moms and nunchucks

[Albrecht]

now how many of your moms call nuNchucks, nuMchucks

[Reznorite420]

Either way is wrong :D

It's "nunchakus", I believe.

[cqb101]

Either way is wrong :D

It's "nunchakus", I believe.

Yes, it is nunchakus.

[Anarchistguy]

Either way is wrong :D

It's "nunchakus", I believe.

No "s" in nunchaku

[cqb101]

Either way is wrong :D

It's "nunchakus", I believe.

No "s" in nunchaku

"s" makes it plural.

[The Bossanova]

my mom used to have some nunchackus

[That Matt Guy]

I don't care what the correct name is, they will always be nunchucks to me.

[Albrecht]

im talkin about how they pronounce it u dumb asses

[Taloniss]

My mom says Nunchaku.

[Stone Ill]

It America, they, usually, say it Nunchucks, not nunchaku. Anyways, my mom says nunchucks and sometimes numchucks.. :roll:

[Aztec General]

im talkin about how they pronounce it u dumb asses

Dude, you need to calm down. Lately, you have been heading down the path of individuals like PWDESAI and MZ. And believe me that is an immature and embarrassing path to head down. Try to be respectful when you post here, and post topics that are worthwhile.

[Krang]

im talkin about how they pronounce it u dumb assesDude, you need to calm down. Lately, you have been heading down the path of individuals like PWDESAI and MZ. And believe me that is an immature and embarrassing path to head down. Try to be respectful when you post here, and post topics that are worthwhile.That's right, and next time I see a post like that from you, Garet, you'll get a warning. Please read the forum rules (http://www.thetechnodrome.com/frules.shtml).

[DarkNinja]

my mum calls them nuNchucks, nuMchucks would be something my grandmother would do :lol: .

If anyone wants to know, there are three official ways to spell nunchucks: nunchuck (duh), nunchaku, and nunchaka. Since the term is of Japanese origin (I think), none of the words would have "s" on the end because there is no plural in Japanese. ex: in Japanese "hon" means "book", and it can also mean "books" at the same time, depending on the conversation depends on the interpretation.

Okay, I'm going to shut up now.

[That Matt Guy]

im talkin about how they pronounce it u dumb asses

Watch it sonny, it looks like you've made some powerful enemies :lol: But anyway my mom called it "that stupid ninja turtle stick thing"

[Taloniss]

But anyway my mom called it "that stupid ninja turtle stick thing"

:lol:

[Reznorite420]

my mum calls them nuNchucks, nuMchucks would be something my grandmother would do :lol: .

If anyone wants to know, there are three official ways to spell nunchucks: nunchuck (duh), nunchaku, and nunchaka. Since the term is of Japanese origin (I think), none of the words would have "s" on the end because there is no plural in Japanese. ex: in Japanese "hon" means "book", and it can also mean "books" at the same time, depending on the conversation depends on the interpretation.

Okay, I'm going to shut up now.I'm pretty sure Japanese are baffled by the concept of using "s" for plural words ;)

Besides, we were putting it in OUR terms, no theirs, or should I say "their"? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Raven]

um my mom dosent say anything about them, she usally tells me to put down that stick, or stopp hitting your sister :roll: you know

[GreenWillow]

~Being A Mom, I'm happy to share this. I usually say "nunchucks" cuz it seems like the most commonly used pronunciation. Or "'chucks", if I'm writing Mikey dialogue. If I want to sound terribly correct I'll use "nunchaku."
My kids were the ones that said "numchucks"-- at least when they were very young little Ninja Turtles hurtling off the furniture whooping "COWABUNGA!"
In fact, one early version came out "numbchops" which inspired one of my first TMNT cartoons. The punch line was something about a visit to the dentist and a lot of novacaine.....

~GW

[Leo656]

Bwahaha, the ever talented GW, finding inspiration in the most unlikely of places.

My mom used to say nuMchucks a lot. She wasn't very "up" on weapons and such, but she did think Ninja Turtles were an interesting concept. She loved the theme song. She used to make me sing it in front of people.

Damn childhood trauma...

[GreenWillow]

~I'm glad to know I wasn't the only sadistic Mom around, making my children do hideously embarrassing *cute* things..... :evilgrin:

~GW

[Leo656]

Word to the wise, "friend"... those "cute" moments may make for funny stories at family gatherings and nice little pictures in the photo albums, but your kids are gonna grow up harboring a deep and festering hatred inside them. All for the sake of "cute".

Don't say I didn't warn ya. :P

[GreenWillow]

~Too late. But I think they've forgiven me. Hey, these are the kids whose Mom made Ninja Turtle costumes complete with paper mache heads and shells and whose Dad made very realistic katana for them in his shop.
They did ok.
Come to think of it, I think their Dad said "numchucks".... :wink:


~GW

[Leo656]

Bwahahaha....

