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Master Blaster
Writer / Translator
Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Canada’s Steven Le Blanc and Japan’s Masami M, a pair who in addition to writing work are in English education and created the StudyNow app for Japanese students of English.
Together they have written somewhere around 1,500 articles for RocketNews24 covering such diverse topics as Chinese men selling sanitary napkins to each other and a Japanese guy dragging an ear of corn around the Tokyo train system. A few of these were actually good, but don’t take our word for it! Here’s what our beloved readers had to say:
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Posted by Master Blaster (Page 102)
These not-so-little piggies went “wee, wee, wee” all the way on a bloody path of destruction.
Go ahead and laugh, because the former midfielder will have the last laugh all the way to the bank… his big bank of poo.
City Hall refuses to go up in smoke any more.
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Sure anyone can plonk an apple on a hamburger, but can they make it taste as sweet as it looks?
Let that be a lesson to anyone who dares play a CD in a place where it might be overheard by someone else.
Hardly the last place someone would look.
Pfft, a ladies’ room is going to need more than 11 signs and an audio warning on a continuous loop to keep me out.
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