Japanese Space Drummers

Randy has entered.
wintermute: Randies!
Randy: Where?
wintermute: Behind the TV.
* Randy gets them!
Kysle: Randies! sound like a candy
wintermute: Well, they are sweet.
wintermute: And covered in cinnamon.
Kysle: *blink*
Randy: with a hint of cocoanut
wintermute: Coconaunts go to space in a coconut.
Randy: Right!
Kysle: They're not chocolate eating astronauts?
Randy: That's just silly
wintermute: That would imply there are astronauts (or cosmonauts or taikonauts) that don't eat chocolate.
Randy: What's a taikonaut?
Kysle: It's not my fault people don't know the proper term and call 'em astronauts instead of coconauts
wintermute: A Chinese astronaut.
Randy: huh
wintermute: Wikipedia tells me it's not as official a term as I'd thought.
wintermute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut#China
Sentynel: I read it as "Japanese space drummer", which is somewhat more awesome than the real translation (taiko being drum in japanese)
wintermute: That would be awesome, yes.
Randy: I want that on my resume.
Randy: Except I'm not Japanes and I can't drum
* TalkingDog imagines that would sound awfully quiet.
wintermute: TD: Well, if you're actually drumming in a vacuum you probably have more immediate concerns.
Kysle: Can't you wear a space suit and drum at the same time?
Sentynel: You could even drum in space inside a spaceship.
wintermute: Kysle: you'd have a job holding the drumsticks.
Kysle: Glue?
Kysle: Come on, if you can get into space, I'm sure you can find a way to hold drumsticks.
wintermute: I think you need a certain degree of fine control to drum, which spacesuits aren't really designed for.
Sentynel: You need a degree of fine control to drum well.
TalkingDog: That's why they're Japanese space drummers. Them crazy Japanese people would come up with something that works.
Randy: hehe
Randy: Maybe they would just make a giant space robot drummer
wintermute: Bah. They can't even make a crazy radioactive monster that won't destroy Tokyo.
Randy: Good point