Useless fact of the week: Hatori Henzo's assistant is Space Sheriff Gavan, himself something of a sword enthusiast.

(I am old.)

Don't feed the trolls =P.

>> ^marbles:

>> ^iaui:
Wow, marbles, you sure came out of that argument looking like a fool, didn't you?
Yeah, I'm the one looking like a fool. I was crying about being clueless and when someone tried to give me the facts, I told the fucking moron to fuck off with their fucking useless facts. I WIN, right?
As for the rest of your post, incoherent much?

>> ^iaui:

Wow, marbles, you sure came out of that argument looking like a fool, didn't you?

Yeah, I'm the one looking like a fool. I was crying about being clueless and when someone tried to give me the facts, I told the fucking moron to fuck off with their fucking useless facts. I WIN, right?

As for the rest of your post, incoherent much?

He reached a top speed of 181 mph (291 km/h) - just 4 mph off the top speed of his instructor and 13-time Grand Prix winner, David Coulthard'

Now what? Is that supposed to impress me? What a useless fact. So he went 180mph on a long straight. Provide lap times in comparison, that would be someting like 1:00min (Pro) vs. 2:00min (Tom Thetan Cruise). Also i don't think they're doing themselves a favor in promoting F1 if they create the impression anyone could drive a F1 car.

They're trying to find who amongst a bunch of reputedly "pure" public personalities will look the longest in total while they wait for the elevator doors to close. So yeah, it's not like they really win anything except being made fun of. But that's the whole point of the show : finding a bunch of useless facts about public personalities in a myriad of crazy categories. Don't get me wrong though, it's pretty damn funny, even more so when you understand Japanese.

By the way, it's not a game show but more of a parody award show. Also, the segment in question is a classic Japanese "candid camera" type thing.

Another “useful useless” fact: there are people on this planet believing that Zimbabwe’s GDP of USD 200 is as important as as the number of Super Mario games sold worldwide.

Might I suggest you tell all your stories on your blog? Everyone loves to read everyone else's blogs and it sounds like you'd have some good content especially for the like-minded women around here.

Sorry I haven't met you before, but belated welcome to the Sift!

In reply to this comment by laura:
I am a chica...I spend a good deal of time on the computer answering questions from our web site, looking up new recipes, filling my head w/ useless (?) facts and I am also a member of a sewing pattern review community online. So basically I like this group of people here on the sift and thought lately I would contribute being as I lurked for what seemed like two years daily before joining!
To persephone & Oxdottir ~ I'm also an earthy kinda chick, I had two drug-free births and breastfed (also love to tell my story).

I am a chica...I spend a good deal of time on the computer answering questions from our web site, looking up new recipes, filling my head w/ useless (?) facts and I am also a member of a sewing pattern review community online. So basically I like this group of people here on the sift and thought lately I would contribute being as I lurked for what seemed like two years daily before joining!
To persephone & Oxdottir ~ I'm also an earthy kinda chick, I had two drug-free births and breastfed (also love to tell my story).