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| In re: the benefits of Japan's Idol Singer system |
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Posted by: Foxboy - 01-05-2008, 12:20 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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In Japan, if a "teen idol" type of singer is disgraced, her single act that tarnished her is her last appearance in the media.
Unlike Britney Spears who is yet again having as breakdown....
Grrr.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
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| Challenge for Fun II: Inappropriate Descriptions |
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-04-2008, 06:15 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Saw this one on Usenet (no Google thread yet) and thought folks might want to play...
(Edit: There's finally a Google thread.)
David Damerell wrote:
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Recently, in discussion here (uk.media.animation.anime - RK) and at Anime Night, it's been pointed out that yes, Yokohama Shopping Log technically is "post-apocalypse gun-toting lesbian bikers". So, the question is this - what's the best description you can come up with for any anime/manga which is completely accurate but wildly misleading?
I'll kick off with;
Bubblegum Crisis: "Secret Adventures of a Tokyo Lingerie Saleswoman"
I don't see any reason to confine the challenge to anime here, though. If we did, we couldn't use the classic inappropriate description of The Wizard of Oz: "A young girl leaves her farm and kills a woman, then sets out to kill again." (But I'll be collecting the inappropriate anime descriptions for the April Fool's edition of the Anime Primer... )
Other inappropriate descriptions in the thread, so far:
from David Damerell (again):
Death Note: A young man takes up writing in an effort to change people's lives and make the world a better place. His father is never convinced of the value of his work and finds it hard to believe his son can be a writer. He seeks to keep out of the public eye; one of his fans, herself writing similar works, becomes his girlfriend when she finds him; one of his closest followers identifies him but dies tragically shortly afterwards; but most people never learn his name.
from Adam Jones:
Shadow Star/Narutaru: Young children fight using cute pet monsters.
Grave of the Fireflies: Two orphans learn valuable life lessons.
Red Garden: Super-powered schoolgirls fight zombies.
Utena: Sword-wielding high-school students plot a global revolution.
from Robert Sneddon:
Hikaru no Go: An unquiet ghost forces a young boy into a lifelong duel to the death against an implacable foe, a contest he fears he can never win.
Gunslinger Girl: A touching story of young girls brought together in a caring community to help them forget their troubled pasts and learn new skills.
Aria: in an increasingly bitter war for domination of a city's transport infrastructure, the gloves come off.
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| schway Xenosaga III/10,000 Fists vid |
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Posted by: classicdrogn - 01-04-2008, 07:06 AM - Forum: Anime Music Videos
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www.tv.com/uservideos/?ac...iduservids
Mainly KOS-MOS vs. T-ELOS, but some ES bashing as well.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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| Mark your calendar |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 01-04-2008, 04:25 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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May 2, 2008
Premiere of Iron Man...
He can outrun an F-22?
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
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| Looking For... |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 01-03-2008, 10:07 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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...anyone about to go through the Tina Macintyre "Hydra" missions on Virtue Blueside. I would like to get the Multidimensional badge for Eva, but Macintyre didn't show up in my contact tree.
-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....
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| Yuku? |
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Posted by: jpub - 01-03-2008, 08:46 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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What is with this notice that the board will go 'yuku' in the coming week? It's been up for 2 weeks now.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"
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| Speed reading? |
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Posted by: Cobalt Greywalker - 01-03-2008, 06:02 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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A few of the comments about the EVA fic I recommended has made me believe I'm a bit odd in that my reading speed seems to be much higher then most (even on these boards).
For example, the last HP book took me about 5 hours to read cover to cover. This is with breaks for drinks. When I looked it up that was 198,227 words or roughly 660 words per minute.
Not the best example because I was keen on reading it but...
Anybody else got any stories of insane reading speeds for books?
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