Sunday, November 26, 2006
Spare Me My Life!
My brother Jim sent me this YouTube video the other day. It's a Japanese TV show from the 80s that attempted to teach English using "real life" situations and aerobics. Apparently, this one tells you just what to do in a mugging. I am not sure why the second mugger has a handkerchief tied under his nose, but it adds to the humor.
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Wikipedia knows all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiikin'_English
Also, the handkerchief-under-the-nose thing is a cultural cliche "akin to the American picture of a burglar wearing a black and white striped shirt with a red bandana over his face and carrying a large bag with a dollar sign on it. Instantly recognizable to the Japanese."
This crops up in other places; there's a SNES game released in the states called Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Ganbare Goemon in Japan)... one of the characters is a ninja that wears a handkerchief the same way.
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