Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Nov 7, 4:25 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The 2-Belo wrote:
>>> Declan Murphy totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud
>>> of snot:
>>>> On Nov 7, 10:01 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> <snip>AEON is a part of AEON Group<snip>
>>>>> AEON Engrish Skule is a tiny little part of all that.
>>>> I don't know anything about the eikaiwa racket, but it never occured
>>>> to me that AEON was part of AEON.
>>> It's not. The names are identical in English, so it's probably a common
>>> misconception. (The names in Japanese are different.)
>> This is beginning to take on aspects of the mouse and the elephant sex
>> joke.
> 
> Cool. Now please tell me the mouse and the elephant sex joke.

If I told you the joke I'd have to explain why it reminds me of this 
exchange and I don't have enough alcohol in the house to get me to the 
level of inebriation where explaining will seem to be something worth 
accomplishing.

>> But, one comment of Declan's did ring a bell.  I've been in a number of
>> Aeon Group's Aeon Malls, Jusco Centers, and Cheerio Malls up in Ibaragi,
>> Tochigi and Miyagi.  Most of them have an eikaiwa ... and the few I
>> recall have been Aeon ...
> 
> Only Aeon I've been to is the local one, which definitely didn't have
> anything resembling Aeon. Don't recall seeing many pink rabbits, so it
> probably wasn't NOVA either.

Hence my eagerness to specifically identify the AEON Group places I'd 
been inside of and where they are located as opposed to the one you'd 
mentioned.  But, they all shared the AEON ownership of the mall and the 
eikaiwa inside.  After that, the Venn diagram analogy sort of falls apart.

-- 
CL