technique

On-Yomi: ゲイ、ウン — Kun-Yomi: う.える、のり、わざ

Koohii stories:

1) [dihutenosa] 30-8-2007(154): Imagine an old Kung-fu movie: "Try my rising cloud flower technique!!!" smash pow crack!! .

2) [sutebun] 11-10-2007(92): One technique to smoke weed is to vaporize it and inhale those rising clouds to create a stronger effect.

3) [howdycowdy] 16-7-2008(80): I've mastered a TECHNIQUE for making my farts (the cloud) smell like roses (the flower).

4) [PParisi] 4-1-2008(37): David Copperfield throws a bouquet of flowers into the air, whereupon they turn into a rising cloud of smoke. The audience gasps in admiration of his technique.

5) [tstuhldreher] 23-5-2008(22): Think of the "Daisy" ad used against Goldwater in the 1964 campaign. A little girl counts as she picks petals off a FLOWER, then you hear a countdown and see a mushroom CLOUD. It's one of the most famous examples of advertising technique.