I give you credit, you paid way more attention to your kids than my parents did. My parents were the type who hung out in the kitchen with all their friends and told me to go in my room and play videogames and who kept telling me all the smoke wafting through the house was from dad burning dinner.

Lousy traumatic childhood....

[GreenWillow]

~Yeah....and all I can say here -- in this Most Public Forum-- is "what doesn't kill you , makes you stronger."

But hey, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

:twink:

~GW

[Leo656]

But hey, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

SHENANIGANS! I CALL SHENANIGANS!

That's MY catchphrase! I call gimmick infringement! Unless you happen to be Sean O'Haire, you're stealin' my bit! :evil:

[GreenWillow]

~Oh cool. I've always wanted to Shenanigan...a-lan...a walla walla bing bang....

Ok, time to surrender to the Sandman....


~GW...zzzzzzzzzzzzz....zz...zzzzzzzzzzzzz......

[Leo656]

:-?

You sure are weird when you get tired...

[damnhooligan]

Ugh, embarassing childhood.

For Halloween, my brother wanted to go as Leonardo. The costume my mum made was pretty decent, except for the fact that there was no shell. She just strapped an ordinary pillow to his back, and drew a crude drawing of a shell on a white pillowcase.

We got the weirdest looks from people. Cruel and unusual punishment.

[cqb101]

Ugh, embarassing childhood.

For Halloween, my brother wanted to go as Leonardo. The costume my mum made was pretty decent, except for the fact that there was no shell. She just strapped an ordinary pillow to his back, and drew a crude drawing of a shell on a white pillowcase.

We got the weirdest looks from people. Cruel and unusual punishment.

:lol:

[GreenWillow]

~Here we are: http://www.behindthemasks.com/greenwillow/exhibitt.htm
Ok, so the legs are a little skinny here.....too bad you can't see the carapace. That was a true labor of love.
I made *three* of these darn things!

~GW

[damnhooligan]

~Here we are: http://www.behindthemasks.com/greenwillow/exhibitt.htm
Ok, so the legs are a little skinny here.....too bad you can't see the carapace. That was a true labor of love.
I made *three* of these darn things!

~GW

Nice gams! Now that's a costume!

[Leo656]

:o

Donna... dude I'unno, man... I can't even find the words... LoL

My kids aint gettin' that kinda attention on Halloween, I tell ya that right now...

"Here's yer damn costume, now go get some candy..."
"What is it, Daddy?"
"It's a potato sack. You're a potato. Now go."
"But I don' WAN' be a potato! I wan' be Batman!"
"You're a potato! Now git outta here!"

At least, that's how I imagine it.

[Taloniss]

I always thought it'd be cool to wrap kids in tin foil and send them as leftovers.

[GreenWillow]

Nice gams! Now that's a costume!

~ROTFL! Tell ya what-- I won't tell my now- 23-year- old son that you said that, and you all don't tell him I showed you guys that pic!

~GW (He was 10 when that was taken)

[Leo656]

Bwaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaa.....!!!!

[XERO]

Makes you wanna go trick-or-treating this year. :D

[Reznorite420]

Uhhhhhhh...GW, just how old are you?

[GreenWillow]

~Well, y'know with us Faeries you just never can be sure. Certainly old enough to know better, and happily also old enough not to give a damn anymore. :D

~GW

[Reznorite420]

The suspense is killing me to the point that I will die from it....

[Leo656]

The Mysterious Green Faerie hosts my fanfic, and I don't have any idea how old she is either.

[GK Punk]

~Here we are: http://www.behindthemasks.com/greenwillow/exhibitt.htm
Ok, so the legs are a little skinny here.....too bad you can't see the carapace. That was a true labor of love.
I made *three* of these darn things!

~GW

Nice gams! Now that's a costume!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Man, if i was drinking a soda, you'd owe me a new monitor.
...You DO realize that's her (At the time) ten year old son, right?
Please tell me I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

[Leo656]

:lol: Well, hey, you can't exactly tell who it is! Give the poor guy a break!

Instead of hitting on the ten year old boy, he THOUGHT he was hitting on the ten year old boy's MOM, y'see? It may still be semi-creepy, but at least it's still legal. :D

(By the way... I dig older chicks almost as much as they dig me :D )

[GK Punk]

Yeah, TMNT Moms love Leo, it's true, it's true.

[GreenWillow]

~Actually, I thought Damnhooligan was totally clear on what he was looking at and was being sarcastically witty...or wittily sarcastic....


~GW

[Leo656]

I may be mistaken, but GK and I thought damnhooligan was a female for some reason... Of course, we just came to this conclusion last night after many hours of sleep deprivation, so we may be entirely off....

[That Matt Guy]

Uh... so how about them nunchucks, huh? That's some wild stuff.

