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Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you." 
Hey, if the Good Lord wants to take a Japanese buffet to me, who am I to say "no"?
-- 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
*Snort* Took me a moment to figure that one out. The oddities of Japanese turns-of-phrase are new to me.
Whoosh.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Either (a) the restaurant "Imperial Viking" in the Imperial Hotel was the first restaurant in Japan which served buffet-style meals, or (b) the Japanese have trouble saying the Swedish word "smörgåsbord", or both, so the Japanese word for "buffet" is "viking".
If one plays the Azumanga Daioh episode where the class visits Okinawa and one selects the Japanese audio, one can hear Yomi use the term... -- 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 Quote:The oddities of Japanese turns-of-phrase are new to me.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ga ... eigo_terms]This page might help... or amuse... -- 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
Ah. Thank you.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Well, in case anyone's interested, the quote came from flavor text in Tales from the Floating Vagabond, a fun tabletop RPG from Avalon Hill (back when there was an Avalon Hill that wasn't owned by Milton-Bradley or whoever owns it these days). Sort of TFOS meets Milliways (and, in fact, I did a TFOS/TFTFV crossover tournament module once). The only game that I know of that had the Notice Obvious skill, and weapon types like Gun, Big Gun, Really Big Gun, and Don't Point That At My Planet Gun.
Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you." Ebony Wrote:The only game that I know of that had the Notice Obvious skill, and weapon types like Gun, Big Gun, Really Big Gun, and Don't Point That At My Planet Gun.Oh HELL! That is awesome. I gotta get me one of them!
It looks like http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/2 ... lcano.html]the Good Lord just took a Viking to the Vikings.
(Nothing serious, so far. These things happen there...) -- 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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