have naught to say
    Keep checking on Moe!

  64. Doramjan
    June 1st, 2012 at 8:44 am

    Yay, today is June
    Father’s Day coming up soon
    Present for Grandpa?

  65. Haiku
    June 2nd, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    What present is good?
    Gin? Bourbon? Tobacco? Rum?
    Southern Gentleman.

  66. Fren
    June 4th, 2012 at 7:41 am

    These gifts are all good.
    True marks of refinement and
    taste. Grandpa approves!

  67. Carp
    June 6th, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    Talk grinds to a halt.
    Lack of words blankets the site;
    Where have we all gone?

  68. Fren
    June 7th, 2012 at 7:32 am

    I check here daily
    Yet my words were the last seen
    Where have you been, friend?

  69. Doramjan
    June 7th, 2012 at 8:48 am

    Happy Norwegian Union Dissolution Day!

  70. Doramjan
    June 7th, 2012 at 8:50 am

    Today is also the birthday of Hitler’s dad. That’s right. I am officially invoking Godwin’s law.

  71. Carp
    June 7th, 2012 at 10:39 am

    That show Game of Thrones,
    I am enamoured by it;
    Distraction from posts.

  72. Ton Phanan
    June 8th, 2012 at 4:05 am

    Recently built a
    new PC; Troubles with it
    irritating me.

    My form of haiku,
    The quality has decreased;
    Recent practice: none.

  73. Fren
    June 8th, 2012 at 7:35 am

    Carp, the Game of Thrones show came out quite well! Granted, they got off the rails from the books a bit, but eh. Dramatic license, I suppose. Still, fun to have faces to put to your favorite characters from the books. I’ll say nothing of plots, as the shows have not caught up to the books and I wish not to spoil anything.

    (Couldn’t fit that bit into a haiku, I have not your gift for the form)

    Ton … what problems niggle at you? Perhaps a troubleshooting brainstorm can commence?

  74. Carp
    June 8th, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    I agree with Fren
    Although I’ve not read the books.
    Game of Thrones is rad.

  75. Haiku
    June 9th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Game of Thrones is great.
    Watch it slowly, more than once.
    Books not yet finished.

  76. Carp
    June 9th, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    I finished the show
    Probably far too quickly;
    Two seasons, three days.

  77. Carp
    June 10th, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Now I find a void:
    Where I once watched Game of Thrones
    I now do nothing.

  78. Carp
    June 10th, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Of either season
    I’ve finished all episodes;
    A dark hole is left.

  79. Carp
    June 10th, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Perhaps there’s a way!
    Arrested Development –
    I’ll re-watch my faves.

  80. Carp
    June 10th, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    Alternatively
    I’ll do work in my art-book
    And fill up my blog.

  81. Rahi
    June 10th, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    It’s been a long time.
    How have you been? I’ve been real
    Busy being dead.

    Lol. Can’t wait for more Moe! Good luck, Firman! 😀

  82. Carp
    June 10th, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    What it do, Rahi.
    Good too see more haikuists
    Coming out to post.

  83. Nimz
    June 11th, 2012 at 1:54 am

    Compulsion to write:
    Syllabic formatting tight –
    Haiku in the night.

  84. Haiku
    June 11th, 2012 at 3:05 am

    Admiral Firman
    He is busy and yet silent.
    We miss you, Sea Sir

  85. Nimz
    June 11th, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Nothing new to say;
    Frittering the time away –
    Haiku in the day.

  86. Carp
    June 12th, 2012 at 2:17 am

    Living through a time
    Of comics, nary a sign;
    In sadness, forced rhyme.

  87. Nimz
    June 12th, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Soccer match: one game.
    No takebacks, no rematches.
    Winner gets jetpack.

  88. Haiku
    June 14th, 2012 at 4:30 am

    (Haikus are so hard)

  89. Doramjan
    June 14th, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Haiku, what time zone are you in? You’re always posting *SO* early!

  90. Doramjan
    June 14th, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Here’s a nonsensical haiku where each line is an anagram of “Firman Productions”.

    Fins mount a ripcord
    A prism unfit condor
    Confound a rim strip

  91. Haiku
    June 14th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Doraman, the ante,
    He has upped with anagram.
    Hard, is the new simple.

  92. Haiku
    June 14th, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    (And to explain Doramjan, I’m just up -really- late in some cases)

  93. Nimz
    June 15th, 2012 at 3:42 am

    Combined forms appear –
    Anagramatic scrabbling
    Wins all internets.

    CAW.

    Maybe oranges eat,
    Or edible marmalades
    Eagerly munch oats.

    MOE.

    With limited space,
    Patterns can be tortuous.
    But they are so fun!

  94. Carp
    June 15th, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Hunger-driven post;
    I desperately need food
    And yet here I am.

  95. Carp
    June 15th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Salmon and brown rice
    Makes for a meal somewhat slight;
    Healthiness in spades.

  96. Carp
    June 15th, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Look on as we near
    A familiar milestone;
    One hundred comments.

  97. Doramjan
    June 15th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    Ninety-six comments
    Carp comments prodigiously
    See the chart below:

    http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9959/moecommentsupto96.png

    (seriously, Carp seems to account for a third of the comments!)

  98. T1m
    June 15th, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Woah, that chart is cool!
    But now there are ninety-eight
    comments, it’s old news.

  99. T1m
    June 15th, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    When will Lord Firman
    give more word regarding the
    Return of Moeseph?

  100. Carp
    June 15th, 2012 at 5:18 pm

    And here’s one hundred.
    Guess I’ll keep on increasing
    My slice of Dor’s pie.

  101. Nimz
    June 16th, 2012 at 11:51 am

    Doramjan has pie.
    Pie is good and quite tasty.
    You will buy the pie!

  102. ERIDAN MO-FO
    June 17th, 2012 at 1:34 am

    THIS COMIC PLEASES ME IN SO MANY WAYS

  103. Nimz
    June 17th, 2012 at 3:04 am

    This specific one?
    Or do you mean overall?
    False dichotomy?

  104. Haiku
    June 17th, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    A Happy Father’s Day
    To one and all – here and there.
    Even those not dad, yet.

  105. Fren
    June 18th, 2012 at 8:16 am

    Hark! My slice of pie
    Is yet still formidable.
    Better can be done.

  106. Doramjan
    June 18th, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    There once was a Dope from Nantucket
    Who had no body hair cuz he pluck’t it
    His absence was long
    But the memory strong
    Joy delayed cuz a dead tablet said …….

  107. Haiku
    June 19th, 2012 at 4:07 am

    Dora man jam.

  108. Fren
    June 19th, 2012 at 7:30 am

    Our grand Admiral
    out to sea, hunting tablets.
    Keep the light burning!

  109. Haiku
    June 19th, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Fren is right, he is.
    Once five hundred comments here.
    Maybe a thousand.

  110. Carp
    June 20th, 2012 at 4:22 am

    Ok, I’ll give in
    And try to post more haikus
    While we wait around.

  111. Firman
    June 20th, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    Not much time is left
    For comment number records
    Moe should be here soon

  112. Doramjan
    June 20th, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Guidance from Firman
    Oh what joy; rapturous day!
    More Moe coming soon

  113. Nimz
    June 20th, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    If there is a time
    For spamming the poetry,
    Now is that season.

  114. Nimz
    June 20th, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    If the Admiral
    Is close as indicated,
    Records may not break! 😮

  115. Nimz
    June 20th, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    Annoying emote.
    Intended as colon with
    A lowercase o.

  116. Officer Mallay
    June 21st, 2012 at 6:06 am

    But do smileys count
    As a syllable, verse-wise?
    The mind must ponder.

  117. Carp
    June 21st, 2012 at 10:23 am

    Pictorial haikus
    And all their implications:
    Beyond my mind’s grasp.

  118. Dekler
    June 21st, 2012 at 11:15 am

    I shall aid you all
    In your comments record quest
    First haiku, engage!

  119. Bo Jackson
    June 21st, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Two sides to the moe-ry

    A 😮 does not count since
    no syllables are pronounced.
    It would make no sense.

    My mind stops for 😮
    A syllable it must be
    To keep the rhythm.

  120. Nimz
    June 21st, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    ‘Moe’re important still,
    Do you add to the count with
    Past tense -ed (dash ee dee)?

  121. Carp
    June 22nd, 2012 at 4:04 am

    Got home late again
    Been out drinking at the bars
    Moe worship: no bounds

  122. Carp
    June 22nd, 2012 at 4:04 am

    Inebriation
    Is never a hindrance when
    Worshipping comics.

  123. Carp
    June 22nd, 2012 at 4:05 am

    (except for that one time, when I posted a haiku with a six-syllable line)

  124. Nimz
    June 22nd, 2012 at 4:30 am

    You can’t stop the flow
    When it comes talking Moe
    And the comments grow

    By the way, you know
    Inebriation will show
    The place you must go

    When you become free
    Of shackles you cannot see
    You can clearly flee

    And just like a flea
    Go for a free ride with me
    ‘Cause I’m the D.D.

    With booze still in tow
    (Assuming there is no row)
    We can check on Bo.

    I’m not sure how well that goes… I make no claims for the sense made in this comment, as I’m half-asleep. But it is a limerick of rhyming haikus.

  125. Officer Mallay
    June 22nd, 2012 at 6:21 am

    A limerick of rhyming haikus! Dang.
    Postmodern supra-rhyming meta-verse! You show
    How creativity, sparked by despair, will grow:
    Such thoughts were ne’er yet thought when Shakespeare sang.

    Each verse pierces the silence. Each a pang,
    That brings back to our minds what we miss so.
    This haiku-versified long wait for Moe
    Has turned sad fans into a poet gang.

    Shall I compare it to a polar night?
    So long and dark. Has it been months, or years?
    No Moe, no more. Just moe’aning, mourning, fears.
    There’s just this tiny hope that gives us light:

    That one day Hunk’s great match may still begin.
    Football! (The game where jetpacks always win.)

  126. Fren
    June 22nd, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Hark! Message received.
    Prepare for the Admiral.
    Hopes rise! Moe ahoy!

  127. Nimz
    June 22nd, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    Indeed, Fren, news came,
    Complete with mention of Moe.
    Endless excitement!

    Continued hopes arise,
    Rocketman takes the skies,
    Ensuring quite the blast
    Among the motley cast –
    Moe treats us to a surprise!

    (Everybody likes ice cream, right?)

  128. Doramjan
    June 22nd, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    To’Moe’rrow, and to’Moe’rrow, and to’Moe’rrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded haikus;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted foo’s
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Moe is a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an Admiral, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

  129. Haiku
    June 23rd, 2012 at 3:50 am

    (Such sick beats always make me jealous with pride. If someone could be jealous with pride, which I am)

  130. Haiku
    June 23rd, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Friends, post fast and often.
    The Admiral’s ship appears.
    Distant horizon

    Far now, too soon near
    What treasures will he bring us?
    Great fanfare, quickly!

    Post banners and flags
    Write haikus and rap sick beats.
    Admiral brings Moe.

  131. Haiku
    June 23rd, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    (Dang it…that could have been three posts right there)

  132. Nimz
    June 23rd, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    I, too, feel that sting.
    Frequently my posts could split.
    Flow matters, too, though.

  133. Prince of Dread
    June 23rd, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    I came here to offer
    morose sentiment and doom.
    I discover hope.

    (Would be great if haiku’s here couldn’t be rounded up and published, even if just online. Except mine.)

  134. Haiku
    June 24th, 2012 at 2:38 am

    (I think it would be a legal nightmare but I’d be super happy if our haikus made it into the future Moe Collection. Or ‘Moe’llection)

  135. Carp
    June 24th, 2012 at 3:05 am

    My profile stays low
    To let other writers shine
    While I break from posts.

  136. Carp
    June 24th, 2012 at 3:07 am

    Actually, not true;
    Lacking posts stem from low stores
    Of creative thought.

  137. Carp
    June 24th, 2012 at 3:40 am

    Inspiration hunt:
    Listening to Miles Davis,
    Jazz-inspired haikus?

  138. Carp
    June 24th, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    Posts about non-posts
    Lead to an influx of posts;
    I’ve re-found my muse.

  139. Nimz
    June 24th, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    One hundred forty
    Will be the comment count soon –
    With the next reply!

  140. Baxarn
    June 25th, 2012 at 3:48 am

    First day of the week
    One hundred forty comments
    Comfort in numbers

  141. Haiku
    June 25th, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Numbers can be higher.
    Greater – larger than once before.
    Plus plus one again.

  142. Palindr‘moe’
    June 25th, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    O be sure, O Man of Fir, riff on A‘Moe’r—use Bo.

  143. Haiku
    June 25th, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    (Oh the stakes have been raised…)

  144. Carp
    June 25th, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    A new sort of praise
    Heralded by the last post;
    Palindrome glory.

  145. Nimz
    June 26th, 2012 at 3:08 am

    Palindromes are hard.
    I remain unskilled at them,
    Though they cause delight.

  146. Doramjan
    June 26th, 2012 at 6:23 am

    Palindrome. Wow!

  147. Fren
    June 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am

    Away, I have been
    My work takes me to many
    places about town.

  148. Fren
    June 26th, 2012 at 8:15 am

    Also, palindromes now?! Oi! I just start getting used to haikus and now you up the stakes …

  149. Doramjan
    June 26th, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog

    My favorite palindrome (credit to Weird Al)

  150. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Sei? Poo? Poo poop oop poo! Poo poo! Poopies!

  151. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Palindrome, haiku.
    Combined as one—as combined
    Haiku-palindrome.

  152. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Bro’s in prison? No sir. P.N.* is orb.

    *Planet Nethergatory

  153. Doramjan
    June 26th, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Palindr’Moe’, kudos. You came out of nowhere and dominated our peaceful haiku existence!

  154. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    Thanks all, for the kind welcome. I like that the fun continues here, even when the (most excellent) comic does not.

    Doramjan and Nimz, please do not be offended if Fren and Carp are mentioned in upcoming lines before you are (or choose more wordsmith-friendly nicknames!).

    And as long as I’m soliciting help (in prose no less): Firman, how about an upcoming story arc with Moe shopping for new eco-friendly transportation in a fictional New England town? Would you be sinking to low to grant me something like that?

  155. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    Difficult haiku
    Is that palindrome that is
    Haiku—difficult!

  156. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    Admiral’s Nadir
    (by haiku). Kia hybrid?
    Anslarid, MA.

  157. Palindr‘moe’
    June 26th, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Argh. After all that setup, I had two letters switched. (Why is it that things like that are only easy to see right *after* posting?)

