Rope-A-Dopamine
Somewhere, lost in the fog of time,
there was once a gathering of male proto-humans, each
hooting and
grunting
excitedly, squatting around the smoldering remains
of a squirrel barbeque. I'm told the conversation
went something like this:
"Hey, guys. Remember that tiger pelt I had? Well, I
draped it over the rocks in the back of the cave and
it perfectly
complemented the mineral smears in the rocks."
"Complemented? What are you? Some kinda fag?"
"No, no. Hear me out. So Ooonga walks past my cave..."
"Ooonga!
"Ooonga!"
"Ooonga-Ooonga-Ooonga!"
"Yeah, I know! So Ooonga sees the tiger
pelt up on the rocks, 'cause, you know, I'm like the
first
guy to ever do this, and she asks if she can come take
a closer
look. I said sure, so she comes in
and walks around the rug and all the time she's, like,
not growling or baring her teeth at me menacingly.
I'm
tellin' ya, guys, she is totally mesmerized. So she
asks if she could, like, sit down on it and
I go, like, yeah, sure, whatever you want. So she sits
down, then stands up a
bit,
and then
sits
down again real slow and gets, like, really comfortable.
And that's when I hit her in the head with a rock and
mated
with
her."
"Oh, dude! I got to get a cave and a tiger pelt of
my own!"
"Yeah, me, too!"
And that's how man invented the home furnishing industry.
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The following has nothing to do with anything in today's
'toon. I just want to make a request of the Japanese
anime industry:
Please stop dubbing and subtitling your animations
into English for the America market. Subtitles are
a nuisance (though I prefer them to dubbing) and English
dubs never sound right. Instead,
redub using Japanese voice actors who can speak English
but
still have a
strong Japanese accent. It's all about the inflection,
baby.
American's would adapt to this instantly because it's
not a new concept for us. For years and years we've
watched World War II films in which the Nazis spoke
English but with
a thick German accent. Consider the ever-popular "Ve
haff vays of makink you talk!". Suppose that was in
perfect English, or subtitled.
BOR-ing!
I think it'd work but if you think I'm just being a
huge gaijin baka then gomen'nasai!
=Lefty=
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