*Gulp*

[Forest Guy]

Well, if that's the Canadian version of Popple, Gamecube games only cost $50 in America. Reminds me of a Simpsons quote...

"Excuse me, but this is a restricted area..."
"Will an American dollar change your mind?"
"Oh, eh, it sure will!"
I don't remember if those are the exact words, 'cause that episode hasn't been on recently.

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What part of the chicken is the McNugget, exactly?

[Markio]

Actually, it was something like:

"Sir, this is a restricted area."
"Will some money change your mind?"
"American Currency?! What time would you like your breakfast?"

Anyone who says sunshine is pure happiness has never danced in the rain!

[Raccoon Sam]

"nintendo" is japan and means  "from heavens."

[Forest Guy]

Yeah that's what it was. I knew he said something about breakfast, but then I figured I wouldn't say anything at the risk of looking stupid, which I ended up doing anyway.

I have heard that Nintendo means "From Heaven" or "From God" but I've also heard that it's a combo of three words, all being synonyms for fun. (Nin = Fun, Ten = Fun, Do = Fun) I'm not sure which is true... I'd put my money on the "from Heaven" thing.

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What part of the chicken is the McNugget, exactly?

[Nameneko]

As far as I'm concerned, both are wrong.

"There are no such things as stupid questions, just stupid people."

[Lizard Dude]

Nintendo is composed of 3 Japanese Kanji characters, Nin-ten-do which can be translated to "Heaven blesses hard work".

I found information on this excellent page.

“I’m a stupid fatty and I love to play with my Easy Bake oven.”

[Trainman]

I give the systems crap ONLY when people around me say, "o well gay-cube suks hard y r u such a pansy and play that gay mario crap" (exaggerated; if someone did say that, I would lay them out cold.)

Yeah, PS2 is hard to get used to if you haven't played it in a while, but I'll play racing games on it like Burnout 2: PI or NFS:U, but nothing else.

Xbox just really sucks. I CANNOT stand it. It is so stupid and Gates just wanted to stick his nose into it just to say he did.

"If love is around the corner, I must be going in circles." ~My friend
+--Support our troops and now our favorite Ronald Reagan.--+

[Lizard Dude]

Trainman is going to hate this post I found.
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my xbox has killed my ps2! it was knocked off my shelf by my cat and fell sidewaqrds onto my ps2 crushing the top. And now my xbox keeps coming up (this is an xbox disk......) and my ps2 is totalled, and it had mafia in it noooooooooooooooo!!!

Posted by: stephen at May 28, 2004 10:37 AM

“I’m a stupid fatty and I love to play with my Easy Bake oven.”

[Nameneko]

Nintendo also doesn't mean "Heaven blesses hard work"



任-To leave in order of; ex: I'll leave this task up to you.

天-Heaven

堂-Suffix added to companies sometimes; ex: Shiseido=資生堂

"There are no such things as stupid questions, just stupid people."

Edited by - Nameneko on 6/19/2004 10:47:40 AM

[MadRhetoric]

It seems to me it would translate to "Shop in heaven's hands"... but what do I know?

[Lizard Dude]

That's what the site said: "Nintendo (”C“V“°) (Ninten is translated roughly as "leave luck to heaven" or "in heaven's hands," do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories.)"

Judging by the other site, I'd assume that they took the "shop suffix" at the end to mean that hard work put you in heaven's hands. Perhaps that what the saying does mean, if you don't worry about translating literally and worry about what that string of sounds actually means in Japanese language culture? (I don't know, just theorizing. If anyway knows Japanese language culture, shoot.)

“I’m a stupid fatty and I love to play with my Easy Bake oven.”

[Mario Maniac]

It's okay if you like PlayStation. I love PlayStation, but Nintendo is my favorite game company!

Microsoft's Xbox is really pathetic. The Xbox has been around for about 3 years, and it is not even successful in Japan! Microsoft thinks games like Halo (and Halo 2) will win the Japanese market. Yeah, right...

The reason I do not like Xbox is because it does NOT have any variety of games. All the popular games on Xbox are shooters, sports, and racing. BORING!

I love Nintendo (and PlayStation) because they have a large variety of games. Their games are available in all types of genres, and they have plenty of family games!



Edited by - Mario Maniac on 6/19/2004 6:03:04 PM

[Nameneko]

Japanese language culture?  Who would know about that?  Anyways, Nintendo's "ninten" could be LITERALLY translated as "to leave up to heaven."  However, no one in Japan would look at "Nintendo" that way.
By thinking that it has symbolic value etc., the Japanese would turn on something like MK:DD to have Mario say to them, in his Italian accent, "Leave up to heaven!!"  That would be wierd...

"There are no such things as stupid questions, just stupid people."