Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: dame_zumari Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 51 Message-ID: <6c1540f4-9a8f-4e4d-ba11-4090673d9a97@u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <4c0820f3$0$5554$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <0dd80718-8941-475d-9e10-5b22a5e51ea7@11g2000prv.googlegroups.com> <515b57fe-b422-432c-a349-61497a5167f6@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <4c08d3fd$0$5519$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.182.253.81 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275877327 21690 127.0.0.1 (7 Jun 2010 02:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 02:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.182.253.81; 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:169296 On Jun 4, 11:21=A0am, CL wrote: > On 06/04/2010 06:47 PM, dame_zumari wrote: > > > > > On Jun 4, 6:16 am, CL =A0wrote: > > >> 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 r= eal > >> good job and the floor feels solid. =A0Imagine my surprise when the Pu= blic > >> Prosecutor pulled back the tatami and found that the repair guys had > >> filled in the space with gold bars. =A0What wacky friends. =A0Always g= ood > >> for a practical joke ... " > > >> Just tried =A0to Google at the JT site and didn't find it. =A0I had he= ard > >> that their back numbers had been clipped heavily at the request of the= ir > >> =A0 =A0owner, who was angling for a post in Keidanren. =A0So it is eit= her there > >> and I don't remember the magic words and secret dance or the Long Kniv= es > >> 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). > > That would be the one with the Page One photo of people surfing past the > Kansai Kokusai Kuukou control tower, right? =A0I 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.