Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Previous senryu
- ゲイバーで妻とそっくり酔いがさめ
ゲイバーで・つまとそっくり・よいがさめ
At a gay bar: / my wife and I both / sobered right up
Notes:
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to @superelf94 -
I think the joke is they didn’t realize it was a gay bar when they first went in.
Current senryu challenge
Volume: Salaryman
- レントゲン 今年の思い出 これ一枚
Another easy one to read, yet I’m still puzzling out the meaning. Maybe the joke is an x-ray image itself as a keepsake/rememberance? Or possibly the ticket with your place in line to get scanned.
Like all large companies in Japan, Mitsubishi Electric in Kitaitami (KMELCO) had to provide free annual health exams to their employees. Rather than letting the employees schedule on their own, they had a health day (usually in June, IIRC) where they brought in a small army of healthcare workers and trucks with X-ray machines, etc. Every employee queued up to get their exams. The logistics were impressive stereotypes of Japanese orderliness: blood & urine samples, weight/height checks, blood pressure checks, chest x-ray, etc. IIRC, they eventually realized that forcing everyone to get a chest X-ray once per year just in case they found something was was unwise.
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