Big balls.

When we opened the local paper at school yesterday there was a big picture of the janitor from my other school in there(he is also head of the PTA at this school). It turns out that he has formed a band with the bloke that comes round selling stationary supplies. Half-way through reading the article (or rather, having one of the teachers read it to me) I burst out laughing. The name of their band is 'Big Ball Concert Dream' which they shorten to either 'BBCD' or 'Big Ball'. I was in hysterics! I then had to explain my amusement to the other teachers. Awkward! (the perfect word to describe this, thanks Gemma.)

I later saw the stationary bloke at school and the teachers couldn't wait to inform him of my interpretation of the band's name. OMIGOD! His face! Luckily, after the initial shock, he found the whole thing amusing (don't think the janitor will though!) He then told me why they (and by that read 'the janior') had chosen this name:

1. Ohtama (the village where I live) is built on the site where a precious stone was dug-up many years ago. When you actually got to the little museum here and see the jewel that everyone is so proud of, it's actually just a big marble! Anyway, literally, 'Oo' (or 'Oh' as they like to mis-spell it around here) means 'big', and 'tama' means 'bead' or 'ball'. And as the janitor is so proud of his English skills, he wanted an English band name and decided to translate the name of the village into English.

2. He then thought that he was being incredibly clever by changing the alphabet from 'ABCD' to 'BBCD' and so added 'Concert Dream'. However, I just found this even more amusing because now it sounds like a Chippendale-style strip show.

How I laughed! It has also kept all the teachers giggling for the last 2 days too.