MythTickle by Justin Thompson for February 26, 2009

You guys are over-analyzing the comic. I read it and had two reactions: “awww, poor Shang Xia” and then “mmmmm - miso soup!”

It’s fun that when he keeps his arm down, he’s a taiji.

Ah, miso heavy. Ah, miso heavy. Ah, miso heavy.

She could have given the bear Warfarin to thin the old blood. Works for me.

Nanuq-depressive – perfectissimo!

Nothing I like better than miso soup followed by a deluxe platter of sashimi.

poor shang xia, I have fat blood days too.

Fat Blood. Funny, Dude!

Bell3rose: Impressive to this dilettante language junky! But some questions…

Miso is the paste but most Americans who know the word at all know it from the soup. But I understand “miso” is also the Japanese word for “water”. So how do the Japanese keep every restaurant meal from becoming a tragedy of dashed expectations?

Also, the individual characters of the Chinese name Shanghai literally mean “over the ocean” or “overseas”. So how do the Chinese talk about “overseas Chinese”?

Great joke about the two poles. Just who are you anyway?

pschearer: While you are right on about Miso being a sort of paste, I am thrilled to be correcting you (finally) this time by saying that the Japanese word for water is ‘mizu’. Not ‘miso’. wakarimasu ka?

Domo arigato gozaimashita.

i thought “mizu” was water, not miso?

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