Leaping Tigers

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:27 pm

Tigers win Central League pennant for 1st time in 18 years
(Kyodo) Aug 15 OSAKA, Japan - An exuberant Hanshin Tigers fan dives into the Dodombori River from Ebisu Bridge in Osaka on Sept. 15 after the baseball club won the Central League pennant for the first time in 18 years.

by **Captain Japan** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:21 am

Taro Toporific wrote: Tigers win Central League pennant for 1st time in 18 years
(Kyodo) Aug 15 OSAKA, Japan - An exuberant Hanshin Tigers fan dives into the Dodombori River from Ebisu Bridge in Osaka on Sept. 15 after the baseball club won the Central League pennant for the first time in 18 years.

I wonder if this fella has any idea what he's jumping into. Probably doesn't care...

by **Big Booger** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:40 am

i took a dump there a while back.. hung my ass over the rail, and plop plop LMAO

Just kidding.

by **American Oyaji** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:49 am

you're not kidding

by **Big Booger** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 1:08 am

it is rather fetid and sewerish (is sewerish a word?)
LOL

by **WarlocK** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:52 am

just wanted to throw in my 2 yen.

it was fucking crazy down there last night. i had to return some dvds to tsutaya, which is adjacent form the bridge, one block off midosuji-dori, and it took like 10 minutes to push through the crowds. i wish i would hava had my camera, but i didn't think to bring it with me to work (i went there after i got off). oh well, i did get a crappy keitai pic.

go hanshin :roll:

P.S. - enjoy it while you can, they'll proly suck ass next year.

by **Captain Japan** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 1:11 pm

Big Booger wrote:it is rather fetid and sewerish (is sewerish a word?)
LOL

Ah, this is a pretty good quote from this article:

Mainnichi wrote:A local taxi company has decided to "refuse" customers who try to hail a taxi after diving into the river in celebration of the Tigers victory expected to come this week.

"Our drivers will not take customers stained with river sludge," an official of the company said. "Such filthy customers would cause problems for passengers coming after them."

by **kamome** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 1:33 pm

I wouldn't jump into any river or canal in Japan. I doubt the canal running under Ebisubashi is the only waterway in Japan comprised of toxic sludge.

by **American Oyaji** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:21 pm

I wouldnt jump into ANY river in any remotely developed country. It's sad how we pollute the water.

by **Big Booger** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:03 pm

Captain Japan wrote:
Big Booger wrote:it is rather fetid and sewerish (is sewerish a word?)
LOL

Ah, this is a pretty good quote from this article:

Mainnichi wrote:A local taxi company has decided to "refuse" customers who try to hail a taxi after diving into the river in celebration of the Tigers victory expected to come this week.

"Our drivers will not take customers stained with river sludge," an official of the company said. "Such filthy customers would cause problems for passengers coming after them."

yeah don't let them dirty the taxis.. let them stink up the public transportation system instead.. like it couldn't be any more stinky to begin with

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:28 am

WarlocK wrote:just wanted to throw in my 2 yen.
it was fucking crazy down there last night. . .

Japanese mikoshi girls shout as they lift a mikoshi, or portable shrine, specially made in celebration of local baseball team Hanshin Tigers' Central League championship victory, in Osaka...Tue Sep 16, 6:33 AM ET / REUTERS

by **Taro Toporific** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:19 pm

kamome wrote:I wouldn't jump into any river or canal in Japan. I doubt the canal running under Ebisubashi is the only waterway in Japan comprised of toxic sludge.

Obviously this guy should not have jumped...

24-year-old dies in drunken dive from Osaka bridge (Mainichi / Sep 18 )OSAKA -- A drunken reveler apparently drowned after jumping into the Dotonbori River with his friends, police said
Police officer examine the scene Thursday to determine the cause of the fatal incident.
Police launched an inquiry after several eyewitnesses said the dead man, Masaya Shitababa, was pushed off the Ebisu Bridge over the river by a middle-aged man before he fatally fell Wednesday night...

by **kamome** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:08 pm

American Oyaji wrote:I wouldnt jump into ANY river in any remotely developed country. It's sad how we pollute the water.

I wouldn't jump into any river in an undeveloped country. Think of the Ganges or the Mekong. :crazy3:

by **American Oyaji** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:15 pm

Good point.

by **Caustic Saint** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:16 pm

Rob Pongi wrote:
Big Booger wrote:it is rather fetid and sewerish (is sewerish a word?)

Good question Big Booger-san! You know, I really don't know the correct answer though. I mean it sounds like a real word, so I guess it is. Perhaps I should NOT become an Engrish teacher again.

Too late, Rob - you already are!

I have the phrases "who know that?" and "please very enjoy" stuck in my head. I've even taken to using "who knows that?" when I teach and have put a question out to the class.

::points to a word on the blackboard:: "What does this word mean? Who knows that?"

I can only hope the kids don't lock on to that phrase, otherwise you'll be hearing it from the future leaders of Korea. "What will we do now that our country is again united? Who knows that?"

It is like virus of the mental. How to be stopping it!?! Who knows that?!?

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"it was fucking crazy down there"

Jumped <or> PUSHED!

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