I would assume the Cerne Giant came into existence by a similar comical misunderstanding…which the king or warlord who ordered it probably found hilarious, and the Snuka-equivalent buttmonkey who had to scrape it into the soil probably didn’t.

One has to admit, though, that the difference is so subtle that it’s easy to overlook, and even easier to hear wrong: they wanted the very image of a cricket field, they got an image-of-a-cricket field. So close, but no cigar.

And not even Snuka is getting a cigar, which is particularly unfair in view of the effort he put into creating the chalk-free chalk outline. On Monday Warwick Davis was questioning his life choices, today it’s Snuka’s turn. Just like every other day…

But, yeah…Japanese script is incredibly difficult to learn, but looking at the positive side, at least that stops you from learning it by accident. Latin script is so simple, there’s a real danger a somewhat smart person might pick it up without even really trying. No such danger with Japanese. And, as Marumaru points out, there are advantages to not being able to read a language – if you can’t read a written text, you’re completely free in interpreting it, at the price of nothing more than accuracy. Marumaru has been using that ancient ninja scroll for years, on all kinds of issues, and has always been able to find an interpretation that was applicable to whatever the situation was. Which was always helpful…at least in so far as it always allowed him to pass off his own ideas as ancient ninja knowledge.

More on Monday.