  158. Haiku
    June 26th, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    The effort is what matters.

  159. Doramjan
    June 26th, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Quoting from Wayne’s World
    We’re not worthy, Palindr
    Moe. We’re not worthy.

    Seriously, amazing work man. I am in awe

  160. Prince of Dread
    June 26th, 2012 at 11:22 pm

    Palindromes are like
    Having your eyes crossed for two
    Sentences; what fun!

    (Unless Mum was right, an’ me eyes stay like that forever…)

  161. Fren
    June 27th, 2012 at 7:51 am

    Ai, ai. It’s silly when you think of it … Fren is but Nerf, backward. Plenty of fodder for the works of the palindramaticly inclined.

    We all play our parts.

  162. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Adaptable name
    Serves as grist for the post mill;
    “Fren” enables thought.

  163. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    While I wait for Moe,
    Other comics hold my sights;
    Krazy Kat is great.

  164. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    I’d break from haiku
    Were I not a romantic;
    It’s this poet’s love.

  165. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    See my dreams and hopes,
    That Moe should be immortal;
    Sculpted in marble.

  166. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    Espy a skyman;
    Whence does he come? What planet?
    One of soccer matches.

  167. Palindr‘moe’
    June 27th, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Carp: so prolific;
    With syllables, pedantic;
    Nothing like a fish.

  168. Doramjan
    June 27th, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    So many comments
    Passing the time ’til new Moe
    An updated chart

    http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1531/moecomments.png

  169. Carp
    June 27th, 2012 at 10:51 pm

    I fetishize charts,
    Although I miss the colours;
    Farewell to thee, pie.

    :'(

  170. Doramjan
    June 28th, 2012 at 12:16 am

    That has to be the world’s first haiku ever to use the word “fetishize”.

  171. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 12:50 am

    The comment numbered
    One hundred seventy one
    Is herein described.

  172. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 1:07 am

    Haikus with some self-
    Referentiality
    Give such a delight.

    It’s similar to
    Let’s say, “palindromality”,
    But simpler to write.

  173. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 1:10 am

    I wrote the word “uhm”
    Miscounted the syllables;
    Botched it with “let’s say”. :-(

  174. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 1:42 am

    Haiku errors flow
    Throughout an old site histoire;
    And fade from our minds.

  175. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 1:51 am

    Words like winter snow
    The page, a poet’s grimoire
    Check out my forced rhymes.

  176. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 1:52 am

    (I mean, the first line rhymes with the first, the second with the second… you can probably figure it out I guess. I’m just babbling in these parentheses)

  177. Nimz
    June 28th, 2012 at 3:50 am

    Such a pretty curve.
    Doramjan, your chart is good,
    Even if not pie.

  178. Nimz
    June 28th, 2012 at 3:56 am

    I will try my hand
    At a palindrome with Nimz
    Included therein…

    Na: buzz mint at Nimz’ zuban.

    Not sure why I have a super expensive cigar from the future, nor do I know what sodium has to do with it.
    ¯\(º.o)/¯

  179. Nimz
    June 28th, 2012 at 4:04 am

    Perhaps sodium (Na)
    Should be “Not Applicable” (N/A)
    From non-existence.

    Of such a rare cigar in my possession, that is.

  180. Fren
    June 28th, 2012 at 7:54 am

    Palindr’moe’ – not only is a carp a sort of fish. Carp is also a verb! It means “to complain in a fretful manner”. However, our dear friend Carp hardly seems the sort to complain. Those fretful chidings are turned aside and given greater form, higher purpose. Tally ho, poets!

  181. Fren
    June 28th, 2012 at 8:02 am

    And alas, the chart. Gone are the simple days of pie. We have graduated to the bar.

  182. Doramjan
    June 28th, 2012 at 10:33 am

    The colorful pie chart is back! Mmmmmm, pie

    http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1200/moecounts.jpg

  183. Nimz
    June 28th, 2012 at 11:04 am

    That’s no pie, that’s a fruitcake ( and we’re the nuts xD )… unless the cake is a pie!

  184. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 11:55 am

    When he smoked a cigar that was Cuban,
    Nimz’ breath got too bad for kazoo band.
    To my Hindi friend, Na,
    For whom “zuban” means “craw”,
    I said, “Na, buzz mint at Nimz’ zuban!”

  185. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    oh my god that was amazing

  186. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Creative acmes
    Surpassed by poems, many;
    Let’s keep this going!

  187. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Chart seems not like pie;
    A resemblance to donuts
    Instead strikes my eye.

  188. Baxarn
    June 28th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Moving north to south
    Chilly winds turning warmer
    My train leaves Sunday.

    For ten hours or more
    May I meet a conductor
    To call admiral.

    What are the odds now
    During the heat of summer
    To espy such genius?

    -Allright, back to your thematic haiku-esque palindrome-limericks you crazy kids.

  189. Doramjan
    June 28th, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Moe is sick of waiting. I think the long delay is getting to him…

    goo.gl/cxBRT

  190. Doramjan
    June 28th, 2012 at 7:26 pm

    Yet another chart
    Showing how many comments
    That each strip received

    http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/1953/moecommenthistory.png

    Turns out that the most commented on strip was strip 360 with _491_ comments! Surely we can do better. We’re not even up to 200 yet! Everyone do your part and chip in a comment!
    http://www.firmanproductions.com/?p=695

  191. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    This silly haiku
    Has seventeen syllables
    And fifty letters.

  192. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Not many haikus
    Have seventeen syllables
    And fifty letters.

  193. Carp
    June 28th, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    ‘Twas a grand haiku
    Of seventeen syllables
    And fifty letters.

  194. Palindr‘moe’
    June 28th, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    Carp’s haiku also
    Has seventeen syllables
    And fifty letters.

  195. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 12:01 am

    Expecting a few;
    I now see it ‘moe’ clearly.
    The truth is now shown:

    Too many haikus
    Have seventeen syllables
    And fifty letters.

  196. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:06 am

    lol

  197. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:36 am

    Um pexie so,
    Conversa duas linguas;
    Haikus nas duas.

  198. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:37 am

    (hella trickier doing those in Portuguese, it’s like that language is rigged with extra syllables)

  199. Prince of Dread
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:51 am

    (Wow–Portuguese!)

  200. Ton Phanan
    June 29th, 2012 at 2:32 am

    The comments stand at
    One hundred and ninety nine
    Next up: two hundred.

  201. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 3:08 am

    Looks like I’ll swing by
    And nab the Two Hundred Crown
    Though we’ve all earned it.

  202. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 6:59 am

    Se quiser nadar
    Ou talvez so queixar-se
    Podia ser “carp”.

    If you want to swim
    Or maybe only complain
    You could be a “carp”.

  203. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 7:08 am

    Lingua portuguesa—
    Palavras tão bonitas
    Cantam à alma.

    The Portuguese tongue—
    With words of such rare beauty
    They sing to my soul.

  204. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 7:28 am

    [Frankly, I seem to quite like the elegance I find when composing a haiku, (our Anglicized notion of haiku anyway), in Portuguese. The prevalence of additional syllables compared to English enhances the sparseness of each line.

    Meanwhile, I’m still trying to figure out how to correctly count syllables. A word such as “peixe” is pronounced with two obvious syllables in many parts of Brazil. But I’m more inclined to hear “peixe” in the Lisbon accent I prefer, with the second syllable so poorly vocalized I would be inclined to count this word as one syllable.

    Finally, for fun, I put several of the above examples through Google translate. It makes me want to find a Google engineer to convince to implement haiku detection on the input and try to preserve syllable counts on the output. The current result is already remarkably close in several cases.]

  205. Fren
    June 29th, 2012 at 7:30 am

    Ever higher shall
    we make our pile; Comment on
    with haiku and prose!

  206. Fren
    June 29th, 2012 at 7:32 am

    Alas, my portion.
    My slice of donut grows small.
    More effort, more, more.

  207. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 8:14 am

    A cair-te, Moe. Geometria, cá!

    [Roughly “You’re making yourself fall, Moe. Geometry, here!”. Perhaps what Moe’s Portuguese aunt yelled to him when he was neglecting his studies?

    And yes, it should be “estas a cair-te” and even then I don’t know how much of a stretch it is to use cair reflexively like this. Perhaps all is fair in love and palindromes?]

  208. Nimz
    June 29th, 2012 at 9:35 am

    Furu ike ya
    Kawazu tobikomu
    Mizu no oto

    – ‘Moe’atsuo Bashou (1686)

  209. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    (Hey look! A fellow Portuguese speaker. What’s up, Palindr’moe’!

    I don’t claim to be fluent in the language or anything, and as you said, it’s tricky counting syllables when thinking geographical pronunciation differences – I am 100% terrible at understanding and speaking Portugal Portuguese, which I understand occasionally involves curtailing the last syllable of some words.

    I’m not saying haikus are any easier in your favoured dialect because of that, but it must be weird [it is for me] to read each other’s haikus and think, “Hmmm… that’s one syllable too many,” or vice versa.

    And alas, my Portuguese is pretty rusty; I doubt my ability to twist around words like I might in English. Although who knows! Maybe the Portuguese haiku will make another appearance in my posts! Also, as an aside, I’ve never read any Portuguese poetry of any form.)

  210. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    (Hi there, Carp.

    It was quite funny to wake up this morning and find a haiku in Portuguese. It almost felt like a setup, since that’s coincidentally the only (non-computer) language I have any familiarity with other than English. My experience with Portuguese involved living in Portugal for two years, then taking a one-semester course at college. But that was 16 years ago, so it’s definitely pretty rusty now.

    I also haven’t read any Portuguese poetry. But I do have some works by Fernando Pessoa on a long list I maintain of books that I want to read at some point. It’s interesting to note that he also published poems that he composed in English—definitely quite a challenge to do that in a non-native language.

    Anyway, back to our irregularly-scheduled programming.)

  211. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    Backwards and forwards
    And bilingual poems
    Gaze ‘pon our Moe praise.

  212. Carp
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    Actually, let me edit that:

    Backwards and forwards
    Bilingual poems, too;
    Gaze on our Moe praise.

  213. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    int main (int argc,
    char *argv) { printf (“Hello, ”
    “world”); return 0; }

  214. Doramjan
    June 29th, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Palindr’moe’, why were you in Portugal for 2 years?

  215. Doramjan
    June 29th, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    This makes me want to make a Russian or Armenian haiku . . .

  216. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Doramjan, I was there as a missionary for The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  217. Palindr‘moe’
    June 29th, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Praise Moe! Our on-gaze
    Too. Poems: bilingual,
    Forwards and backwards.

  218. Doramjan
    June 29th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    Palindr’moe’, this is the last place I would have expected to run into someone else who is LDS :)

  219. Am I smart enough?
    June 29th, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    #include
    using namespace std;
    int main() { cout << "Hi.";

    cout << " Here is a"
    << " C++ version haiku."
    << " Whew! "; return 0; }

  220. Am I smart enough?
    June 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Oops, I can’t show iostream inside single angle brackets in the first line. Oh well.
    #include iostream

  221. Doramjan
    June 29th, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    Давай пробуем
    Писать хайку на Русском
    Почему бы нет?

  222. Carp
    June 30th, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Script code and Russian
    Are practices far afield
    From those which I know.

  223. Carp
    June 30th, 2012 at 12:17 am

    Nonetheless, I’m pleased
    Within my poetic niche;
    Unique talents, all.

  224. Nimz
    June 30th, 2012 at 4:37 am

    Quand je parle français,
    Je ne comprends rien!
    Où sont les canards?

  225. Nimz
    June 30th, 2012 at 4:38 am

    * translation *

    When I speak in french,
    I don’t understand nothin’!
    Where did the ducks go?

  226. Haiku
    July 1st, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    Momentum don’t stop!
    We have goals and I will help.
    Your talents so great.

  227. Nimz
    July 1st, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    I had a good one,
    But it dissolved on typing.
    Aborted poem.

  228. Carp
    July 2nd, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Worked twelve hours today –
    the strain has stifled my ideas,
    and yet here I am.

  229. Nimz
    July 2nd, 2012 at 1:14 am

    It’s good to be here,
    Especially after work.
    Friendly names abound.

  230. Haiku
    July 2nd, 2012 at 3:09 am

    We are family
    Much like Bo, Moe, and Grandpa
    Oh, wait. Never mind.

  231. Fren
    July 2nd, 2012 at 8:58 am

    Powerless; Friday
    the lights went out, and did not
    return ’til Monday.

  232. Haiku
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:00 am

    Newsflash. Moe has power.
    He can make light from darkness.
    Does that seem right, Fren?

  233. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Am-I-Smart-Enough
    Eponymously answers
    Affirmatively.

  234. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Doramjan, thanks to
    LDS mission service?
    Russian haikuist.

  235. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Carp claims ignorance
    Of various languages;
    Keeps writing haikus.

  236. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:36 am

    Meditatively,
    Nimz, in French and in English,
    Ponders migration.

  237. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:38 am

    Creator of trend?
    Haiku, seeking family,
    Lives up to own name.

  238. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:41 am

    Fren’s weekend ordeal,
    Without illumination
    Provides inspiration.

  239. Palindr‘moe’
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Thus, Palindr‘moe’,
    After weekend hiatus,
    Sends kudos to friends.

  240. Prince of Dread
    July 2nd, 2012 at 10:48 pm

    It shall never come
    To pass: creativity
    Extinguished; keen minds–

    Plentiful in these
    Fine posts all; not even my
    Dread can diminish.

  241. Carp
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    Worked another twelve;
    I need a vacation, but
    will settle for posts.

  242. Carp
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Blurred vision through eyes;
    Limbs weary and bones dreary;
    This worker craves rest.

  243. Carp
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    Alternative ed.
    of the above haiku, with
    a rejigged first line:

    Sight blurred, eyes bleary;
    Limbs weary, and bones dreary
    This worker craves rest.

    (couldn’t settle on which I preferred more)

  244. Carp
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    (I think the second version has a more interesting rhythm, though)

  245. Haiku
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:06 am

    (I think you need rest)

  246. Carp
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:27 am

    Tired poet’s self-law:
    Lean in, hear me speak five words:
    I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

  247. Am I smart enough?
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 am

    Is anyone here
    who happens to be a fan
    of Weird Al as well?

  248. Am I smart enough?
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:53 am

    Carp’s latest haiku
    reminded me of the song
    “Mellow When I’m Dead.”

  249. Am I smart enough?
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:53 am

    (The song is really
    “I’ll Be Mellow When I’m Dead,”
    on his first album.)

