Every year, at the Saikyoji Temple in Nagasaki, dozens of babies gather together to have a crying competition. The object of the match is to get your baby to start bawling before the other baby.
As you can see in this picture from this year's competition, held just this past Saturday, the babies are dressed in traditional Japanese festival gear, and it looks like, in this one, the little round baby boy beat the little round ponytailed girl.
In the case of a tie, the louder baby wins. The grand champion wins sedatives and free kiddy therapy.
Too funny. I have to try to see that competition one day (well, for as long as I can take it).
Posted by: Eric | February 06, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Poor babies... I'm sure they would have no idea what's going on and this would be very confusing for them.
Posted by: Dragonclaws | February 07, 2007 at 09:48 AM