CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL<flot...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
> >> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >>>> Declan Murphy<declan_mur...@hotmail.com>    wrote:
> >>>>> About to have a 5th Prime Minister in 4 years. I bet 1 pint of
> >>>>> Guinness to each of you that we will see a 6th before December.
> >>
> >>>> Vaguely reminds me of my term in the land of the crashing Nikkei;
> >>>> Takeshita->Uno->Kaifu within 3 months.
> >>
> >>>> Mike
> >>
> >>> I always forget Uno. I wonder why :-)
> >>
> >> Wasn't he the guy who had to resign because his wife slapped him around
> >> and kicked him down a flight of stairs as he returned home from his
> >> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessive, but
> >> I forget what you do with the apostrophe in a multiple 's' case)?  Lots
> >> of people forgot about him.  Rumor has it that he had the worst attended
> >> funeral of any former PM in the post-WWII era.
> >
> > I thought he was the guy who had to resign because his mistress (high
> > rank geisha) complained to the press that he wasn't paying the
> > appropriate amount.

> Then the boxer wife was Takeshita (?).  I've been here a long time and 
> it is hard keeping the stupidity-based scandals separate from the 
> greed-based ones.

Anyone remember Kanemaru? Not a PM, but was caught with $42M in stocks, cash,
and gold bullion in his HOUSE? His excuse (I kid you not) was that he was going
to use the money to "fight corruption in politics".

Mike