  250. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 1:57 am

    I have yet to hear
    A Weird Al song I don’t like.
    No connoisseur, though.

  251. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 2:08 am

    I was just looking at some of the older comments and noticed that EVERY Moe comic in June 2012 was about how much Moe hates Mondays & how much he wants some coffee! ( I’m referring to this, btw: http://www.firmanproductions.com/?p=749#comment-8313 ). We’re still here, and…

    For all of zero,
    An Admiral forgiven.
    Logically sound.

    (* crossing fingers that the hypertext markup works as expected *)

  252. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 2:19 am

    Markup successful!
    ‘Moe’st commented comic? No.
    Halfway to record.

  253. Carp
    July 3rd, 2012 at 3:18 am

    Can’t believe how much
    I posted on the record.
    Stepped my game up since.

  254. Carp
    July 3rd, 2012 at 3:19 am

    I wasn’t doing
    haikus then, either. Quite a
    surreal moment.

  255. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 4:45 am

    Just finished reading.
    Damn, that comment thread is long.
    More threads read later.

  256. Fren
    July 3rd, 2012 at 7:50 am

    Not only so long
    But many quality posts
    Prose, so long and sweet.

  257. Palindr‘moe’
    July 3rd, 2012 at 8:47 am

    Throughout all of June,
    Moe craved coffee, not Monday—
    A vacuous truth.

  258. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Nimz: Enter command.
    You are not sure what this means.
    You post a haiku.

  259. Doramjan
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Now, video games:
    Plumber brothers eat mushrooms
    Fireball, save Princess

  260. Doramjan
    July 3rd, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    Simon and his whip
    Timeless hunt for Dracula
    Slaying the undead

  261. Palindr‘moe’
    July 3rd, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    Thousand points of death.
    Viridian saves his crew.
    Letter V six times.

  262. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Collect those rings, dude!
    You must defeat the eggman,
    Sonic the hedgehog.

  263. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Stealth pilot needed:
    Can you fly the F-19
    Without detection?

  264. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Illegal racing –
    Your motorcycle is wrecked!
    You still got first place!?

    (In Road Rash II I learned the hard way that if the bike was damaged to where I couldn’t tell if it would blow up or not, especially when very close to the finish line, it is far better to run through the finish line than to chance it.)

  265. Doramjan
    July 3rd, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    I don’t think it’s by chance that Palindr’Moe’ crafted a haiku about a video game with a paldinromic name (VVVVVV).

  266. Carp
    July 3rd, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    Banished to the depths
    By voice of God in Mom’s ear;
    Binding of Isaac.

  267. Palindr‘poe’
    July 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    Once upon a ‘Moe’night dreary, while we waited, weak and weary,
    Waiting for the Firman’s update, some new comic news of Moe,
    While we waited, ever pining, passing time by words combining,
    Oftentimes 5-7-5ing, lining haikus praising Moe.
    ‘Tis no substitute, for certain, lining haikus praising Moe;
    We have this and nothing ‘moe’.

    With the pile of comments growing, words from keyboards ever flowing,
    Charts with colors nearly glowing now appear in comment flow.
    Pies and donuts, appetizing, represent with slice’s sizing,
    Commenters most enterprising, seeking but to honor Moe.
    For the vain, conceited reader cannot bear the wait for Moe,
    And from them we hear no ‘moe’.

    Jetpack hunk with soccer matches, Eliot’s interest briefly catches,
    Turning—yearning for another player condescends to Moe.
    Their exchange and clever banter like an advertising banner,
    Rests atop my browser window ever as it did befo’e.
    No refresh will change that banner—never as it did befo’e,
    There it sits, that self-same Moe.

    And that comic, never changing, still is hanging, ever hanging,
    In my cursed browser window; where despair is growing sore.
    And “refresh” I’m ever clicking, but that comic keeps on sticking;
    And my clock continues ticking, making dread within me soar;
    And the dread my soul can’t stomach, is that one day seeking ‘Moe’r,
    I’ll see only 404.

  268. Palindr‘moe’
    July 3rd, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    (With my most sincere apologies to Edgar Allan Poe and to our Admiral as well. I’m more optimistic about the glorious return of Moe than one might surmise from the above. But given the original material, it seemed the poem must end with Moe’s web-comic death.)

  269. Nimz
    July 3rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    A maths geek pondered,
    “Does Moe celebrate pi day?
    Maybe variants?”

    Pi approximation day (22 July) will soon be upon here.
    I wonder how the fates of other Best Pie employees appear.
    We know Zane had to be written out (Admiral’s commentary in comic 388).
    Did Alicia marry the Malki! clone of Moe’s dreams, or wait!
    Did she marry Mr. Cement Bag Head?*
    Are her 50 babies staying fed?
    I think that’s about all I have for the moment.
    There may be more after more archive time spent.

    *Would she then be Alicia Cement Bag Head, or just Alicia Head? or would she even change her name at all?

  270. Carp
    July 3rd, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    Long form prose posts place
    these poets on pedestals
    pure-plain and true.

  271. Ton Phanan
    July 4th, 2012 at 1:26 am

    The game I wait for:
    Guilds War for the second time;
    Anticipated.

    (Note: it my head it sounds out as ant-i-ci-pate-d)

  272. Haiku
    July 4th, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    (Seriously, I’m intimidated to keep prosing – but prosing I must lest I remain forever at my inhibited level)

    (In other news, we are almost to 300! Which is almost to 500! Which is halfway to ONE…THOUSAND)

  273. Haiku
    July 4th, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    (What a great gift we can send to the Admiral!)

  274. Ton Phanan
    July 5th, 2012 at 4:53 am

    where doing it man

    where MAKING THIS HAPEN

  275. Ton Phanan
    July 5th, 2012 at 4:54 am

    My apologies;
    To resist, I found myself
    Unable to do.

  276. Baxarn
    July 5th, 2012 at 5:16 am

    Inconceivable
    Like the taming of blowflies
    To break the record

  277. Baxarn
    July 5th, 2012 at 5:19 am

    I, through utmost haste
    To produce something witty
    Forgot the full stop.

  278. Fren
    July 5th, 2012 at 9:29 am

    We shall post, and haiku, and forge poetry of both long and short forms. The comments shall rise, ever higher. Perhaps, one day, the gleam of our combined efforts will catch the eyes of gods and admirals.

    For us, there is but this. We post. We yearn. Onward, upward.

  279. Haiku
    July 5th, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Until our posts reach
    The sky, and then the black void,
    Our goal, the Moe’an.

  280. Haiku
    July 5th, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    (Or would it better Moe’on? When you sound it out that way it sounds like “Moron”, which fits more closely but doesn’t sound anything like Moon)

  281. Dekler
    July 5th, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Almost two whole months
    The next Moe had better be
    A really big one.

  282. Dekler
    July 5th, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    I’d like to add I
    Thouroughly enjoy your work,
    Edgar Allan Moe.

  283. Palindr‘moe’
    July 5th, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    Waitin’ builds pressure,
    Admiral. Oh, Admiral,
    Pressure builds in wait!

  284. Nimz
    July 5th, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    E’en a humble Moe,
    Three or four panel comic,
    Suffices for me.

    A big ol’ comic,
    Like unto some earlier,
    Is nice, not needed.

  285. Nimz
    July 6th, 2012 at 2:17 am

    Happy we readers,
    If the coming Moe, enlarged
    In its length doth be:

    Increased are chances
    In the comment count stat check
    Inching to the top.

  286. Baxarn
    July 6th, 2012 at 5:15 am

    For doubling record
    Using naive projections;
    Another two months.

    A [most*] frightening thought,
    To avoid dull stagnation
    We need more verse forms

    No proper (useless) analysis I’m afraid.

    * depends on how you pronounce frightening

  287. Nimz
    July 6th, 2012 at 9:58 am

    Such naïveté!
    So beautiful to behold.
    Somnambulism.

    Wait a second there…
    Who is somnambulating?
    Why, it’s only me.

    Acrostic haiku:
    All lines start with same letter.
    A nice excercise.

  288. Nimz
    July 6th, 2012 at 10:40 am

    I must not have woke
    (Acrostic means something else)
    When I wrote that verse.

  289. Carp
    July 6th, 2012 at 11:27 am

    Nearing a landmark;
    Another drop in the pool
    Of our comment count.

  290. Palindr‘moe’
    July 6th, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Fren’s name, four letters
    Reversed are still meaningful,
    Ever beckoning.

    Never offering
    Satisfaction until from
    Nimz: “Try acrostic!”

    Enigmatic still
    Remains the subject… Of course:
    Fren’s first soft toy ball.

  291. Nimz
    July 6th, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    My most recent verse
    Of first letter patterning –
    ‘Ere today, that is…

    Somewhere late in June,
    Exact date was twenty two,
    Provided ICE CREAM.

    How absurd it is,
    Present, a fortnight removed,
    Only now repeats.

    Nay, this method here
    To add layers poetic,
    Overused is not.

    Odes shall be sung loud.
    Nethergatorial song,
    Dancing with devils.

    Only with this din,
    Portent of poetry lost,
    Eclipsed shall it be.

  292. Nimz
    July 6th, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    And with that all done,
    By my shrewd calculations,
    Complete name haiku’d.

  293. Doramjan
    July 6th, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Moeseph Pontoon Dope
    The name all anagrammed up:
    Poopshoot Demon Neep

  294. T1m
    July 6th, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    Anagrams are fun
    ADMIRAL FIRMAN becomes
    ANIMAL FARM RID

    Great literature
    pales in comparison to
    the wonders of Moe.

    Alternately, AD-
    MIRAL FIRMAN becomes MAIL
    DR. DARR IF MAN

    Contact said doctor
    If you find yourself to be
    of the masculine.

  295. Carp
    July 7th, 2012 at 1:35 am

    All these crazy sorts
    of haikus are beyond me –
    Traditionalist.

  296. Haiku
    July 7th, 2012 at 3:31 am

    Three hundred, madness?
    No, Sparta reference – tired.
    Moe can’t kick anyway.

  297. Carp
    July 7th, 2012 at 10:31 am

    Tower of haikus
    Reverse-spirals to page depths;
    The bottom extends.

  298. Carp
    July 7th, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Three hundred comments
    In just under two months’ time:
    Prolificacy.

  299. Carp
    July 7th, 2012 at 10:36 am

    Nabbed the two hundredth –
    I don’t want to be greedy,
    So now I’ll hold back.

  300. Palindr‘moe’
    July 7th, 2012 at 11:12 am

    CCC

  301. Carp
    July 7th, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Latin numerals
    Are a flag-post in the ground;
    More goals yet to come.

  302. Baxarn
    July 7th, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Siv*, see sea!** See sea?
    Sea, aye, a sea. Siv see I,
    Looking back and forth.

    *female name
    **grammartistic license…or something

  303. Baxarn
    July 7th, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Self-referential,
    Dependent on post count:
    A risky haiku.

    There once was a Moe-fan, a swede,
    who wrote comments so sadly in need
    of a certain position.
    Having failed in this mission,
    he went back to smoking some herring.

  304. Nimz
    July 7th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Smoked fish is so good…
    Not that I’d eat our friend Carp…
    Smoked salmon —> drooling.

    Counting in roman numerals,
    Creating praise for admirals,
    Choose this poem’s first letter
    In each line for the better –
    Voila! Post count self-referral!

  305. Officer Mallay
    July 7th, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    How to smoke herring:
    Hold tail end in mouth firmly,
    Have matches ready.

    Light one match, and then
    Lower fish head onto flame.
    Last, inhale fine smoke.

  306. Officer Mallay
    July 7th, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    O man, Firman, where’s your muse?
    Be no sissy, have a go!
    Sure as hell, you could draw Bo!
    O, put talent to some use.

    Man, where has that tablet gone?
    Of your comics we want more!
    Fir-man, show Moe-Bo-A‘moe‘r,
    Riff on, give us fun, come on.

    On these pages let us see
    A’moe’r, brotherly and pure,
    Use your skills, then I am sure
    Bo will never cease to be.

    O be sure, we beg you so,
    No more No-Moe now, you know?

  307. Officer Mallay
    July 7th, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    (… plagiarism being the sincerest form of fluffery, as they say, or something like that.)

  308. Carp
    July 8th, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    ayo, check it

    Been a few months, Admiral on hiatus
    huntin’ round for tablets, damned if the man hate us
    Grabbin the Moeseph haters by the throat
    Throttle necks like “is Carp a misanthrope?”
    Don’t want no haters on M.P Dope
    Leave em with no hope
    The rest, we stay shining until past dawn and
    No rest while we write, poems comin’ out the wrong end
    Types of praise reserved for the least reviled
    Let the people get riled, let them name their king
    Let the king reign (rain) over his kingdom with fists
    Let his cartoons flood the streets, they be our grist
    The most exalted, the Captain
    The salty world-weary veteran
    Build for him monuments, vaulted
    A new reality, altered
    In the meantime, be patient, relax
    Over beats slow, kick facts
    Drop the dopest, worthiest, wordiest raps
    Praisin’ Firman on these raps
    As we wait for a new coming, the new attack

    carp out

  309. Palindr‘moe’
    July 8th, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Officer Mallay,
    Feared in playgrounds on his beat
    When in comic form.

    Officer Mallay,
    Hear him lay down his sick beats
    In comic forum.

  310. Baxarn
    July 8th, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Though beets be delicious (and very nutritious), they should be avoided when sick.
    I fear Palindr’moe’ may have misread, fo’ sho’, the talented rap-authors nick.

    For fishes be laying these beats very well.
    The baseline is ever so deep.
    Though wiki now tells me they’re freshwater fish(!),
    I’ll have to absorb this, then sleep.

  311. Nimz
    July 8th, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Carp has some sick beats,
    And a Bass line to go with…
    Eclectic, perhaps.

    Officer Mallay –
    That guy has sick beats as well.
    Or had… before death.

    A posthumous beat
    You can hear beyond the street,
    There is no retreat.

  312. Baxarn
    July 9th, 2012 at 2:36 am

    A heavier beat,
    Weighing down a frailbaseline,
    With substantial words.

  313. Baxarn
    July 9th, 2012 at 2:45 am

    Of many facets,
    Do cultures consist (hip-hop),
    I’m bad at tagging.

    < I could see,
    > I could comprehend,
    Unlike POSIX |’s

  314. Officer Mallay
    July 9th, 2012 at 4:37 am

    Lines written from beyond the grave, in the voice of a hell-guard fiend on Nethergatory, formerly a corrupt police officer while still alive.