[Albrecht]

dude, are you even a TMNT fan?

[That Matt Guy]

Dude I was a TMNT fan before you were even born.

[cqb101]

dude, are you even a TMNT fan?

Shut up if you don't have anything intelligent to say.

[GK Punk]

~Actually, I thought Damnhooligan was totally clear on what he was looking at and was being sarcastically witty...or wittily sarcastic....


~GW

I just thought it was funny someone Refered to a 10 year old boys legs as "Nice gams" ^__^
That and I was feeling particularly Catty last night. lol

[GreenWillow]

~Yeah, you an' yer partner- in- crime up there.... heh....


Uh... so how about them nunchucks, huh? That's some wild stuff.

~Oh yeah-- right -- there was an actual Topic somewhere around here, huh? Well, for the sake of expediency, let's blame all this topic-wandering on Leo and GK. :D
Seriously though, I dunno how much more in-depth I can take this issue. If I was feeling *really* enthusiastic I'd try and dig up my old "numbchops" cartoon and post it, but i have no idea where it is now...

~GW...too much Turtle stuff in my closet.....

[Leo656]

~Oh yeah-- right -- there was an actual Topic somewhere around here, huh? Well, for the sake of expediency, let's blame all this topic-wandering on Leo and GK. :D

Well DUH, that's how it always works around here. That's why we ARE "The Official Thread Poison of The Technodrome Forums". :evilgrin:

If it aint OT... it just aint right.

[Raven]

ah numchuaks are fun to choke people with :evilgrin:

[Albrecht]

you can say that again!!! :evilgrin:

[GreenWillow]

~Have any of you had a chance to practice with a real set of 'chucks? I think most martial arts classes don't let students use wooden ones due to the liability thing, so most people end up practicing with hard rubber ones.
We had a set of wooden ones at one time -- the kids' uncle said they were military-issue but I'm not sure I believe him. (military??) Those things were actually pretty scary. You make a mistake and you could do yourself some real damage.

~GW

[Leo656]

I've used a real set of wooden ones once, and only once. I made one tiny mistake and nearly shattered my elbow, which was still recovering from nearly being shattered a month BEFORE. Between the two injuries my right elbow is in pretty bad shape.

[Caster_Troy]

My mom says nunchucks right, but she does call my bass an acoustic guitar and asks why i keep watching cartoons about turtles that do Karate... .... Karate?! Jeeze... mom, like, really.

[Leo656]

Heh in a way I s'pose I'm lucky my parents never gave a sh*t what I did. My dad still doesn't. He's the one the cops drag out in handcuffs every now and then, not me, so he knows there's nothing that I do that he could ever find fault with. Least of all watching wrestling and cartoons. :P

[DarkNinja]

~Have any of you had a chance to practice with a real set of 'chucks? I think most martial arts classes don't let students use wooden ones due to the liability thing, so most people end up practicing with hard rubber ones.
We had a set of wooden ones at one time -- the kids' uncle said they were military-issue but I'm not sure I believe him. (military??) Those things were actually pretty scary. You make a mistake and you could do yourself some real damage.

~GW

When I was seven, I bought a pair of wooden nunchucks for my karate class. We've never used hard rubber nunchucks at all. I never knew they existed, but I guess you can get anything now. For people just starting to use nunchucks, most people would tell you to refrain from using metal ones, or ones which are put together with chain (I've never whomped myself in the head with nunchucks, but it might kind of hurt if it was metal). :dead:

[Caster_Troy]

Heh in a way I s'pose I'm lucky my parents never gave a sh*t what I did. My dad still doesn't. He's the one the cops drag out in handcuffs every now and then, not me, so he knows there's nothing that I do that he could ever find fault with. Least of all watching wrestling and cartoons. :P


Yeah, I guess in a way that's lucky. My dad never really gave a fu*k either. He was a good dad though, just really... well we were never that close. But enough about that sh*t.... :)
Does yer girlfriend mind at all?

[Leo656]

My girlfriend is like a clone of me, but female. Seriously. Right down to the wrestling obsession, foul mouth, taste in music and grabbing random girls' butts. We even dress pretty similar a lot of the time (black jeans, leather jacket, cowboy boots, etc).

So yeah, it's pretty cool. :D

[Caster_Troy]

Cool... then she can stay! I like her already... er... so she likes to grab at girl's butts huh? You think she would ever grab my butt? In a totally hetro way, 'natch

[Leo656]

Of course she would. She's seen your picture, and she thinks you're cute. But she liked you better with dark hair.

