Japablum has just learned that an impromptu staring contest that started at an office party in Tokyo between giant lizard Godzilla and even more giant salaryman Nobu has just entered its forty-ninth hour.
"It all started when Godzilla made a harmless comment about Nobu needing a haircut," a fellow office worker, Megumi Sato, said. "And, damn, Nobu got pissed."
"They both had had a little to drink by that time," she continued. "Things just started getting a little out of hand. I mean, they wouldn't stop staring silently at each other."
"It was really awkward at first," another colleague, Tomofumi Ueno, said. "But after the first hour, everyone else just went back to talking and drinking. We weren't going to let their staring contest ruin Takeo's management promotion party. That's not fair to him."
"You know," Megumi continued, "Nobu is a little bit sensitive about being so gigantic. Sometimes his sensitivity spills over into abject paranoia. We're all fine with his size. It doesn't bother us at all. We even built a special 10-story warehouse adjacent to our main building so he could have his own office but still, you know, hear what's happening around the water cooler."
"But when Godzilla made that comment about his hair, he just snapped, and that's when the staring started."
The party was declared officially over by the ceremonial ringing of the "party over" bell at 11:30pm, but the staring continued into the night and all day Saturday. By Sunday, the two were still at it and neither showed any signs of ceding ground.
"This is the most incredible staring contest I've ever witnessed," Tetsuo the nighwatchman said. "It's so much more intense and bitter than that one last Christmas between Mothra and Michiko the 50-foot woman in human resources.
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