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3-d television without having to wear the eyeglasses is supposedly 3-4 years away.

I think it's called outside.

She's a beautiful woman. Hello, Cutie!

As for 3-D TV, I have no interest in converting the horrors of 2D news broadcasts into 3D. Who the hell wants to bring riots into their own living rooms?

Celebrity weddings have in the past secured even bigger ratings, with the live broadcast of the 1987 wedding between Hiromi Go and Yurie Nitani securing 47.6%, and the 2007 wedding between Norika Fujiwara and Tomonori Jinnai capturing 24.7%.

So they have a "royal wedding" every few years featuring celebrities? Way to distract the hoi polloi!

Perry herself seems to be looking forward to the visit, saying she’d like to dress up as a geisha and “become an anime character.”

I'll be right over darling, with my X-rated manga and my octopi. You'll never visit Japan again...heh heh heh

Shame the picture is the size of a postage stamp. She's got a banging body.

wonder if the shark gets hungry and eats the other fish in the tank?

I went to an aquarium in Busan, and the main exhibit was a floor-to-ceiling shark tank with four or five nurse sharks (the biggest was 8' long) and about 300 smaller fish, each about 1-2' long. The smaller fish (read: the hors d'oeuvres) ALL SWAN IN UNISON with the shark's rhythm to avoid attracting his attention, as an injured fish might. It was an eerie and surprisingly suspenseful sight -- nature's unpredictable tensions could have erupted at any time...

In my generation -- i.e., I grew up in the 80s -- young women did not even remotely behave like ladies. They behaved like ckteasers and bches. They did not deserve chivalry in any sense of the word.

Giving a seat to an elderly woman is one thing. Holding a door for some broad is another.

Operative B introduces another scam, which involves posing as a headhunter who approaches the targeted employee with the pretense of scouting him out for a higher-paying job.

Boasting of a recent success, B relates how he offering a target a new job paying 1.5 times more than his current wages. The man promptly submitted his resignation—- only to find that the new position that awaited him never existed.

Am I the only one who finds this contemptible behavior on the part of the bosses?

Let this be a model for family.

Yes, especially if you count the servants that look after the kids, do the laundry and prepare the meals. Let's give those to EVERY family!

Honestly, I'm so sick and tired of this broad. She had the most obvious implants in the world (after her flat-chested topless scene in Hackers) and her movies are completely forgettable. No one ever thinks of Angelina and says, "I loved her in...er...hmmm" because her movies are all embarrassing pieces of junk.

AND...I wish these damn celebs would quit coming to Tokyo to foist their junk products and movies on an unsuspecting Japanese public.

Finally! I was beginning to wonder when my supple young sex goddess was going to make a return appearance in these pages.

(That Sabrina Sato is also worth a google, and she has a penchant for wearing skimpy Brazilian bikinis.)

I don't actually know the difference between "Okinawan" and "Japanese" -- I didn't realize there was a need for a distinction between the two. I mean, do people from Hokkaido insist on being called "Hokkaidan?"

Anyway, we need bigger pictures of this cutie.

She commented, “I was really happy to get the chance to show the world how I’ve changed through my music and through makeup.”

Because makeup is so essential to your development as a person... :D

Seriously, with a body like that, it's no wonder Western girls have a complex about being chubby.

I volunteer to give this lady some English lessons.

Speaking as a dirty old man, I concur that #3 (on the right) is sweet and alluring, though the other girls are pretty cute. And those tummies! I just wanna rub them...

"For some of us the war was about removing a genocidal dictator."

And for some, the focus of the war was about protecting the petrodollar , which Saddam DID attack -- about a week before the stolen election of 2000.

Your search for the truth about Iraq begins with a single search on Google --

Baghdad moves to euro

This story, dated Nov 1st, 2000, reveals that Saddam made an oil-for-food deal with European bankers that threatened the dollar's status as the reserve currency of the world. Saddam Hussein, head of an OPEC nation, violated an OPEC agreement to only accept oil payments in US dollars.

As long as OPEC ONLY ACCEPTED DOLLARS for oil, other countries would have to buy USD to pay for oil.

That would keep the international demand for the US dollar respectable on world currency markets.

For years, no one OPEC member dared to defy the US petrodollar agreement... until Saddam decided to tackle the enemy currency once and for all...

