#bobson dugnutt!

[blackchantilly]

Been playing the Famicom Detective Club games.

[netscapenavigator-official]

I'm just trying to watch this pirated, extended cut of Scooby-Doo (2002). Wtf is this???

[joeb91]

[yangscowlick]

If RWBY does officially get purchased/renewed, I think it’s finally time to change my name to something RWBY related. I’ve had one name saved for a while, but I wont make the change until it’s confirmed.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

MLBPA Baseball Ultimate Fighter

Sleve McDichael!

[alienson]

As an ex-USA resident who spent time in the UK, traveling there felt like being in a fictional story, but one that might have been written by someone suffering from ruinous sleep deprivation. For each normal sounding name there'd be a half-dozen syllable-salads, pulled from the semi-conscious fingers of a somnambulant typist.

Look at the scale. Within a 5km radius (about 3 miles) you've got Offord Cluny, Duck End, Graveley, Papworth St Agnes, Toseland and Yelling.

I'd be trying to figure out where to taks the train, and would be like, "Ooh, I take the train from Kings Cross? Just like that wizard boy! And then I go north through New... Southgate? Then East Finchley and... 'Cockfosters'? Really? Okay, Cockfosters, Hatfield, Knebworth, Ickleford, and get off at Letchworth?"

There are valid historical, linguistic and etymological reasons for all those names. But damn if it didn't feel like the geographic equivalent of the SNES Fighting Baseball roster.

I'm shipping a lot of stuff to the USA rght now and every time I type a US address part of me feels like my books are being purchased by a fictional character. I'm like "Ooh, this one's going to Texas! And this one to Omaha! Like those places from the TV!"

[okayto]

“The Vampire Dies in No Time” is the official translation used in Japanese media, straight from the author. It’s also implied to be Draluc’s title, as in he is know as “the vampire, Dies on no Time.” Other vampires are addressed that way (for instance, Ken would be the “the vampire, Yakyuken Lover”).

(RE: my review of The Vampire Dies in No Time anime and comments about how the title bugs me)

I know it's the official translation because as I pointed out in the review, the English title is right there in the actual animation (and is verbalized by the Japanese narrator when using the Japanese language option). Interesting that it came straight from the author, but I'm not surprised since it clearly came from Japan, I just have no way of knowing if they consulted with/considered opinions from native English speakers when making that decision, because I maintain it doesn't sound natural; it feels either like it's the answer to a question that's been left out ("how quickly does the vampire die?") and thus makes the title feel incomplete, or it feels like an incredibly awkwardly-phrased way to say "the vampire dies all the time," where "in no time" does not have the same connotation as "all the time."

Like I said, I enjoyed the show! But the title bugs me, and I had a negative-enough reaction just to seeing it that except for episodes showing randomly on Crunchyroll's 24/7 Roku TV channel, I never would've chosen to start watching.

The idea that "Dies in No Time" is Draluc's vampire moniker is intriguing and fitting, I admit, and would also be very funny, but that's separate from experiencing the title as a native English speaker.

[stoppit-keepout]

[Image descriptions for 3 screenshots. The first two are from a baseball stats page, one of a pitcher born in 1890 in Cleveland, OH named Urban Shocker and the second of a shortstop, pinch runner, and second baseman born in 1900 in Waco, TX named Boob Fowler. The third is white text on a blue background, from (I think) a Japanese video game listing potential American names. They are: Sleve McDichael, Onson Sweemey, Darryl Archideld, Anatoli Smorin, Rey Mcsriff, Glenallen Mixon, Mario McRlwain, Kevin Nogilny, Tony Smehrik, Bobson Dugnutt, Willie Dustice, Jeromy Gride, Scott Dourque, Shown Furcotte, Dean Wesrey, Mike Truk, Dwigt Rortugal, Tim Sandaele, Karl Dandleton, Mike Sernandez, and Todd Bonzalez.]

baseball players in the 20s were all named shit like Dipsy Doodle and Crunch Johnson

[phrawger]

WWE just announced a bunch of trademarks for in-ring names that sound almost AI-generated (Drako Knox, Haze Jameson, Trill London, Masyn Holiday) and multiple jokes collided in my head so now I want to know what other people think of when they hear a name that registers as funky

[deianaracrush]

i think about the fake american names from the japanese baseball video game at least once per day. sleve mcdichael and bobson dugnutt are like close friends to me.

