ShoNuff ShoGun, A Short and Pungent Review

The Good, the bad, and the ugly 

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Now Dear Readers, find below a comprehensive review of Hicker-san's popular literary work as well as relevant comments and asides by no other than the famous and beloved yet to date virtually unknown, Editor.

Editor's Review: Since Phantom House is short staffed at the time, as a favor to the publishers The Editor has graciously consented to a short and pungent review of ShoNuff ShoGun.

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Wasn't this a fine story though?

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And very realistic to boot, especially from the standpoint of Far Eastern culture during times long past to include viewpoints of the masses when faced with high degrees of frustration, controversy, their unpredictable often chaotic reactions to crises, and initial, sometimes violent resistance to attempted changes of tradition.

General philosophies of Japanese society during the period, those being the disregard for human life, the preponderance of thought devoted to trivialities, as well as the all-pervading, self-serving, contradictory nature of the aristocracy* were neatly and effectively captured then parodied by the author.

* ... not unlike that found even today ...

As a side note, it was disclosed through diligent research that all of Toranaga's Fruit of the Looms,  for some unknown reason, bore strange longish holes in them but the answer to even that puzzle has now been determined to the complete satisfaction of all.

Several large rents in the backside of Toranaga's shorts were found to be quite understandable as they were the apparent end results of  his constant and excessive consumption of hot imported Korean cucumber kimchi at all hours of the day and night.

However the baffling mystery of the holes in front remained to be solved.

Personal servants had freely divulged the Shogun's habit of wearing his knickers pulled up very high, almost in fact to the 3 sparse black hairs found on his somewhat sunken chest.

It was a start.

But it took months before it was deduced that due to this strange habit the curious holes in front were not caused as was first thought by long and arduous wear, but were actually the results of several failed attempts at ritual seppuku.

Wearing his shorts in this high-handed manner had eventually turned Toranaga into a squeaky tenor, caused him to walk bow-legged with a slight limp, gave him the very dubious honor of sporting the world's first known wedgie, and was doubtlessly the reason for his notoriously quick, vile, and vicious temper.

The Editor found only one slight error in the final copy of ShoNuff ShoGun, which no doubt may be attributed to a proofreader's careless oversight.

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It seems that the logo on Toranaga's shorts actually read Floot of the Loom, not Fruit of the Loom as noted in the story.

So in the end, even they turned out to be a knock-off.

What a major disappointment!

THE END... Really...

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Well, it's the end of the story part anyway...

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