The People's Choice Cuts: 2001-3000

1.

Myrrh, frankincense, and
SPAM: the gifts of two wise men
and one complete fool.
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

2.

Taco Bell comes out
with new SPAM chimichangas.
Run from the border!
--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

3.

1984:
"Slavery is freedom" "War
is peace" "SPAM is food"
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

4.

In Shakespeare's SPAMlet:
Shouts at Ophelia, "Get thee
to a cannery."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

5.

If Schrödinger's cat
eats the SPAM, uncertainty
is out the door: dead.
--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

O Terrible SPAM!
You're not a carcinogen.
You're cancer itself.

--Holly Jenson, hj@rosenet.net

7.

Old retired jocks to
star in ads for new SPAM Lite.
"Tastes filling!" "Less great!"
--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

8.

SPAM treat: smart pâté,
or meat parts, or ma's pet rat;
spells and smells the same.
--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

New brand: Chia SPAM.
Meat and greens in every bite.
Hormel, we'd buy it!

--Bruce D. Sidlinger, Bruce@Sidlinger.COM

O'er black bubbling vat,
Snout, ears, feet, and fat. This, that.
Witches cackle, "SPAM!"

--William Routhier, routhier@cybercom.net

11.

Republican SPAM:
It's the same old pork in a
fancier new can.
--Andy Dustman, andy@neptune.chem.uga.edu

12.

After scrutiny,
methinks it is doggie food.
I eat on all fours.
--Dan Beeder, daniel_beeder@jhuapl.edu

Queasy, greasy SPAM
Slithers without propulsion
Across a white plate.

--sarahb@lamar.colostate.edu

14.

Born in World War Two.
Hogs marching off to battle.
Dressed in tin armor.
--Marc Frattasio, marc_frattasio@bedison.com

At the abbatoir
Scythes and grinders groan. Outside
Hormel's barrow waits.

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

Is putting SPAM on
The engendered feces list
Scatological?

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

When I was a kid
Mom would make SPAM casserole.
Now she denies it.

--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

Patio slime trails
Are not from snails but anxious
SPAMs seeking escape.

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

19.

Cop beats up migrants
Heading for "jobs" at Hormel.
Meat tenderizer.
--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

20.

Cheeks pink as primrose,
SPAM-sculpted. Sweetly dimpling,
Pig-malion smiles.
--Paula S. Jordan, jordanp@worldweb.net

Churchill on SPAM: "A
riddle wrapped in a myst'ry
wrapped in some pink gel.".

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

Evita eats a
slab of SPAM, sings "Don't Cry For
Me, Minnesota."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu


Thanks again to the anonymous panelists for helping me select among 1000 haiku, to Phil Erickson for writing the vote tallying cgi script, and to Alec Proudfoot (alec@netcom.com) for hosting the ballot box.

John Nagamichi Cho, a.k.a. The SHAM / jcho@naic.edu

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