Usenet Oracularity #791-06
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 12:25:55 -0500
From: Usenet Oracle
Subject: Usenet Oracularity #791-06
Selected-By: Scott Panzer <stenor@pcnet.com>
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
> Oh Mighty Oracle who could even edit all of the episodes of The Mighty
> Morphin Power Rangers so the lips match their words.
>
> Why do the Power Rangers make all sorts of stupid hand gestures with
> there hands when they are in costume. Is it sign language? Are they
> trying to scare away the enemy? Are they perfoming the magic that
> makes the enemies disappear without a trace of flesh? Is it Kabuki
> Shadow Puppet Theatre? Or are they fanning the air becuase they just
> cut the cheese?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} Dear Supplicant
}
} As with many Japanese products newly introduced to the West, this
} program was accompanied by a very buggy initial translation. The
} original Japanese title of the series was "ekibanas oki morphina"
} which actually translates as 'big flower arrangers on dope'. The
} Japanese translators title of 'Mighty Morphine Flower Arrangers' was
} simply misheard by the credits writer. The hand movements you have
} observed is not in fact a sign language or a means of casting spells
} but a symptom of cold turkey. The shapes drawn in the air are
} representations of primary designs from the ancient Japanese art of
} flower arranging, ekibana.
}
} You owe the Oracle an origami Godzilla
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