Noripinhead said...

Noripinhead at 05:40 PM JST - 15th June

I love that bit the media here uses about "The First Japanese to win the Van Cliburn Piano Competition"--hilarious since most people in Japan hadn't known there WAS a Van Cliburn Piano Competition before this guy won!

Posted in Blind musician Tsujii bewildered by all the fuss at 05:40 PM JST - 15th June
Noripinhead at 05:31 PM JST - 15th June

Canned coffee is much like canned laughter--it seems to fill a void, but one immediately notices something's not quite right about it.

Posted in Suntory to widen distribution for canned Starbucks coffee at 05:31 PM JST - 15th June
Noripinhead at 06:25 PM JST - 12th June

Waste of time and resources. It's kind of like a Rube Goldberg machine--you know, a complicated piece of machinery just to crack an egg.

Posted in Robot cook at 06:25 PM JST - 12th June
Noripinhead at 10:27 AM JST - 11th June

Hey, those Frixions are great pens. They sure beat the American Papermate Replay erasable pens in terms of functionality.

Posted in Character stationery at 10:27 AM JST - 11th June
Noripinhead at 01:33 PM JST - 10th June

Sarge, try WolframAlpha and you'll find your answer. It's (2x10^11 to 4x10^11) by the way. Pretty humongous, ain't it? And that's just one galaxy out of billions and billions more out there.

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Noripinhead at 11:56 AM JST - 10th June

Clearly the simplest explanation is the most probable: Holly and Will opened up a time portal escaping from the Sleestacks and the tadpoles dropped out of the sky from the Land of the Lost.

Posted in Ishikawa residents puzzled by tadpoles apparently falling from sky at 11:56 AM JST - 10th June
Noripinhead at 11:51 AM JST - 10th June

Tokyo Tower Main Observatory is a blaze of lights for its “Milky Way Illumination”

I wonder if they will also have "Snickers Illumination" someday.

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Noripinhead at 11:46 AM JST - 10th June

Oh, well, just another cram school going to pot.

Posted in Nagoya cram school manager arrested for growing marijuana on school rooftop at 11:46 AM JST - 10th June
Noripinhead at 11:44 AM JST - 10th June

What do you give a duck that has everything on his 75th birthday?

Maybe some pants?

Posted in Donald Duck turns 75 at 11:44 AM JST - 10th June
Noripinhead at 05:01 PM JST - 9th June

That's only 165,000 yen. As the song goes, working hard for the money.

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