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That was "Ikuwayo", it means, I'm coming. She said, "what are you doing, here I come" or something to that degree. To disect, the root word is "iku" or go, the "wayo" are somewhat colloquial suffix which are usually added in conversation, as the "yo" at the end denotes emphasis.
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Itadakimasu (戴[いただ]きます)= is what you say when you eat Ittekimasu (いってきます)= is what you say when you leave Also I'm not sure what you mean by sounds like "betrayal", but betrayal is "Uragiri" (裏切り) , and let's go is "Ikimasho" (いきましょ)
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To understand why Japanese keeps saying that, it literally means, "I am going to take this now". May be used in others aside from taking food as well.
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Father: Son, since today is your 18th birthday, I'm giving you this check. I want you to give this to your mother and tell her that this is the last check she will recieve from me for child support and I want you to tell me her reaction. Son goes to his mother: Mom, dad said this is the last check he will be giving you for child support and he wants me to tell him how you reacted. Mother: I want you to tell him he's not your father, then tell me how he reacts.
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Nice tumbler. He really spend time and money on that. But I think you need a powerful engine to move all that weight. Can't view the youtube video at the moment as my current location prevents me from doing that.
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Womens Olympics The three finalists in the Women's Olympic swim meet were all novices to international competition. However, all had excelled during the early going, and after several heats the score was tied; the first match employing the breast stroke would decide the winner. The gun sounded, and the three young women dove into the water. Nancy finished first, crossing the pool in five seconds flat; Jean finished less than half a second later. Bringing up the rear was Mary, a blonde, who finished a full ten seconds after the others. As she completed the lap and climbed from the pool, she sputtered, "I protest! The other women were using their arms!"
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Top Ten Rejected Olympic Sports 10. Professional Armpit Shaving 9. Heavyweight Belly Flop Competition 8. Bobbing for Dead Rats 7. Pin The Tail on Scott Hamilton 6. Javelin Tag 5. Underwater Shot Put Retrieval 4. Freeze Tag Football 3. Pogo Stick Pole Vaulting 2. Synchronized Swimming with Two Blood-Thirsty Sharks 1. Downhill Water Skiing Competition
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Olympic Condoms A man is out shopping and discovers a new brand of Olympic condoms. Clearly impressed, he buys a pack. Upon getting home he announces to his wife the purchase he just made. "Olympic condoms?" she blurts. "What makes them so special?" "There are three colors", he replies, "Gold, Silver and Bronze." "What color are you going to wear tonight?" she asks cheekily. "Gold of course," says the man proudly. The wife responds, "Really, why don't you wear Silver, it would be nice if you came second for a change!"
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Olympic Diving Champion A man met a beautiful lady and he decided he wanted to marry her right away. She protested, "But we don't know anything about each other." He replied, "That's all right; we'll learn about each other as we go along." So she consented, and they were married and went on a honeymoon to a very nice resort. One morning, they were lying by the pool when he got up off his towel, climbed up to the 10 meter board and did a two and a half tuck gainer, entering the water perfectly, almost without a ripple. This was followed by a three rotations in jackknife position before he again straightened out and cut the water like a knife. After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on his towel. She said, "That was incredible!" He said, "I used to be an Olympic diving champion. You see, I told you we'd learn more about ourselves as we went along." So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing laps. She was moving so fast that the froth from her pushing off at one end of the pool would hardly be gone before she was already touching the other end of the pool! She did laps in freestyle, breast stroke, even butterfly! After about thirty laps, completed in mere minutes, she climbed back out and lay down on her towel, barely breathing hard. He said, "That was incredible! Were you an Olympic endurance swimmer?" "No," she said, "I was a hooker in Alabama and I worked both sides of the Tennessee River."
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In the spirit of the Olympics currently being held in Beijing, here are some of my contributions: Getting Into the Olympics Three guys were trying to sneak into the Olympic Village to scoop souvenirs and autographs. The first says, "Let's watch the registration table to see if there's a crack in the security system that we can utilize to scam our way in." Immediately, a burly athlete walks up to the table and states, "Angus MacPherson. Scotland. Shotput." He opens his gym bag to display a shotput to the registration attendant. The attendant says, "Very good, Mr. MacPherson. Here is your packet of registration materials, complete with hotel keys, passes to all Olympic events, meal tickets, and other information." The first guy gets inspired and grabs a small tree sapling, strips off the limbs and roots, walks up the registration table and states: "Chuck Wagon. Canada. Javelin." The attendant says, "Very good, Mr. Wagon. Here is your packet of registration materials, hotel keys, passes, meal tickets, and so forth. Good luck!" The second guy grabs a street utility manhole cover, walks up to the registration table and states: "Dusty Rhodes. Australia. Discus." The attendant says, "Terrific, Mr. Rhodes. Here is your packet of registration materials, hotel keys, a full set of passes, and meal tickets. Enjoy yourself." They scamper in, but suddenly realize the third guy is missing. They groan, because he's a simpleton from the hills of Vermont. They forgot to make sure he doesn't do something stupid and blow their cover stories. Just then he walks proudly up to the table with a roll of barbed wire under his arm and states: "Foster Bean. Hardwick, Vermont. Fencing."
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A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to herclass that, in Spanish, Unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' 'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.' So, a student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?' Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into Two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves Whether 'computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its Recommendation. The men's group decided that 'computer' should Definitely be of the feminine gender ('la Computadora'), because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2. The native language they use to communicate with other Computers is incomprehensible to everyone else; 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory forPossible later retrieval; and 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself Spending half your paycheck on accessories for it. (THIS GETS BETTER!) The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ('el computador'), because: 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on; 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves; 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model. The women won.
