KFC takes a religious turn

Last night the "Hee!" show was on and there were a couple of interesting things on there. The first hilarious one was the revelation that KFC in Japan holds a memorial service at a temple once a year to pay tribute to the millions of chickens that it kills and serves up secret recipe style! They even showed the ceremony, all these grey hairs in black suits rocked up and were greeted at the entrance by a life-size plastic Colonel with that benign grin on his face. They placed a big KFC bucket on the shrine altar and prayed and stuff!! It was hilarious. And afterwards there was a group photo, of course, and the Colonel was in it too!!

Another interesting thing was someone has discovered that if you speed up the tape of a certain sumo wrestler of foreign origin talking by 1.3 times, it is easier to understand. Personally I didn't see the difference, but all the Japs were saying it was heaps easier to hear him when they sped him up, like a chipmunk. They had the explanation from the "expert" at the end, usually some weedy looking man in a white lab coat from Kyoto or Tokyo University who said that the average Japanese voice is 115htz, while this mans normal speaking voice was about 80htz. So when they sped him up and his voice went up a few octaves, it reached the level that Japs are used to listening to, which is why they found it easier to understand.

I think the KFC trivia won with about 75 Heee!s. This show is about the only one on all week that I actually do find interesting. There is one guy called Minomonta, who hosts about 6 different shows, all on different networks and also appears on others. All up he does about 35 hours a week on air! That has to be worse than our Eddie Maguire, although, he does host Who Wants to be a Millionaire like Ed! I have no idea why he is so popular, he looks like he hasn't slept for about 5 years, which wouldn't surprise me if it were true considering he is on when I wake up and when I go to bed.