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Improve your Valentine’s chocolate chances

Tonight’s Trivia no Izumi had a viewer writing in asking what was the best way to conduct oneself on Saint Valentine’s Day in order to improve one’s chances of getting chocolate from a woman – remember that in Japan St Valentine’s Day is gifts from women to men only. First Read more…

By Ken Y-N, 18 years6 years ago
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Does your wife do this too?

Trivia no Izumi (Fount/Spring of Trivia) outdid itself tonight, with a survey to find out when people who had been married for three years first heard their wife pass gas! They interviewed 1000 Japanese husbands by means of an internet poll, and as you can see in the pie chart Read more…

By Ken Y-N, 18 years16 years ago
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Mangy mutt misconstrues master’s malady

This week’s silly survey, once again from Trivia no Izumi, took 100 mongrels and 100 owners, and when they went out for a walk, the owner fell over ill and hoped Lassie would come home and drag someone out to rescue their dying master. Of course, most people brimmed with Read more…

By Ken Y-N, 18 years17 years ago
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(Fun!) Trivia statistics from the TV

First off is Trivia no Izumi (“The Fountain of Trivia”), probably my favourite program on Japanese TV as it deadpans its way through often very silly trivia, with many exceptionally-well conceived little films to explain the stories. There’s a very famous book and comic book and web page and film Read more…

By Ken Y-N, 18 years6 years ago

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