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Posted in: Happy birthday See in context

Dont forget the outfit he is wearing. I think my Dad donated it to St. Vincent De Paul about 25 years ago. Dont know how Akishino ended up with it.

Nice one, DentShop. Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. It would've all come out my nose.

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Posted in: Galaxy S handset See in context

You'd think that Darth Vader would have been able to use the Force to cut the tape.

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Posted in: Things Japanese girls do that make guys go, 'Huh?' See in context

"Thick and lush" eyebrows, that's how they were when I first came to Japan 18 years ago (Yes, I know: time to leave). Women looked like they had caterpillars on their foreheads. I welcomed the plucking at first, but it's gone too far. Wash their faces and most women now have punctuation marks where they ought to have eyebrows.

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Posted in: COP10 See in context

That chick's displaying more than enough biodiversity for my taste.

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Posted in: A Hooter here and a Hooter there See in context

Please open up Store No.2 in Fukuoka, and preferably on the first floor of my building.

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Posted in: Samba See in context

If I am not mistaken, I believe some of these dancers may be the very same ones that were in Fukuoka a few months ago samba-samba-ing through the underground arcade here. That would also explain the trail of boa feathers that leads from this city to the nation's capital.

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Posted in: Is Japan becoming a 'drug heaven?' See in context

Ditto what boboh says.

Let me add that I think the high number of absentee-fathers thanks to the practice of tanshin funin (単身赴任) is far more pernicious to Japanese society than a few kids smoking herb and have told the cops so when I was being interrogated for drugs smuggling. (For more on this search Google for Aonghas Crowe No. 6 Cuckoo )

“It’s easy for young people to get. And marijuana is likely to be a kind of gateway to the use of other drugs.”

This is a myth. You know what is a real gateway to drug use? That beer resting on the coaster to the right of your keyboard.

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Posted in: Kan warns of Greece-like debt crisis See in context

"That is why successful companies making great products don't have any employees, just one guy pushing buttons and eating donuts."

Classic!

I wonder if they teach that business model at the Harvard Business School. It would go a long way in explaining why their most famous graduate, W., drove the U.S. economy into the ground.

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Posted in: Pair sustain minor injuries after tumble down Ginza subway escalator See in context

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

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Posted in: World Cup warm-up See in context

hachmike66 I disagree. There was some superb passing by the Japanese team: right into the arms of the Korean keeper every time.

What a miserable line-up they've got for the World Cup this time 'round. And Okada as head coach, ugh! Is this really the best Japan can do?

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Posted in: Bikini girls See in context

Ach, if only I worked for Asahi Kasei's polymer division, what a happy boy I would be.

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Posted in: Man, 33, who posed as schoolboy, arrested for indecent behavior See in context

The things we do for love〜♪

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Posted in: A good weekend See in context

I'm in the wrong b'ineth.

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Posted in: Saitama man dies in love hotel fire See in context

Sounds like the beginning of bad suspense drama.

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Posted in: Saitama cop arrested for trying to steal woman’s underwear on Twilight Express See in context

Caught red-panty-handed!

I like to think that I've got both a healthy libido and a fertile imagination. And yet, I cannot fathom how a man can get his rocks off stealing a woman's skivvies. It does indeed take all types to make this world go round.

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Posted in: Robot cook See in context

Ugh, the end of humanity is nigh.

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Posted in: Weighty issues for Osaka Gov Hashimoto See in context

Who is this translating dynamo, Taro Fujimoto? Most of the articles I've read this evening have been translated by him. My hats off to you, sir.

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Posted in: Why are Hollywood remakes of classic films, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" being a recent example, generally inferior to the originals? See in context

The once privately owned studios of Hollywood are now, by and large, subsidiaries of major entertainment and media conglomerates more interested in stock performance over the short term than in producing quality feature films. The creative drive has fallen by the wayside as companies try to bump up their stock prices. And what better way to do this than to announce a known quantity: a remake or a sequel with marquee names.

Hollywood has got some of the most clever, creative and well-compensated minds in its employ, and, yet, what does all that money and talent produce? More often than not, Crap.

Fortunately, there is still the occasional filmmaker who rises above stench of bad movies, to create a unique and moving cinematic experience, such as Wes Anderson. It's a sad commentary on the viewing public, however, that such films are not always blockbusters. Knucklehead moviegoers, who flock to "Rocky XII", "Predator vs Alien vs Godzilla", and "Kimba the Lion Shares a Ride with Speed Racer", must share the blame.

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