When I was a kid, I wanted a fallout shelter so bad... I was scared of nuclear radiation, and besides how COOL would it be? But all I got were troll dolls. Now I have a kid who can't get enough of those nasty wall walkers!
This is the problem with doing research in a language I don't speak. Since I don't watch ESPN, it never occurred to me that there would be TWO Japanese game shows with identical premises AND the same star competitor!
Yayo made me go look it up. Paronomasy=Paronomasia. Paronomasia is the use of words that sound similar to other words, but have different meanings. Also known as a pun. Examples (English) * Casting my perils before swains * The end of the plain plane, explained
Karl Szmolinsky has been rather famous for years, on and offline, for breeding big rabbits. He always backs himself away from the camera and shoves the rabbit up close to make it lok bigger. Its possible they used a slightly curved lens, too, but the rabbits are big. He's not the one who can grow a large rabbit, just ask Snopes:
Paronomasia is the use of words that sound similar to other words, but have different meanings. Also known as a pun.
Examples (English)
* Casting my perils before swains
* The end of the plain plane, explained
Kinda like learning to bread rabbits.
I usually just blame it on typoglycemia.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/giantrabbit.asp