Top 10 Japanese Penis Festival Souvenirs

October 31, 2010 by · 14 Comments
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Shinto fertility festivals held annually in Japan are penis-venerating celebrations that involve phallic processions and penis parades. Japan hosts a number of unusual and notorious festivals including the Kanamara Matsuri and the Hōnen Matsuri. While the main event at a penis festival usually involves the parading of a long phallus carved from Japanese wood, this post presents to you the festival foreplay, a top list of penis festival souvenirs.

Kanamara Matsuri

1. Penis Festival Groucho Glasses

Number 1 on the list are novelty disguise Groucho Marx glasses that have the nose substituted with a penis.

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Red Bull Gives You Wings…

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…but in China, Red Bull gives you so much more!

Red Bull Brings You Tits

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Japanese Animal Sounds

October 30, 2010 by · 3 Comments
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Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word that imitates the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. It is commonly used to mimic animal noises. Although each language imitates sounds occurring in nature, which are presumably the same everywhere in the world, each language interprets these sounds in accordance with its own sound system and culture.

So, just how do animals in Japan sound? Extend your vocabulary with the following list of Japanese animal sound-based phrases.

AnimalEnglishJapanese
BearGrrrグオー (guo—)
BeeBuzzブーンブーン (bu—n bu—n)
BirdTweetピチュピチュ (pichu pichu)
CatMeowニャーニャー (nya— nya—)
CowMooモーモー (mo— mo—)
DogWoofワンワン (wan wan)
DuckQuackガーガー (ga— ga—)
FrogCroakケロケロ (kero kero)
GoatNaaメーメー (me— me—)
HorseNeighヒヒーン (hi-hi—n)
LionRoarガオー (gao—)
MouseSqueekチューチュー (chu— chu—)
OwlHootホーホー (ho— ho—)
PigOinkブーブー (bu— bu—)
RoosterCock-a-doodle-dooコケコッコー (Ko ke kokko—)
SheepBaaメーメー (me— me—)
A dash (‘—’) indicates vowel elongation.

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