Here is Japan’s beloved finance minister, Shoichi “Slurry Joe” Nakagawa, performing his hilarious “drunken finance minister” routine at some G7 press conference. Now he must resign! That’s how they roll in Japan. [MarketWatch]
Everyone Loves Japan’s Drunken Finance Minister
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He’s just tired from the flight.
There’s no Foreign Minister like a Japanese Foreign Minister ’cause a Japan Foreign Minister never stop. Someone throw this guy a Red Bull and Vodka, before he stays on your he’s on your side (literally, he is about to throw up on the side of your body). Give this man a Nobel, and let’s be done with it.
Every Finance minister who isn’t drinking him/herself into oblivion at the moment should resign, as they obviously don’t understand the seriousness of the problem.
Presumably, he would have gotten away with it if he’d memorized some of Churchill’s comebacks. What’s Japanese for “But in the morning, I shall be sober, but you, my dear, will still be ugly”.
Actually, don’t they have to kill themselves to maintain their family’s honor?
[re=244816]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: I’m thinking Geithner’s a coke guy, myself.
[re=244813]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: They owe us a barfing-on after Bush I anyway.
“Aszh I wuz sane, zose rousy Merkan dogs, dwop bomb. Kilt miyons uv people. Miyons. Fer rut? We drop few bomz on navy ships. We kill 4, no 3, no 4, or 5, hundreds uv Merkans. And they fries over Hee-roshma and light away kill miyons. (sob, sniffle, sob) I rike you. I rike you because you risten. You good flend. You velly good flend, even if you… rare’s my saki? Rut happen to my saki?”
[re=244819]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: yeah… wake me when the Hari-Kiri youtube video comes out…
0h please, he just had a cold, its not like he puked in anyone’s lap or anything.
Altho that would have been funnier.
Are you implying that Asians can’t handle their liquor? RACIST!
What’s Japanese for “But in the morning, I shall be sober, but you, my dear, will still be ugly”.
Kono ba hosutesu no fera no sabisu ari ka yo?
Well, at least they knew enough in advance to put up a graphic behind him that adds the ‘-gate’ universally used for all minor political scandals. Forever, also.
[Drunken Japanese Minister]-G8
But could we love this guy less than Burris? After all, he seems to have an excuse.
[re=244820]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: “Cokeperson,” you sexist.
This guy could be my new hero since Blago hasn’t much been in the news lately. God, I miss that guy. Non-stop entertainment, he was. Now if Mr. Nakagawa can just hang on, not resign, not ritually plunge a sword into his guts and slice them up, I can replace my Blago shrine with a Nakagawa shrine. Maybe if I write to him he’ll send me a pair of his used panties.
[re=244816]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: “But in the morning, I shall be sober, but the Bush sub-prime mortgage-leveraged economy of the US will still be ugly”.
[re=244841]S.Luggo[/re]: Either way, someone’s getting fucked here.
[re=244839]hobospacejungle[/re]: “Now if Mr. Nakagawa can just hang on, not resign, not ritually plunge a sword into his guts …”
Let’s not suggest to Henry Paulson to avoid the honorable way out.
[re=244839]hobospacejungle[/re]:
He’s already resigned, due to “health problems”.
What no jokes about Taro Aso? Come on, “Aso”? He was president of the Aso Mining Company now known as the Aso Group?
Rozen Maiden fan?
Funniest Japanese PM ever?
The plague is doing this to all of you.
[re=244821]trondant[/re]:
bushuru: an act of embarrassing public vomiting; literally, to do a bush.
It would be just like that Innsmouth-based gang of incestuous Bush fish-persons to pervert ‘doing a bush’ into something gross – whatever happened to burning rubber in a pussy because you love America? Old Pike Prescott must be spinning in his watery U-Boat grave over this. Or not. Also.
[re=244843]comradepaulson[/re]:
I’d hope that the hang knot would slip over the neck Phil Gramm and his cohorts in Congress for repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, which had regulated the financial services industry. But, as with crash of the Savings and Loans (due to improvident real estate investments allowed by dereg) in the late 70s, it will be — once again — the taxpayers who will pay for the losses of another unbridled portion of the “free-market”.
May Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand console each other in the Ninth Ring. Small comfort as I sup upon my hobo gruel and listen to “The Big Rock Candy Mountain“ sung about the campfire..
[re=244846]Just another drone in Japan[/re]:
“He’s already resigned, due to “health problems.”
As a Japanese citizen, at least he has universal health care.
