“Psh! I could whup your cocky ass wearing peanut butter and moonbeams.”
— Anaïs Phalèse, from Curvy (NSFW)You can take the girl out of Hello!Project
…but you can’t take the Hello!Project out of the girl.
Clearly I've missed something
When did The Rock become a pop-eyed cartoon dad? Because I’d swear that in the absolutely dreadful trailer for Race To Witch Mountain, his facial expressions were produced by animators.
Who do you hire?
You are Sony. You are having an event to celebrate a cool new Playstation 3 game. Its name? Little Big Planet. Which celebrities do you hire to emcee the event?
The littlest woman and biggest man you can find, actress/singer Mari Yaguchi (4’9”) and kickboxer Hong-man Choi (7’2”).
Milk: the cure for the common asshole
Random moment on Google Earth: I clicked on a photo of Takeshita-doori (major teen shopping street), and found the following banner:
イライラした人にからまれたら、
牛乳を飲ませてみよう。
More or less:
If you're getting hassled by an irritating person,
try making them drink milk.
I’m thinking that’s not going to help much. I can’t quite make out the kanji in their smaller banner in the background, but if it’s the same quality of advice, I think I’ll stick to pepper spray.
Frequently bought together
Gosh, I can’t imagine why…
(now available on DVD from Amazon, it’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog!)
"...and that's why we had to put him down"
This is claimed to be a real product, not just a design concept, but I can’t imagine anyone actually using one. Certainly not in a home with kids, pets, or, say, people. I understand the motivation, but antlers at ankle level?
A line in the sand...
This is sad. The people on Hello!Online are surely well-versed in the ways of fashion disasters, but this is the picture where they finally decide to complain about the outfits? Is it because there aren’t enough colors? Is it the lack of feathers?
From Moskau to Berryz
It began with this, discovered through an email that led from failblog to Engrishfunny:
This was not some ancient one-hit wonder, cruelly abused by Youtube. No, Dschinghis Khan had quite a success after Eurovision, and they’re still big in Japan. How big?
This big:
