On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:00:41 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:34:57 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr."
>> <llanelli14@SPAMSUCKBANANAS.yahoo.com> brought down from the Mount
>> tablets inscribed:
>
>>>Well that's the real tragedy isn't it.  Japanese kids SHOULDN'T have to go 
>>>to inferior schools.  They should be able to have their cake and eat it.  If 
>>>there's enough money available to build unnecessary highways, then there's 
>>>enough to build new, more compact schools with smaller catchment areas so 
>>>poor little Takeshi-kun doesn't have to walk 5km to get home.
>> 
>> There are places in Tokyo where it is only a long fly ball from one
>> elementary school to the next one.
>
>What is a long fly ball btw? I wonder if that expression "it is only a 
>long fly ball from one..." is the same as "2 good spits" etc.

Figure a bit less than home run distance.




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Michael Cash

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                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College