Many Sighs

Zさん：”最初、最近、最後、最低、最悪、最上、最下、最高、最前、so many *sigh* vocabulary words!”

Aさん:「I see what you did there! Although technically that is a ため息。」

Zさん：”。。。”

Pay the Bill

Aさん：「I like the dating scene, you know, dating different women. What I don’t like is having to pay the check at each restaurant.」

Zさん：”You know what they say, you can’t spell Kanojo without Kanjo.”

The Golden Girls

Zさん：”Remember that old American TV show ‘The Golden Girls’, about the foibles of a group of elderly ladies? The acronym for that show would of course be The GG, but I think a better one would be The バーバー。”

Butterfly

Zさん："Where do butterflies keep all their friends' email addresses?"
Aさん：「I don't know, where?」
Zさん："アドレス蝶。" 

Not

Zさん：“For the Japanese verb きます, the negative form is こない。Does that mean the negative form of できます is でこない？”

Judo

Zさん："So at the Olympics, how did team Japan do, as far as medals go?"
Cさん：「柔道。。。」
Zさん："So, 10 bronzes?"

 

Medals

Aさん：「What would it mean to you to win an Olympic medal?」
選手：「Well, I would be keen to win gold, and I'd begin to appreciate silver.」
Aさん：「What about bronze?」

ミスタースパーコル:"銅!"

Olympics in Paris

Zさん："Japanese people are convinced that there are 1000 rivers running through Paris."

Railway Ghost

Zさん："Oh no! Look up ahead! It's the haunted railway crossing. We cannot cross there, there are ghosts!"
Aさん：「But the only other option is to go a mile out of our way.」
Zさん："Maybe you're right... but... oh who am I kidding, その踏切です。"
Aさん：「To be clear, there's only the one, right?」
Zさん："ハッ"

 

Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant: " 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings"

Zさん："... or 128 meanings..."

じしんと、はしと、あめと、ほこりと、ふくろと、せいかくと、せきです。

Voice

Zさん："I like the kanji 声。It means 'voice', and it kinda looks like a cartoon character voice bubble. Maybe Klingon."

Whiskey Sour

Zさん："What do you call it when a group of サラリーマンget drunk on whiskey sours and become loud and obnoxious?"

Aさん：「I don't know, what?」

Zさん："ウイスキーサウガシイ"

Aさん「もし僕が酔っていたら、面白いだろう。」

Eye of Sauron

Zさん："So when the ring of power was destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom, it was quite a blow to Sauron. The Eye of Sauron was destroyed too. He needed a seeing-eye dog."

Aさん：「What kind of beast would that be?」

Zさん："What else? Mordor Ken!"

The Nature of 中

Aさん：「Ever notice that the Japanese character 中 looks just like the Greek letter Φ」

Zさん："Whoa. It all makes sense. China is the golden ratio country. When you are deep in thought, you are contemplating the golden ratio.  Junior High School is the golden ratio ... school."

Aさん：「... oh ... also... it's the angle between the x,y-plane and the z-axis in a spherical coordinate system.」

Zさん："Well, now you're just being absurd."

Profound Pronoun Pronunciation

Zさん："In Japanese, men refer to themselves as わたし, and women refer to themselves as あたし。Men also refer to themselves as ぼく, so does that mean women can refer to themselves as おく？

Aさん：「。。。あか。」

Equinox

Zさん："I always get the Japanese words for the Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox confused because they sound so similar: しゅんぶん and しゅうぶん。"
Aさん：「In Autumn, the 'n' is silent.」
Zさん："... なるほど ..."

Hamlet

Zさん："I heard Hamlet is playing at the old theater downtown. Have you seen it yet?"
Aさん：「まだです。」
Zさん："まだ most foul."
Aさん：「。。。」

Diffy Q

Zさん："Did you know that the Japanese words for wedding and math equation share a kanji?"
Aさん：「There's nothing quite so romantic as a differential equation.」