    Writing a goddamn sonnet isn’t easy.
    “Shall I compare thee to a fat old tosser?
    Thou art more ugly, Moe, and also grosser.”
    Oh man, I do hate poetry. So cheesy.

    This whole rhyme-smithing story makes me queazy.
    I can’t believe they did this to me. Bother!
    And just for that dumb Moe guy’s little brother!
    (Oh f… it, why the hell is there no feasi-

    -ble rhyme here? See? Now this has spoiled my stanza.)
    Why did they make me write these stupid verses?
    This task must be the worst of Satan’s curses.

    My mind is not a poetry bonanza!
    And come to think of it that all of that
    Is just because we let escape that brat!

  315. Officer Mallay
    July 9th, 2012 at 4:46 am

    Officer Mallay,
    Punished for neglect of guard,
    Writes enforced sonnets.

    Officer Mallay,
    Dead, cranky hater of Moe,
    Can’t think of haikus.

  316. Fren
    July 9th, 2012 at 8:16 am

    Friends, relax yourselves. The Admiral shall return to his work, in his own time. Unless we are prepared to offer him a living, we need to respect his absence as a thing of necessity.

    Exercise, have a drink, meditate, pray the shema over and over if you must. Just relax! Moe shall return to we, the faithful. Post on!

  317. Philip
    July 9th, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    A long absence now,
    Waiting for Michael Firman;
    My favorite site.

  318. Nimz
    July 9th, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    Weeks hence, about one,
    At whence I have spent two months
    Serial reading.

    And it’s plentiful –
    Serial reading, that is –
    Here in the comments.

    Above haiku pair
    Acrostically relating
    A mascot for Moe

    (The phoenix bird is
    what I’m getting at… not sure
    if that’s clear sans note.)

  319. Nimz
    July 9th, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    But for an edit
    Button to insert a mark
    Interrogative.

    (A mascot for Moe?)

  320. Am I smart enough?
    July 10th, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Quincunx, syzygy,
    unidentifiable.
    Sesquipedalism!

    (please count -ism as one syllable)

  321. Am I smart enough?
    July 10th, 2012 at 12:33 am

    Any fans here of
    “Uh-oh, it’s a Dinosaur”
    or am I alone?

  322. Haiku
    July 10th, 2012 at 2:39 am

    Dinosaur unknown.
    Is he friendly? Is he terror?
    Thunder lizard rex.

  323. Nimz
    July 10th, 2012 at 3:45 am

    One point five foot words
    For all but two opposed signs:
    Could not find good name.

    What word for someone
    In the act of bicycling?
    Birotastrian!*

    *I did not coin this word.

  324. Fren
    July 10th, 2012 at 7:30 am

    A lack of fresh ideas, here. Yet still, one more for the pile.

  325. Carp
    July 10th, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Nimz brings the large words;
    Not neologisms, but
    Clever anyways.

  326. Nimz
    July 10th, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Am I smart enough?
    Is the one that started it.
    I shortened those words.

    Sesquipedal can
    Be read from its roots as
    One and a half feet.

    Quincunx has two defs.:
    The pattern of dots on dice
    For the number five,

    Quincunx number 2:
    The arc in the sky that sweeps
    Five constellations.

    Syzygy also
    Has zodiacal meaning:
    Opposite star signs.

  327. Doramjan
    July 10th, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Honorifica-
    bilitudinitati-
    bus. Shakespear’s longest.

  328. Baxarn
    July 10th, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Three cents, twenty eight.
    First prime to second’s power,
    forty and one times.

    Three comments, in time,
    Whether grimy or sublime,
    Yields a Cuban prime.

    Now back to the regularly scheduled program.

  329. Nimz
    July 10th, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    I’m not sure I understand
    How a number can command
    Citizenship of its own.
    Like the two nappes of a cone,
    Import may be contraband.

  330. Haiku
    July 11th, 2012 at 3:03 am

    Moe plays child football
    For months, not yet a year – still
    He can never win.

  331. Haiku
    July 11th, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    Have we talked, Moe?
    You are round and white like…like
    Well, a soccer ball.

  332. Baxarn
    July 11th, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    Humanity drawn in critical daylight,
    simplicity dawns, as us dullards might
    observe it.
    Moe is us and we are Moe,
    in that we wish, of order, to
    disturb it.

    We tell ourselves from Moe to learn,
    some things through which we well may earn
    perspective
    But football-head or basketball,
    it seems to be what I would call,
    subjective.

  333. Doramjan
    July 11th, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Haiku, I agree! I noticed the Moe-soccer ball similarity back on May 9th!

  334. Doramjan
    July 11th, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Instead of making another pie or donut chart, I present Super Moe’rio Brothers Alpha Version -0.02

    (I hope the markup works!)

  335. Nimz
    July 12th, 2012 at 1:12 am

    Hypertext markup works. Moe has the jumps, but not so much the kicks. Is this a foreshadowing of his football (soccer) performance? Is there currently any objective in Super Moe’rio Brothers Alpha besides jumping around and exploring? Any plans for Bo to join the action in Beta? It’s pretty sweet already, I must say.

  336. Nimz
    July 12th, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Also, now the count
    Matches the number of hours
    In one full fortnight.

  337. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 2:22 am

    On top of Old S‘Moe’key,
    ‘Mid haikus and prose,
    My poem lost its meaning
    When I posted too slow.

    The sick beats I referenced,
    (With too much delay),
    Indeed were those penned by
    Officer Mallay.

    But Carp, so prolific,
    With beats just as sick,
    Debuted his long-form skills,
    And posted it quick.

    Baxarn, of all people,
    Should not be surprised;
    He had the same problem
    With post CCI.

    So come ye young poets,
    Listen to my wish,
    Type and click very quickly,
    And look out for that fish.

    On top of Old S‘Moe’key,
    ‘Mid haikus and prose,
    My poem lost its meaning
    When I posted too slow.

    [Feel free to substitute “her” for “his” and “she” for “he”, etc. as necessary in the above. It’s unfortunate that the constraints of English make me guess at gender here, (and interaction over the internet affords few clues to improve the guessing).]

  338. Doramjan
    July 12th, 2012 at 2:29 am

    Nimz, there isn’t really a goal or objective yet. I just wanted to see if I could make Moe walk around and look decent. I’ll try to do more complex stuff as I get time :) I’m totally open to suggestions!

  339. Doramjan
    July 12th, 2012 at 2:29 am

    I was going to do some kind of sounds, but I’m not even sure what Moe’s voice would sound like

  340. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 3:02 am

    Posts with some big words
    Make me want to keep words small
    But still use all glyphs.

    Best Pie Love: Moe, Zane
    Watch you eat soup. “Goat cheese?”, “‘Kay”.
    X-Box? Just quit? Fired!

    Would you look at that;
    Here, three lines of small words have
    All from A to Z.

  341. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 3:08 am

    Please pardon me while a let a few words out of my system now:

    syllables
    letters
    pangram

    There, that feels better.

    I did have to check closely before realizing that “Am I smart enough?” hadn’t written a pangram with the “Quincunx” haiku. It’s remarkably close if merely accidental.

  342. Fren
    July 12th, 2012 at 7:34 am

    Oh, Captain. Our man, the
    Admiral, still out at sea.
    Treasures await us.

  343. Haiku
    July 12th, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Treasures are here – now!
    Moe jumps and explores – high, low
    Yet, he finds nothing

  344. Haiku
    July 12th, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    Like our real life Moe.
    Dora-m-jan, a wizard true
    Cast Moe into action

  345. Haiku
    July 12th, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Only to prove, Moe,
    As we, Bo, Grandpa, all know
    There is only failure

  346. Haiku
    July 12th, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    Even when Moe succeeds
    Even when he jumps and climbs, no,
    There is only failure.

  347. Haiku
    July 12th, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    (But in non-Haiku, Dorajam, thank you for a most impressive mini-game throughly expressing the depressing failure that is Moe – not the comic, but the proantagonist himself)

  348. Nimz
    July 12th, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    I’m not sure how I missed this comment, but it is as I suspected (s/CCI/CCCI/, though that blows the flow).

    I just had a thought
    About the minigame made.
    The thought amused me.

    When Moe stays idle,
    He could call for his bro Bo.*
    Idle too long, well…

    Instead, Jetpack Hunk
    Arrives from the top of screen –
    Moe then grimaces.

    *Text bubbles should work.
    Maybe Moe kicks Jetpack Hunk
    When idle time ends.

  349. Doramjan
    July 12th, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    Here’s today’s update
    Of Super Moe’rio Bros
    Destroy Enemies!

    (Sorry, no pelvic thrusting action for Grandpa)

  350. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Cruel comment forum,
    Thoughts immature—misshapen
    Enshrined forever.

    Oh what I’d forego,
    What gladly I’d forsake for
    An edit button.

  351. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    Doramjan taunts me
    With software I can’t play now,
    While just on my phone.

  352. Palindr‘moe’
    July 12th, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    Now on my laptop,
    Physics engine gives delight.
    Moe’s enemies fall.

    What strange universe
    Does Moe’rio inhabit?
    Perspective reversed.

    [Seriously, though, Doramjan, that’s great work. And I think the background scrolling faster than the foreground gives a bit of charm. Not unlike Moe’s eyes looking backward when walking forward.]

  353. Ton Phanan
    July 13th, 2012 at 4:58 am

    That game I would play
    For hours uninterrupted,
    Were it not for my

    Laptop fan, sounding
    As if it is becoming
    A helicopter.

  354. Nimz
    July 13th, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Much praise for a game.
    Super ‘Moe’rio Brothers
    Takes the world by storm!

    And now for some rhymes that are a biohazard if taken out of containment.
    YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

    A Dope on Cape Hope
    Without the scope to elope
    Had to mope to cope.

    Mmm. Now I’m not sure anymore if those rhymes really are that ill. Maybe just high fever.

  355. Palindr‘moe’
    July 13th, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    Today’s a bad day
    For paraskevideka-
    Triaphobiacs.

  356. Nimz
    July 13th, 2012 at 4:31 pm

    I know someone who turned 13 on a Friday the 13th…
    Fortunately that someone was not (and is not) a paraskevidekatriaphobiac.

  357. Doramjan
    July 13th, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    This isn’t Friday the 13th related. I’m just trying to describe a previous Moe comic in haiku form using as many rhymes as possible

    Throw little bro Bo Grandpa drops Bo on his toe
    oh, low blow fo sho

  358. Doramjan
    July 13th, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    Aarrgh! FORMATTING! BANE OF MY EXISTENCE! Let’s try this again…

    Throw little bro BoGrandpa drops Bo on his toe
    oh, low blow fo sho

  359. Doramjan
    July 13th, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    One more time, then I give up.

    Throw little bro Bo
    Grandpa drops Bo on his toe
    oh, low blow fo sho

  360. Carp
    July 14th, 2012 at 12:41 am

    Been not doing much
    Since I published my rap verse;
    Time to rev things up.

  361. Carp
    July 14th, 2012 at 1:39 am

    Wanted to post, but my
    creative faucet drips slow;
    Tonight’s a false start.

  362. Carp
    July 14th, 2012 at 10:03 am

    Woke up this morning
    It’s inspiration I feel!
    Or I’m just hungry.

  363. Palindr‘moe’
    July 14th, 2012 at 10:30 am

    Roadside breakfast dive,
    Catsup on all the tables,
    Huckleberry pie.

    While eating breakfast,
    Poetic menu entry
    Gives inspiration.

  364. Palindr‘moe’
    July 14th, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    It happened again—
    Carp’s morrning haiku posted;
    I did not read it.

    I wrote of breakfast
    Inspiration as he did—
    Serendipity!

  365. Palindr‘moe’
    July 14th, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Carp wants to rev up
    His hunger-powered faucet.
    Some mixed metaphors?

  366. Palindr‘moe’
    July 15th, 2012 at 1:52 am

    Since 2012
    Is a leap year. Its days are
    Numbered (like this post).

  367. Nimz
    July 15th, 2012 at 2:01 am

    The Ides of July
    Marches on the scene today.
    Year is half+ gone.

  368. Carp
    July 15th, 2012 at 8:51 am

    Eating Raisin Bran
    Leaves my head empty of thoughts;
    Maybe I’ll try eggs.

  369. Nimz
    July 15th, 2012 at 9:10 am

    As Carp ate breakfast,
    One thought rose above the rest:
    Cereal killer!

  370. Palindr‘moe’
    July 15th, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    English muffin, eggs,
    Watermelon, banana,
    A pad of butter.

    My breakfast, complete;
    I can’t eat another bite;
    Out of syllables.

  371. Officer Mallay
    July 15th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    Breakfast thoughts appeal
    world-wide, as each new sun dawns
    Over strange time zones.

    Here, I look forward
    To tomorrow’s coffee and
    Fresh German bread rolls.

  372. Carp
    July 15th, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    Late meal, steak and rice:
    Minimal combination,
    Filling regardless.

  373. Palindr‘moe’
    July 16th, 2012 at 12:57 am

    Lasagna, cheese bread,
    Spinach/strawberry salad,
    Honeydew melon.

    Wholly unaware,
    My wife once again cooks with
    Haiku conformance.

  374. Palindr‘moe’
    July 16th, 2012 at 1:07 am

    “Why did you tell me?
    Now I’ll be thinking of that.”
    She said in response.

  375. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 2:01 am

    Not topic of Moe;
    Still: hate Mondays, want breakfast
    Makes two profound truths.

  376. Carp
    July 16th, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Poetic license
    allows for straying detours;
    Liquid haiku flows.

  377. Carp
    July 16th, 2012 at 3:00 am

    Wonder what Moe eats…?
    Perhaps he favours tofu;
    He resembles it.

  378. Haiku
    July 16th, 2012 at 3:15 am

    Now a family
    experience: Moe cooking.
    But not tofu. No.

  379. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 3:16 am

    Moe ist, was er isst:
    Yet another profound truth
    Revealed through German?

  380. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 4:41 am

    Several options:
    Dates & goat cheese (expensive);
    Chocolate cheese noodles.

  381. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 5:00 am

    Noodle soup (single);
    Cow brains (not good); digested
    Without a stomach.

  382. Fren
    July 16th, 2012 at 7:55 am

    Long odds, friends.

  383. Nimz
    July 16th, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Things Moe eats include:
    Oatmeal, kiwi juice, red wine,
    And cheese rings. Good stuff.

  384. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Cheese rings, yeah, I know.
    Those bring back some memories.
    Could have died for them.

  385. Baxarn
    July 16th, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    To give up one’s life
    For some cheesy tasty treats
    Is always worth it.

