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title: The Time I Won Tim Ferriss' Pants in a Haiku Contest
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2017-01-14
tags: post, post, miscellany, random
---

For posterity, this post commemorates that time, nearly ten years ago, that I won author [Tim Ferris](http://fourhourworkweek.com/)' jeans in a [haiku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku) contest on Twitter.

My victory has been immortalized in this [tweet](http://web.archive.org/web/20081112015338/http://twitter.com/tferriss/status/971717571):

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Winning haiku for jeans fr <a href="https://twitter.com/georgeMandis">@georgeMandis</a>: &#39;So This one is five / Then I think it&#39;s seven here / Or all they all five?&#39; 2nd place on <a href="https://twitter.com/roxanew">@roxanew</a></p>&mdash; Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) <a href="https://twitter.com/tferriss/status/971717571">October 23, 2008</a></blockquote>
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The jeans were [Howies](http://www.howies.co.uk/) jeans and probably too big for me, but I wore them into the ground none the less.

Those were the earlier days of Twitter, when people were nicer, and we had fewer [tyrants](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/) demonstrating their absence of leadership and dignity [ridiculing civil-rights leaders](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820251730407473153).

I miss old Twitter.