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| Iggy 5492th Post
 
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|  "[blog] The formidable adventures of Iggy" , posted Fri 14 Jan 21:35
Yesterday, I was talking with my teacher of classical literature, who we all respect and love.
This guy speaks perfect Japanese, both modern and classic, but he also speaks English, Spanish, German, and I'm sure I forget a few other languages. And of course, his French is perfect, brilliant, Proustian.
So, I was with a few other students with him, and we were talking on the subject of foreign languages (like reading English or German japanologist books on our subject or research). Then, one of the guys with us, a guy I didn't like very much in the first place, says something like "I don't even speak English, and that doesn't bother me". I am myself ashamed of my bad comprehension of only 3 languages, so I didn't like it at all.
Plus, you know how pretentious I am and how my ego is the biggest of all my organs, so I suddenly began to say: “Oh, on that subject, I recently wrote an article in English for an internet site, it’s nothing big really but I had a very positive feedback, so yeah, English is not really a problem for me, Ahahahahahaha, Ahahahaha, Ahahahaha”. Of course, I somehow forgot to mention how Brandon read it carefully and corrected the myriads of typo and various errors, but shhhh !
The guy, crushed by my natural elegance and fashion sense, shut up and didn’t say anything for the rest of the day. Ah, ah, mission completed. Sucker.
Unfortunately, our teacher suddenly goes “Really! That’s very interesting! I would like to read it to give you my opinion, if you’re interested of course. Could you print it for me so I can read it during the winter holidays?”
Me : "Ah, euh, ah, euh...ah."
So right now, I’m here, printing my Ietate thing.
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When I imagined of my first japanology paper that would be read in scientific circles, I imagined it more 11th century-related and less... less...
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| Mosquiton 1490th Post
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| "Re(1):[blog] The formidable adventures of Igg" , posted Fri 14 Jan 22:31
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Unfortunately, our teacher suddenly goes “Really! That’s very interesting! I would like to read it to give you my opinion, if you’re interested of course. Could you print it for me so I can read it during the winter holidays?”
Me : "Ah, euh, ah, euh...ah."
You know, just the other day I was going to complain that Iggy's posts were focusing too much on board-related game news and not living up to their true blogging potential (I'm completely serious). I for one can't wait to hear what happens next... I'm afraid the professor, after reading the article, may develop a hopeless crush on Iggy. Which would only lead to MORE formidable adventures.
As for myself, I recently spent about half an hour employing a pocket knife to dig out a piece of ceramic that had lodged in my thumb like a splinter after cleaning up a broken cup which, prior to being broken by someone other than myself, had been my favorite. Fortunately it wasn't my choice for consuming alcohol. Speaking of which it's time for a poll.
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| Mokona
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| "Re(3):[blog] The formidable adventures of Igg" , posted Sat 15 Jan 00:16
At least there was an article... Any dumbass could have boasted about an article that they didn't even wrote, but you, my dear Iggy, are an honnest person to begin with.
Then, if you really felt that your material was good enough to be boasted about, you mustn't fear the criticism of your teacher.
Actually, this is the best thing that could happen to you, you'll get the best point of view and advice for your work, I would be honored in your place. Even if the final criticism is not what you expected or somehow turns out kinda bad, tell yourself that any advice from a brilliant person is what paves the way to YOUR excellence.
That said, I need to smack some people hard here... Canadian Whiskey??? People, come on, save a little cash and try some of the real thing. Scotch is my favourite, and I don't want to piss on everything else, but Bourbon never had my vote. and Canadian whiskey, while some of them are decent, is not as fine and flavoured as a good glass of Talisker or Oban. (And I'm a French guy living in Canada, so I don't think I'm biased that much!)
Jack Daniel's should only be used to clean your toilet. (Actually, it has some very good uses in the kitchen, I tasted some sauces made with it and they were great).
Blah!
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| Iggy 5495th Post
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| "The Misadventures of Iggy II" , posted Sat 15 Jan 04:08
I couldn't vote anything else than Bourbon, could I ?
Either way. He read it.
Hum. It was awckward. He began to say my english was very good (exowho ? I don't know that person) and my style was entertaining.
