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I am SO funny, as you will soon see... I cleverly took a topic and manipulated it in to an amusing yet to the point heading for this article! The fact being that Arigatou Co Ltd. have launched a range of peanut business cards, that you can eat! See what I did? nuts... peanuts... you're crazy... kind of thing! Ill give you a couple of minutes to contain yourself and wipe the tears of laughter out of your eyes before I continue...

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and we're back.

"TaberuMe" (or Eat Me) peanuts are the latest of a range of foods which Arigatou Co print names on using their high grade CO2 laser engraver, which can print clear readable text on non-flat surfaces as small as a grain of rice!



Edu at PinkTentacle also made a valid attempt at humour in finishing off his article... mere peanuts, classic! but I think you'll agree my headline has him beat

Regardless, a set of 150 Taberu Me cards costs 5,800 yen (around $50), which is mere peanuts considering the lasting impression you will make on your new counterparts.

Another funny one from Mr. Tsumeyama (Tokoyama?) at Gizmodo, whos name translates to "Eternal mountain of great physical strength", quite possibly the best name ive ever heard...

ちなみに、商品名の「タベルメ」は「Taberu Me」＝「私を食べる」から来ているようです。初対面で「さあ！ 俺を食え」って…。（常山剛）

By the way, "taberume" is "eat me" in English, so imagine your first meeting with a new client... "Ok, lets kick things off, eat me!"

The Arigatou Co website describes the product as 食べれる名刺, "meishi you can eat", and they have stuck to Japanese tradition of being really creative with product names and cut off half of "eat" and "business card" to make タベルメ. I personally think "businuts" is a better name! Damn, gotta stop myself, just too funny! (think you can do better? challenge me in the comments!)

Amazing the products coming out these days... I mean whats next?
Chocolate beer? Chocolate sushi? Edible squid flavoured post cards?!

Flicking through Kotaku I found this cool image of the Street Fighter crew and others chowing down in an Udon store run by none other than Edmund Honda. Class. I love street fighter, I love anime, and I have come to love udon, so 3 out of 3!

The image is from a soon to be published 300+ page book featuring loads of Capcom characters, by publisher Udon Entertainment. This teaser image and the name of the artists gives me the impression that they will all be eating udon, but I could be wrong... anyway, looks pretty cool to me.

Many of you, gamers and 733+ hackerz especially, will be familiar with the term "all your base are belong us", but how many of you know where it actually comes from? Turns out its a Japanese Engrish blunder that the geek hordes quickly made famous. It was originally used in a badly translated Sega Genesis (thats Master System, right? Sorry, my early console history is a little sucky. All I had was an Amstrad, then straight to a 386 PC) game called Zero Wing, check it out on the video.



Do you know any other classic geek terms and phrases that came from Japanese?

Found something really cool while reading pink tentacle, where clouds have formed in to "streets", cunningly named Cloud Streets. Apparently its not a rare occurance, but its pretty rare to get a photo that so clearly displays them. This shot was taken just off the coast of Hokkaido.

This is pure genius, but I bet you can't name all the animes featured...
(answers in the comments please! ps; no cheating by looking at the linked site)



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