a new favorite

Momo’s Home Page is a rather earnest and extensive website dedicated to Momotaro Hirata (Momo, for short).

Which wouldn’t normally be particularly funny. Except that Momo is a hamster. That premise, combined with the worst Engrish I’ve seen in months, makes the site an unalloyed success and a likely candidate for making the email forward rounds.

Just look at this gem of a paragraph, explaining (at least so far as I can tell) both Momo’s distaste at being touched by strangers, and his freezing response to perceived threats:

Hamster are surprised to touch on a large scale when they doesn’t become familir.

I was also surprised to see that Momo was surprised.

Now we are calm each other. He sometimes plays on my hand.

Strange to say, Momo sometimes stops.

He has no action to touch him.

Softly I push him, he sways to may finger.

We call it “Momo-domari” meanes Momo-stop.

How’s your hamster?

Read through the rest of the site, wet your pants laughing, and in six months, with the smugness of an early adopter, explain to friends just catching on that the whole thing is so half a year ago.