In honor of Pearl Harbor Day we are picking our favorite Jap. You know we like to be politically correct here at Trooper York so have at it in the comments. Your choices.
Mr. Fuji the famous wrestler and manager from the WWF.
Hidecki Matsui the World Series MVP.
Hidecki Iraubo the fat puffy toad.
Jack Soo the Fat Jap guy from Barney Miller.
Fran Drescher. Well you know why.
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Jack Soo was Chinese-American but he was pretty funny on Barney Miller, so he gets my vote.
In keeping with my Mangas Coloradas contrarian style, and after discovering Verne Gagne is not Asian, I vote for Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, for this (slightly amended) but very prophetic quote:
"In the first 6 to 12 months of the war with the United States I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But after that I'm going to get shot in the ass by some GI in a P-3."
(Old joke.) This polish guy is sitting in a bar in Superior WI getting pretty drunk, when this chinese guy comes in and orders a beer. Both get their drinks, and the polish guy finishes his, looks down the bar at the chinese guy, orders another drink, finishes it, and looks down at the chinese guy again. Then he gets up, walks over to chinaman, looks him in the eye and belts him so hard he knocks him off his stool and onto the floor. "There", he says, "remember Two Harbors".
I can understand why you left out Hayao Miyazaki, Shiina Ringo, and Yukio Mishima, but why did you leave out Hello Kitty and Godzilla?
Insanity!
By the way, I hate Hello Kitty. I didn't used to, but then I found out she had a pet cat and therefore she enslaves her own kind.
dbp --
Jack Soo was Japanese-American. I'd always heard he changed his name due to some sort of imbroglio the USA had with the Japanese last century. Dunno if it's true.
Also, I don't get John's joke.
And I hate "Hello, Kitty" but I love "Hello, Cthulhu"!
I always thought Soo was a Japanese name. I am pretty sure he was Japanese.
I'm writing in Yoko Ono.
Soo was "short" for Suzuki.
Holy sushi Batman, he was named after a motorcycle!
"Soo was "short" for Suzuki."
You learn something new every day. To think I thought that Soo was emphatically "long" for "so".
Oh, and I didn't get John's joke either, but in my case, not "getting" a joke has become so commonplace that I have begun to call it a "disability".
Soon enough some government agency will award me for this with either free punchline training or a monthly stipend.
Cross your fingers for me.
Penny, it's strictly an upper midwest joke. No, make that an northeast Minnesaota joke. Actually, a north shore of Lake Superior joke, limited to within about 26 miles of Duluth.
It was pretty dumb the first time I heard it, and I only recall one person who thought it was very funny. That's why I thought it might work here.
John, do you live along the North Shore?
Used to. Now its southern Arizona.
You learn something new every day.
Soo is not a Japanese name, but it never occurred to me that he had changed it. Should have been obvious given hard feelings for the Japanese in that era and the fact that lots of actors change their names for various reasons.
I kind of like this Hello Kitty.
Cute and lethal.
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