  386. Officer Mallay
    July 16th, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    We wanted freeze-treats.
    No, don’t laugh, the betrayal
    Was unspeakable.

  387. Nimz
    July 16th, 2012 at 10:47 pm

    I had an insight!
    If Moe’s soul is repulsive,
    That no devil wants…

    … Then Moe beats the odds
    Playing with the Grim Reaper
    Since he is not saved.

    Heaven can’t take Moe,
    And the devil Does Not Want.
    So he’s stuck on Earth.

    If, by chance, Moe meets
    Someone to bring repentence,
    Then can Moe be killed.

    Immortality
    Based on immorality
    Is Moe’s true secret.

  388. Carp
    July 17th, 2012 at 2:55 am

    Reading more comics
    To pass this interim’s time:
    Krazy and Ignatz.

  389. Nimz
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Creative drought strikes:
    Seventeen hours gone by,
    Everyone silent.

  390. Nimz
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    Assuming two syllables in ‘hours’, contrary to a prior assumption of one syllable. Ssshhhhhh! Don’t tell!

  391. Carp
    July 18th, 2012 at 12:52 am

    Not so much a drought
    As time for work, sleep, food;
    These things sustain me.

  392. Fren
    July 18th, 2012 at 8:38 am

    The pile grows. Four hun-
    dred comments, all in a row.
    Well, almost. So close.

  393. Haiku
    July 18th, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    So close, so close. Yay!
    Another drop in our bucket
    Virtual it is.

  394. Haiku
    July 18th, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    A flash of insight
    Poetry and its many forms.
    Lost now in daylight.

  395. Doramjan
    July 18th, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Nearing four hundred
    Cool visualization
    But maybe useless

    It’s a big word cloud
    of all the comments so far.
    Keep the flame alive!

    Word Cloud!

  396. Doramjan
    July 18th, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Useless statistic:
    Comment average word length is
    Fourteen point seven

    (pronounce average as 2 syllables, please)

  397. Baxarn
    July 18th, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    Oh Nimz, I agree
    A sudden shift of vowels
    May as such be seen.

    But no, Doramjan
    To ignore that regal e,
    That I cannot do.

    Night us upon [us|me]
    Edging ever closer to,
    A nice round number.

  398. Baxarn
    July 18th, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    My (previous) punctuation
    Was very erroneous;
    Matching opinions.

  399. Baxarn
    July 18th, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    I’ll sneak in the 399’th as well:

    Markov-generated text based on the comments (without original newlines):
    A short surreal story about nothing in particular

  400. Palindr‘moe’
    July 18th, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    CCCC? C
    D? Here, choice. New choice: Hear ‘de
    Sea? See sea, Cici?

  401. Philip
    July 18th, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Four hundred posts now;
    Waiting for Michael’s return:
    Then we’ll have more Moe.

  402. Prince of Dread
    July 18th, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    Lord Firman, your legions suffer in your absence!

  403. Nimz
    July 19th, 2012 at 4:25 am

    Alas, the markov
    Generated short story
    Link goes to the void.

    It is quite surreal.
    It is quite about nothing.
    It’s particular.

  404. Fren
    July 19th, 2012 at 9:09 am

    At a loss, cannot
    be found. Alas, foreshadowed:
    This is four-oh-four.

  405. Carp
    July 19th, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Requiems for links
    Forever leading nowhere;
    Internet demise.

  406. Palindr'moe'
    July 19th, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Poem of mercy
    Wipes 404 from website
    Preventing Moe’s death.

  407. Palindr'moe'
    July 19th, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    Dissatisfaction—
    The ASCII-fication of
    My appellation.

  408. Nimz
    July 19th, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Doramjan:
    To make a word last two beats in lieu of normal three,
    Standard practice is, “Omit and add apostrophe.”.
    Thus we can make average become av’rage, you see?

    :)

  409. Nimz
    July 19th, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    Along with Firman,
    Fren and Carp are in the cloud.
    Congratulations.

    Moe practice montage?
    Dubious efficacy
    Against jetpack hunks.

  410. Palindr‘moe’
    July 20th, 2012 at 1:36 am

    C D X I V?
    M N O X S I C.
    O S A R. C?

    [See the X, Ivy?
    Them ain’t no Xs I see.
    Oh yes they are. See?]

    And yes, this post would have been much better if it appeared 4 posts in the future, but I am not patient enough to wait for that, and it still works here too.

  411. Palindr‘moe’
    July 20th, 2012 at 1:39 am

    Post from computer
    Full keyboard (unlike cell phone’s)
    Name spelled correctly.

  412. Palindr‘moe’
    July 20th, 2012 at 1:40 am

    I M D D J B N D M C
    Q N X T C C N A C D
    C I X L N N S A
    U R L N N X S B N D O A
    I B D M C U C N N V
    U U B M T M T V N M E

    [I am the DJ, bein’ the emcee,
    Queuein’ ecstasy, see?—in a CD.
    See, I excel in an essay.
    You are illin’ in excess, bein’ DOA.
    I be the emcee you see and envy.
    You, you be empty. MTV enemy.]

  413. Nimz
    July 20th, 2012 at 3:14 am

    .. .- — –. .-.. .- -.. -.– — ..- .–. — … – . -.. – …. . – .-. .- -. … .-.. .- – .. — -. … -….- – …. .- – -.- .. -. -.. — ..-. … – ..- ..-. ..-. .. … …. .- .-. -.. . .-. – — .–. .- .-. … . – …. .- -. — — .-. … . –..– .– .. – …. — ..- – .-.-.-

    [I am glad you posted the translations – that kind of stuff is harder to parse than Morse, without.]

  414. Palindr‘moe’
    July 20th, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    Too-clever website
    Makes en-dash from hyphen pairs
    Confounding Morse code.

    And similiarly it
    Creates an em-dash whereas
    One wants three hyphens.

    But wait there is more:
    Three full stops; an ellipsis
    Least confusing change.

  415. Nimz
    July 20th, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    I noticed this thing.
    Also, it should read ‘Moe’rse code.
    The numbers worked, though.

    (413th post at 3:14 am uses ‘Moe’rse code, partially in honour of a firefly that was once trapped in amber in the comic where 413 is an important number…)

  416. Baxarn
    July 21st, 2012 at 5:56 am

    A story lost lacking existence none.
    Free form farming poetry pandering masses SI.
    Imperial system emissary senate Sith.

    Words strung stringing together violin quartet association.
    Detached cut off milk putting punctuation none.

    (I don’t know why my href=”…” was omitted. Maybe something in the filter chain doesn’t like pastebin. The reaction outweighed the material by far in any case.)

  417. Palindr`moe'
    July 21st, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    In four seventeen
    Moe departs from prison with
    Demonic whispers.

  418. Palindr`moe'
    July 21st, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    At no time before
    Has Moe shown so much delight
    As in four eighteen.

  419. Nimz
    July 22nd, 2012 at 1:42 am

    And in four-one-nine
    Moe recollects great games, like
    Kickle Cubicle.

    I have yet to see
    Anything else mentioning
    Kickle Cubicle.

    I had more playtime
    On the Sega Genesis
    Than on NES.

  420. Carp
    July 22nd, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    I had NES;
    Many hours spent playing
    DK, FF3.

  421. Carp
    July 22nd, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Rapping by letters:
    Alphabetical command
    Over some dope beats.

  422. Carp
    July 22nd, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Got called off my job
    What will I get up to now?
    Perhaps, make some posts.

  423. Baxarn
    July 22nd, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Perhaps make some graphs?
    The night is cool and creaking.
    I’ll wreck that damned fan!

    Fellow commenters
    Find solace in this data
    As the rate increased.

    First estimate wrong,
    Dismissing my handwaving;
    I was also right.

    Graph of comment accumulation (not rate of increase)

  424. T1m
    July 22nd, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Four – two – four’s lesson,
    Moe slobber: the Achilles’
    heel of demon folk.

  425. T1m
    July 22nd, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    Four twenty five: Moe’s
    on the blackest of blacklists,
    demon didn’t know.

    Demon does Shia
    LaBeouf impersonation,
    demands prison time.

    Witty rebuttal
    from our hero is met with
    a true re’butt’al.

    A solid diss, says
    Moeseph P. Dope; we rejoice
    in punchline success.

  426. Nimz
    July 22nd, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    Accumulation:
    That graph looks familiar –
    Inflation of space.

    Theories from physics
    (GR, if you have to know)
    Say space expanded.

    Starting with a bang,
    There was an epoch of growth
    Accelerated.

    It soon level’d off,
    Much like the new Baxarn chart:
    Accumulation.

  427. Doramjan
    July 23rd, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    No comments so far.
    Today comment-less no more!
    carpe diem. Moe.

  428. Doramjan
    July 23rd, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    And now, for no good reason, a Moe-themed picture.

  429. T1m
    July 24th, 2012 at 12:24 am

    The ‘Moe’na Lisa,
    Firman style – better than
    the original? Yes.

  430. Nimz
    July 24th, 2012 at 1:37 am

    Water! Water! Wah!?
    I parched myself on dry food,
    Good water elsewhere.

    :c

  431. Doramjan
    July 24th, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Comments increasing
    Approach the all-time record
    of four-nine-one posts
    (that’s 491 posts)

  432. Doramjan
    July 24th, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Just in case anyone wants to make Moe out of Perler Beads: http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1598/moeperlerbeads.png

  433. Haiku
    July 25th, 2012 at 3:24 am

    (Man, I’m exhausted. My friends. Let’s never stop posting. Five hundred is within reach)

  434. Ton Phanan
    July 25th, 2012 at 7:06 am

    Elusive number;
    Four hundred and ninety-two:
    It is in our reach.

  435. Nimz
    July 25th, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Ask not what Moe can do for you, ask what you can do for Moe. You can always count on Moe to do the right thing—after he’s tried everything else. The only thing we have to fear is insufficient comment count! Let’s shoot for the ‘Moe’n – one small step for Moe; one giant leap for mankind.

    Aaaaaaaaaand I think I’m done ‘Moe’lesting quotes for now.

  436. Baxarn
    July 25th, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Friends, the sad truth is:
    We cannot measure success,
    By post count alone.

    Like moe must we not,
    Accept our limitations,
    Yet strive to improve.

    Aye, we fervent few,
    Should weigh our commenting skills,
    Against twelve year olds.

  437. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Let’s get this rolling;
    We’ve been a little quiet,
    But ideas strike.

  438. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    Listening to noise:
    Electric pulses and drones
    In free form structure

    Gives way to thoughts new,
    Of looser haiku matter –
    Composition change.

    Perhaps abstraction
    Shall become my calling card;
    Painting words in swathes.

  439. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    Blare rains for high praise
    Whereupon life buds in cups
    Moe, steady to Moe.

  440. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    Random arrangements
    Of nonsense word-bricks convey
    Not all that much, huh?

  441. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    Perhaps a new tack!
    Inspiration taken now
    from sound poetry:

    Ruuuuu-ook ha! Mm-ng
    Moe! Sp-yui hoo jhooka!
    Moe! fwe-quo hoo ha!

  442. Carp
    July 25th, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    My sounds are for naught.
    The praise, inadequate, limp!
    I require new forms.

  443. Carp
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:01 am

    I daresay, long style!
    The most epic poems lend
    Strength in spades for praise.

  444. Carp
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Alas, vigor leaves!
    Flashes of vim absented!
    I am lazy now.

  445. Carp
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Bear witness to choirs:
    Assemblies of sopranos,
    Tenors, baritones.

    Rousing their voices
    In manners similar to
    The rest of band.

    See the orchestra
    In vestments of finest silk;
    Players take the stage –

    The strings fall in first,
    Whilst woodwinds and brass follow;
    A piano is led in.

    A percussion set
    Promises unruly dins,
    Pure cacophony!

    Conductor, silent;
    Poised to command a glory
    Heretofore unknown:

    Listen to the notes
    As they swell about your ears
    All proceeds smoothly;

    Harmonious tones,
    Melodious progression,
    Final crescendo!

    The climax soars gold
    And lovely into the night;
    A heavenly roar!

    All this I picture
    In the silence of lone hours;
    It’s all Moe deserves.

    I aim for no less
    Than the grandest serenades
    For the grandest strip;

    Should I ever lead
    A band, a Philharmonic,
    Honoured would I be:

    To write symphonies
    In the key of the divine
    For Firman and Moe.

  446. Carp
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:39 am

    Shout outs to Wiki
    For basic background info:
    Orchestras and such.

  447. Carp
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:41 am

    I made a long post
    Although I thought I wouldn’t;
    I guess I’m done now!

    Listening to Ayler,
    Listening to night’s rainfalls;
    The sounds of sleep call.

  448. Palindr‘moe’
    July 26th, 2012 at 1:50 am

    The simple haiku
    Not content to stand alone
    Becomes a stanza.

    Thus Carp makes long-form
    Symphony through poetic
    Multiplication.

  449. Palindr‘moe’
    July 26th, 2012 at 1:53 am

    Twelve-year-old soccer
    In comic four-four-nine yields
    Just as many posts.

  450. Nimz
    July 26th, 2012 at 1:55 am

    Heavenly chorus:
    Played on invisible tools
    Like from three-eight-eight?

  451. Nimz
    July 26th, 2012 at 2:00 am

    We have broken through!
    Now the post count is higher
    Than the comic count.

    XLIX more
    Until we reach solid D:
    One half-thousand soon!

  452. T1m
    July 26th, 2012 at 3:38 am

    Boldly going where
    no comments section has gone
    before: five hundred.

  453. T1m
    July 26th, 2012 at 3:42 am

    Hark! We must quicken
    the pace, and hasten the day
    of Moe’s returning!

  454. T1m
    July 26th, 2012 at 4:01 am

    INVISIBLE DRUMS
    (as in three-eight-eight, above)
    has an anagram

    MISSILE BIRD VUN: with
    a Russian accent, the name
    of a fighter plane.

  455. T1m
    July 26th, 2012 at 4:07 am

    Tying the first and
    last comics together (one
    and four forty nine)

    Perhaps if Moe would
    play more soccer, his life would
    not be so subfusc.

  456. T1m
    July 26th, 2012 at 4:31 am

    An homage to the
    mighty Palindr”moe”, born
    of longest labors,

    I add a comment
    to this list informing all
    of a man’s actions.

    This man voices his
    opinion of a naval
    fleet, not just any,

    but one that has been
    ordered to remain anchored
    for the time being.

    His name is Adam,
    not an unusual name,
    but rather common.

