Comments on: Multilateral Mahjong Madness

Multilateral Mahjong Madness

HotPants — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:49:42 -0800

George Bush's Mahjong Secrets: Revealed! The Legend of Koizumi manga, featuring both Georges Bush, Putin, Pope Benedict XVI, Thatcher, et al, has had its first chapter translated into English.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:00:21 -0800

"Mahjong" means something like "hemp fibers drying under a shed". I'm not sure why, but this seems completely appropriate for George Bush.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:02:05 -0800

Holy shit, this is fucking genius: "This idiot came to the gambling table without a penny on him. What kind of daycare center are you running here, Jun?"

By: armage

armage — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:21:27 -0800

Just reading the Wikipedia page made me go, "WTF?" The Japanese version didn't improve matters. I'll have to check it out next time I visit the 漫喫.

By: armage

armage — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:23:06 -0800

"Mahjong" means something like "hemp fibers drying under a shed". I'm not sure why, but this seems completely appropriate for George Bush. In Japanese, the characters literally mean "hemp sparrow." That also seems completely appropriate.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:38:15 -0800

To be completely pedantic about the actual meaning of the Chinese/Japanese characters... oh, never mind. Anyway, this is so totally awesome.

By: monocot

monocot — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:27:05 -0800

This is full of crazy! In a good kind of way.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:38:37 -0800

>"Mahjong" means something like "hemp fibers drying under a shed". I'm not sure why, but this seems completely appropriate for George Bush. In Japanese, the characters literally mean "hemp sparrow." That also seems completely appropriate. I actually just last year wrote a series of articles for a theater company that was doing a new play involving mahjongg, so I had to research mahjongg itself. The "sparrow" part is definitely accurate -- it's associated with the sound the tiles make as you shuffle them about on the board and they clack against each other; for whatever reason, players associated this noise with the sound of sparrows flapping their wings. So anything with "sparrow" is pretty accurate; I'm not so sure I trust that "hemp fibers drying under a shed" one. And yes, I wish like HELL that this translation existed back when I was writing this, because DAMN it would have been fun to include in what I was writing.