Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: The End of the World as We Know It Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:24:44 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1de542fb881a2e16e17c6e8e5d16835d"; logging-data="2094"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wGfoWr+tpmwjTx23rZqJK" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DplMzo99aRP2f2WvJd+3Io/MJTU= Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170509 The shock ... the horror ... I was doing the evening meal shopping at the local Kasumi (part of Aeon Group, but what isn't nowadays) and the muzak was a synthesizer version of "American Girl" (originally done by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers). I caught myself singing along and the new manager asked me if I knew any of the other songs on the "rock" muzak track that'd been playing. The song mentioned was followed by an instrumental version of "Turning Japanese" during which the manager said he'd always liked that song because it reminded him when Japan was an economic leader and everyone wanted to come here and become Japanese. I didn't have the heart to tell him what the words actually meant ... -- CL