On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:15:09 +0900, "Dave Fossett"
<reply@via.newsgroup> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Our local Ito Yokado supermarket had a "Hanshin Tigers kansha sale" today
>with the team song blaring out of cheap stereos all around the store. I
>wouldn't have thought there were many Tigers fans around these parts, and
>anyway, didn't they lose?

It's a kansha sale; not an iwai sale.