TMGW # 62: Grace Goes Fine Dining

Also! (Sorry I research Emoji for fun/work so could not contain excitement) I think 🗿was only supported by one phone carrier which was popular amongst students (because they offered significant discount)... and if you were high schooler in 2000, Shibuya was THE center of culture and fashion. So I would not be surprised 🗿made the cut just because of their user demographics/marketing reasons. Nowadays emojis go through proposal process via Unicode so it should be more balanced and democratic process to decide which one gets approved. ( though the committee reviewing those proposals are not as diverse as it could be, but that's another story). Y'all should definitely submit emoji proposals (Unicode make a call for proposal every year) , you just need to prove a word you are trying to make emoji is a popularly used word (like showing Google search trend) My friend made Otter emoji happen by making this proposal and ... you have to see how first paragraph of this proposal is explaining word puns using emoji. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18093-otter-emoji.pdf

🗿and 🍠were both part of original emoji set from Japanese cell phones added to Unicode later in 2010. Which means it has a lot of Japanese specific cultural reference. 🗿 (Unicode name : Moyai) is not Easter Island statue, but "Japanese stone statue like Moai on Easter Island" which is located in Shibuya station and used as common meeting spot, I recall when you type "Shibuya" in Japanese cell phone (those flip phone in 2000s), it auto-suggested 🗿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya#Sightseeing_and_historic_sites 🍠(Unicode name : Roasted Sweet Potato) is a common winter snack in Japan and other eastern asian country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roasted_sweet_potato

I've been to multiple showings of Rocky Horror, never inebriated, but can imagine it would be a trip. I once went to a real, regular theater and, because it is 100% participatory, we were told we were not allowed to throw bread. They also never showed it again.

Mame in Japanese is pronounced “mah-may” so it never occurred to me to connect the dots to Beanz!

Why have I never thought of doing art while tripping on mushrooms?!

I’m watching this three hours after my new bedtime due to new job anxiety. Thanks for reminding me about reading. 😂 I’ll finish this tomorrow.

TBF "to" is a more-common pronunciation of the character for bean, as in "tofu" and "natto"

Michael Dunn

If anyone feels like they’re struggling at Dry January, just know that it took me until January 9th to realize I completely forgot to do it. Like, I was super psyched and ready to participate, and then I literally forgot that December ended for 9 days.

Isaac Jordan

I was born at the Air Force base in Bitburg! I feel seen.

German beer? Prost! I live like a good hour car ride away from Bitburg:) Quick sidenote: while reading all the ads, the video footage from the beginning starts again. Also around 16/17 minutes, too. Love you guys 😊

I love how upset you get at Hannah ahaha !!! In her defense it’s pronounced something like “ma-may” so maybe it never occurred to her as she was eating like some edamame at a restaurant to be “HEY MAME YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ? YOU AND ALSO YOUR DOG”

Fanny Pack