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Get a life , job and stop posting on deal sites.


God , I hate you all
 
Hehehe.......:p

Hey Dehawk, do you know about the Tanooki site?
 
NO but I bet you had something to do with it.
 
I stumbled onto it. I thought perhaps you started a forum of your own.......



LOL
 
I was wondering what happened to dehawk.

Now I'm not wondering...
 
dehawk said:
Get a life , job and stop posting on deal sites.


God , I hate you all
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WHAT and miss all of the WONDERFUL conversations, and deals and daytime kids shows?!?! I mean spongebob alone is worth quitting your job over! I mean give me a break, how would I ever LIVE through a day without seeing wonderful posts from YOU debawk? :teeth:
 
In case anyone cares, the name of the animal is "tanuki".
In case nobody cares, the name of the animal is still "tanuki".
 
Monk- In the game, Super Mario 3, Mario wears whats called a Tanooki suit.

grafx- A Tanuki is an animal in Japanese folklore. Also known as a Raccoon Dog, although the Raccoon Dog is a real animal. The Tanuki in folklore has huge testicles. dehawks avatar used to be a Tanuki shaking his hips, swinging his testicles back and forth.

From folklore:
My_Neighbor_Tanuki_san_by_itsacookbook.jpg



From nature:
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someone gave me a star


yayayayayayaya
 
Dehawk, I see that you've acquired some new skills in your absense......:p










































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monkfish said:
In case anyone cares, the name of the animal is "tanuki".
In case nobody cares, the name of the animal is still "tanuki".
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I thought it was "just for the record". Who cares who cares or doesn't care?
 
LiveSquid said:
Monk- In the game, Super Mario 3, Mario wears whats called a Tanooki suit.
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I haven't played this game, and have to wonder why the L10N staff chose to misspell the word. My guess is they had no faith in the English speaking public's ability to pronounce a simple 6 letter word. By the time they got to Animal Crossing (the GameBoy version) they had the correct spelling. Or else they might've sent it out to a different L10N team.

LiveSquid said:
A Tanuki is an animal in Japanese folklore. Also known as a Raccoon Dog, although the Raccoon Dog is a real animal. The Tanuki in folklore has huge testicles. dehawks avatar used to be a Tanuki shaking his hips, swinging his testicles back and forth.
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The tanuki is a real animal. "Racoon dog" is from the imagination of a lazy translator who thought it better to invent a name for this animal which doesn't exist in the west, rather than leave it be. (This is similar to the practice that immigration officials used, too, forcing families to change from their real names when they came to the US.) According to Merriam Webster, the "raccoon dog" coinage only dates back to 1929.

The animal has some markings reminiscent of a raccoon -- particularly the dark rings around the eyes. Women with mascara are sometimes refered to as tanuki, particularly when they overdo it or are sloppy.

The animal in folklore is reputed to like drinking, and when several get together for an all night drinking party, they drum on their round bellies. At least one tale has the tanuki drumming too hard, and bursting its belly. They patched it with tape, and that's why many renditions of tanuki show an "x" of tape at the navel.

They're also supposed to have the ability to "bakeru" or change shape. Many of the tales involve a tanuki who's changed shape in order to trick some unwary traveler.

There's a common song about the male tanuki and his testicles, sung to the tune of "Shall We Gather By the River." It goes something like, "Ta-ta-tanuki's testicles are, swaying in the breeze, fura-fura." There are regional variations to the words, but that's the version from where I lived.
 
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