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Par Avion
“How to ship hippopotami,” via the USPS website: LINK You see? There are better outlets for pent-up stress than spraying the whole office with military hardball and demanding your manager pull the skin off his face to show the whole world what a monster he really is.
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Hunting a Downed Lockheed
Found a pretty interesting read today (via mofi): The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? Makes me want to put Taro’s jeep (currently hibernating) through the car inspection and go looking for crash sites in the mountains, for some reason. It would cost a hell of a lot more to get towed out from remote areas than in the story, though.
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GO JOE!
Oh god, I can’t stop laughing: “You didn’t whup everybody yet, Scarlett,” Stalker said. He pointed behind her with a subtle smile. She turned to find the quietest Joe of the bunch – Snake-Eyes. He wore a hat that seemed to hide his face somewhat, but Scarlett could see he was handsome and noticed his intense eyes. She would have found him attractive if she wasn’t about to kick his ass. Snake-Eyes stepped forward, and they fought longer than the other Joes had, with Snake-Eyes obviously trained better than the others. Scarlett smiled at the challenge. But she finally got the better of him. As Snake-Eyes recovered, Scarlett was a…
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DHL – Localization Expertise
This new box size from DHL isn’t half as funny in English as it is in Japanese (junior = penis). I’ve always wondered if the reason Carl’s Jr. went out of business here was that people weren’t so keen on eating some gaijin’s dick with the whole family.
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Missing Drummer
It seems Big Dave and his wife are currently living one of my greatest nightmares, stranded in Formosa: “michiko and i are stuck in taiwan thanks to the typhoon. should be back thursday afternoon at the latest. crap!!!” That be major suckage, dude. Stay safe and don’t take cover in a Nike factory.
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1.5 Million Tons of Umami
This is a question I have asked myself many times over the years spent here in Japan: If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn’t everyone in Asia have a headache? Hell, I just had a discussion about it a few weeks ago when T asked why westerners treat MSG (found in salt shakers that adorn the tabletops of many Asian countries, right next to the soy sauce, chili paste, etc.) with such… suspicion. I told him how it’s just accepted that it’s bad stuff, but realized I didn’t know why, and decided to look into it. It’s pure coincidence that I stumbled upon this article today, and it…
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Blame the Chair!
As you can probably tell, I’m having a busy week. Have just enough time to share some toilet humor (there’s always time for toilet humor!): News Anchor Farts On Camera
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It’s that time of the month again…
So the question burning in my mind is: Do you want to make your own washable menstrual pads? If so, I’m taking all my clothes to the cleaners.
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The paperwork begins
For those of you who are easily impressed, the following was typed out entirely on my keitai on the long bus ride home. I think I was slightly feverish. // I’ve been away since last Friday, when Nam and I went to the US Consulate General and the Thai Embassy, both located in Osaka. Our purpose was to get Certificates of Competency to Marry (The fact that one must swear on their “competency to marry” on paper really bothers me for some reason, but it’s not really worth going into. Suffice to say that it’s stupid in concept, and completely meaningless in reality.), and I took the day off so…
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The Golden Three
These long, dreary trips out to factories way out in the country – I will not miss them. When you leave the concrete landscapes of urban sprawl and start seeing more trees than cars, you know you have left the embrace of modern Japan. Strange things start occuring to you in the sweltering heat of an uncontrolled climate, as the lush green of summer passes by. Perhaps the majority of Japanese will die never having peed in the woods. Most have never camped outside for free, or without being in close proximity of the car they came in. Surely, none would know how to wage a guerilla war from the…
