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Your prayers have been answered!... I’m back and ready for some pokemon action! I think these posts will be a little bit shorter though as I feel I’ve exhausted most of the jokes I had for pokemon. Anyway, todays contestants ARE:

Reshiram, Zekrom and Desukan!

Reshiram and Zekrom: Arguably the best pokemon this time around. Based off of Japanese for zero (don’t ask me why) -rei, and shiramu-to become white, or light. Beautiful and graceful in appearance it represents half of the yin and yang symbol in Chinese Taoism. True to the concept of yin and yang, reshiram has traits of both. Though it is feminine and light like yin, it is also a fire type pokemon as the fire associated yang. Its counterpart Zekrom (English zero +kuromu-turning black or tinged with darkness) is it’s opposite, possessing mostly yang characteristics including masculinity and aggressiveness yet it too possesses traits of the opposite side, like darkness. In fact, Zekrom is to be found in pokemon white and Reshiram is to be found in pokemon black. Now if only they made each game shaped like a half a yinyang symbol-then you could fit them together and have complete harmony. And in case you hadn’t noticed, this is all Nintendo’s ploy to get you to buy both games. After all, you need both games, or else there will be no harmony in your life! Pokemon black and pokemon white must exist in balance as yin and yang! (side note: every time I hear yin and yang now, I think of murder-thanks a lot Psych!)

Otherwise, nicely done Nintendo!

Desukan: Oh dear… We nearly forgot to introduce the grim reaper’s illegitimate child. It was during this trip he took to Egypt to take the life of this really hot Egyptian princess and one thing led to another and… oh… what? You didn’t want to hear the specifics of that? Ok, well, I guess I’ll spare you the details then. Anyway, shortly after having this illegitimate child, he started Death Academy, so… Yeah, he was a little busy with tearing peoples skin off to raise Desukan (Soul Eater ref. btw). Etymology! My favorite part! Usually ‘desu’ would mean the end of a sentence, which I’m sure you’re all wishing would happen right. Now. Unfortunately for you, the ending of a sentence does not always signal the end of a topic discussion. To get back to the point, ‘desu’ is the Japanese adaptation of the English ‘death.’ ‘Kan,’ in turn, is Japanese for ‘coffin.’ Death coffin… for a sarcophagus. That’s almost a good of play on words as my personal favorites, “Koffing” and “Weezing” from the first set of pokemon to exist. I can only imagine how, um, wonderful it’s English name is going to be.

If I could direct your attention to Desukan’s four giant hands,… They’re reaching forward to grab… That paired with its demon-possessed eyes have me pretty convinced that he’s some kind of ancient pedophile.

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Today is Sunday, September 26, 2010. Today, my little brother is 14 years old. He is the object of affection of many young girls and the friend of only a lucky few. But I have the deepest of pleasure of being his one and only sibling. I only vaguely remember when he was born. I doubt I was extremely aware of the fact that I was soon to have a playmate, because it came as a big of a shock to me when my grandma picked me up after school when I was 6 and drove me to the hospital. I wasn’t so sure about this new person taking a portion of my parent’s attention, but as I got older, it became apparent that this new little being was someone to take an offensive position against. Yes my friends, it was war. He would scream at the top of his lungs, I would tattle. He would poke me repetitively and I would dress him up in a snow white costume and show him to the world. He would stare over my shoulder as I drew, and I would convince him that it was a good idea to dance in front of the window naked. It was a brutal, and yet somehow enjoyable relationship. Though I would have denied it at the time, I began to enjoy the time I spent with my brother, after school, on Sunday afternoons, and otherwise. Luckily for me, instead of resenting me for all the terrible things I’d done to him when he was young, he treated me with nothing but kindness. Even when I dressed up as Snow White for homecoming, which should have surfaced repressed and painful memories, he told me I looked beautiful. Over the years he has become one of my life supports. A best friend. Someone I want to share the most memorable parts of my life with.

So here’s to you brother for being a great person, a wonderful brother, and most importantly my best friend (not counting the years I hated you)

I love you and have a great birthday!

Ok so I have a very short attention span and honestly am surprised I have kept up with it for this long... So I am going to take a break for a little while. I think eventually I will post another one though. I'm just not feelin' it this week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNRP9ODgXk

Name: Chillarmy

Of three things I was absolutely positive. First, Chillarmy was a Japanese species of the Chinchilla. Second, there was a part of it-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be- that is extremely adorable. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably going to catch it the moment it appeared on my gameboy screen.

It is absolutely “chillarming.” And by that I mean charming and not alarming. Sorry, I suppose that wasn’t quite clear…It was more of a milky clear. Which is in fact not clear at all. (Those of you who have ever gone swimming in milk will know what I’m talking about)

The actual Japanese pronunciation is “Chirami.” According to my Japanese contacts (mainly jisho.org) this means “glancing look.” Which makes perfect sense really, because Chillarmy is so dang kawaii! Anyway, there’s also the onomatopoeia interpretation. Chirachira is a fluttering sound. Kind of like the fluttering sound my heart makes everytime I look it up on GoogleImages.

So go out there. Go out there and make this college student proud- go catch yourself a Chillarmy mo-fo’s! *single tear

Award for Least Original Pokemon

Name: Gear

Ok so I lied about Mamepato being the least original pokemon. So sue me. No, don’t sue me. That is opposite the point I’m trying to make…

Whether or not you are filing a complaint at this moment, you’ve got to agree with me- this pokemon… It’s just… yeah. Gear? That’s great pokemon creators. Way to get an award for creativity. I think these weekly drug parties going down at Nintendo really need to stop. Only a group of high, unimaginative adults could possibly come up with this.

Yet, I asked myself, why “gearu” when Japanese for gear is “gea”? The answer is clearly one of these three. Number one, it is literally ru meaning exile, as in this pokemon should be annihilated from the world of pokemon. Penultimately, it is shortened from rui meaning trouble or evil influence; as in, this pokemon is going to cause nothing but trouble and is clearly a work of the devil. The devil tells lies. This pokemon is a lie I tell you. And third, it is shortened from the Japanese word rui meaning weak; weak as in the creativity utilized to create gear is weak.

Therefore, if you are in need of spare parts for your pokedex or radio or maybe something that actually uses gears, go ahead-capture this pokemon. Could be useful I guess. This makes me wonder where you could find such a pokemon- a hardware store maybe? Yes indeed…

8 legged freaks

Newsflash! Pokemon takes radioactive spiders to a whole new level! Looking for a Peter Parker-esque experience? Look no further than the pokemon frontier!

So! Wordology right? Best guesses: shortened from denchuu meaning telephone pole, electroforming (the act or process of forming a metallic object by electroplating are movable mandrel or matrix-don’t ask- this definition is a product of copy and paste and has no actual meaning to the author of this blog), or in the palace. Just what we needed. A radioactive spider invading the palace. The palace that has no definite location and, in fact, has not been established yet. (Eventually the world of pokemon will see the flaws in democracy and turn to a government ruled by monarchy. Just you watch.) Another interpretation-den shortened from denka meaning last resort. A translation that explains itself-much like a guilty child-and at the same time, vastly different. And, of course, there’s the obvious explanation that den is shortened from denbu meaning buttocks. By “sheer” coincidence, denpu (extremely similar to denbu-one accent mark away) means peasant.

Hoorah for the peasant tarantula with buttocks.

Have a good weekend, eh?

In contrast, please do not have a good week

Name: Mamanbou

I love this pokemon! Sure it’s not very original, but… Honestly, I don’t really have a good reason to like this pokemon. I just think it’s super cute. In any case, it’s more fun to make fun of these guys anyway, so here I go.

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