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By: The Special Administrative Region… of Christmas. | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:01:58 +0000

[...] the meantime, you can satiate your Japanese Holiday Curiosity with last year’s Christmas in Japan post, which covers the most burning cultural question in East Asia: Why do the Japanese eat [...]

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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:58:53 +0000

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By: Renmi

Renmi — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:12:45 +0000

I remember when I used to work in a Japanese bakery and they had those songs on loop. As soon as Dec. 1st came around… I was accosted with “last christmas” which is my least favorite xmas song ever. When I suggested, “hey, what about the other xmas songs?” everyone was like, “what other songs?”

By: owwls

owwls — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:56:08 +0000

“Hark, and Herald Boneless Wings.”
“Have a Holly Jolly Biscuit.”
“All I Want For Christmas is my Two Pieces of Chicken Used as Bread.”
“The 12 Filets of Christmas.”
“Have Yourself a Second Piece of Crispness.”
“11 Secret Seasoning’s Greetings”
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Sanders-San.”
“Little Drumstick Boy”

At the end of “It’s A Wonderful Life”:
“Everytime a Bell Rings, An Angel Gets a Bucket of Wings.”

By: owwls

owwls — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:32:29 +0000

Because I speak Japanese like a 2-year-old, I can only translate “Get Chicken’d” as “torii-shimashite o torimasho” or “Take the Chicken-Doing!” But it could make an amazing Japanese ad campaign for KFC.

“Take the ChickenAction!”

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:36:47 +0000

CONTROLLER CATALINA

GTN CHKN’D

By: acat

acat — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:36:31 +0000

It’s counterintuitive-sounding, but if Christmas were treated more like Valentine’s Day, I’d be less fucking broke. And ideally, more chkn’d, yeah?

By: acat

acat — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:35:28 +0000

Hi Zach. I have taken the liberty of shortening this for you, to reflect what I initially read.

MFCHRISTMAS

I have no doubt you’ll understand my meaning.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:17:35 +0000

HI BRO

MERRY KFCHRISTMAS

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:31:29 +0000

That post was pure solid gold, Eryk. The JR Railways commercial? The weird, clearly illegitimately used Lennon footage in the electronics store commercial? The whole idea of Christmas revolving around eating KFC? I’m delighted by all of these things.

Plus, “Wonderful Christmastime” vs. “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” should prove to anyone that Lennon was the top Beatle. “Wonderful Christmastime” truly is a plague upon humankind.