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Lol at the darwinian theory of mans evolution. here's my contribution: An Old Chinese Proverb: If you want happiness for an hour - TAKE A NAP If you want happiness for a day - GO SHOPPING If you want happiness for a lifetime - DON'T GET MARRIED But if you want a lifetime of happiness despite a marriage - HAVE A PARTY.....A 3RD PARTY!
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Kinda difficult to measure it in absolute dollar value. Would it be possible to measure it in number of tickets sold?
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V Guyver, that was the Japanese names. I have this hatred of the americanized names with a passion. What's so wrong about Spiegel that they had to rename it to shadow? If you will notice, the wiki I wrote never mentioned anything about the americanized version. I get my source from the original japanese, since I own the original G Gundam Memorial Box DVD. I already had a bad feeling when I heard they were going to license it in the US. And BY GOD I was right. Also Ryuki, I could add more details if you want me to, but won't that be too much information? I even have pics for all of them. Still don't know how to upload pics or if its even allowed.
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Could it be perhaps that you were expecting too much? You are right about one thing though, the joker overshadowed batman. They took the phrase "the villain that defines the hero" a little too much. With regards to the style, I don't think Frank Miller has anything to do with it. It's the directors call. They only took elements from the comic that Frank Miller wrote. Also, you have to take into consideration that batman is also bruce wayne, so flashy cars, expensive phone and trips abroad are to be expected. Why would a millionaire playboy want a cheap and dull car? And the way Batman kidnap the guy from Hong Kong, the start was pretty much ok, and I have to agree with you that extraction was a little far fetched. Maybe they can do a mythbuster segment on the movie.
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Manage to see some photos of the second season from Newtype. I find the names a bit wierd. Exia obviously is 00 Gundam. For the Dynames, Keldim Gundam? For Kyrios, Alios Gundam, and for Virtue, Seravy (C'est la Vie?) Gundam? Wierd.
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With regards to the 12 zoalords appearing on top of relics point, would it be so hard to believe that they flew really really fast and have Purugsthal make a lightning just to make an effect on their landing? Thunder and lightning do intimidate. Perhaps that's what they were trying to do. Or perhaps the lightning was the effect of the sonic boom created by their flight.
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This is the discussion topic for the wiki article: Mobile Fighting Legend G Gundam Anyway, I hope you guys don't mind if I edit the said page. I've already got a comprehensive page for GGundam and i thought I'd wikify it. I'm still not finished yet as I'm thinking of creating a sub page for the other articles like list of episodes, complete voice cast, scale model list, etc. The problem is that I don't know how to do it. At any rate, any suggestions, questions or violent reactions are welcome.
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I've just recently thought of editing the GGundam Page. But I have a predicament as I do not know how to edit the page. I know how to edit the page, but I'm not sure how to put line breaks, cross linking, and all those fancy stuff you see in the wiki page. You see, here's how I want to write it: I. Back ground II. Contents a. Cast of Characters / voice actors (Might want to do a separate page for this as the list is extensive) b. Story Arcs c. List of Mechs (Might want to do a separate page for this as the list is extensive) d. Terms and keywords III. Staff, OP/ED staff IV. Famous Speechs V. Merchandise Please do feel free to suggest order of contents for this, as I will be taking information from my website at http://ggundam.atspace.com I can also edit the other Gundam Series, but I want to finish GGundam first as this is my favorite Gundam to date.
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I'm sure with the months long break would give them enough material to come up with a decent plot and better mech designs. They managed fine with the first season, I think they would surprise us with the second season. They might not let us expect anything, then blow us away with nice and shiny Gundams. Previews doesn't necessarily mean that's all were going to expect of the show. "Ooh, what does this button do?"
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Let's just give them a chance first. Remember that the previous Gundam Series (Seed Destiny) was full of Gundam eye candy so the plot was kind crap. Hopefully the plot for the second season of 00 will make up for the designs of the mech. Besides, if it's a simplified version, maybe they have some attachments in mind for those mechs. We just won't know until we watch it now, won't we?
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Ooh, a preview is out already? Gotta check this out. I didn't notice it, but it's only a few months away now.
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Unknown_Guyver, with regards to the retelling of the joker's past, I don't think it's really that much relevant. The Joker is already synonymous to Batman, so I think it would be better off if they didn't retell his past. With Harvey Dent however, I think it's very appealing with the way they handled his character. Also, if we are to compare this to the comics, I would say they are pretty well done. The nolan Batman tells the begining years of Batman and it is only natural that they did it the way they are. They didn't use the continuity of the regular DC comics, but more of the Frank Miller Batman. If you've read Batman: Year One, Batman: The Long Holloween and Batman: The killing Joke, it's pretty much the same way it was told. I've been following the Batman comics for years and I would say that they pretty much nailed it. Of course there are other small nit picks, but you can't please everybody. Again, you are entitled to your own opinion and I will respect that.
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Well, since this new Batman is in line with the Frank Miller Dark Knight continuity, there is still the other comic Dark Victory which they can protray. It's the continuation of Long Halloween which the Dark Knight movie was partly based of.
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Yes, Two-face, but I don't think two-face alone would suffice. He needs another rogue which he can manipulate. Bane perhaps? The thing is, if they ever tried to include someone with powers (like Poison Ivy or some other mutant), it would defeat the settings which Batman Begins established. He should be dealing with the mob and not some super powered freaks. Perhaps a resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul. We never did saw the Lazarus Pit in Batman Begins. Good thing they are basing the movies off the comics. Like Batman year One for Batman Begins and The Long Holloween & The Killing Joke for the Dark Knight.