Count to a Million

[Teapot]

I'll be honest, I've never gotten more than a few episodes into Evangelion. About 17,524 people have told me that was a mistake.

 

[Neil.T]

Can I be the 17,525th, then?

 

[Teapot]

You could be the 17,526th as well!

 

[Neil.T]

I don't know Shakespare
So I thought I'd try a haiku
But numbers won't fit

I'm no poet, so
I wouldn't even know how
to write a haiku
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17,527.

 

[Teapot]

Seventeen thousand, five
hundred and twenty eight works
as a haiku... just!

(17,528)

 

[Neil.T]

Isn't that first line one syllable over?

Still, I'm no-one to talk: I can only count up to 17,529 and no further!

 

[Teapot]

Isn't that first line one syllable over?

Still, I'm no-one to talk: I can only count up to 17,529 and no further!

Oh, bother, you're right. Forgot "Seventeen" has three syllables.

That said, I do know that 17,530 has 11...

 

[Neil.T]

We've had volleyball, so when can we expect a poetry-writing anime called Haiku!!?

17,531.

 

[Ian Wolf]

I don't know, but I've found an OEL manga adaptation of a poem by W.B. Yates, drawn in the style of Clamp.

W.B. Yeats' Poem "When You Are Old" Adapted into a Japanese Manga Comic | Open Culture

17,532.

 

[Neil.T]

Nice find, man. I like the CLAMP stylings.

How would it look in the style of One Piece, I wonder?

Will Luffy become king of the pirates before he is old? And where is the bloody One Piece hidden?

It's running even longer than this thread.

17,533.

 

[Ian Wolf]

But not quite as long as Kochikame.

17,534.

 

[Teapot]

After at least 17,535 volumes, it will be revealed that the One Piece was really friendship all along.

 

[Buzz201]

That'll be a disappointment when I finally start/finish in 17,536 years time...

 

[Neil.T]

But not quite as long as Kochikame.

Strewth! Two hundred volumes?! (Thanks, Wikipedia. )

After at least 17,535 volumes, it will be revealed that the One Piece was really friendship all along.

Or that it never existed in the first place.

There's 17,537 hours of your life you'd never get back!

 

[Ian Wolf]

Don't tell me it was all a dream?

17,538

 

[Neil.T]

Or a nightmare!

That would mark the end of the Luffy's Dream arc. He then sets off for real, repeating the WHOLE STORY in the style of Haruhi's Endless Eight arc.

17,539.

 

[Teapot]

Would it then repeat 17,540 more times, just with small changes?

 

[Zin5ki]

We can only presume so. (Fear not, there exist YouTube videos of greater length.)

17541

 

[Teapot]

Well yeah, there's everything on YouTube, including a 17,542-hour long video of a dog going "bork."

 

[Neil.T]

There's also a 10-hour video of the "Excalibur" song from Soul Eater.

God help us all.

17,543.