Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: And I thought the olympic coverage was bad Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:41:22 +0900 Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3F67D7E2.1000705@hotmail.com> References: <3F621060.7060701@hotmail.com> <3F647AAF.5090505@hotmail.com> <6quamv0a9l155p6pa71917emk23aet27ms@4ax.com> <3F65BE69.5020909@hotmail.com> <3F66AFCA.3050801@hotmail.com> <3F673BF3.10901@hotmail.com> <3f67cde4$0$2945$df066bcf@news.sexzilla.net> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063770035 26831142 202.215.53.66 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:5441 The 2-Belo wrote: > Declan Murphy and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination: > >>Michael Cash wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:38:02 +0900, Declan Murphy >>> belched the alphabet and kept on going >>>with: >>> >>>>Ernest Schaal wrote: >>>> >>>>>in article 3F65BE69.5020909@hotmail.com, Declan Murphy at >>>>>declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote on 9/15/03 10:28 PM: >>>>> >>>>>>Michael Cash wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:26:55 +0900, Declan Murphy >>>>>>> belched the alphabet and kept on going >>>>>>>with: >>>>>> >>>>>>>>Of course, but something/one else will pop up in place - I can imagine >>>>>>>>the country going bonkers over say - archery - and instantly producing a >>>>>>>>thousand reasons why it is *natural* that Japanese would dominate the >>>>>>>>sport nado nado. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Anyone else remember the synchronized swimming nonsense from a few >>>>>>>years back? >>>>>> >>>>>>Nonsense though it was, how could you expect anyone to forget it? >>>>> >>>>>That must have been something I missed. How far back was it? What happened? >>>> >>>>Barcelona and Atlanta. What happened? For me it was basically LEGS. >>> >>>And the entire country going apeshit over a retarded sport. >> >>Retarded sport notwithstanding, LEGS aren't necessarily a bad thing to >>go apeshit over. > > As long as it's just legs. From the looks of most of the women on the Japan > national team, it's quite obvious that they'd only want to show their legs to > the judges. I mean, WOOF. I take it you're not a fan of nosepegs? -- "Having tried intelligence to win the war on terrorism and achieved mixed results - bad and worse - the defense department has decided to go the other way and give stupidity a chance." - Alan Abelson