    Knowing all this, you
    must agree that ADAM RATES
    A SET ARMADA.

  457. Nimz
    July 26th, 2012 at 11:43 am

    A man with four names
    And our Admiral, a Saint,
    Met, fulfilling fate.

    An editor, he,
    Known in his column as Rifts,
    With first name Ian.

    The fateful meeting
    Had Firman saving Ian
    From living Moe-less.

    Rifts, grateful for all,
    Declared he had a secret:
    The editor said,

    “Grace unto you, sir:
    Adam and Mortimer are
    My two middle names.”

    ST. FIRMAN AIDED ED. IAN A.M. RIFTS.

  458. Palindr‘moe’
    July 26th, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    The seeds of Moe’s words
    Planted in my mind become
    A fungus bouquet:

    “Boho hobo Bo”.
    “Slug in the ugly lug’s jug”.
    “A lump of stupid”.

  459. Palindr‘moe’
    July 26th, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Bo, dressed as “Beedgoosh”,
    Met a clown (from thirty five?),
    Found him quite funny.

    And if you doubt me,
    (I heard the exchange myself),
    Let me convince you:

    OH SO! FOR BOHO HOBO BO TO BOBO, “HO HO, BRO, FO’ SHO’!”.

  460. Fren
    July 26th, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    Here I sit, waiting
    Jamming the ‘guch, nodding ‘long
    Give us what we need!

  461. Nimz
    July 26th, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    The most remarkable part of that exchange is not the fact that it forms a palindrome, nor is it the fact there is only one vowel used. No, the most remarkable part of that exchange is that Bo said an entire sentence without a single ‘poo’.

  462. snerky
    July 27th, 2012 at 12:22 am

    poo poo poo poo poo
    poo poo poo poo poo poo poo
    a balance restored

  463. snerky
    July 27th, 2012 at 12:23 am

    while I am here, sirs
    I will claim post four-fifty
    a nice, round number

  464. snerky
    July 27th, 2012 at 12:24 am

    my shame for reading
    the wrong numerical sign
    painful, eternal

  465. Palindr‘moe’
    July 27th, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Talk of Perler Beads
    Inspires a new creation:
    LEGO `Moe’saic.

  466. Palindr‘moe’
    July 27th, 2012 at 1:36 am

    One thing’s for certain,
    My lousy photography
    Obscures true colors.

    A second attempt,
    Point-and-shoot flash enabled:
    Truer, but washed out.

  467. Doramjan
    July 27th, 2012 at 5:06 am

    I love the Lego ‘Moe’saic. Maybe it should be Leg’Moe’?

  468. Carp
    July 27th, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    Thirty-one comments
    In about as many hours;
    Movin’ like a train.

  469. Nimz
    July 27th, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Leg‘moe’ ‘moe’saic
    With point-and-clickology:
    A true work of art.

  470. Nimz
    July 27th, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    I wrote an exam…
    The scary part of it is,
    I was too happy.

    Grading always sucks
    Whenever the writing part
    Is way too much fun.

    Maybe I will learn,
    Some day, how I can not be
    Such a ‘maths’ochist.

  471. Prince of Dread
    July 27th, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    Palindr’moe–your lego moe’saics rawk!

  472. Haiku
    July 28th, 2012 at 3:57 am

    Internet so bad.
    But my comrades march on! Yes!
    Don’t give up, my friends

  473. Nimz
    July 29th, 2012 at 3:13 am

    Moe’s epic epoch
    Of a dozen years of age
    Inflates his forecast.

  474. Baxarn
    July 29th, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    In the growing comment thread
    Fans of moe still writing on
    ‘Til the ballgame has been won
    Sharing this poetic bread.

    Both nourishing and saturating,
    Like loaves baked by the jetpack hunk
    Of whom our Moe would say -You punk!
    Your talents are infuriating!

    I’m concentrating this infusion
    Like teabag dosage doubled up
    Produces quite a dreadful cup
    Consume and sense the brain intrusion.

    Neural pathways reposition
    The stimulant is rather strong
    The second swig — I could be wrong —
    I think it gave me premonition.

    In endless time and ditto space
    I see a story there unfolding
    Once more we will be soon beholding
    Ol’ jolly rectellipse-for-face.

  475. Carp
    July 30th, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    Minor lulls of posts
    Suggest an oncoming storm;
    Lightning poetry.

  476. Nimz
    July 30th, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    Haiku hurricane.
    Here in the eye of the storm,
    Just now departing?

  477. Nimz
    July 30th, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Words now fall like rain,
    Pitter-patter, they appear:
    Torrential downpour.

  478. Nimz
    July 30th, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    There are still pockets
    Unmolested by the rain –
    Spells of writer’s block.

    Have you been hiding,
    Protected against the din,
    Keeping warm and dry?

    Moe, you have sick burns
    The rain of words cannot quench.
    You need not fear it.

  479. Teh_Bucket
    July 30th, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    I was in april.
    Thought may was far from july.
    Alas; it is not.

  480. Haiku
    July 30th, 2012 at 11:16 pm

    Soon it will be Aug-
    -ust. Makes me wonder what sign
    Moe was born under.

  481. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 12:04 am

    two months worth haikus:
    I read it all with all hope.
    but as yet, no Moe.

  482. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 12:08 am

    I see the clock change.
    was about to cry august,
    yet thirty-one days.

  483. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 12:32 am

    began to 3d
    Moe must enter dimension
    of multiple D

    Working in blender;
    mother sees it and critiques.
    motivation lost.

  484. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 1:04 am

    Moe is, i do fear
    a revelutionary.
    breaking my 3D.

    http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4183/moed.png

    too cute is not Moe,
    I’d really rather say Bo,
    next dope gets a fro?

  485. Haiku
    July 31st, 2012 at 1:46 am

    KILL IT WITH FIRE.

  486. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 11:50 am

    fro, dope, mo or bo?
    i agree that fire does kill,
    burn the 3d pic?

    http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/3383/moedfire.png

  487. Nimz
    July 31st, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    Three-D Dope model
    Has not enough of one thing –
    Escaping eyeball.

    Maybe there is more,
    But that to me was the first
    To draw attention.

  488. Nimz
    July 31st, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Hunk stares at the stairs
    Leading to the soccer game.
    Moe did not warn him.

    When controlling jets
    Of explosives and gasses,
    Stairs don’t seem scary.

    That’s the deception:
    They warp time and space about
    Until experts fall.

    Let this lesson show
    No one can be too careful
    As pedestrians.

  489. Doramjan
    July 31st, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Impressive model
    Exceeds my ‘Moe’deling skills
    Moe CGI film?

  490. Doramjan
    July 31st, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Which actor would provide Moe’s voice in a feature film? My vote is for either Owen Wilson or Jude Law.

  491. Palindr‘moe’
    July 31st, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    Friman’s prediction,
    Not much time to break record.
    As of yet, no Moe.

  492. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    The strange nose of Moe
    exceeds cubism in its shape
    too hard to model.

  493. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    My guess would be
    Alec Guinness from the grave
    unfitting for Moe

  494. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    sorry, ‘Moe’ mistake,
    I didn’t count syllables.
    though Moe lightens up.

    http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/3167/moes.gif

  495. Doramjan
    July 31st, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    Let’s just make our own comics…

    http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/933/moestrip2.png

  496. Nimz
    July 31st, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    I see what you did there, Palindr‘moe’.

    Now that the once lofty goal has been met,
    The half-thousand mark within easy reach,
    With games, models, and poems set,
    A new Moe comic remains the elusive peach.
    Yet through it all, our hope will never be let.

  497. Teh_Bucket
    July 31st, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Though 500 is
    very round indeed, true poets
    seek the 5-7-5.

  498. Nimz
    July 31st, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    Doramjan, Carp, Nimz.
    Six, Twenty Eight, Four-Nine-Six.
    First perfect numbers.

    Next perfect number:
    Eighty-one twenty-eight, well,
    That may be too high.

    I have a feeling
    There will be some coveting
    Five seventy five.

  499. Carp
    August 1st, 2012 at 1:10 am

    Whilst some may covet
    five-seventy-five, settle
    will I, for the next.

  500. Carp
    August 1st, 2012 at 1:11 am

    A record achieved;
    Round table of laureates!
    Five hundred is here.

  501. Evan
    August 1st, 2012 at 3:33 am

    I worried for this,
    a comic lacking update,
    but now I am glad.

  502. Dekler
    August 1st, 2012 at 5:11 am

    Firman, what the hell.
    You said it wouldn’t take long.
    Comment, explain yourself!

  503. Carp
    August 1st, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Dekler, just sit back,
    Firman will make his way here.
    Til then, stay awhile!

  504. Philip
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:06 am

    I was feeling bummed that there hasn’t been an update for a couple of months now, but then I realized something: we’ve had somewhere around 95 — NINETY-FIVE! — Moe comics already this year. That. is. SPECTACULAR! That’s practically 2 comics a week over the course of a year. The problem’s just that he posted them all at the beginning of the year 😛

  505. Teh_Bucket
    August 1st, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    strip:week ratio
    almost 2. obviously,
    our math heals all wounds.

  506. Doramjan
    August 1st, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    I’m going to keep making my own comics.

    http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/978/moestrip3.png

  507. Baxarn
    August 1st, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    For just one second,
    I turned: cascade of comments!
    Another landmark.

  508. Baxarn
    August 1st, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Truly this event,
    Deserves some illustration:
    Automated graph.

    Detailed graph

    Each cross a comment,
    Spanning the axis of time:
    Your contributions.

    I give assurance,
    Of better graphics later,
    When I’ve learned gnuplot.

  509. Teh_Bucket
    August 1st, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    i would like to see
    a Graph interpretation
    of all these haikus.

  510. Haiku
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:10 pm

    Interpretation
    is not something Moe can do.
    Wisdom is not his.

  511. Haiku
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    Dinosaur Moe , yes!
    Support for the Admiral
    Imitation. Pride.

  512. Haiku
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    Or is it, something…
    Flattery? If Admiral
    will allow it, I hope.

  513. Palindr‘moe’
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    Copyright questions
    To be answered by Firman.
    My contribution.

  514. Carp
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Raw fish and rice is
    an all-scenario joke;
    It’s quite amazing.

  515. Carp
    August 1st, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    Or is the joke just
    A rotten, old fish, expired?
    Nah, still has mileage :)

  516. Haiku
    August 2nd, 2012 at 2:12 am

    This fish swims upstream.
    Spawning is a bitch, ain’t it.
    Cruel nature, Moe is.

  517. Teh_Bucket
    August 2nd, 2012 at 9:15 am

    learning nutrition.
    truly educational,
    Moe’s raw fish and rice.

  518. Monu
    August 2nd, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Don’t you see?!! While you people were busy poeticing, SOMEBODY KILLED FIRMAN!

    DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNN

  519. Teh_Bucket
    August 2nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Firman is living.
    how else could we poetize?
    here, a testament:

    http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6406/moeku.png

  520. Doramjan
    August 2nd, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    I will contribute
    To fish and rice sub-genre
    another comic

  521. Doramjan
    August 2nd, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    sub-genre fan art!

  522. Teh_Bucket
    August 2nd, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    Awesome fan picture.
    Maybe it will re-appear,
    somewhere else random.

    http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3041/rawmoe.png

  523. Doramjan
    August 2nd, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Teh_Bucket, that is easily the funniest thing I’ve seen all day :)

  524. Teh_Bucket
    August 2nd, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    Why thank you!

  525. Palindr‘moe’
    August 3rd, 2012 at 3:52 am

    Firman’s fine artwork
    Embodies physical form,
    Enshrined forever.

  526. Monu
    August 3rd, 2012 at 10:57 am

    Teh_Bucket and Palindr’moe’, your grief enhances your talents.

  527. Teh_Bucket
    August 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Servers will crumble
    What this world’s future needed.
    A real, solid Moe

  528. Nimz
    August 4th, 2012 at 5:00 am

    The raw fish and rice –
    The fishy rice and raw fish –
    Fish for the raw rice.

  529. Teh_Bucket
    August 4th, 2012 at 11:03 am

    The new recipe:
    cook rice, marinade raw fish.
    Serve cold with punch-line.

  530. Palindr‘moe’
    August 4th, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Or skip the cooking…
    Does Moe eat (raw fish) and rice?
    Or raw (fish and rice)?

  531. Teh_Bucket
    August 4th, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    rice becomes fluffy.
    is raw uncooked or undried?
    Moe eats out of box.

  532. Haiku
    August 4th, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    I want to try now
    This…”raw fish & rice” Moe dish.
    The teeth! Raw rice…ow.

  533. Baxarn
    August 4th, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    Eating out of box,
    When the box is a panel,
    Grants Moe his freedom.

    References to
    Parasite-infested fish
    Go over my head.

    Simply splitting up,
    Sentences like this makes me,
    Hang my head in shame.

  534. Palindr‘moe’
    August 4th, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    I, A CRAWFISH NERD
    Met A SANDWICH FRIER at
    A CRAWFISH DINER.

    “HI, SIR DWARF ACNE”,
    Said the FAR WHINIER CADS,
    “NICE DWARF HAIRS”.

    IRISH CEDAR FAWN
    Lost by Gaelic woodcarver
    CASH REWARD IF IN.

  535. Teh_Bucket
    August 4th, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Was our punchline good?
    Should it remain as it was?
    or crawfish and rice?

  536. Teh_Bucket
    August 5th, 2012 at 12:24 am

    I, a crawfish nerd,
    said “frier, you let me free!”
    some crawfish advice.

  537. Nimz
    August 5th, 2012 at 1:35 am

    CRAWFISH AND IRE. Dude,
    That crawfish looks pretty mad.
    Maybe it’s hungry?

  538. T1m
    August 5th, 2012 at 5:20 am

    IN CRAWFISH DARE, my
    peers convinced me to consume
    much crawfish (with haste)

    In the middle of
    my dare, across the room, I
    SAW A RICH FRIEND. Joy!

    I asked him if he
    wanted crawfish, but he said
    he’s CHASIN’ WAR FRIED:

    Seeking only the
    crawfish cooked in the flames of
    combat explosives.

  539. Palindr`moe'
    August 5th, 2012 at 10:32 am

    My crawfish advice:
    When making raw fish and rice,
    Use crawfish; it’s nice!

  540. Nimz
    August 5th, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    What kind of rice, sir?
    Do you have any that come
    With plates of raw fish?

    Most certainly, sir.
    And what would please the madam?
    Raw rice and fish, thanks.

  541. Teh_Bucket
    August 5th, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    madam, or madman?
    Similar, easy misread.
    One may not differ.

