# "The Tsunami"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tsunami/117514>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 5, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tsunami/117514 "2002-07-05T18:12:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tsunami/117514/1 "2002-07-05T18:12:10Z")

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You guys gotta see this…

[http://msn.espn.go.com/page2/s/rovell/020704.html](http://msn.espn.go.com/page2/s/rovell/020704.html)

Wild!

Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi usually eats twice as many hot dogs (50!) as the nearest competitor!!? Gambling spreads of 20 hot dogs!? This guy is not human! :eek:

And you gotta love that “roman-method incident” instant replay. Did the vomit hit the table before the clock ran out? Let’s go to the tape!

LOL!

😃

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**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tsunami/117514/2 "2002-07-06T23:22:27Z")

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The guy ate 50 hot dogs!! 50!!!

This guy is a real life “Cool Hand Luke”! 😉