Leaping Tigers

[Taro Toporific]

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.

[Captain Japan]

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...

[Big Booger]

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

Just kidding.

[American Oyaji]

you're not kidding

[Big Booger]

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

[WarlocK]

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


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

[Captain Japan]

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

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

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."

[kamome]

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.

[American Oyaji]

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

[Big Booger]

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

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

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

[Taro Toporific]

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

[Taro Toporific]

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...

[kamome]

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.

[American Oyaji]

Good point.

[Caustic Saint]

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?!?