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March 01, 2005
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Finally, an official Samizdata.net beverage...
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Pedantic twit mode ON!

Judging by the kana (Japanese syllable-based phonetic script) on the bottle, the gun gun rhymes with loon and moon and june. It's likely sound-symbolism (a hard to describe part of colloquial Japanese, I suspect that it's supposed to represent either the sound of someone gulping down their Calpiss (cow piss?) or the burst of energy the drinker achieves.

Pedantic twit mode OFF!


Posted by Michael Farris at March 1, 2005 06:25 PM

Now that's G-loaded! Charles Murray and Steve Sailer would undoubtedly approve.


Posted by Robert Speirs at March 1, 2005 08:10 PM

GGG is also a company making porn movies (particularly bukkake).


Posted by BugMaster at March 1, 2005 09:45 PM

"GGG is also a company making porn movies (particularly bukkake)."

Well then, gun gun gun might have different sound symbolism than I originally thought ....


Posted by Michael Farris at March 1, 2005 10:08 PM

According to my J-E dictionary, gun gun means "steadily; at a great rate; increasingly; by leaps and bounds; rapidly"


Posted by John Thacker at March 2, 2005 12:24 AM

Yeah but "CalPis"? I don't want to know what that refers to.


Posted by Al Maviva at March 2, 2005 03:10 AM
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