[GreenWillow]

~That's interesting, Dark Ninja. When was that?
When my kids started kung-fu back in 1990 I remember accidently witnessing a private lesson one of the instructors was giving an adult student with real nunchaku. The student hastily wrapped them up as he left the dojo because at that point in time, it was illegal to transport them in your car. Maybe that was just in here CA, but I remember that being a big controversy. I think it had something to do with the gang problems in the cities. But shortly after that of course, Michaelangelo's 'chucks were replaced by that grappling hook thing in the 'toon.
So I was always kind of paranoid about having those wooden nunchucks in the house, much less in the car....

~GW

[Caster_Troy]

Of course she would. She's seen your picture, and she thinks you're cute. But she liked you better with dark hair.

Me too.... I dyed it dark again... not that dark, but darker than it was... it's brown now.... and there is a red chunk in the front....
i'm suprised she liked that one, I was kinda gothed up that day, and stoned and it's not all that great. I'm touched. But that's not fair, I have yet to see her.
I'd like to put a face to the reputation. :)

[Leo656]

I wanna see a new pic! :D

And I liked you all "gothed up". And I *thought* you looked kinda baked in that one... :lol: I liked the pic, anyway.

I can always Email you a pic of Mary. Tell ya what, email me a new pic of you and I'll email you a pic of her. :)

[Caster_Troy]

I don't have any new ones of me... sadly. I try to stay away from the camera... actually i think GK might have one or two but that is before I got the red chunk done... I'll have to look and see.
I have no scanner (an artist with no scanner, for shame) so I'll have to see if i have any on the computer or not.
But you should still E-mail me Mary...er...so to speak.

[Machias Banshee]

:lol:

I've been reading this thread, and I must say...

Dang, I wanna come back so bad...I always miss the Good conversations... :P

[GreenWillow]

~Aw gee, Machias....where are you being held prisoner? Can we send out a rescue squad?


~GW

[DarkNinja]

~That's interesting, Dark Ninja. When was that?
When my kids started kung-fu back in 1990 I remember accidently witnessing a private lesson one of the instructors was giving an adult student with real nunchaku. The student hastily wrapped them up as he left the dojo because at that point in time, it was illegal to transport them in your car. Maybe that was just in here CA, but I remember that being a big controversy. I think it had something to do with the gang problems in the cities. But shortly after that of course, Michaelangelo's 'chucks were replaced by that grappling hook thing in the 'toon.
So I was always kind of paranoid about having those wooden nunchucks in the house, much less in the car....

~GW

That was in 1995, and yes, I think it really has to do with where you are in the world. There aren't any gang problems, and I don't live in the city. :) And I've also heard from one of my friends that it's not a good idea to go to Canada with a pair of real nunchucks laying in the backseat of the car. :wink:

[HorseTechie]

Hrmmm.. come to think of it, my parents pretty much tried ot not repeat much of anything Ninja Turtle. My dad helped me set up the spell check to go over one of my early fanfics though, and he wondered why many of the weapons and things were highlighted. Even spelled correctly, nunchuck wigged out the spell checker (until I picked one way to spell the word, then added it to the dictionary).

The only time I saw an illegal set of chucks was when I was visitng my ex-BF's friend. This guy liked to assume the apearence of a delinquent punk. Long hair, black clothes, loved heavy metal, stayed back in the automotive vocational section of the high school. I didn't think he *really* knew how to use them, but someone in a gang had gave him these. They were a black wooden set of chucks, connected with chain that swiveled at the metal caped ends. And it was covered with blunt metal studs to add to it's lethal potency. Wow...

I never really worked with real chucks myself. Just the soft rubber ones, but since I have such horrible coordination, I decided the bo staff would be a safer weapon for me. :P

[DarkNinja]

I never really worked with real chucks myself. Just the soft rubber ones, but since I have such horrible coordination, I decided the bo staff would be a safer weapon for me. :P

Actually, having used a boastaff for about 7 years, I wouldn't say the boastaff is as safe as nunchucks. You should've seen the bruises I've had on my arms from practicing... and if you try to do the fancy twirling then the boastaff is just as lethal as the nunchucks. :wink:

[Albrecht]

lets change the topic: we all bitch about what our parents mispronounce and ticks us off.

[Raven]

thats what weve been talking about any ways :roll:

[Albrecht]

where have you been

[Raven]

well you and me mostally, but garet you should change it to the hook up corner, because this seems to be the place for them :P

[tormentedvagrant]

my mom would most likely mistake it for a holy woman named chuck

[Albrecht]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Psycrow]

Back in the day, I remember walkin' around a parkin' lot in Vancouver with a pair of nunchucks tryin' to be all pro with them, and that didn't bother no one. In fact, as long as you don't look like you're gonna bash someone's head in, the people don't care that you're walkin' around with them.

Damn American parents and gettin' Michelangelo's nunchucks taken away from him. I bet your parents are the ones who pronounced it "numchucks" too! :D

[GreenWillow]

~Heh heh..."It wasn't ME!"
That's fer sure.....

~GW