Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: dame_zumari Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 02:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 28 Message-ID: <515b57fe-b422-432c-a349-61497a5167f6@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <4c0820f3$0$5554$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <0dd80718-8941-475d-9e10-5b22a5e51ea7@11g2000prv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.184.195.253 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275644875 18728 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2010 09:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.184.195.253; posting-account=SEVDtAoAAAC_sN53RNofNYrzL92HXQ_R User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169292 On Jun 4, 6:16=A0am, CL wrote: > Back when it was still a fish wrapper but for a much better grade of > fish, The Japan Times did an April Fools edition with a letter to the > editor that went something like: > > "Some of my friends are real pranksters. =A0 The Public Prosecutor was > just here with the police and they found that a few of my old buddies > from the construction industry stopped by and told my wife that they > were going to fix the sagging floor in my tatami room. =A0They did a real > good job and the floor feels solid. =A0Imagine my surprise when the Publi= c > Prosecutor pulled back the tatami and found that the repair guys had > filled in the space with gold bars. =A0What wacky friends. =A0Always good > for a practical joke ... " > > Just tried =A0to Google at the JT site and didn't find it. =A0I had heard > that their back numbers had been clipped heavily at the request of their > =A0 owner, who was angling for a post in Keidanren. =A0So it is either th= ere > and I don't remember the magic words and secret dance or the Long Knives > got it. Or it might have been the ... uh... unofficial issue of the Japan Times (Motto: "Without Flair or Flavor") that appeared on April 1 some time ago. I do have a copy of it, but it'll be packed away in storage (I hope... otherwise I'll be annoyed at losing it---it was a very good pastiche).