  542. Nimz
    August 6th, 2012 at 1:40 am

    Like TF2 spies,
    The madam is a madman
    In clever disguise.

  543. Haiku
    August 6th, 2012 at 4:00 am

    This logic seems false.
    The madman is a madman
    As Moe is concerned.

  544. Fren
    August 6th, 2012 at 9:12 am

    Alas, I’ve been away. The pile has grown. Let us hope that the gods themselves do not smash down our tower of comments and scatter us to the four winds.

  545. Palindr‘moe’
    August 6th, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    My Father the Astacologist

    After having a craving for raw fish
    I picked up some rice and some crawfish.
    This made my dad crabby,
    “Crawfish, crayfish, or yabby;
    It’s an arthropod, son, it is not fish!”

  546. Nimz
    August 6th, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    Did I imagine?
    I’m at a loss to explain
    Things in my thought train:

    Words stuck in his craw,
    Jude Law opened up his maw.
    That’s all that I saw.

    Was it real or rice?
    Like raw fish kept under ice,
    To know would be nice.

  547. Doramjan
    August 6th, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    If only Firman had an Amazon Affiliate link… Then we could all buy “The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice” through his Amazon Affiliate link and he’d get a small cut.

  548. Doramjan
    August 6th, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    Another fan comic while we wait for the real thing.

  549. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Story of Sushi.
    but only 9 left in stock.
    click to look inside!

  550. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Ah, Firman’s humour.
    can travel through just his art.
    our words: placeholders.

  551. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 4:07 am

    Raw fish with no rice?
    That’s sashimi, not sushi.
    For sushi, add rice.

    I figure we are
    Still on the left side of that
    Peak in the last graph.

  552. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 11:28 am

    scroll all the way down,
    with an infinite scroll wheel:
    about 6 seconds.

  553. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    What’s the latest craze
    In nuclear power plants?
    It’s raw fission rice.

    The one without pun,
    Let him or her be the first
    To be casting stones.

    -_-;;

  554. Doramjan
    August 7th, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    < (raw fish)

    (||) (bowl of rice with chopsticks on top)

  555. Doramjan
    August 7th, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Arrg, something ate my raw fish! <

  556. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    many days i spent
    thinking of raw fish/rice pun.
    raw fission rice wins.

  557. Palindr‘moe’
    August 7th, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Epic battle lost;
    Doramjan versus website
    Leaves fish-part carnage.

    Ampersand, L, T
    Followed by semicolon.
    Will that save the day?

    <>&lt

  558. Doramjan
    August 7th, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    note: RAW FISH AND RICE
    With the letters rearranged
    makes FANCIER RAW DISH

  559. Palindr‘moe’
    August 7th, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    Muphry’s Law prevails
    (Don’t confuse it with Murphy’s)
    Muphry ate my fish!

    <><

  560. Baxarn
    August 7th, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    When fan comic asks,
    Obligations must be met,
    Graphs generated.

    Comments resurging,
    Phenomenon maybe caused,
    By raw fish and rice.

  561. Doramjan
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    չեփված ձուկ և բրինձ
    сырая рыба и рис

  562. Palindr‘moe’
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    ASCII fish was hard;
    I dare not post as comment
    My Alph‘moe’bet Moe.

  563. Palindr‘moe’
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    Linking disaster!
    Moe’s colors all negative
    Leaked HTML.

    To correct the view:
    Delete /raw, reload, then
    Change display option.

    Text/HTML
    Is the option to reveal
    Moe in his glory.

  564. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    😮
    ASCII art has always been impressive to me. Probably wise that that was not placed directly in the comments, as the line breaks would probably break down. And other things could go wrong.

  565. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    In other news, does not break smileys.

  566. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    And by that I mean . I must be doing something wrong, as I used the < and > things and everything. :\

  567. Nimz
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Surprise outcome text.
    Hypertext markup language,
    You are so crazy.

    What I meant to say
    In my ‘other news’ comment
    Was something like this:

    “In other news, <> does not break smileys.”

  568. Doramjan
    August 7th, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    I hope this works. . .

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  569. Haiku
    August 7th, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    So many eighty-eights
    What does this all mean, Dora-m?
    It raw fish & rice?

  570. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    too much confusion.
    I ASCII Moe a question.
    More raw fish and rice?

  571. Teh_Bucket
    August 7th, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Poetry is Art. Legos is Art. ASCII is Art. Beads is Art. Graphs is Art. Art is Art. Copyright infringement is art.

    Haiku is Art.

    Propose a book:
    Full of all of our comments.
    Sales would skyrocket.

  572. Bo Jackson
    August 7th, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    Firman — back on twitter!
    This third line won’t be haiku
    twitter.com/michaelfirman/

  573. Nimz
    August 8th, 2012 at 3:29 am

    Curiosity…
    Bo’s pen name while in NASA:
    Bobak Ferdowski?

  574. Fren
    August 8th, 2012 at 9:10 am

    You may keep your fish, be it raw, parboiled, blanched, steamed or grilled.
    I shall have red beans with my rice.

  575. Baxarn
    August 8th, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Kidney beans consumed,
    At lunch today with some rice,
    No sign of raw fish.

  576. Palindr‘moe’
    August 8th, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    It’s almost a shame
    To destroy a comment count
    That’s a palindrome.

    But comment we must,
    Until the great day shall come:
    Moe shall live again.

    His tongue shall be loosed;
    The curse of raw fish and rice
    Lifted forever.

  577. Fren
    August 9th, 2012 at 7:22 am

    Moe lives on forever in our hearts. Many moons may yet pass before he stirs again, but we shall keep the memory alive.

  578. Haiku
    August 9th, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    From what distant sea
    The Admiral does travel
    Is not ours to know.

  579. Haiku
    August 9th, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    But return he will
    And with bounty he comes – soon
    Like a shooting star

  580. Nimz
    August 11th, 2012 at 4:55 am

    DLXXX:
    It’s like deluxe, but extra.
    … Or a porn download.

  581. Dent
    August 12th, 2012 at 12:42 am

    Alas, my faith grows thin –
    Firman’s benevolence fades,
    Leaving us alone.

  582. Nimz
    August 12th, 2012 at 1:34 am

    It is our solemn,
    Holy duty, if that’s true,
    To abandon hope.

    The alternative:
    Power of fraternal love!
    Hope all the harder!

    Put me down for B.
    I `Moe’tion for `Moe’r hope here.
    All is not lost yet.

  583. Haiku
    August 12th, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Dent, Nimz is wisdom.
    Comics are hard – Internet more.
    Comment harder, Friends.

  584. Haiku
    August 13th, 2012 at 4:15 am

    My AC is failing.
    Not really a haiku.
    Just complaining.

  585. Nimz
    August 13th, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    Sorry to hear that.
    Just remember to drink lots
    And lots of water.

    I have yet to use
    A/C in my apartment.
    School is cool enough.

    It also helps that I have an office at school, so the triple digits can still largely be avoided, even on the weekends. My car, on the other hand… yeah, I’ve been using the hell out of that air conditioning. Which is kind of a luxury, since the last two summers I had a vehicle with nonfunctioning A/C.

  586. Doramjan
    August 13th, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    Let’s petition the Admiral to invite guest columnists to create Moe comics in his absence. I suggest Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade first. After all, Moe does have a certain resemblance to the ghosts in Super Mario Brothers. Admiral, what think ye?

  587. Fren
    August 14th, 2012 at 7:55 am

    Alas, dear Dent, and all other dear friends … it may seem as though our Admiral is letting us down. However, being a master of the human psyche, what he is truly doing is building us up. His absence shall make us grow stronger, for one cannot truly know the glory of Heaven without first wretching into the porcelain bowels of Hell.

    When times are dark and hopes are faint, let your faith be as a light.

  588. Philip
    August 14th, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    I wouldn’t mind doing a guest comic or two.

  589. Philip
    August 14th, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    I miss Carp.

  590. Haiku
    August 14th, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    I miss Carp too.

    Guest comics are a marvelous idea.

  591. Moe and Bo
    August 14th, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    The comments clutter.
    Just as the birds do flutter.
    Moe bread and butter.

  592. Haiku
    August 14th, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    Bravo.

  593. Baxarn
    August 15th, 2012 at 12:19 am

    Carp is MIA?
    A fortnight signifies naught,
    But shortage of bait.

  594. Carp
    August 15th, 2012 at 2:52 am

    Hey! I’m stil around –
    Went to Montreal last week,
    Although I’m back now.

  595. Carp
    August 15th, 2012 at 2:53 am

    (wooops, I meant *still)

  596. Carp
    August 15th, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Too tired for thoughts new;
    ‘Moe’etic praise briefly paused,
    to restart later.

  597. T1m
    August 15th, 2012 at 5:48 am

    Ready! Set! Moe!

  598. Nimz
    August 15th, 2012 at 9:19 am

    ‘Twas brillig and the slithy Moes
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
    All mimsy were the commenters
    And the readers outgrabe.

    Beware the Jetpack Hunk, Dope son
    The jets that burn, much like a match
    Beware the Bo-demon
    And shun the nethergatory batch.

  599. Prince of Dread
    August 15th, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Comment with fervour–
    Six hundred and ninety-eight
    Soon seven hundred!

  600. Philip
    August 15th, 2012 at 9:45 am

    Sparta has nothing!
    Six Hundred is where it’s at.
    Instead: This is Moe!

  601. Carp
    August 15th, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Sixth of a thousand
    comments accrued nigh daily;
    Thoughts are not yet slim.

  602. Carp
    August 15th, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    Slept not long enough;
    mind is hazy, thoughts are blurred –
    I’ll indulge in naps.

  603. Prince of Dread
    August 16th, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Forward thinking, yes
    Seven hundred–not yet!
    But we will, we will.

    (Clearly, my morose nature impedes my ability to read…)

  604. Prince of Dread
    August 16th, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Forward thinking, yes
    Seven hundred–not yet!
    But we will, we will.

  605. Prince of Dread
    August 16th, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    (Clearly, my morose nature impedes my ability to read…And I do not understand how one clickie netted double post. Apologies.)

  606. Fren
    August 17th, 2012 at 7:25 am

    Another Friday. Seven days with no Moe makes one weak.

  607. Carp
    August 17th, 2012 at 10:12 am

    A line-long post works
    But with a little jiggling,
    Voila! A haiku:

    Another Friday.
    Seven days without Moe makes
    One week without Mow.

  608. Carp
    August 17th, 2012 at 10:12 am

    (hahaha, *Moe)

  609. Teh_Bucket
    August 17th, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    asterisk, it’s *Moe.
    Imitation cat, “Meow”
    Cat’s got Carp’s tongue, eh?

  610. Teh_Bucket
    August 17th, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Infinite wi-fi?
    on a train, yet still with webs.
    a great invention.

  611. Dent
    August 17th, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Wifi on a train?
    Bizarre, yet remarkable!
    Sounds like a great trip.

  612. Teh_Bucket
    August 18th, 2012 at 12:15 am

    silly network names:
    “Bill Wi the Science Fi” wins.
    “Other Network” close.

  613. Nimz
    August 18th, 2012 at 4:39 am

    If I get wi-fi,
    My network name would surely
    Be “raw fish and rice”.

  614. Doramjan
    August 18th, 2012 at 7:27 am

    Or “pretty fly for a wifi”

  615. Haiku
    August 18th, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    “Poo poo poo poo”

  616. Haiku
    August 18th, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Although my favorite series was a camera shot of several wi-fi networks, the top saying
    “give us back our pink flamingos”
    and a little lower
    “your pink flamingos are mine forever”

  617. T1m
    August 18th, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Six one seven, has it
    been
    so long already? Oh my.

  618. T1m
    August 18th, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    Raw fish and rice is good
    but
    Raw fish and ice is much colder

  619. Palindr‘moe’
    August 19th, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    “Why fly when you can
    Take the train?” becomes “Wi-fi
    When you take the train.”

  620. Palindr‘moe’
    August 19th, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    T1m’s scheme gets quite hard just
    now.

  621. Palindr‘moe’
    August 19th, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    [Argh, how is my math so bad that I think that 6, 1, 0 comes after 6, 1, 9?]

  622. Palindr‘moe’
    August 19th, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    My haiku was written
    before
    I knew.

  623. Teh_Bucket
    August 19th, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    I AM A DALEK
    A DALEK NEEDS NO HAIKU
    EXTERMINATE!

  624. T1m
    August 19th, 2012 at 9:30 pm

    A new form of haiku:
    ever
    changing meter.

    Moe fans are masters of
    all forms
    of poetry.

  625. T1m
    August 19th, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    Fret not, Palindr’moe’,
    “now” may
    be pronounced “nah-ow”.

  626. Nimz
    August 19th, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    Let me take a shot here,
    On a
    Palindromic number

  627. Palindr‘moe’
    August 20th, 2012 at 12:50 am

    Poetic irony:
    Constraints
    Breathe freedom to expression.

  628. Carp
    August 20th, 2012 at 1:40 am

    Constraints set aside,
    perhaps a blessing to some;
    I rep O.G. style.

    Five-seven-five suits
    my poetic ambitions
    for the time being.

  629. Carp
    August 20th, 2012 at 1:46 am

    Actually, maybe
    it’s time
    for referential syllabic stabs.

  630. Carp
    August 20th, 2012 at 1:47 am

    It was fun at first, but
    this one’s tough.

    [not really]

  631. Fren
    August 20th, 2012 at 7:54 am

    Though late to the party, I shall share nonetheless. My wifi network name is … corn. All of my neighbors try to be clever, with names such as “Spidey’s Den” and “Wolf Lodge”. I shall roll monosyllabic with my SSID.

  632. Teh_Bucket
    August 20th, 2012 at 11:16 am

    S-S-I-D corn.
    Clever, boring, or unique?
    monosyllable.

  633. Haiku
    August 20th, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    So busy.

  634. Nimz
    August 21st, 2012 at 4:17 am

    What happen?
    We get signal!
    What! Main screen turn on.
    What you say!! Busy signal!
    Ha ha ha ha . . . . You know what you doing.

  635. Fren
    August 21st, 2012 at 7:58 am

    Corn, I shall say, is simply atypical of names generally given for a wifi SSID. A hidden nugget of joy for wardrivers, a chance to think “WTF is that git thinkin?” Why not deploy easter eggs for the curious, I say.

  636. Teh_Bucket
    August 21st, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    tired, business day.
    accidentily dial fax.
    strange noise: Aliens?

