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Watch out when using Kanji Keywords unrelated to the Kanji story at hand.
You use the word Establishment, which is it's own kanji. I guess it's not a big deal, but it's something I always try to avoid.. Sometimes unwanted parts of the story end up sticking. I guess the important part is that you've found a vivid image.
For 掲, I just went along with the Cheech story someone else had been running with.
There is a certain pride in developing your own story and having it stick very well.. Often though, the best stories have already been made. I find that there are a few users who's stories I consistently like, so I always look out for their user names.
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I didn't intend for people to critique the stories of others or anything (not that I took offense), but just to share the story that REALLY sticks with them. One that's original that they created. I'm just interested to see what's common in all of the stories.
And yeah, pedantry, but only in jest. Then again, it might be a holdover from the high school days. I had an english teacher who threatened to break your kneecaps if you split an infinitive.
Anyway, where are the stories? Bring 'em on!
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hah okay, perhaps i'm just embarrassed to share my stories :p
I feel like I have several good ones, but having gone back to look at them, they aren't very special. They are probably only memorable for me because of the time I spent attempting to fit the primitives together.
Right now I have a class, but maybe I'll share some later.
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My story for crumble.
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"9/11"
Whoever reported it i want to find out so i can crumble their face in
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BRANDISH, for the gratuitous, yet fitting trivia:
"Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, threatened to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). So, brandishing the finger was a way to say I still have a my middle finger to "pluck yew". Here is the English "ARMY" BRANDISHING the FINGER."
GATHER, for it's simplicity:
"Families GATHER around a TURKEY at Thanksgiving and a TREE at Christmas."
PAIR, for creative use of onyomi and kunyomi:
"I had a couple of PAIRs of jeans that had holes in the *crotch*. *SOOOO*, (ソウ）I went down to SOHO (双方=そうほう=both sides) to buy a new PAIR of jeans. In SOHO, I ran across a PAIR of jeans shops, on *either side* of the street. Working in each of the shops was a gorgeous young lady. As it turns out they were a PAIR of twins. I took the twins to have dinner at my favorite Chinese/Mexican restaurant called Foo-Taco (双子＝ふたご＝twins) You may doubt me, but this is a two story."
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My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇:
"White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead."
Made it stick pretty good. :3
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From Juliet's mouth that evening came her famous question to Romeo: "What's in a name?"
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This a personal one, because there are grocery stores on the East and West sides of my town -- I usually go to the West.
"Frozen" -- I don't like getting my 'FROZEN pizzas' from the EAST Side, because there's always too much ICE on them.
I don't think I'll ever forget this one.
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my best one: Step
!!!prepare for extreme surrealism!!! on rainy days you must be careful where you place your feet as you can't step on puddles of water as you will actually fall into the reflection of the world in the puddle which means you will fall into an upside down sky and hit the sun of the reflection. Remember this world is upside down so the sun is BELOW the water of the puddle (primitive placement).
I like this one because of the bizarre imagery, coupled with the fact that I would DEFINITELY have put water below sun had it not been for the primative placement element of this story.
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^Step, you STEP into the reflection in a puddle and fall into the sun in the reflection.
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Disclaimer: This is very, very dumb.
My favorite one is "contraption", because it cracks me up. It has the kanji for tree, and commandment.
Moses takes a wrong turn at Mt. Sinai, and ends up at a fiesta (mariachi band, bright colors, salsa dancing and all), with his stone commandments in his hands. But it's the expression on his face that's hilarious. Prophet-of-God Moses -liberator of the Hebrews, parter of the Red Sea, homies with Jehovah - is so wide-eyed, confused and bewilidered, he's about to cry. Then, to add to his distress, he sees a twisted, gnarled bonsai tree, and declares, "What is that contraption!?"
"Uh... It's a tree, Moses."
I know it's dumb, but it makes me laugh every time.
