Thursday, July 21, 2005

07.21: National D-Day in Japan


A little tweak of a quirk in the Japanese language makes July 21 National Diddling Day.

Japanese permits the date "0721" for July 21 to be read as o-na-ni-i.

By coincidence, this pronunciation is almost identical to onani, a derivative of Onanism, which just about any good student of the Bible would be able to tell is the polite way to refer to, well, self-flagellation.

I wonder how much Diddling was done to Johnny Sokko?

Watch Johnny Sokko Diddling