Do you happen to know the rest of the idiom, by the way? "Line up all goosenecked...", I mean. Because just the first half doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Anyway, I appreciate your continued and valiant efforts at tackling this series.
That's the entire idiom. As best as I can tell, it actually means something like "get some heads together", with the implication that the people involved aren't all that worth the effort. I just fudged it a bit for the sake of the bird metaphor.
And now, I will NEVER watch this commercial in the same way, ever again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_WVqPzraU ...of course this all just makes it more funny, lol.
The only pipe I've touched was my little brother's.Huh?WHAaAAat!?Arrival of Bean Geese Kōgan Kitaru, one of the "72 climates" of the solar year. This one corresponds to about Oct. 8 - Oct. 12, associating late autumn with the arrival of migrating geese.It's high time the goose-ferrier pierced the body.Goose-ferrier?The north wind that blows in the season when geese cross the ocean.
The saying goes, "line up all goosenecked"... "Gankubi narabete/soroete" (雁首並べて/揃えて).
"Gankubi", which literally means "goose head/neck", can also refer to the bowl of a pipe. It is also a rude slang term used to discuss numbers of people.
This idiom means a gathering of people, or to assemble a group of people. It is mainly used in reference to opponents in a fight ("Be ready all together!"), and is also used with the nuance of disdain for a situation in which a group of largely incompetent people has been assembled merely for the sake of evening up numbers.
...but it does look pretty silly when you actually imagine it!
...maybe you'd have a spectacle of men lined up in a row.There was such a nice feeling to its curvature...Yes, it does.Oh yeah, come to think of it, I saw 'em this afternoon.Ha ha haIf the saying were "line up the cocknecks"... "Karikubi", written with the same characters as "gankubi", but this pronunciation has the additional meaning of "glans of the penis".※"Cockneck"...nickname for the bowl of a pipe.CockneckAfter that, the conversation peaked with......"Would you like to touch my little brother's pipe too, Nue?" "You have it!?"
