#0009 | I wouldn’t buy this
Submitted by Robert in Madison, Wisconsin.
Here’s Robert’s story:
“Dear Haiku For You: I would like a haiku about SkyMall.
I travel frequently on business trips with a certain airline that shall remain nameless. Every time I board one of their flights I find a copy of a ‘magazine’ called SkyMall tucked into the seatback in front of me. Frankly, I’m puzzled by who the target audience for this publication is. Not only is everything in the catalog extremely expensive but it is also crap that no one, no matter how rich, would ever need.
SkyMall is the magazine equivalent of The Sharper Image or Hammacher Schlemmer, both of which I often find in airport terminals. Some of the items they sell are jokes in and of themselves: “Successories,” special devices that chill beer one bottle at a time, waterproof iPod stereo systems. Okay, so I like the last one, but the rest are bogus.
If you can help me channel my confusion/distaste/bewilderment into a haiku it will help me the next time I wedge myself between a screaming infant and a morbidly obese snorer.”
Robert, your submission is classic. For those who don’t know, this is SkyMall… and for those who are curious, we took the photo using a long exposure and colored flashlights (see?).
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Yes! Skymall is very much well known as the place to get the newest fashions in eyebrow coolers.
Awesome. This might be my favorite one so far. Really, who buys that stuff? I’ve personally always wasted my money on the $6 beer.
The artwork in this post is so pretty. I wish I could fly on THAT airline.
Great! Where’s the Kigo?
OMG. My friend Maria and I had a blast thumbing through one of those on a flight to LA years ago. Our guffaws sounded like Beavis and Butthead as we scanned and ribbed each other, saying, “Huh huh huh, look at this!!!”.
Great idea.
bravo.