On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:09:59 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>Brett Robson wrote:
>> On 17 Aug 2003 22:10:29 GMT, Rindler Sigurd  ...
>> 
>>>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>>news:6n1vjvcib3k6spoljf6s1kf1gc9rcf7rv9@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>I finally put up a couple pictures of my new truck. I included a
>>>>couple shots of the old one just for comparison.
>>>
>>>Interesting picture! The one where you transport parts of a Shinto shrine...
>> 
>> Wouldn't have thought there was much demand for that. Do you have to be
>> specially purified first, and do they mind a gaigin carrying it.
>
>It shouldn't be a problem to have a gaigin hauling parts of shinto 
>shrines. A lot of the torii gates use imported timber, and the sacred 
>white horses at Nikko and Ise come from New Zealand. Its not as if 
>shinto shrines are as important as say, food products.

I wonder if all those people who want to toss out the foreign devils
would like it if food products quit coming in as well. God knows this
country is incapable of feeding itself.

It really tickles the hell out of me when I contemplate those nuts
chowing down on Japanese food and espousing its unique virtues,
especially tsukemono. Especially tsukemono because I've hauled so many
truckloads of good ole pure Japanese tsukemono....imported from China,
repackaged, and labeled as being made in Japan.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/