“When Will,” a Poem by Google’s Little Search Suggestions Thingy

I’ve been trying out some old-school Ask.com natural language queries on Google lately. This little gem sprang up fully-formed when I was in the middle of typing “When will the Narnia books be in the public domain”? (Answer: 2033.) I reproduce it here verbatim. Notice how the last stanza gently reprises the themes of the first …

“When Will”

When will I die
When will the world end
When will I get my tax refund
When will Twilight be on DVD

When will the recession end
When will the economy get better
When will Windows 7 be released
When will I get married

When will I die quiz
When will Twilight come out on DVD

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  • Kemper

    When will Lev finally watch Battlestar Galactica?

  • Rorschach

    That’s pretty beautiful. I don’t know if the Twilight stuff makes it better or worse. Both, probably.
    .
    For poops and giggs I wanted to see the Bing rebuttal:
    When will the world end
    When will I die quiz
    When will you die quiz
    When will I get married
    When will I die test
    When will Jesus return
    *
    Bing has more of a Sylvia Plath thing going I guess

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    When will hell freeze over
    When will pigs fly
    When will Fox make a smart programming decision
    When will Josh get on the masthead
    When will Lev watch BSG

  • dennitzio

    Does this qualify as machinima art? Or perhaps true collective art?

  • Kemper

    A haiku:

    Blogger covers eyes
    Galactica flies no more
    Lev missed Starbuck

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    Cherry blossums fall
    Onto my DVD set
    Lev is still absent

  • Kemper

    Beyond the red line
    Lev refuses to follow
    Commenters puzzled

  • dennitzio

    There once was a man named Lev, who
    Tried to ignore the vocal but small crew
    of BSG poets
    who really don’t know it’s
    So passé to be writing in Haiku.

  • anon76

    Some think its a much smarter gimmick
    to forego haiku for a limerick
    What they don’t know
    (though its starting to show)
    Is that its hard to rhyme BSG in a limerick

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    There once was a man from Time’s blogs
    who would spend his time sawing logs
    instead of attending
    to the curious ending
    of the show that each reader flogs

  • Kemper

    There once was a show with Apollo
    That Leverus refused to follow
    This baffled his poor posters
    Who couldn’t see why he wouldn’t watch the Toasters
    But in their misery Lev let them wallow

  • http://www.creatingacomic.com cjalexander

    A series of annoying reply posts
    With intention of badgering the hosts
    Ended up falling flat
    Because the limerick format
    Isn’t very well-suited to Internet roasts.

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