[severalowls]

It feels a little redudant to call for a boycott of american military propaganda terrorist action movie number 29,378 like oh i was going to go and see Bobson Dugnutt strangling an arab man to death in the desert while crying tears of patriotism about his mother who died on 9/11 before he was born but I heard this one was kinda problematic? Somebody said this one might be racist??

[skyburger]

TGANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️

does anyone have that screenshot of i think a nintendo game presumably japanese-only i think its a baseball game? and its a results list or list of players of some kind and all the names are names that someone who did not speak english thought sounded vaguely american but to a native english speaker very much do not. stuff like "benwater jankson" that wasnt on this list but gives u an idea Also i mean NES game for the record. i think. please and thank u very much

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 28, 2024

My posts

I spent the first half of the week struggling through (well-medicated) mania and the second half currently with a sinus infection! I’m not enjoying it! Not either one! 

Reblogs of interest

Pro-Gaza protests at universities in the U.S.: a solidarity Passover seder and an accidental Pulitzer photo

Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation

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The Hot Vintage Lady Polls continue to go for the throat. I felt so bad about Dorothy Dandridge that I started posting and reblogging propaganda for her, but Ava Gardner, my beloved, went through anyway. Backing her felt like a wish on a monkey’s paw ("Not like this!!"). (See all poll results here.) I tremble to think what round 5 will look like. Like, there’s a point when your girl is gonna come up against a Hepburn, you know?

Notably gone this week: Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Lupe Vélez, Irene Papas (who took out Vivien Leigh in the previous round), Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jean Seberg, Anita Ekberg, Angela Lansbury, and Cyd Charisse. Like I keep saying, everybody loses. Everybody but one. Round 5 will start May 1st. 

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Hozier Watch 2024: His first U.S. #1, which he’s now playing at shows! The first U.S. #1 for an Irish artist in 34 years! What?? you cry. Did “Take Me to Church” not do that ten years ago? Well, I went and looked it up: No. That was the “Blank Space” era. Say no more. 

Speaking of Taylor Swift—Paste Magazine went IN on the new album and got threats as a result. Meanwhile, Taylor’s fans are harassing the ex-boyfriend who did nothing wrong (as opposed to the racist one) because her PR is egging them on. I’ll admit: even though I’m not a fan, I found the Paste review to be overlong and not focused enough on the actual songs, proportionally. But that post about the PR saga is everything I miss about Fandom Wank. 

(“My rival dresses to display her legs, and her shoes are of an alluring fashion”)

Meanwhile, the Watcher guys issued the best apology possible, although it was still excruciating to watch. (Background.) They will remain on YouTube while introducing the streaming service. As a Patreon member, I haven’t asked for my free subscription code yet, but I’m going to. Some fans forgave them pretty easily; others have walked away. I’m curious to see if this affects the mood of anything new they film, since a segment of the fandom got really, really ugly about it. Mostly it just felt sad all around. 

Meanwhile, in Alabama: nobody wants to measure the feral hog.

Turns out Death Note had a good reason to concoct “American” names like “Bobson Dugnutt.” Also, I somehow had two posts tagged “death note” this week and I don’t even go here.

The worst brownies ever created and what Tumblr has to say about them

“You roll up to the Wizard Battle and your opponent takes out his spellbook but it’s just one of these”

I know that Loki is not Odin’s son in actual Norse mythology, but the bredlik is amazing.

TIL that Florence and Ravenna are still feuding over Dante’s remains

Maybe haunted dolls cost extra

Chorses

Video

Branch manager

Senior branch manager

“Free serotonin from Honey the Italian greyhound”

Sola learned to show love from her humans

I have seen many of jauncydev’s videos about dog personalities, but I have never seen him commit quite this hard before

I like tie-dye videos anyway, but this one is sick as hell

The sacred videos: you are not prepared for this police sketch, and neither is this news anchor

The sacred texts

Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.

Gold Star, You Tried: A compilation

A personal favorite: “mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd”

The origin of “By Talos this can’t be happening”

Personal tags of the week

Seasonally: cherry blossom. Also, art: an old standby, but it was really good, and also, I’m sick.

[cunked]

john wallace is the only normal sounding western name in death note and everyone else is bobson dugnutt or rey mcscriff

[bunnakit]

ur a simp[

which mutual am i? 🌸

only for you bby, youre the spunch to my speegie, the bobson to my dugnutt, the [reverbed gnome woo] to my [pikmin noises]

[caoimhe-from-hoenn]

Weird Pokemon Name of the Day: Bobson Dugnutt the Smeargle