RIP GuyJean....far too many folks have passed on this year....sad to hear this

Flying Spaghetti Monster should be happy now....

plaid_knight wrote:What did the people of Tokyo do to deserve that senile old fart?

Um, they voted for him again for the 4th time?

We can only hope he'd have to leave office if he became mentally incompetent. Then again, the voters put him in office again, even after he made made his divine punishment comments, so I'm beginning to think that even if Blinky started randomly physically attacking people, they would still keep him...

We can always use that safety buffer....with all the hot air Blinky exhales....he should be able to turn back the tide when the big one hits.....even better than Gojira... All the nightmare people, where do they all come from.... as Cthulhu lies dreaming.....4 more years of Blinky.....how appropriat...

"Kinda of"? You have obviously not been in an immersion course. It is not far removed to anything practiced during the inquisitions. I did six hours a day for a year in Japanese and was also required to engage in extra curricular cultural activities (in the language) that would have given McTojo a ...

Yeah, I can kind of see the torture aspect...as kids are forced to comply with monster parents' need for social status by putting their kids into classes whether they like it or not.....having heard of some of the cookie cutter patterned monster parents going to the Richmond school from contacts the...

Yakuza in DePortland...LOL Am surprised Jake Adelstein hasn't done a review yet.... Only in DePortland do you find a J-restaurant named Yakuza, along with a food cart named Samurai, another food cart that claims it's Oishii on the side of its outer wall (facing towards traffic), and a former Korean-...

Wasn't Lumberjack Blinky Ishihara supposed to chop down all obstructing trees in Japan in his anti-hay fever campaign? Or did that already end after his last election?

Blinky Ishihara: "Ah, Gaijin-san, you use choppusutikusu beri wellu!"
FG: "Yes, Blinky-sama, and you speak and use engrish well, too! Just try not to say McDonalds too fast...might cause you to blink too many times and your eyeballs might drop out....."

Wow....you mean CAPITAL and the rest of the American born Asians have never been to Japan and seen them cantankerous buck-toothed Japanese that work in them shops, looking just like Rooney? That's what you get when you stay away from Japan too long....you forget what the average Japanese look like...

Too bad Dance*Man and HardGay are already taken...that would put a spin on how American Superheroes would look upon their Japanese counterparts

Looks like the woman in the green sweater and umbrella in the bottom photo just can't wait to get her hands on her rations of Soylent Green....

Had forgotten all about Iwao and his work on them olde shows.....

We should have Lumberjack Blinky Let's Tokyo Ishihara show us the Right way to taiso, but I guess he's too busy taking flak for his luxury tours overseas lately in the news....

I wonder how long it will be before Blinky joins in the revival of the Village People? Can't you just see him dressed in the Indian outfit with the hatchet in his hands, singing Macho Macho Man?

I wonder if this movie is somehow inspired by Tampopo, which had a food theme with lots of ramen and was quite a funny movie. That movie certainly made it seem like making the perfect bowl of ramen is an art and not just about pouring some sauce over hot noodles! I was thinking the same thing, then...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_en_ce/harding_tussle The last time Tonya had a "tussle" with a guy in her place, she beat him over the head with a hubcap, because that was the only thing that was readily available at the time :D I guess Tonya has moved out of the trailer park arena... :D :tw...

hmmm....when I was still a gaijin in japan, my contacts kept telling me that Japan's superior earthquake disaster preparations were so good that when a big jishin like the one that hit San Francisco came, they would have no problems...then Kobe came yup....they were prepared all right

great for laughs, but I didn't find it on the Japan Times site....I think it was a spoof on the JT. I wonder how many will get caught sending this as if it were real to their friends and family LOL

Was that Blinky's impression of Daffy Duck?

Will this mean competition for Kinokuniya on the West Coast?

might be true about some of the cars getting chunks taken out of them, but those guard rails with not a dent in them, or even a scratch, and still having those metal shards...must take some extra special driving skills to get that accomplished... LOL

saw this one a while back....amazing that some people found it offensive because they found no humor in parodizing the situation.....

some people are just so sensitive...

http://www.winkie.org/oldwords/000250.html Note: All translations approximate. UPDATE: Of course, when I say "translations approximate" I mean "entirely made up by someone who doesn't read Japanese." Just wanted to clarify. Thanks! I like the way the author changes from "tr...

have they mentioned why the remains of the first car was all scorched? Impact causing a flash fire or some kind of super heated mini-explosion?
what a way to go

I was expecting there'd be one for FG on the list....oh well....maybe they are not ready for that one yet..... LOL

Another wannabe reporter trying to explain about the gaming industry in Japan. Not sure why he chose Kyoto over Tokyo, but it would be nice if he could at least spell Romanized Japanese correctly. Damn, bloody gaijin...a few weeks in Japan and they're already experts on everything.... :p http://www....

[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1445529,00.html?gusrc=rss [/url] "The Japanese government are unbelievable hypocrites," he said. "I was watching TV and listening to the radio while in detention in Tokyo, and they are bellyaching endlessly about how the North ...