{"id":27213,"date":"2007-04-17T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/04\/17\/no-farting-please-were-americans\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:00:01","slug":"no-farting-please-were-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070417-01\/?p=27213","title":{"rendered":"No farting please, we&#039;re Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, when translating their Pok&eacute;mon game from Japanese to English, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/garykac\/archive\/2006\/08\/26\/725992.aspx\"> Nintendo changed a question in an in-game personality test that asked you what you would do if you farted<\/a>. In the English-language version, you merely broke a rotten egg. What, do they think kids in the U.S. don&#8217;t fart? Or that they don&#8217;t enjoy fart jokes. Allow me to clear up any confusion: <i>Kids in the United States love fart jokes<\/i>.\n Or maybe British kids don&#8217;t fart. Perhaps that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p> (For those who don&#8217;t get the subject, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowclone\"> snowclone<\/a> of the form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22no+*+please,+we're%22\"> No X please, we&#8217;re Y<\/a>. Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_snowclones\"> here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, when translating their Pok&eacute;mon game from Japanese to English, Nintendo changed a question in an in-game personality test that asked you what you would do if you farted. In the English-language version, you merely broke a rotten egg. What, do they think kids in the U.S. don&#8217;t fart? Or that they don&#8217;t enjoy fart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-27213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Apparently, when translating their Pok&eacute;mon game from Japanese to English, Nintendo changed a question in an in-game personality test that asked you what you would do if you farted. In the English-language version, you merely broke a rotten egg. What, do they think kids in the U.S. don&#8217;t fart? Or that they don&#8217;t enjoy fart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}