Friday, March 4, 2016

R.P.S.

Aさん:「Hey, Zさん , glad you could make it!  I'd like to introduce you to some friends of mine.  This is Jonathon Smith, Kenneth Jones, and Charles Pawn.」
Zさん:"Nice to meet you, ... Jon, Ken, ... Pawn."
Pawnさん:"Nice to meet you too, 。。。あいこでしょ。"

Friday, February 26, 2016

Physics

Aさん:「Could I talk to you about the Big Hoson?」
Zさん:"You mean the Higgs Boson particle?  Sure! Modern physics is exciting stuff!"
Aさん:「Um, the Higgs Boson is not what I meant.  I need to store a bunch of documents in my computer. ビッグほぞんする。」 
Zさん:"Oh... Ok."

Friday, February 19, 2016

ちびまる子ちゃん

Zくん:"Are you familiar with the TV show ちびまる子ちゃん?"
Aくん:「Yes, I am.」
Zくん:"And in that show, you know the classmate of まる子ちゃん named はなわくん?"
Aくん:「Sure, what about him?」
Zくん:"I don't know if it is the weird flying-wave haircut, or the vast wealth, but I think はなわくん may be a long lost son of Donald Trump."
Aくん:「You know, that makes sense... although はなわくん is an exceedingly kind, big-hearted, well-mannered young man.」
Zくん:"Hmm.  Maybe that skips a generation." 

Friday, February 12, 2016

White Day

Zさん:"Do Japanese people celebrate Valentine's Day?"
Aさん:「Sure! On Feb. 14, Japanese women give gifts of candy to Japanese men they are interested in romantically.  Then exactly one month later, on what is known as 'White Day',  Japanese men reciprocate and likewise give candy to Japanese women.」
Zさん:"Declarations of romantic intent through gifts of candy and celebrating the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, all on one day?  White Day is awesome!"

Friday, February 5, 2016

Vampire

Zさん:"So you are a real, live vampire?"
Vさん:"Well technically an undead one, but yes."
Zさん:"And you are basically immortal, right?"
Vさん:"Yes. In fact, tomorrow is my 10,000th birthday."
Zさん:"... 一万歳?... 万歳!"


Friday, January 29, 2016

Cooking

Aさん:「So how's single life treating you?」
Zさん:"Not bad.  I think the biggest adjustment is learning to cook for myself."
Aさん:「Like what?」
Zさん:"Well, I came up with this one dish.  It is a single serving of a kind of seasoned stew with various meats and vegetables."
Aさん:「Sounds good, what do you call it?」
Zさん:"Hitori Goulash."


Friday, January 22, 2016

Complex Complexion

Aさん:「にきび!にきび!にきび!」
Zさん:"Dude, whoa! What the hell! Are you making fun of a girl with acne? That is totally uncool!"
Aさん:「Huh? Oh! You don't understand, it's not like that. That's my friend Nicole Braxqivicz.  We call her Nicki B. for short.」
Zさん:"...oh...well... ok then."
Aさん:「Interestingly enough, she has beautiful, clean, smooth skin and appreciates the irony of her nickname.」