  637. Haiku
    August 21st, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    Not Aliens, no.
    Bo, from space, calling home-home.
    Teh_Bucket, answer!

  638. Teh_Bucket
    August 21st, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    Hello? poo, you say?
    nethergatory, you say?
    Sorry, wrong number.

  639. Haiku
    August 22nd, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Bo, now lost in space
    Teh_Bucket, cold as empty.
    Rescue? No longer.

  640. Teh_Bucket
    August 22nd, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    But not all is lost.
    star, 7, 5, put on hold.
    Forward: Jetpack hunk.

  641. Haiku
    August 23rd, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Teh dash wait. Hunk Rump?
    Are you calling Problem Sleuth?
    Space – not hard boiled.

  642. Nimz
    August 23rd, 2012 at 1:37 am

    Hardly boiled space:
    Room for rent for coddled sleuths.
    Free indulgences.

  643. Nimz
    August 23rd, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Famine fiesta!*
    Alert all authorities!**
    Don’t dare drop dead, dude.***

    * hippotech + hotsauce?
    ** or at least Fiesta Ace Dick.
    *** talking to God from your coffin is fine, though.

  644. Philip
    August 23rd, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    There are more comments on this one comic than there are comics on the entire site. We’re the best fans!

  645. Palindr‘moe’
    August 24th, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    I was little match:
    Moe, an incredible hunk;
    And when in the Olds!…

    Rather against (or of) will.
    And well, I was 12.

    Today I have skills:
    Jetpack course organizing,
    League soccer forward.

    I’m sure you could play.
    Really, at least play a year.
    But I am still 12.

    [That’s every word from the comic but “is”, (though please forgive me for expanding one “I’m” to “I am”).]

  646. Carp
    August 24th, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    Been slackin’ on words
    To populate the post count;
    Here are a few, though.

  647. Carp
    August 24th, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    For his brilliance
    I award Palindr’moe’
    The Carp prize of praise.

  648. Teh_Bucket
    August 25th, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    A tribute to “Pal”
    all of the of the words I now use
    come from this haiku.

  649. Baxarn
    August 25th, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    Rainy night, fresh yunnan
    Meaning tea and not province;,
    I’m not that hungry.

    SOAP services, bleh.
    W S D L X M L
    Got to get this done.

  650. Haiku
    August 25th, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Baxarn, from planet
    W S D L X M L?
    Haikus – now in space.

  651. Palindr‘moe’
    August 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    Is this the planet
    Where the letter double-u
    Is one syllable?

    We could petition
    To rename this odd letter
    To just its sound, “whuh”.

    Or perhaps Baxarn,
    Longs for the Old English rune
    With the same sound, Ƿ*?

    *Ƿ is named “Wynn”.

  652. Palindr‘moe’
    August 25th, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Lest I be accused,
    Of adding insult to pain,
    I offer Baxarn:

    The Divine Limerick

    In Dante’s description of Hell,
    (In that poem we know so well),
    The scene of perdition
    Has a major omission—
    The tenth circle is XML.

  653. Baxarn
    August 26th, 2012 at 3:58 am

    I engelsk miljö
    är mitt nedkortade w
    oförståeligt

    Ty simpla nordbor,
    gör diverse undantag,
    för förkortningar.

    (In this english setting, my usage of w was incomprehensible. Us simple nords make certain exceptions for abbreviations (especially www))

    Palindr’moe, that limerick deserves framing. And you should check if Google’s looking for a CPO at the moment.

  654. Palindr‘moe’
    August 26th, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    You’ve got me musing…
    Chief Poetry Officer?
    Could that be a thing?!

    I’m glad you like the limerick, Baxarn. Before framing it, I’d really like to come up with a better second line. The current one is just empty filler, (and the repeated initial “in” is annoying.

  655. Teh_Bucket
    August 26th, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    Though it doesn’t match hermeneutics that well

  656. Nimz
    August 26th, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    How’s this? Still filler, but … it’s different filler.

    In Dante’s description of Hell,
    One thing he neglected to tell:
    The scene of perdition
    Has a major omission—
    The tenth circle is XML.

    In other news:

    Moeseph in the blood
    Must not be tolerated,
    According to sports.

  657. Fren
    August 27th, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Naught to see upon the sea but waves and tides and gulls.

  658. Palindr‘moe’
    August 27th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Nimz, thanks for your help.
    That’s poetry perfection.
    Comedy divine.

    And it’s not just filler anymore. While providing a complete thought, the second line now gives the perfect setup for the punchline. Collaborative poetry success!

  659. Carp
    August 28th, 2012 at 2:34 am

    Where’d all my time go?
    It’s past 2 A.M. again
    Forgot about sleep –

    Since damage is done,
    a turn to the nocturnal,
    I’ll just post instead.

  660. Carp
    August 28th, 2012 at 2:36 am

    Alas! Mind shut-down
    prevents my spark of words;
    now, duller than Moe.

  661. Carp
    August 28th, 2012 at 2:37 am

    (and you know I’m tired
    by how line two is a dang
    syllable too short)

  662. Dent
    August 28th, 2012 at 10:43 am

    Forgiveness is bliss –
    For iron sharpens iron,
    And we all improve.

  663. Teh_Bucket
    August 28th, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    As we all should know,
    the best art is a bit flawed;
    just a bit off.

  664. Palindr‘moe’
    August 28th, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    If just a bit off
    Makes art; know that two bits off
    Saves twenty-five cents.

  665. Nimz
    August 28th, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    One more thing to know:
    The next comment to appear
    Will be evil.

    It’s so evil it already stole the last syllable of that haiku.

  666. Doramjan
    August 28th, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    And it’s so evil
    It stole seven syllables
    From the next haiku

  667. Teh_Bucket
    August 28th, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    the only cure is

    and yes, it will work.

  668. Nimz
    August 28th, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    I thought `More cowbell’,
    But it lacks four syllables.
    Even `Moe’re cowbell?

  669. Teh_Bucket
    August 28th, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    Let’s hope it don’t last.

    Uh oh, still nothing.

  670. Dent
    August 28th, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    It’s a tragic curse –
    I believe you can make it.
    Best of luck, my friend.

  671. Carp
    August 29th, 2012 at 12:52 am

    dangnabbit, who stole

    all my syllables

  672. Nimz
    August 29th, 2012 at 3:40 am

    The haiku curse lives!
    <><><><
    From keep happening!

  673. Fren
    August 29th, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    _ _ _ _ _
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _
    _ _ _ _ _

    (evil plan complete, all syllables have been liberated. Glory to the Motherland.)

  674. Palindr‘moe’
    August 29th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Was that:

    Evil plan complete,
    Syllables liberated.
    Motherland glory!

    By chance?

  675. Teh_Bucket
    August 29th, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    Aha, solution!
    The cure to the tragic curse!
    Just blame the Russians.

  676. Carp
    August 29th, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Faint haiku whispers,
    silence brought on by Russians;
    syllabic Cold War.

  677. Doramjan
    August 29th, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    Party ushankas?
    Legitimate word combo?
    For the motherland!

  678. Teh_Bucket
    August 29th, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    .work syllables though
    confusion on bringing
    :backwards haiku a

  679. Haiku
    August 29th, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    In Russia, apparently Haiku you.

  680. Dent
    August 30th, 2012 at 1:20 am

    .impressed quite am I
    – there, haiku backwards that in
    proud me done have You

  681. Dekler
    August 30th, 2012 at 4:15 am

    Moe kicked the bucket
    Firman gives the silent treatment
    But updates Tumblr.

  682. Haiku
    August 30th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    The ways of Firman,
    Often mysterious, yes?
    Trust the Admiral.

  683. Nimz
    August 30th, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Soviet Russians
    Retain reflexivity –
    You something yourself.

  684. Dekler
    August 31st, 2012 at 9:28 am

    The boat sprung a leak
    The Admiral sank and died
    Still the navy waits

  685. Carp
    August 31st, 2012 at 9:52 am

    Just when did we reach
    fifteen to seven hundred?
    I blinked and missed it.

  686. Doramjan
    August 31st, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Jetpack hunk has so many amusing anagrams: Jack the Punk, Pack the Junk, Khan Puck Jet.

    Na’Bo’Lean also has amusing anagrams: Banal One, Anal Bone, Bean Loan.

    And Palindr’Moe can be rearranged to Rapid Melon or Random Pile.

  687. Palindr‘moe’
    August 31st, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    “I can’t live without another Moe!” wailed Drama Jon.

    “It’s true that no comic is more significant,” added Major Dan.

    “The admiral’s not in the desert, I checked all of it,” said Nomad Raj.

    “And we just wanted some art for our new rap CD,” moaned DJ N. Aroma and DJ A. Roman.

    I find that nuclear duck tastes best with a glaze of Radon Jam.

    Zese vords are fery Random, Ja?

  688. Carp
    August 31st, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    My name rearranged
    has few possibilities;
    Alas! Call me Acpr.

  689. Carp
    August 31st, 2012 at 11:13 pm

    (we’re counting Acpr as one syllable, of course)

  690. Haiku
    September 1st, 2012 at 8:57 am

    So close to 700, and yet my ability to rhyme grows weaker. My friends, so much stronger, keep focus while I rest.

  691. Baxarn
    September 1st, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Perhaps our efforts,
    keep the admiral assured,
    fans will still remain.

    I’ll start a boycott,
    not writing any more comments
    until tomorrow.

  692. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:58 am

    9..

  693. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:58 am

    8..

  694. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:59 am

    7..

  695. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:59 am

    6..

  696. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:59 am

    5..

  697. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    4..

  698. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    3..

  699. random stranger
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    2..

  700. RANDOMGETSMAN
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    1..

    700th GET! HAHAHAHA

    RANDOMGETSMAN HAS STRUCK AGAIN!

  701. Carp
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    party time

  702. Carp
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Haha, damn you randomgets maaaaan

  703. Carp
    September 1st, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    Though a milestone’s missed,
    I’ve nabbed enough moments, so!
    Best not get greedy.

  704. Nimz
    September 1st, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    If there are boycotts,
    My only question is this:
    Where are the girlcotts?

  705. Teh_Bucket
    September 1st, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    Elementary.
    To find either gender’s cots,
    ask camp counselors.

  706. Carp
    September 1st, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    But would camp leaders
    Be able to tell which cots
    Are males or females?

  707. Nimz
    September 2nd, 2012 at 2:33 am

    “Where do cots come from?”
    Well, when you have a boycott
    That loves a girlcott…

    … And then a stork comes
    Carrying a baby cot.
    That’s where they come from.

  708. Palindr‘moe’
    September 2nd, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    ‘Moe’r entries from The Bumdemon’s Dictionary:

    ascot: having the appearance of a cot

    cottage: old enough to attend summer camp

    cotton: a huge number of cots, (more than enough for camp)

    dovecot: a little bed for a little bird

    mascot: a face like a rumpled bed, (usually from having just slept in one)

  709. Monu
    September 2nd, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    The shit is this, Firman.

  710. Haiku
    September 2nd, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    Random Stranger for the steal!
    We have skullduggery in our midst!
    We’ve become popular enough to have skullduggery in our midst!

  711. Teh_Bucket
    September 2nd, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    def- Skullduggery:
    an archaeologist’s job;
    digging up some skulls.

  712. Haiku
    September 3rd, 2012 at 4:07 am

    Question – Does Moe have a skull?

  713. Teh_Bucket
    September 3rd, 2012 at 4:58 am

    Moe’s skull, is it there?
    An X-Ray was never done,
    but Moe goes skulling:
    http://i.imgur.com/4cIx8.gif

  714. Carp
    September 3rd, 2012 at 10:08 am

    Fury of rowing
    perpetually nowhere;
    I’d be angry, too.

  715. Nimz
    September 3rd, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    Moe had a stomach,
    But that’s no longer the case.
    He has teeth, at least.

    Fixed teeth indicate
    Part of a skull is in there:
    Moe should have a jaw.

    Fury in a boat:
    Moe’s oars don’t touch the water,
    Yet he keeps trying.

  716. Teh_Bucket
    September 3rd, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Moe rows endlessly
    all over nethergatory,
    never close to land.

  717. Dent
    September 3rd, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    Skeletal fixtures –
    In all, not necessary.
    Moe merely exists.

  718. Teh_Bucket
    September 4th, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    a binary haiku:
    01001001
    can’t fit it all in.

  719. Dekler
    September 5th, 2012 at 3:26 am

    A new Moe has come
    Sorry that I doubted you.
    Can you forgive me?

  720. Doramjan
    September 5th, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    I just can’t resist
    commenting for old times’ sake
    to get the last word

  721. Palindr‘moe’
    September 13th, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Philosophers ask,
    “If a tree falls unobserved,
    Does it make a sound?”

    Similarly, now,
    “If I comment on old Moe,
    Will anyone see?”

  722. Mark
    September 21st, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Yes, affirmative.
    Though a week after posting,
    your comment is seen.

  723. Nimz
    September 25th, 2012 at 4:34 am

    Old Moe comments here
    Are sorely lacking something…
    Ah! Raw fish and rice!

  724. Doramjan
    December 17th, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    MOE in hex equals 4D4F45
    4D4F45 as a color equals http://www.colorhexa.com/4d4f45.png

    And that color would actually fit surprisingly well in the current web page color scheme!

  725. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Download!!!
    March 19th, 2014 at 6:28 am

    Internet connection required!

    My blog post: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Download!!!

  726. Rayford
    August 7th, 2014 at 3:55 am

    Hello! Quick question that’s entirely off topic. Do you know how to make your site mobile friendly?
    My weblog looks weird when viewing from my iphone4.
    I’m trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able to
    resolve this problem. If you have any suggestions, please share.
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  727. Ha'Moe'
    July 17th, 2016 at 11:50 am

    I remeber this day.
    Only for me it was with 7 year olds.

  728. Ha'Moe'
    July 17th, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    People. That is a Beta

  729. Nimz
    July 19th, 2016 at 5:00 am

    Beta is β;
    It has a similar shape.
    ß is eszett.

  730. doramjan's fiancee
    August 19th, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    Doramjan was my fiance in early 2015. He passed away suddenly in May 2016. I missed him so much tonight, I searched the Internet to find his online presence and remember him. I found this quite brilliant and entertaining place where his personality shone. Thank you for your parts in it, all of you! If

  731. doramjan's fiancee
    August 19th, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    anyone wants to know more about him or remember him, here are some places on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1477569922540334/

    https://www.facebook.com/doramjan1/

    Sorry, I accidentally hit enter above! He passed away in May 2015.

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    November 9th, 2016 at 7:57 pm

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