Then I don't totally remember. We were talking about Kenshunmonin Ukyônodaibu being a whore, then about that text from the early Heian era where two women fight because they are both in love with the same dog and have sexual relashionship with it, and how the zoophilia theme was totally japanese, because you didn't find any example of in chinese; then it was about that text about sex (with a lot of illustrations) two centuries later, and I talked about the orgy in the notes of Fujiwara no Sukefusa. Then it became even more weird and untranslatable.
We were joking about how the kanbun was actually the real language of surgical pornography, and we began to imagine how those texts would be translated in Sieffert語; it was something like "Malgré qu'elle en ait, elle ne put s'empêcher de regretter que l'officier en troisième ministre des écuries de gauche ne fût point plus violent, mais elle ne fut pas exempte d'émotion de le voir si grandit".
Then, everything fades to black, and when we were arrived at my station, we were talking about disgusting animals, and my amblypygi was losing to his weird mexican fish that can become a batracian or whatever.
Also, he reminded me I said I would lend him another book of Aiden Shaw.
This was the weirdest day I had since that time where I had the impression my head was about to split in two.
「とにかく、それは愛のムチよ。
愛しいXXX先生は君を愛弟子として愛するがゆえの厳しさよ」だって。
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| HAYATO
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| "Re(4):[blog] The formidable adventures of Igg" , posted Mon 17 Jan 08:21
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Yeah, maybe it's time for someone to create a "this is how disgusting my real self is in real life" thread. Something similar to what IkariDC attempted to do with his Sensenic&IkariDC.jpg some weeks ago...
What? I was just sharing the pictures, I could have skipped it, but Sensenic might want to have that picture too. Then again, should I have mailed the picture to him insteand of posting it there?
I don't know what you mean with what you're saying, but if you wanna draw some attention and quick laughs, I can post some pictures of you, which are by far more disgusting and laughable than the pic you are mentioning.
Well, that's what I was talking about : I think there are few interesting news threads lately, so I thought it'd be a good idea to create a thread for anyone interested to post some personal pics, in order to show us how they or some other café members they know really look like. As I don't have any scanned pic of myself, you'd feel free to post some of mine if you want, I just don't mind (you know I don't get easily embarrased of myself... )
I think the posting of your first pic was a great chance to start a (stolen) thread, but as the Café was livelier this week, I decided not to ask about this idea (In addition, I don't know whether something like that's been done in this forum before or not...). That's the reason why I spoke of your pic as an "attempt", and by the ""this is how disgusting my real self is in real life" sentence, I was trying to be ironical (you know how much I like irony), not offensive. Anyway, you perfectly know I prefer to make laughs of you in person !! 
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Yes, in case you still have any doubt, I was also trying to be ironical in the last sentence...
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| IkariDC 261th Post
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| "Re(5):[blog] The formidable adventures of Igg" , posted Tue 18 Jan 05:54
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Well, that's what I was talking about : I think there are few interesting news threads lately, so I thought it'd be a good idea to create a thread for anyone interested to post some personal pics, in order to show us how they or some other café members they know really look like. As I don't have any scanned pic of myself, you'd feel free to post some of mine if you want, I just don't mind (you know I don't get easily embarrased of myself...)
I think the posting of your first pic was a great chance to start a (stolen) thread, but as the Café was livelier this week, I decided not to ask about this idea (In addition, I don't know whether something like that's been done in this forum before or not...). That's the reason why I spoke of your pic as an "attempt", and by the ""this is how disgusting my real self is in real life" sentence, I was trying to be ironical (you know how much I like irony), not offensive. Anyway, you perfectly know I prefer to make laughs of you in person !!
Yes I knew you weren't serius about it, I just didn't get you had a "post pictures of yourself" idea. About your pictures, I mentioned it for watching your reaction. You know I wouldn't do something that low whitout your permission.
Anyways, I think that there was once a thread like that. It was in my lurking days, so I felt like I was not worthy of watching the pictures, and I do not know if they were the pictures of the members of the board, or some fake pictures to have some laughs. Maybe both.
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"Re(4):[blog] The formidable adventures of Igg" , posted Sat 15 Jan 04:29
