On Jun 4, 11:21 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2010 06:47 PM, dame_zumari wrote:
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> > On Jun 4, 6:16 am, CL<flot...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
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> >> 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:
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> >> "Some of my friends are real pranksters.   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.  They did a real
> >> good job and the floor feels solid.  Imagine my surprise when the Public
> >> Prosecutor pulled back the tatami and found that the repair guys had
> >> filled in the space with gold bars.  What wacky friends.  Always good
> >> for a practical joke ... "
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> >> Just tried  to Google at the JT site and didn't find it.  I had heard
> >> that their back numbers had been clipped heavily at the request of their
> >>    owner, who was angling for a post in Keidanren.  So it is either there
> >> and I don't remember the magic words and secret dance or the Long Knives
> >> got it.
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> > 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).
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> That would be the one with the Page One photo of people surfing past the
> Kansai Kokusai Kuukou control tower, right?  I also have a copy ...
> somewhere ...


Yup. I used to have several copies, in fact (a stack was brought to a
party I attended that day by someone who was almost certainly one of
the perps (I thought I recognised the style in some of the articles)),
but for some reason my copies kept disappearing over the years. I kept
meaning to get good photocopies because, although the paper quality
was far better than the usual editions of the JT, that last copy was
beginning to get a bit tattered.