Saturday, August 11, 2007

www.ganuyoshida.com is a joke site

www.ganuyoshida.com came up a few weeks back and I didn't think anything of it. However, it keeps coming up so I thought I'd pull together some concrete evidence that it's a joke site.

The site features two college guys. The title reads "My Main Dude". A phone number is written on one of the guy's arms. The original theory was that in the trailer, we see a paddle for a fraternity called Alpha Kappa Mu - A national honor society with chapters in the Southern United States - and this is connected because the characters are in college. Ganu Yoshida is the son of Noriko Yoshida, the inventor of Slusho. "My Main Dude" as you know is a line from the trailer. Camera man says to Rob "What am I gonna do without you?" Rob replies, "I don't know, I'm like your main dude".

Whois Info:

Happy Talk
44 Bow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: GANUYOSHIDA.COM
Created on: 18-Jul-07
Expires on: 19-Jul-09
Last Updated on: 18-Jul-07

Administrative Contact:
Green, Elmer Elmergreen@gmail.com
Happy Talk
44 Bow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States
(617) 496-9251 Fax --

Technical Contact:
Green, Elmer Elmergreen@gmail.com
Happy Talk
44 Bow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States
(617) 496-9251 Fax --

1. Happy Talk is a section at the Slusho site that displays quotes sent in by people who emailed Slusho.

2. 44 Bow St. is the address of a humor organization out of Harvard University called "Harvard Lampoon"

3. Elmer Green is a doctor who studied Neurofeedback - Most likely a name one of the frat boys picked up in Psyche class.

4. The number written on the guy's arm is the number for Harvard Lampoon, however someone on the IMDB message board called the number and was told it was "Lampoon" and a "Harvard Chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu" - which, again, is the frat shown in the trailer.

5. The site was registered two weeks after the trailer opened ahead of Transformers and just about the time people really started catching on to this whole thing. In fact, the same day I started this blog.

Sounds like a joke to me. Several people have already called the number and hung up without getting any real information about this organization. Either way, I think it's pretty obvious these dorks are just messing with us. I also emailed "Elmer Green" and am waiting for a response.

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