Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!post01.iad!news.shared-secrets.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:37:50 +0900 From: CL User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100411 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4c0820f3$0$5554$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> Organization: Unknown X-Complaints-To: abuse@shared-secrets.com Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169275 On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote: > On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL wrote: >> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote: >> >>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: >>>> Declan Murphy wrote: >>>>> About to have a 5th Prime Minister in 4 years. I bet 1 pint of >>>>> Guinness to each of you that we will see a 6th before December. >> >>>> Vaguely reminds me of my term in the land of the crashing Nikkei; >>>> Takeshita->Uno->Kaifu within 3 months. >> >>>> Mike >> >>> I always forget Uno. I wonder why :-) >> >> Wasn't he the guy who had to resign because his wife slapped him around >> and kicked him down a flight of stairs as he returned home from his >> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessive, but >> I forget what you do with the apostrophe in a multiple 's' case)? Lots >> of people forgot about him. Rumor has it that he had the worst attended >> funeral of any former PM in the post-WWII era. > > I thought he was the guy who had to resign because his mistress (high > rank geisha) complained to the press that he wasn't paying the > appropriate amount. Then the boxer wife was Takeshita (?). I've been here a long time and it is hard keeping the stupidity-based scandals separate from the greed-based ones. -- CL