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PCS

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> UPI A 7N DA fj.life.in-japan, Mon, 19 May 2008 11:50:49 +0900 (UPI)... THREE
>> SHOTS WERE FIRED AT CL'S MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN fj.life.in-japan... JT 1234
>> PCS
>> 
>>> maninmelb45@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Ford Files (www.fordfiles.com) is a collection of 10 years worth of
>>>> experiences of life in Japan.  From life in the country to working in
>>>> dynamic Tokyo if you're thinking of going then give the fordfiles a
>>>> look!  It's a new site and there are just a few articles up at the
>>>> moment, but it's honest and if there is something you would like to
>>>> read then just let me know.
>>>>
>>>> The Ford Files
>>> I went.  I saw.  The chorus of the "Lion King" by Amateur Transplants 
>>> (1) would be appropriate background music for this site.
>> 
>> "At the age of 23, straight out of university and with a bank loan to get there,
>> I forged my way into Japanese society.  10 years later,  I have worked in some
>> of the largest companies in Japan, married a Japanese national and have lived
>> the life of a salaryman."
>
>Imagine that.  A bank loan.  When I got out of college, I would have 
>been locked in a psychiatric ward for even /asking/ for a loan to go to 
>Japan.  That would have been after I laughed at the bank loan officer 
>when he asked me which city in Hong Kong was Japan and how long would it 
>take for the Pan-Am Clipper to get there ... and wasn't I afraid of 
>ninjas.

It was hard enough for me to get a loan to get into college in the first place.
What bank was going to loan a 22-year-old a stack of money to go to some
far-flung former foreign foe?

>A bank loan .... hmmmm .....
>
>> Rather than "Lion King", I sort of imagined the score of the movie _Apollo 13_
>> here, along with Walter Cronkite's stirring commentary. "...the most hazardous
>> and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." I mean, it
>> can only be appropriate for a guy who treats his life in Japan as akin to that
>> of landing on the moon.
>
>Oh, man, not Walter Cronkite.
>
>Walter was, like, one of my heroes when I was growing up.  He only told 
>the truth.  The man NEVER lied for ANYONE.  Him and Chet and David, but 
>they were on ABC and the ABC affiliates in those days were still a 
>little on the tenuous side and CBS had Ed Sullivan and the Smothers 
>Brothers.  I remember him doing JFK's funeral as well as a bunch of the 
>Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launches.  His interviews with John Glenn 
>and Wally Schirra made me want to be an astronaut.

You would like my iPod. Rather than Limp Bizkit and 50 Cent, I instead have
uncountable shit-tons of historical recordings including reams of Cronkite. I
have his interview with Kennedy, the first bulletin of JFK's shooting, as well
as his announcement of the flash that Kennedy had died, at which point he took
his glasses off and wept for about three seconds. I only remember seeing him
cover Elvis' death, Reagan's shooting, and his last broadcast. But yeah... a
model news man.

>Maybe we could loan this guy Geraldo Rivera.  I understand he's still 
>around.

He'd likely end up declaring that all English teachers in Japan were closet
Satanists.*







* He'd be *right*, of course, but come on, this is Geraldo.


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"...one of these days yer gonna fuckup and yer gonna wind up with yer   
real name, address and phone number plastered all over the grid...and   
then what?  You gonna go whine that it's not fair?  You gonna whine that
you only meant the shit you said when you thought you could hide? Your  
physical 'real life' means just as much online as it does in the 'real  
world', so if you can't back yer shit up with physical superiority...   
man you best keep yer mouth shut, cause I've known more than a few tards
who wound up gettin the shit beat out of them cause they went running at
the mouth online..."

-- Matthew "Onideus 'Jamos Ludbunski' Mad Hatter" Moulton,    
   showing me the severed heads of his rivals and watching me 
   in the eye of the tiger, in 
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