I don’t blame him.
Pedantry Corner: Given that it helpfully says “G8″ in huge letters on the wall behind Slurry Joe, why does the post and the caption on the clip talk about the “G7″ meeting?
“As a Japanese citizen, at least he has universal health care.”
And whale sashimi (as the kids say, “Also”)
I RORed.
I wish he would have just yelled BORRRRRRR-ring like my 4 year old does in church.
He has looked upon the
winesaki when it was red or white or clear or whatever. Mmmmm, saki, though I don’t prefer it warm.“To much cough medicine” now appears to be the official explanation.
I, for one, totally believe him. I mean, those syrups are foul- Of course he need that bottle of Dewar’s to wash it down…
Also, “She hath shown us her glory and her GREAT ASS” These ads are approved of by TGY.
like my 4 year old does in church.
I heart your 4-year-old for that.
I was going to make a “I coulda had a G-8!” joke, but I don’t feel like getting banned so early.
Later on the minister was found roaming the corridors of his hotel, stripped to the waist, dangerously waving an epee and challenging anyone to fight him.
It’s sake. Not saki. Also.
I kinda wished he thought he was at a karaoke bar and started singing “Pennies from Heaven” or “Feelings.”
Howzit that our guys can stay cold sober and fuck things up way worse than this guy?
[re=244883]Giant Robot[/re]: Who said our guys were sober? Shit, nobody does scotch-drenched coke-addled cash-burning benders better than ‘murkins! USA USA USA!!!1
If I were this guy, I’d be wanting to induce cirrhosis as fast as possible. Didn’t they just finish a Lost Decade? And now they’re being dragged into another one? Yeah: time to get stinko. Also.
His familly says he hasn’t been the same since the carry trade unwound. A-bada-bumm.
It would have been cool if he lit up some smokes and started talking about how no matter what happens in the future, we still have all our friends, loved ones, and government jobs. As for the ordinary citizen, they will always have their friends and loved ones; unless the loss of a job destroys their familly live and pushes them of the edge of dispair. Aw, shlipt…
Personally I think Geithner could use some booze and smokes myself.
He should have just said that someone “prayed joke and put pee-pee in his coke”.
He is upset over this analog Teevee thing, I’m still drunk over it.
The ‘drunken finance minister’ routine is a rich Japanese tradition…
hard to blame him, though, what with everyone around him talkin’ foreign talk — what’s up with that?
He thought that drinking lots of Michelob Ultras would turn him into Ultraman. Silly Minister!
This guy would be a total washout as a ninja.
He rooky rike he’s had enough. There’s an almost Butterstick-like quality to the cuteness of it all.
He’s not drunk. That long-ass question put him to sleep.
[re=244881]bago[/re]: He could have kept his job if he had used the Schartz-Metterklume Method.
[re=244882]ManchuCandidate[/re]: How about “Love is a Many Splendored Thing?”
So yeah, cold meds can definitely knock you out (giving the guy the benefit of the doubt). Minor inconvenience, yet he resigns his post because of his behavior. And then on the other side of the world we have Wall Street thugs whose punishment for failing on an enormously larger scale, by comparison, is billions of dollars thrown at them.
My husband’s comment: too much sake and hookers on the plane. I love this man!!
[re=244860]windupbird[/re]: I find it hard to believe that any Wonkette commenter could enter a church and not spontaneously combust.
He’s out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/world/asia/18japan.html?_r=1&hp
No gory pictures…
you’d look like that too, if you really knew how fucked the world economy is. soon, we will all be drunken japanese finance ministers.
Is all this “humorous Oriental dialect” shit really necessary?
[re=245099]Jollity[/re]: By which I mean, stuff like You good flend. You velly good flend, even if you… rare’s my saki? Rut happen to my saki? and He should have just said that someone “prayed joke and put pee-pee in his coke”.
Something a little disconcerting about Wonketeers making fun of someone just for drinking on the job. Just sayin.
[re=244967]Guppy06[/re]: heh heh – well, I’m Catholic, but more of the lapsed variety than frequent flier type. I haven’t gone to confession for about 25 years, so I can’t take communion when I do attend Mass. I’m pretty sure that I’d be saying a zillion Hail Marys and Our Fathers after a visit to the confessional…plus, I don’t feel the need to belong to a church. I don’t agree with alot of the basic tenets, therefore I no longer identify with the church.
That reply was way too serious. And long.
[re=244848]Just another drone in Japan[/re]: Bushurumashita! 今
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