Our IT team has a pretty sick sense of humour (which I love), but their jokes always seem to err on the side of…well…just wrong. They also always find a way to run a joke dead and into the ground for over a year later (I have been witness to this). So I was NOT surprised to find their newest *thing* is a Japanese child’s prank called Kancho.

They even dedicated a statue to it in Japan...

The wikipedia definition of Kancho:

“is a prank often played in Japan, performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone’s anal region when the victim is not looking.”

[Pause for taking it all in...]

“…It is similar to the wedgie or a goosing, although, as compared to kancho, the former mentioned acts do not involve physical contact which is quite as intimate or direct. A Kancho is often executed simultaneously as the offending party loudly expresses the second syllable of “Kan-CHO!”"

Yea, I think this WTF moment is pretty explanatory, and on 2 levels. First – WTF JAPAN?? Who teaches kids to go poking others in that *out only* hole?! How is this funny? And secondly, WTF my IT guys for always yelling kanCHO and making me think about goosing another person in the ass. :/