[tlug] [Somewhat Off-Topic] Manzai

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

My wife's colleagues are apparently involved in a manzai[1] arms race
via email. So far, they have uncovered the following gems:

http://www.mediatinker.com/yamanote29/archives/images/shinbashi.swf
http://www.uranus.dti.ne.jp/~fritz/swf/chiba.swf

Not to be out-done, one of my 同僚 (for the benefit of Mauro, Uva, and
Alberto, et al., that would be none other than 藤本さん) found the
following, entitled 「かわいそうな象」:

http://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=9953

The reason I thought these were worth posting to TLUG is that they are
not videos of the actual manzai performer doing his schtick (did I
spell that right, Scott? ;-P ), but of Japanese-style emoticon figures
giving a speech onstage to a captive audience.

Funny stuff, to be sure!

For even more topicality, a Flash-adept TLUGger could stick Richard
Stallman's head on the speaker...

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai