I'm no natural poet, and the rather awkward TPPCPPC format doesn't lend itself easily to haiku, but I'll post it as a challenge anyway.
They'd have been posting beautiful haiku poems. maybe I should have.
Who knows what's next. Vogon haiku?
Note: summary name change.-- RayfordSteele, Apr 05 2002 Incorrectly they would have been doing TP PCPPC.-- beauxeault, Apr 05 2002 Hey, you didn't pay the franchise fees.-- waugsqueke, Apr 05 2002 with love they would have been having all they needed, wouldn't they have been?-- beauxeault, Apr 05 2002 They'd have been thinking they would have been finding it easier than pie.-- beauxeault, Apr 05 2002 Yes! I finally get somebody to explain TPPCPPC to me. What exactly does the acronym stand for, anyway?-- RayfordSteele, Apr 05 2002 ub, you kill me.-- bristolz, Apr 06 2002 waking too early sleepy and tired during day going to sleep late-- rmc2003, Apr 06 2002 "They'd have continued? They'd have been continuing." waugsqueke corrected.
One other mistake... "That way, they'd have been finding." Thank you, nonetheless.-- waugsqueke, Apr 06 2002 They would have had a severe headache from reading all of these haiku.-- phoenix, Apr 07 2002 ils auraient espé-ré que l'on puisse vous donnerun très gros croissant-- sappho, Apr 08 2002 The classical:
They'd have been walking in the falling snow. Snowmen they'd have been building.
The self-referential (insofar as you can be self-referential in the third person)
They would have been wri- ting lyrical lines which would not have been rhyming.
The final
Bakers would have been saying "We'd rather eat fish and spit out the bones."-- kropotkin, Mar 22 2004 A B C D Eand F would have been makinga short alphabet.-- FarmerJohn, Mar 22 2004 Cyrano:
They'd have been calling
That a nose if their faces
Had not been valleys.-- TomBombardil, Mar 23 2004 random, halfbakery