A Burning Mouse Runs Back Into House, House Burns Down

[Clara T]

Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze

Mon Jan 9, 12:46 PM ET

FORT SUMNER, N.M. - A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.

Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.
"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a motel room Saturday.

Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.

No was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed.
Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mouse_fire

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1. Dude, you are SOOOOO far behind on this news...

matcom had it covered before most people were up this morning, and someone else did, too.

[Clara T]

3. Yes but did they

report it in 17 syllables?

From, not a Dude

From renga to haikai
The exact origin of hokku is still subject to debate, but it is generally agreed that it originated from the classical linked verse form called renga (??). There are two types of renga:
? The short renga, tanrenga, has a 5-7-5 - 7-7 structure. The first 5-7-5 of a short renga is called ch?ku (the longer verse), to which answers the remaining 7-7, tanku (the shorter verse).
? The long renga, ch?renga, consists of an alternating succession of ch?ku and tanku, 36 to 100 verses per volume. The first verse of a long renga is a ch?ku (5-7-5) called hokku (??, "the opening verse"), the second is a tanku (7-7) called waki, ... and the last is a tanku called ageku.
In the 1400s a rising middle class led to the development of a less courtly linked verse called haikai no renga (?????, "playful linked verse"). Haiku came into being when the opening verse of haikai no renga was made an independent poem at the end of the 19th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

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2. Thank you - I know it is a dupe, but I missed the original and had

no idea what a third post was referring to :)