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  • He'd roll up to a stop sign, ask me, "Anything big coming?" and before I could answer or even look for the semi that would kill us he'd shout, "BANZAI!" and floor it.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • He'd roll up to a stop sign, ask me, "Anything big coming?" and before I could answer or even look for the semi that would kill us he'd shout, "BANZAI!" and floor it.

    My big brother Jeff 2009

  • BANZAI…Accommodation has been arranged at a very suitable establishment.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » I’m baaaaack. 2010

  • Surprisingly, no one's invented a BUCKAROO BANZAI cocktail.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Kevin Maher 2008

  • Otter emptyheded ketteh yells “BANZAI!” an charges aut.

    We hav unaminously changed our decishun. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I've never seen her in the Glenda Jackson vehicle THE CLASS OF MISS MACMICHAEL 1976 but what a goof it was to see her turn up in dreadlocks for a bit in THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI...

    20 Girls 20 Arbogast 2008

  • Surprisingly, no one's invented a BUCKAROO BANZAI cocktail.

    The Barbarella and other Sci-Fi Cocktails Kevin Maher 2008

  • And i have seen da vinci through a dvd, hehe and BANZAI!! what a great show!

    X marks the spot mastermind12 2006

  • The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, HOCH, BANZAI, ELJEN, ZIVIO, CHINCHIN, POLLA KRONIA, HIPHIP,

    Ulysses 2003

  • The musicians came to attention, bowed, raised their glasses, shouted “BANZAI” and drained the glasses in one gulp.

    The Japanese Corpse Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1977

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