Remembering Japanese cars from the past
What is the greatest fear of an average Japanese woman during summertime?
Sweaty armpits! :D
Lucky for them the Japanese idol Natsuki Kato has a new product for them: the Riff armpit pads! And they promote it with this hilarious TV ad:
I can imagine the punchline roughly translates into: Sweaty armpits? OK!
And a small trivia: how many more places can women wear pads? :o
Remember the car usage in tokusatsu movies and series? Most tokusatsu heroes have the most expensive and most up to date cars of that moment, but not Ultraman. Ultraman can fly, so he has no need for some super fast car with the latest technical abilities. Ultraman can do almost anything: Specium Ray, Ultra Slash, Electrical Immunity, Ultra Attack Beam, High Spin, Ultra Air Catch, Ultra Air Catch, Ultra Psychokinesis, Flight, Teleportation, Ultra Current, Dynamic Size Change, Clairvoyance Beam, Ultra Chop, Ultra Punch, Ultra Kick, Ultra Swing, Ultra Eye Spot, Slash Beam, Catch Rings, Star of Ultra, Ultra Separation, Marine Spacium Beam, Energy Transfer Beam, Final Cross Shield, Energy Exposure, Giga Specium Beam and Beta Capsule Transformation.
Lucky enough for him he now has a new ability: scat singing!
Scatman John only had one big hit in the world, but apparently they loved him till death (and after as well!) in Japan: he scored hit after hit in Japan and after he died they released a special edition tribute cd with several unreleased Japanese tracks (“Su Su Su Super Kirei” and “Pripri Scat”). Even today he is still very popular in Japan and now even Ultraman is continuing his scat singing abilities!
WTF?! Some 80s guy riding his BMX bike is getting chased by a Dekotora truck and a Nissan Laurel C32 policecar?
It is actually a videoclip by Cadillac for the song ????????NO! NO! NO! shot in 1987. I think it is supposed to look like some 80s teen series with the obvious hero, the school and the bad guys (Dekotora truck driver and the police woman). And of course the Nissan Sunny B210 going sideways (a different sideways than drifting ;) ) brings the comical factor in this clip!
A second hilarious posting today?? Well, I just couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this video by The Doctor and D.Wars:
And when they finally got the set running:
And the end result:
Damn, now I want a set of them on my Carina as well! :o
Currently looking at a set double carbs from a 2T-B. Bolt on upgrade of 11HP! May be worth it after all! :)
This is definitely one of the best products made by Bandai: the Gun O’Clock!
Those texts are very well written! Set time! And Sleep! Good night! and Excellent shot! Good morning! Cool! Oh yes! That was soo ?cool?!. Where did they get that copywriter?? :D
And if you thought this is a hoax or fake product? Wrong! You can even buy it here:
Gun O’Clock for sale!
And this is how it operates:
Excellent shot!!
However I don’t think my wife would actually like it if I slept with a gun under my pillow. ;)
Earlier this week I read on Mari’s blog that the Dutch town called Scheveningen is a very funny name in Japanese: Scheveningen sounds like sukebe ningen, which means depraved human being. Somehow that fits the town itself: it is one of the most well known seaside resorts and then there must be a lot of perverted people over there! :D
Japanese posing in front of Schevingen sign
So if you see a Japanese posing in front of a sign reading Scheveningen: now you know why!
Funnier is the fact that a Dutch town called Goor got renamed to Swaffelo. Goor is located near Almelo and Hengelo and well known for its funnyt name: Goor literally means dirty, filthy or could even mean perverted. Swaffelen is Dutch slang for dickslap, so Swaffelo means something like dickslaptown! :D
Dutch town Goor (dirty) got renamed to Swaffelo (dickslap)
The name got replaced for just one day as a ludicrous action. This was done during the school festivities to celebrate the ending of the past school year.
The fun part is that the town was elected to have the worst townname of the Netherlands. It is also well known for producing asbestos, so that doesn’t help their reputation either. Its inhabitants are struggling to either rename the town or to return it to its original name Gaore (which means swamp) but they can’t agree upon this decision. IMO Swaffelo is a very good compromise! ;)
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