The worst thing Japan has ever unleashed on the world

[Stefu]

Have you noted that there aren't many people who are often referred to only by their first name but seemingly never by only their last name?

In fact, there are Saddam Hussein, Jiang Zemin and... Yoko Ono.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Stefu
Have you noted that there aren't many people who are often referred to only by their first name but seemingly never by only their last name?

In fact, there are Saddam Hussein, Jiang Zemin and... Yoko Ono.

Very interesting. Thanks for the intriguing post, Stefu. You get a cookie.

[SlowwHand]

Ming the Merciless

[Drake Tungsten]

Don't forget about Mao. Or Yanni.

This is getting spooky...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Stefu
Have you noted that there aren't many people who are often referred to only by their first name but seemingly never by only their last name?

In fact, there are Saddam Hussein, Jiang Zemin and... Yoko Ono.

You dope, Jiang is the family name. That's why it is a dumb idea to refer to the surname as "last name," because it does not always go last.

[Drake Tungsten]

You dope, Jiang is the family name.

I think you could excuse him on this. The Western media is hardly consistent on the ordering of Asian names. They switch from personal-family to family-personal all the time, seemingly at random. With no experience in Asian family names, it can be next to impossible to tell which is which.

BTW, I have a question about Go for you on the Other Games forum.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


You dope, Jiang is the family name.

You mean she's really Ono Yoko? Now I'm scared.

[Buck Birdseed]

There's nothing particularly wrong with Yoko, the Beatles sorely needed breaking up anyway and she is okay as a rtist/artistic influence. I quite like some of her music, which is mroe than can be said for the majority of Lennon/McCartney solo efforts...

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Japanese opera is up there with the worst as well.

You mean that awful stuff with shadow puppets where the puppetmasters utter ungodly dysphonic gutteral sounds that are supposedly dialogue in the background? Isn't that where Yoko Ono got her start?

I hope this isn't taken as an ethnic slur on the Japanese and their language. I generally like Japanese music and some traditional Japanese singing.

[pchang]

Javanese

I could have sworn the shadow puppet thing was Javanese, not Japanese.

[Saint Marcus]

WW2

[SlowwHand]

sushi

[Drake Tungsten]

I should've named the thread something else... (sigh)

[molly bloom]

Fermented soy beans with raw egg is EVEN worse than Ono's art, writing or singing. You have it at breakfast.

After that, the day can only improve.

Linda McCartney-Eastman's singing was just as off-key, only it was heavily disguised/masked by the rest of Wings and the miracles of the studio and mixing desk.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Japanese opera is up there with the worst as well.

Hmm, if you mean kabuki, that's not really Japanese opera. There really is no such thing as traditional Japanese opera.