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BAKANA?! What the hell?!


Few people are quite so expressive in their reaction to the name of this piece of garbage, but most all people who confront it confront it with an air of mild confusion. Which makes sense, seeing as the title of this random hunk of HTML is in Japanese, which is not the primary speaking language of the person who made it, nor most of the people who are unfortunate enough as to see it.

My knowledge of the word Bakana came about as a result of my leafing through a Japanese-English dictionary (I can now proudly say "Egg! Egg! Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto! Rabbit? RABBIT?! Silly rabbit, Trix are TERRIBLE!" in Japanese.) I figured it would be useful to know a few silly words, and as a result looked up this one:

I then looked up a synonym:

I continued looking up synonyms for ridiculous, silly, and insane, and this word kept coming up. A word so CHARGED with madness seemed right up my ally, and I made a point to remember it.

Some failed candidates:


I dunno, but kichigai-jimita doesn't seem to roll offa the tongue quite so easily.


I can't be positive, but Henna sounds like a hair care product to me...