'Faster than a speeding Shinkansen mouse...'

[Taro Toporific]

Via JR Kita Kyushu, I bring you the http://www.jroa.com/shopping02.htmlShinkansen mouse
4,000yen and the headlights come on when you move it. This is just the old version, see the comments section for the pictures of the hot new one.

[Taro Toporific]

see the comments section for the pix of the hot new one.

Buy at http://www.jroa.com/shopping02.html

[Caustic Saint]

I dig the headlights, but that's got to be the most ergonomically-incorrect mouse I've ever seen. It's even worse than the original Apple mouse!

A much cooler J-mouse is the Masamune Shirow mouse.

[Frost]

Ug! That first mouse with the lights would suck to use...but i do like the one Caustic linked to.

[American Oyaji]

Nice avatar Frost

[Frost]

gotta love a raccoon with big balls!

[Taro Toporific]

[Frost]

It's a raccoon...lets prove it!

picture of raccoon: http://www.loomcom.com/raccoons/gallery/jpegs/e-coon.jpg

cartoon picture of a badger: http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Let's let the people decide!!! I'd add a poll, but i dont think you can make one in a thread thats already started.

[Caustic Saint]

Dude, those choco shrooms (from Korea) are damned tasty! I'll send some in your next goody pack. How's the Taro family fixed for seaweed?

[GomiGirl]

Dude, those choco shrooms (from Korea) are damned tasty! I'll send some in your next goody pack. How's the Taro family fixed for seaweed?

You can get the 'shrooms in Japan.

[Taro Toporific]

Dude, those choco shrooms (from Korea) are damned tasty!

D'oh! It's Lotte choco with hangul on the package. I can't see it well in this grayed out stealth browser, GHOSTZILLA. I've always wondered, is Lotte a Korea Japanese company or a Japanese Korean company? That is, did Lotte start in Japan with Koreans or did it move to Japan and Japanese ignore it's parent company (ask any Japanese child if Lotte is Korean choco and they'll look at you like you're crazy),

Now.... *What About Those Big Testicles?
A curious and defining characteristic of Tanuki is its gigantic testes. According to some legends, the testicles / scrotum can be stretched to the size of eight tatami mats. Others point to the word Senjojiki (the space of 1,000 tatami mats) as an indication of the Tanuki's testes size. Called Kin-tama (Golden Balls) in Japanese, the testes are supposedly symbols of good luck rather than overt sexual symbols (the Japanese are more tolerant of low humor than most Western nations). In the movie Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, the Tanuki stretches out its scrotum as a parachute in a desperate suicide attack. ....
In biological terms, the Tanuki's large "golden balls" are a true depiction of the real-life Tanuki. According to evolutionary biologists, the Tanuki's scrotum is large because of fierce competition among Tanuki males for females. Phrased differently, Tanuki copulate frequently, and those Tanuki with larger testes size have a greater chance of getting their genes into the next generation. The same is true in the world of chimpanzees.

Donald Richie, in his review of Nicholas Bornoff's book "Things Japanese," has this to say:
The Tanuki makes an appearance, holding an empty sake bottle in one paw, an account book in the other -- signifying that this money was wasted on wine and women. As Bornoff tells us: "Some say that the vast scrotum is due to sexual overindulgences but, since his penis has disappeared, another interpretation is more likely" -- an entertaining aside from the author of "Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society."......

[Taro Toporific]

Dude, those choco shrooms (from Korea) are damned tasty

You can get the 'shrooms in Japan.

I always assumed they were Japanese ----there's no hangul on the Japanese Lotte Shrooms which are sold in every convenience store here.

[Caustic Saint]

Dude, those choco shrooms (from Korea) are damned tasty!

I've always wondered, is Lotte a Korea Japanese company or a Japanese Korean company? That is, did Lotte start in Japan with Koreans or did it move to Japan and Japanese ignore it's parent company (ask any Japanese child if Lotte is Korean choco and they'll look at you like you're crazy),

I thought it started in Japan and came to Korea. I said that to one of my classes one night and just about got lynched. They were very insistent that Lotte is a Korean comapny.

It seems they're right. According to the company history page Lotte was started by a Korean, but has always had operations in Japan. The company's founder Shin Kyuk-ho was #225 on Forbes' richest people list in 2002.

[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]