Lengthy, but worth it --

Google A New American Century? Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars

I remember that Cage was my favorite thing about Moonstruck. He sold out big time with the likes of "The Rock" and "Con Air," but he couldn't even hang onto the money he got!

That receding hairline is revealing a giant "L".

Majestic!

my2sense at 08:09 AM JST - 15th July

I still cannot believe Monaco citizens can't gamble in their own casinos...

I wasn't sure if that was true for Monaco, but I know from living in Busan that Koreans are not permitted to gamble in hotel casinos. It's supposed to convince (gullible) visitors that "Koreans don't gamble" -- which is ludicrous.

As for royalty, we must feel that they represent something about our cultures, otherwise we wouldn't have them. (Even republicans like Americans still venerate the Kennedy clan or the H'wood junkies as if they were royalty...)

“Inception” also offers a depth in theme, story and characters seldom seen in huge Hollywood spectacles.

Don't make me laugh. It offers an astronomical special effects budget and a stupid story designed to have a big opening weekend followed by a massive plummet in ticket sales once word of mouth gets around that it's terrible.

I predict a 72% drop in ticket sales after the opening weekend.

Kusakari-chan hasn't changed a bit since Shall We Dansu. A lovely woman...

...and she's on Wiki! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiyo_Kusakari

a Japanese remake of French director Louis Malle’s 1957 murder mystery “Elevator to the Gallows.”

I used to own that DVD; it's quite good, but the films feels like a prolonged denouement -- lots of mistaken soul-searching from the female lead, who thinks she's been abandoned by her lover, when in fact he's stuck in an elevator, trying to escape.

I wonder if this movie will work in the age of cellphones, however...

What if it had been a teenage girl who refused to move for an elderly man? Would you support the man breaking the girl's nose?

I think a good spanking would be in order. ...from every man on the train, in fact. :^D

Yamada, who confessed to being a shopaholic, said: “I love clothes more than anything else.”

To which her boyfriend replied, "OH SNAP!"

Some observations on the homeless in Tokyo --

They are very polite and do not insist on money when you offer. Perhaps it's the language barrier, or perhaps it's a real sense of shame.

I have been refused twice by homeless people when offering them money. One produced a wad of bills -- not a HUGE wad, but money nonetheless -- and the other seemed almost offended that I offered it to him even though he was in torn clothes, barefoot, having woken up on a park bench. The other times, there was no problem.

At least two of the homeless I've seen (they tend to frequent your train station once you've given them change) have had serious injuries -- one had retinal damage and another had some sort of growth on his throat and can barely talk. Could it be that they lost their jobs due to injury?

I'm sure others can comment with more insight...

Hello, cutie.

It's very disrespectful to call this beautiful woman a groupie.

ITA. Someone should pull her aside and tell her the hidden connotations of the word groupie.

I must admit I didn't think the Japanese were going to get past them. But 3-0! I'm very impressed...

She's gorgeous. And she looks like she's tall. Taaaaallllllll...

By the way, have you noticed that the English language has an extraordinarily large number of euphemisms for death? Popped his clogs, bought the farm, kicked the bucket are a few that come to mind. Really fascinating.

That's nothing, compared to the number of euphemisms for parts of the female anatomy (knockers, jugs, etc.), the act of intercourse (we don't have enough space on the internet), etc. We even had to import the word orgasm from French and Greek.

Having said that, Ebert has no doubt had plenty of moments in the past few years when he thought, I'm not going to come out of this surgery alive... All the best.

He needs to do another Fifth Element.

He needs to do another Femme Nikita. But this movie looks like it could be it.

When asked if sex with their husbands satisfies them, 64 of the 100 reply “I suppose so”

ZING!

“However good a man you marry, once 10 years have gone by after the birth of children, you find you’ve arrived at the same point in life anyway.”

DOUBLE ZING!!

“Do you still think of your husband as a man?” the magazine asks, to which one wife among the 34 who answer no says, “More as a male dog than as a man.”

TRIPLE ZING!! WE HAVE a WINNNNAHHHH!

Personally I think this story should be rewritten to reflect the fact that a fight nearly resulted in a man being pushed against an oncoming train. It should go from

Man punched in face by fellow train commuter over phone manners

to

Irate commuter nearly pushes blowhard in front of Shinkansen

...or something that the NYPost would write.