Wiki-cricket!

So my brother just introduced me to a new game - Wiki-Cricket! In which you go to Wikipedia, hit the "Random article" link on the left, and keep clicking until you hit something cricket-related. (I ended up here after about 5 minutes of clicking, proving his point that apparently 1% of everything on Wiki is cricket-related. Or else "random" is heavily cricket-weighted for unknown reasons. Perhaps a Douglas Adams fan programmed it?)

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not lost in translation

Was flipping through some raw scans of Gintama manga, and at the end of v.26 there's the results of a poll (or somesuch; the scan's low-quality so it's hard to read) of favorite lines in Gintama - of which the number 1 line just happens to be the one I used in my new layout, Gintoki's "今も昔も 俺の護るもんは何一つ 変わっちゃいねエエ!" [Now or long ago, the one thing that I protect won't change!"] So yeah, apparently that line sounds as awesome to the Japanese fans as it does to me.

(The "one thing", of course, is his nakama, all the people close to him.)

--And Zura's "Zura ja nai; Katsura da!" is number 9. There's also Gintoki's "if you have time to die beautifully then why not live beautifully instead?" and "My country is what's in the reach of my sword," and some Shinsengumi lines I really need to look up. (Though it doesn't have the Benizakura arc line used in the movie previews - "宇宙一バカな侍だ、コノヤロー!!!” [”The stupidest samurai in the universe is here, you bastard!”] - you gotta love a hero who so introduces himself. (You also gotta love how these previews manage to make the series look so cool. The rocking DOES song helps, of course...))

(...and yeah, considering most of these lines are more about the awesome than the funny, I’m apparently not the only fan into this series for all the wrong reasons! XD)